Since the Boom

Continuity and Change in the Western Industrialized World after 1970

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2021
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0783-1 (ISBN)

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Marked by a period of massive structural change, the 1970s in Europe saw the collapse of traditional manufacturing. The essays in this collection question aspects of the narrative of decline and radical transformation.

The 1970s are of particular relevance for understanding the socio-economic changes still shaping Western societies today. The collapse of traditional manufacturing industries like coal and steel, shipbuilding, and printing, as well as the rise of the service sector, contributed to a notable sense of decline and radical transformation.

Building on the seminal work of Lutz Raphael and Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, Nach dem Boom, which identified a "social transformation of revolutionary quality" that ushered in "digital financial capitalism," this volume features a series of essays that reconsider the idea of a structural break in the 1970s. Contributors draw on case studies from France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and Germany to examine the validity of the "after the boom" hypothesis. Since the Boom attempts to bridge the gap between the English and highly productive German debates on the 1970s.

Sebastian Voigt is an assistant professor at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich – Berlin.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Sebastian Voigt

Section One: Ambiguities

1. Crisis or Opportunity? Amway and an Unfamiliar Story of Economic Growth in the 1970s
Jessica Burch

2. Crisis? What Crisis? Mass Consumption in Great Britain in the 1970s and Early 1980s
Sina Fabian

3. Decent Work in the Home? Household Workers and the Crisis of Social Reproduction since the 1970s
Eileen Boris

Section Two: Adaptations

4. The Clandestine Crisis: Migrant Labor in an Age of Deindustrialization
Michael Kozakowski

5. Challenges of Computerization and Globalization: The Example of the Printing Unions, 1950s to 1980s
Karsten Uhl

6. Soft Skills in an Age of Crises: Continuing Training as Economic Coping Strategy in West German Companies
Franziska Rehlinghaus

Section Three: (Dis-)Continuities

7. Deindustrialization and the Globalization Discourse in France since 1980
Andreas Wirsching

8. Look to the Future, Embrace Your Past: Regional Industrialization Policies and Their Aftermath
Bart Hoogeboom and Marijn Molema

9. The End of Long-Established Certainties: The Transformation of Germany Inc. since the late 1980s
Hartmut Berghoff

Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	German and European Studies
Zusatzinfo	7 figures
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 231 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-4875-0783-6 / 1487507836
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-0783-1 / 9781487507831
Zustand	Neuware