Der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund 1969-1975

This volume of the "sources of the German trade union history" documents the social design standards of the German Federation of Trade Unions in the first two periods of office of the DGB chairman Heinz Oskar Vetter. The document selection exemplifies the resolute commitment to the expansion of the welfare state and for the improvement of workers' participation. In addition, are the reform of organizational development and union programmatic as well as the "new" Germany's Ostpolitik and the trade unions. The expectation of the DGB to be able to transfer the trade union reform ideas in legal provisions, has been shaped by the fact that the SPD in government could now determine the guidelines in the labor and social policy.--Translation of publisher's website information.