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- Title
Die Bergbaugewerkschaft und die 'Gastarbeiter'. Ausländerpolitik im Ruhrbergbau vom Ende der 1950er bis in die 1980er Jahre.
- Authors
Seidel, Hans-Christoph
- Abstract
The article examines statements, perceptions, positions and political approaches of the Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau und Energie (IGBE - Industrial Trade Union for Mining and Energy) to the question of the employment of so-called 'guest workers' in Ruhr region mining from the second half of the 1950s to the late 1980s. Like other trade unions, the IGBE was very sceptical about the commencement of recruiting 'guest workers' in the second half of the 1950s. At first it showed only little interest in their specific problems. In the early 1970s this position changed fundamentally for a number of reasons. The IGBE developed an extraordinarily extensive degree of commitment to the social and cultural integration of the - in mining overwhelmingly Turkish - 'guest workers' and their families. It is demonstrated how this commitment was connected to quite specific economic and social conditions in West German coal mining. During the 1980s the IGBE thus entered the political arena on Ausländerpolitik [resident alien policy] in West Germany as a whole, which was torn between attempts at social integration and policies supporting repatriation.
- Subjects
RUHR (Germany : Region); GERMANY; GERMANY (West); FOREIGN workers; LABOR unions; ASSIMILATION of immigrants; TURKS; IMMIGRANTS; MINERAL industries; GOVERNMENT policy; TWENTIETH century; SOCIAL conditions of immigrants; ECONOMIC history; EMIGRATION &; immigration; SOCIAL conditions in Germany
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2014, Vol 62, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1524/vfzg-2014-0002