Forgotten Migrants: Foreign Workers in Switzerland before World War I.

Daniel Barbezat, Madelyn Holmes

International Migration Review · 1990 · 22 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

This study focuses on the impact of German and Italian foreign workers on the industrialization of Switzerland prior to World War I. Included in the analysis are case studies of the textile and engineering industries, demographic profiles of the workers, and discussion of internal conditions in Germany and Italy that led to the migration.