Robert Bosch: An Entrepreneur in an Age of Extremes
Cover -- Title -- Copyright Notice -- Contents -- Preface -- I: Heritage and Rise -- Württemberg prior to industrialization -- Family life and political culture -- Education and life world -- Travels and reforms -- Take off, company founding, and a "chokehold -- Successes, expansion, and internationalization -- Modernization and social policies -- Social policies at Bosch -- Civic pride and patronage -- A backlog of reforms, Taylorism, and a strike -- No conversion and a Liberal encyclopedia -- II: The Great War -- Mobilization and the "Spirit of 1914 -- Anger and restraint -- Great hardship and philanthropic foundations -- The meaning and aims of the war -- The German National Committee -- Mitteleuropa -- Peace resolution and the fall of the chancellor -- A memorandum before the last offensive -- Thinking beyond the war: The German College for Political Science -- The bursting of the "bubble -- III: In the Weimar Republic -- No system change without free elections -- The Democratic Popular Union -- Councils, socialization, and company statutes -- The company and the effects of the war -- Setting the course for corporate governance -- New approaches to company communications -- Social policies in the firm -- Searching for peace -- Change through rapprochement and European integration -- Seeking an end to the "stereotypical Frenchman -- Crisis, renewal, and securing the company's future -- For the republic and international understanding -- IV: Dictatorship, Building up Armaments, and Resistance -- The transfer of power -- A "wall of protection" for the firm -- Enforced conformity" and illusions -- Armaments boom and concerns -- Motives for resistance -- The end of liberal adult education and the independent media -- The company, the "Nazi wave"- an anniversary and the Bosch-Zünder -- A new clinic -- Bosch and his Jewish fellow citizens.