From Craftsmen to Capitalists : : German Artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939-1953 / / Frederick L. McKitrick.

Politically adrift, alienated from Weimar society, and fearful of competition from industrial elites and the working class alike, the independent artisans of interwar Germany were a particularly receptive audience for National Socialist ideology. As Hitler consolidated power, they emerged as an impo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Monographs in German History ; 37
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES AND FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PREFACE
  • NOTE ON THE HANDWERK TRADES
  • ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
  • Part I Handwerk in Crisis, 1918–1933
  • Chapter 1 FROM ZÜNFTE TO NAZISM German Handwerk to 1939
  • Part II Handwerk at War, 1939–1945
  • Chapter 2 HANDWERK IN THE WAR ECONOMY, 1939–1941
  • Chapter 3 THE SPEER MINISTRY, 1942–1945 The Coordination of Industry and Handwerk
  • Part III The Occupation Period, 1945–1949 The Confrontation with the American Free Market
  • Chapter 4 THE FIRST STAGES OF THE OCCUPATION AND THE REVIVAL OF HANDWERK INSTITUTIONS IN THE WEST
  • Chapter 5 THE LEGAL CONSOLIDATION OF HANDWERK CORPORATISM IN THE BRITISH ZON
  • Chapter 6 DEVELOPMENTS IN THE US ZONE LEADING UP TO THE INTRODUCTION OF GEWERBEFREIHEIT
  • Chapter 7 THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATION AND LEADERSHIP IN THE MODERNIZATION OF HANDWERK
  • Part IV The Early Federal Republic, 1949–1953 Revolution in the German Mittelstand
  • Chapter 8 THE EFFECTS OF GEWERBEFREIHEIT ON HANDWERK
  • Chapter 9 THE INTEGRATION OF HANDWERK ORGANIZATIONS INTO THE POLITICAL FABRIC OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC
  • Chapter 10 CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE AND OUTLOOK OF HANDWERK
  • Chapter 11 THE HANDWERK ACT OF 1953
  • Conclusion REVOLUTION IN HANDWERK?
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX