Review "... a useful analysis of the history of private sector policy in the former GDR... offers insights into - and warnings for - other societies in the process of radical change." --German Politics"... a really worthwhile account of the reconstruction of Europe's leading energy resource in the 1950s." --German History"... a conscientious, useful, and accessible book whose findings confirm the mounting evidence that prewar German business outlooks persisted well into the 1950s. It is also a valuable addition to previous studies of Ruhr labor policy." --Central European History"Mark Roseman's splendidly thorough and highly intelligent Recasting the Ruhr...a most thorough and extensive examination of both British and German political and industrial archives" --The Journal of Modern History"... Roseman's account of continuity and change in ideology and working class culture in the Ruhr constitutes his most valuable contribution to postwar German historiography." --American Historical Review"Mark Roseman has delivered a fine study on post-war reconstruction politics in Europe's biggest industrial region." --Contemporary European History Product Description An analysis of the measures undertaken to win new labour for the Ruhr coal production industry and train the recruits into productive and settled miners.