During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country's human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a...

"Organizing" the labor market in the dynamic Kaiserreich -- Promoting a skilled workforce -- Toward Totalerfassung : creating the national labor administration -- Toward the German skills machine : establishing vocational counseling and training -- The Nazi consolidation of the human economies...