Globalization from Below: Labor Inequality in the German Shipbuilding Industry, 1960–2000

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q4 BUSINESS
Katharina Bothe, Carolin Decker-Lange
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Abstract

This article examines how globalization shaped work and employment in the German shipbuilding industry in the second half of the twentieth century. Official documents show that, as a response to global competition, originally large and labor-intensive shipyards in the northwest of Germany evolved into lean and nimble high-technology companies across four decades. Oral history interviews with former migrant and nonmigrant staff of two leading shipyards reveal that this large-scale industry transformation is a hitherto hidden history of labor mobility, migration, and evolving dimensions of diversity in the workplace. Migration is a lens through which to understand how corporate responses to global developments led to persistent patterns of social exclusion and inequality between and within groups of workers with and without migrant backgrounds that have not been documented before, namely: social divisions, unequal access to vocational training and retraining programs, unequal career opportunities, unfair redundancies, and unequal impact of precarious work.

自下而上的全球化:德国造船业的劳动力不平等,1960-2000 年
本文探讨了二十世纪下半叶全球化如何影响了德国造船业的工作和就业。官方文件显示,为了应对全球竞争,德国西北部原本大型的劳动密集型造船厂在四十年间发展成为精干灵活的高科技公司。对两家领先造船厂的前移民和非移民员工进行的口述历史访谈显示,这一大规模的行业转型是一部迄今为止不为人知的劳动力流动、移民和工作场所多样性演变的历史。通过移民这一视角,我们可以了解企业如何应对全球发展,导致有移民背景和无移民背景的工人群体之间和内部长期存在的社会排斥和不平等现象,这些现象以前从未被记录在案,即:社会分化、职业培训和再培训项目的不平等机会、不平等的职业机会、不公平的裁员以及不稳定工作的不平等影响。
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期刊介绍: Enterprise & Society offers a forum for research on the historical relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural, institutional, social, and economic contexts. The journal aims to be truly international in scope. Studies focused on individual firms and industries and grounded in a broad historical framework are welcome, as are innovative applications of economic or management theories to business and its context.
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