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Examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s, showing that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and 'Eurocommunist' parties-formulated a project to turn 'capitalist Europe' into a 'workers' Europe'.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: The 'Social Dimension' of Postwar Europe
- 2: 1968, 1969: Social Protest, European 'Revival'
- 3: A New Social Wind
- 4: 'For a Social Europe'
- 5: There Were
- 6: The Defeat
- Epilogue: The Road Taken
About the author
Aurélie Dianara Andry is Research Fellow at the Laboratoire IDHES, Université d'Évry Paris-Saclay, and a member of the ANR-DFG-funded project 'Workplace democracy: a European ideal?: discourses and practices about the democratization of work after 1945'. Prior to coming to Évry, she completed her PhD in History and Civilisation at the European University Institute, Florence, was a Teaching Assistant at Université Paris Sorbonne, and held a Research Associate position at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses mainly on the history of European integration and the history of socialism and trade unionism in Europe.
Summary
Examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s, showing that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and 'Eurocommunist' parties-formulated a project to turn 'capitalist Europe' into a 'workers' Europe'.
Additional text
Andry's book presents historical precursors to the lively contemporary political debates about the viability of Europe as a progressive project, industrial democracy, working time, degrowth and more. Simultaneously, it highlights the structural, ideational and political obstacles that actors face when attempting to put these ideas and vi sions into practice.
