18:00 - 20:00
DGB Jugendclub
“We are all foreign workers!“
migrant struggles, wildcat strikes and the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Migration and social movements shaped society in the Federal Republic in the 1960s and 1970s like no other phenomenon. Nevertheless, these two constants of social change are usually considered separately. How did trade unions and the so-called sixty-eighters deal with the immigration of millions of workers? And how did the migrants influence the social movements in the Federal Republic? The multimedia lecture deals with various wildcat strikes as well as forms of protest within and outside of the company and illustrates how crucially migration and the social change of the 1970s are connected.
Simon Goeke has been working since 2017 as a research associate for migration research and curator at the Munich City Museum. In its 2020 published doctoral thesis entitled »We are all foreign workers!« he deals with the migrant struggles of the 1960s- and 1970s in the Federal Republic and their connections to the social movements and the trade unions.