Foreign Worker and the German Labor Movement

John Kulczycki Professor of History,University of Illinois at Chicago

'... a valuable contribution to the study of both the Ruhr labor movement and Poles in the Kaiserreich.'H-German Book Reviews'Would do well in any upper-division or graduate level course concerning modern nationalism and labor movements in Europe in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries.'The Polish Review'... a fine piece of scholarship which deserves a wide audience among anyone interested in Imperial Germany, labor history, migration, or nationalism.'Central European History'Kulczycki's methodology and presentation is distinguished by precision, an extensive knowledge of sources, the literature, and to the European history of the period - and at the same time by being rather provocative.'Arbejderhistorie'It is to be hoped that Kulczycki's stimulating study will be published in German and Polish in the near future. Without question, the work is giving rise to new comparative studies about regional, polyethnic labor movements.'German Politics and Society' ...

• The arrival of the foreign worker; unexpected foreign and native solidarity; ambivalence toward the foreign worker; foreign militancy and native xenophobia; the achievement of foreign and native solidarity; the decline of solidarity; conclusion - xenophobia, solidarity and militancy.