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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kiran Klaus Patel |
| ISBN: | 0521834163 9780521834162 |
| OCLC Number: | 55947908 |
| Description: | xii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | A panacea for the Great Depression? Labor service ideas and their implementation prior to 1933 -- Precursors to the labor services -- The situation of young people in the Great Depression -- The precursor in Germany: the FAD from 1931 to 1933 and the involvement of the NSDAP -- Service to the community: the organization of the labor services -- False start into the Third Reich: the organization of the German Labor Service at the beginning of the National Socialist Regime -- From consolidation to the War-time deployment of the RAD -- Between ideology and economics: the admissions criteria of the German Labor Service -- The organization of the Civilian Conservation Corps -- Interim conclusion -- "Citizens," Volksgenossen, and soldiers: education in the Labor Services -- The education concept of the German Labor Service -- "School of manhood" between prescription and practice -- "The school of the nation": political indoctrination and organized recreation -- Education in the Civilian Conservation Corps -- Interim conclusion -- In "The grandeurs of nature": the work of the Labor Services -- Work planning and areas of work in the German Labor Service -- Glorification and pragmatic compromise: the concept and practice of work in the German Labor Service -- The Labor Service at work: new challenges in the large-scale deployments beginning in 1937 -- Work in the Civilian Conservation Corps -- Interim conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Publications of the German Historical Institute. |
| Other Titles: | Soldaten der Arbeit. |
| Responsibility: | Kiran Klaus Patel ; translated by Thomas Dunlap. |
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"Soldiers of Labor is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature in the field of transnational history. It sets remarkably high standards regarding methods of historical comparison." - The Journal of American History, Olaf Stieglitz, University of Cologne Colgne, Germany "Patel's meticulous study of the Reichsarbeitsdienst and its counterpart in the U.S. deserves a wide readership. It is based on extensive primary source research in more than ten archives on both sides of the Atlantic. Not only its breadth, but also the close reading of the RAD's sparse remnants make this an impressive study; indeed, it is the first comprehensive study of this institution. This achievement alone is important. Moreover, the author draws on a wide variety of methodologies, ranging from conceptualizations of masculinity and space to transnational history; this diversity of strategy increases this monograph's overall innovativeness. The author's greatest achievement rests in having uncovered some striking, unexpected similarities between both institutions, and in revealing their reciprocal impact." - H-German, Thilo Schimmel, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Read more...
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- Germany. -- Reichsarbeitsdienst.
- Labor service -- Germany.
- Labor service -- United States.
- National socialism.
- USA / Civilian Conservation Corps.
- Deutschland / Reichsarbeitsdienst.
- Arbeitsmarktpolitik.
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