TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKitrick,Frederick L.
TI  - From Craftsmen to Capitalists: German Artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939-1953 
T2  - Monographs in German History
SN  - 9781785332487
AV  - HD9999.H363 
U1  - 331.7/94 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Artisans
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Germany
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Handicraft industries
KW  - National socialism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social change
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Germany
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1900s
KW  - allied powers
KW  - allies
KW  - apprentice
KW  - artisan
KW  - bolshevik
KW  - capitalism
KW  - carpenters
KW  - competition
KW  - contemporary
KW  - cooperatives
KW  - democracy
KW  - economy
KW  - elections
KW  - european history
KW  - free market
KW  - germany
KW  - history buff
KW  - history major
KW  - hitler
KW  - ideology
KW  - modern history
KW  - nazi
KW  - political
KW  - politics
KW  - postwar
KW  - recovery
KW  - skilled
KW  - socialist
KW  - society
KW  - tradesman
KW  - transformation
KW  - wartime
KW  - working class
KW  - world history
KW  - world war
KW  - wwii
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 important Nazi constituency, drawn by the party’s rejection of both capitalism and Bolshevism. Yet, in the years after 1945, the artisan class became one of the pillars of postwar stability, thoroughly integrated into German society. From Craftsmen to Capitalists gives the first account of this astonishing transformation, exploring how skilled tradesmen recast their historical traditions and forged alliances with former antagonists to help realize German democratization and recovery
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332494?locatt=mode:legacy
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