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Migrant Workers from East-Elbe and Eastern Europe in the Prussian ‘Sugarbeet’ Province of Saxony, 1830-1914

In: Migrants in Agricultural Development

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  • Hans-Heinrich Müller

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In a report (1913) to the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Friedrich Aereboe, a pioneer of modern agricultural management, stated that ‘Germany’s sugar beet cultivation was able to become successful only because of cheap supplies of beet labour. All the wages of the entire beet labour force amounted to only about a sixth of the value of the total beet harvest. In America, however, the difference between revenue and wages is very much smaller’.1 Cheap beet workers were, first and foremost, foreign workers (men, women and girls) employed on estates and large farms, and mostly hired by the landowners. The 1914 census showed that there were about 433 000 such workers in Germany, of whom some 268 000 came from Russia, 58 000 from Galicia and 67 000 from the Ukraine (Ruthenen), then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.2

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  • Hans-Heinrich Müller, 1991. "Migrant Workers from East-Elbe and Eastern Europe in the Prussian ‘Sugarbeet’ Province of Saxony, 1830-1914," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: J. A. Mollett (ed.), Migrants in Agricultural Development, chapter 6, pages 77-91, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11830-4_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11830-4_6
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