Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/318385 
Title (translated): 
Crisis and Crisis Experience: Corporate Strategies and Employment Changes in the German Shipbuilding Industry 1976 to 1990
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (VSWG) [ISSN:] 2365-2136 [Volume:] 112 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 97-124
Publisher: 
Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart
Abstract (Translated): 
This article examines the interrelation between corporate strategies, employment changes and workers' experiences in the German shipbuilding industry in the light of economic crisis. From the middle of the 1970s onwards, due to global economic crisis and global competition this originally large-scale industry evolved into a medium-sized high-technology sector. Against this backdrop, the study reveals different management strategies of shipyards in the northwest of Germany and how these implicated employment structures and working conditions. Based on oral history interviews with shop floor workers and engineers in the construction offices, individuals' narrations show diverse experiences of work degradation and subjective implications on different workers' roles, positions and realities.
Subjects: 
shipbuilding industry
shipyard crisis
corporate strategies
employment structures
working conditions
workers' experiences
JEL: 
N34
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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