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The aim of this paper is to see whether the Prussian (German) railroads in the 19th century evolved a system of internal labor markets and to investigate the influence of a traditional rule of employment in the Prussian bureaucracy on the employment relationships. It examines the promotion systems of the middle-ranked employees and assesses the existence of internal labor markets in the Prussian railroads from the 1850'S. This result indicates that the Prussian (private-and state owned-) railroads developed a modern employment system that was suitable for inducing available humane resources. The predominant employment of the retired officers and soldiers with the testimonial for maintenance in the civil service (Civilversorgungsschein) had a negative effect on the functions of these internal labor markets. The result of the introduction of traditional German-Prussian bureaucratic system in the railroads was ambivalent; on the one hand, the bureaucracy was a source of an internal labor market -some preferential treatment of the long-time employed in the employment relationship, but, on the other hand, it burdened the modern economic organizations with the risk and/or uncertainity of the supplied labor forces.
