Beyond Coal and Steel A Social History of Western Europe After the Boom

In the 1970s, the economic and social foundations of Western Europe underwent an unprecedented transformation. Old industries like coal and steel disappeared, millions of people lost their jobs and formerly flourishing towns and cities went into decline. Traditional political agendas gave way to new social problems and concerns. What happened to industrial citizens - their workplaces, their careers and their homes? How did social rights and political participation of workers change when markets became global, management lean and financial capital dominant? How did companies change and how were personal skills and work tasks reinvented under the impact of new technologies? How did workers - men and women - live through these decades of uncertainty and upheaval?Lutz Raphael reconstructs the highly variegated story of deindustrialization in Western Europe with a particular focus on Britain, France and West Germany. Extending over three decades, this transformation was accompanied by significant rises in productivity and consumerism, but it also came at a heavy cost, ushering in many low-income jobs, growing inequality and a crisis of democratic representation. Its legacy is everywhere around us today - it is the transformation that has shaped our world.

Product details

• Authors: Lutz Raphael, Raphael Lutz
• Assisted by: Kate Tranter (Translation)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 24.11.2023
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9781509554386
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-5438-6
• Pages: 404
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 23 x 3 cm
• Subjects: Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Zeitgeschichte, History, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Zeitgeschichte Europas im 20./21. Jhd., 20th Century & Contemporary European History, Vergleichende Politik, Zeitgeschichte Großbritanniens im 20./21. Jhd., 20th Century & Contemporary British History, Westeuropa /Geschichte, Politik 1945 ff