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The development of the modern concept of labour productivity. A contribution to German Business Economics history. The starting point of this article is the reduced output in German factories in the early 1920s, which employers attributed solely to workers’ inefficiency. This was possible because of the long standing lack of a common definition for productivity, particularly in the German-speaking area. This was not the result of historicism, but rather the lack of interdisciplinary and international engagement by German business economics. After World War II international research then provided an unambiguous definition related to a clear concept: that capital is of vital importance for productivity and that therefore a straightforward relationship between output and workers’ efficiency is non-existent.
Kein Aspekt der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft hat in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten eine derart rasante Forschungskarriere absolviert wie das Thema „NS-Zwangsarbeit“. Ein kaum mehr überschaubarer Katalog von Veröffentlichungen legt seit den 1980er Jahren die unzähligen Einzelschichten des Themas frei, so dass unser Wissen über dieses in der Geschichte singuläre Großprojekt zur ungehemmten Abschöpfung von fremder Arbeitskraft für die eigene Kriegswirtschaft exponentiell gewachsen ist.