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- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 9783110426847
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Social Sciences 9783110413601
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Archive 1931-1999 9783110442496
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- This study explains how businessmen in the German iron and steel industry managed their enterprises, dealt with their customers, and acted in their relations with state and society during a period of war, revolution, and economic crisis. Because this industry occupied a central position in Germany during the inflation, the author's investigation illuminates certain crucial aspects of the Weimar Republic that have hitherto been relatively unexplored. The author explains how heavy industry-and particularly the iron and steel industry-successfully took advantage of shortages of raw materials and of inflation to gain the upper hand over customers in the manufacturing industries. He notes that it proved able to resist government and consumer efforts to change and control policies affecting heavy industry and, finally, to lead the counterattack against labor's greatest gain in the Revolution of 1918, the eight-hour day. Although the importance of iron and steel to the German economy declined in relation to that of more advanced sectors of the economy, its highly concentrated character, able leadership, and importance to the war and reconstruction efforts gave it advantages in reconstituting its power within the business community and the Weimar state.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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- Princeton Legacy Library ; 1771
- Uniform Title
- Iron and Steel in the German Inflation, 1916-1923 (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Iron and Steel in the German Inflation, 1916-1923 (Online)
- Subject
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- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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- Contents
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Dilemmas of Industrial Self-Government, September 1916-July 1919 -- Chapter Two. The Disruption of Industrialist Solidarity, July 1919-April 1920 -- Chapter Three. Unity Restored: The Struggle for Decontrol, 1920-1921 -- Chapter Four. Vertical Concentration -- Chapter Five. 1922: From Low Interest to High Principle -- Chapter Six. 1923: From Ruhr Occupation to Twelve-Hour Shift -- Epilogue -- Appendix One. Dollar Exchange Rate of the Paper Mark and the Gold Mark in Berlin, 1914-1923 -- Appendix Two. Production of Coal, Pig Iron, and Crude Steel in Germany, Great Britain, France, and Belgium, 1913-1929 -- Bibliography -- Index
- LCCN
- 10.1515/9781400847884
- OCLC
- ssj0002709019
- Author
Feldman, Gerald D.
- Title
Iron and Steel in the German Inflation, 1916-1923 [electronic resource] / Gerald D. Feldman.
- Imprint
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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text file PDF
- Series
Princeton Legacy Library ; 1771
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Language
In English.
- Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
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Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 9783110426847
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Social Sciences 9783110413601
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Archive 1931-1999 9783110442496
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1515/9781400847884 doi