The Workers‘ FreedomThe debate about industrial democracy in Germany and Sweden, 1916-1952.

Klaus Neumann

www.klaus-neumann.eu

presentation held at the conference „New Challenges in the European Area” (Young Scientist's 1st International Baku Forum), 23 May 2013 If you use or distribute this presentation, please refer to the author of this presentation: Klaus Neumann www.klaus-neumann.eu© for images used see last page.

Images of „freedom“ (google.az search)

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What‘s freedom? – the 19th century liberal perspective

(1859)

„The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive

others of theirs...“

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Freedom of the individual in a conflictual society?

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„Freedom for the wolves has often

meant death to the sheep.“

Isaiah Berlin: Four Essays on Liberty, 1969 (own translation from the German edition)

Political democracy: rule of law, rule of the majority, citizen‘s rights

The workers: Dependable and free?

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German workers at „Volkswagen“, 1954

English child labour in a brick manufacture,19th century

„Pay day“

The European factory around 1900

6(machine factory in Germany)

7Cover of Journal ‚The workers‘ Council‘, 1919

Debate 1916-1952:Who governs the workshop?

Industrial democracy!?Workers‘ rightsrule of the majority at the workshop

The history of Industrial democracy - a European history!

8Some Swedish and German Journals analyzed in my phD work

Thank you for your attention.

List of figures, copyright noticepage image Copyright / source

2 Screenshot Own work

3 On Liberty / http://polytical.org/2012/01/polyosophy-mill-on-liberty/

4 Isaiah Berlin © Clive Barda / http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/tribute/

5 Child labor © bpk / https://www.in-die-zukunft-gedacht.de/de/page/84/thema/128/dokument/333/themen.html

5 Payday Volkswagen © Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin Inv.-Nr.: Ph 96/58 / http://www.hdg.de/lemo/objekte/pict/DieZuspitzungDesKaltenKrieges_photoLohnauszahlungVW/

6 Workers AEG around 1900

© AEG Firmenarchiv Frankfurt / Ritter, Gerhard A.; Tenfelde, Klaus (1992): Arbeiter im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1871 bis 1914. Bonn, p. 339.

7,8 Journal covers Journals „Der Arbeiter-Rat“ (1919), „Fackföreningsrörelsen“ (1944), „Die Hilfe“ (1934), „Der Syndikalist“ (1927), „Industria“ (1946); digitalized by Klaus Neumann

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