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Intro -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Austrian Migration to North America: The Larger Trajectories -- The Transatlantic Experience: Migrants from Austria-Hungary in the United States, 1870–1930 -- Austrian Immigration to Canada and Contributions of Austrian Migrants to Canadian Life in the Twentieth Century -- Anthropologist Leo Frachtenberg and the Politics of Biting Your Tongue in World War I America -- The Origins of 'Little Burgenland': A Close Look at Austria's Most Important Area of Emigration, 1900–1930 -- II. Austrian Emigrants/Refugees after World War I: Escaping Economic Hardship and/or Political Persecution -- Berthold Viertel – A Migration Career and No Comeback in Exile -- The Agent with the Typewriter: Ilse Lichtblau Lahn – An Invisible Invader in Hollwood. Outline of a Story in Three Acts -- Ruth Klüger's and Frederic Morton's Assimilation to America – A Success Story? -- "Living with Austrian Literature": The 'Austrian Literature Association' and the Émigré Germanists in the United States -- Beyond Hayek and Mises: The Preservation of an Austrian School of Economics in America -- III. Austrian Refugees/Migrants in the World War II Era: Staying or Returning? -- "You did not have to feed me, nor to clothe, nor to educate me -- I came complete": Dietrich W. Botstiber's Escape from the City of Music -- Hans Habe's American Years -- Writing Hollywood's Music: Hanns Eisler -- Improvised Lives: Günther Anders's American Exile -- Of Secret Wars and Quiet Invasions: How Friedrich Katz Wrote His Way into America -- An Austrian Catholic Mission in America: P. Thomas Michels OSB (1892–1979) and the Legitimist Movement in the United States and the Early Second Republic -- The American Way of Life As Seen Through the Lenses of Ivan Illich (1926–2002)

"Comparing economic development in a regional context both in the South of the United States and in the European Union today raises many fascinating questions. How much money in the form of tax credits and subsidies should communities and states invest to attract foreign investors in the U.S.? Should individual states and communities in the U.S. commit public funds in the form of tax money and tax credits etc. to bring foreign businesses to their shores? Is theargument of bringing "jobs" and more employment home the only argument that should count politically? Or might these generous subsidies doled out to foreign businesses from public funds deprive local populations from improving their infrastructure and public education? What if these foreign investors then locate to other shores if their investments are not profitable enough in the short run?Might foreign investors come to the American South because it has never been unionized like the rest of the country? Is the attraction of the non-union South then only a means to get away from the burdens of stricter worker protection and social programs at home in Germany or Austria or elsewhere?

"Comparing economic development in a regional context both in the South of the United States and in the European Union today raises many fascinating questions. How much money in the form of tax credits and subsidies should communities and states invest to attract foreign investors in the U.S.? Should individual states and communities in the U.S. commit public funds in the form of tax money and tax credits etc. to bring foreign businesses to their shores? Is the argument of bringing "jobs" and more employment home the only argument that should count politically? Or might these generous subsidies doled out to foreign businesses from public funds deprive local populations from improving their infrastructure and public education? What if these foreign investors then locate to other shores if their investments are not profitable enough in the short run?
Might foreign investors come to the American South because it has never been unionized like the rest of the country? Is the attraction of the non-union South then only a means to get away from the burdens of stricter worker protection and social programs at home in Germany or Austria or elsewhere?" - Der Vergleich zwischen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung im Süden der USA und der EU im regionalen Kontext wirft eine Vielzahl von spannenden Fragen auf. Wie viel Geld sollten Gemeinden und Länder in Form von Förderungen und Steuererleichterungen in die Hand nehmen, um ausländische Investoren in die USA zu ziehen? Sollen die einzelnen amerikanischen Staaten und Gemeinden überhaupt öffentliche Gelder einsetzen, um ausländische Unternehmungen an Land zu ziehen? Genügt das Argument vieler PolitikerInnen, dass damit neue Arbeitsplätze in der Region geschaffen werden, oder ist es nicht vielmehr so, dass diese Mittel dann in anderen Bereichen wie Infrastruktur und Bildung fehlen? Und was geschieht, wenn die Unternehmer ihre Betriebe wieder ins Ausland abziehen, weil sie nicht genug profitieren? Zieht es ausländische Investoren in den Süden der USA, weil es hier im Gegensatz zu den anderen Staaten keine gewerkschaftlichen Organisationen gibt? Und sollen damit lediglich strikter Arbeiterschutz und soziale Unterstützungen, wie sie in Österreich oder Deutschland gang und gäbe sind, umgangen werden?

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