Migration, Industrialisierung, Weltkrieg

Lessons from the Southern German Borderlands

“…During the first decades of the twentieth century, in fact, Vorarlberg witnessed the most intensive industrialization of any region in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. 20 If, by 1910, as Andreas Weigel estimates, some 6,000 men and women left Vorarlberg to work seasonally in Switzerland, while many others went to France, Luxemburg, and the Netherlands, 21 even more people wandered into Vorarlberg to join its industrial labor forces. By 1900, almost twenty percent of the people living in Vorarlberg had not been born there.…”