In der Berufsbildungs- und Erwachsenenbildungsforschung mangelt es an Historiographien zur beruflichen Weiterbildung. Die thematischen Schwerpunkte in der Geschichtsschreibung dieser beiden erziehungswissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen konzentrieren sich auf Institutionen, Strukturen, Personen,...

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...

The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...