Why Does Germany Continue To Fail Immigrant Workers?
Migrant workers formed the basis of Germany's rapid economic growth in the postwar years, but the benefits of this growth were not evenly distributed. Today, precarious workers oppose Germany's exclusionary economic system. For the majority of Germans, net real wages tripled between 1950 and 1970. Industrial workers saw most of these gains as their salaries increased fivefold during this period. But the benefits of the era known as the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) were not evenly distributed.