Since the Boom : : Continuity and Change in the Western Industrialized World after 1970 / / ed. by Sebastian Voigt.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | German and European Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 7 figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Section One: Ambiguities
- Introduction
- SECTION ONE Ambiguities
- 1 Crisis or Opportunity? Amway and an Unfamiliar Story of Economic Growth in the 1970s
- 2 Crisis? What Crisis? Mass Consumption in Great Britain in the 1970s and Early 1980s
- 3 Decent Work in the Home? Household Workers and the Crisis of Social Reproduction since the 1970s
- SECTION TWO Adaptations
- 4 The Clandestine Crisis: Migrant Labour in an Age of Deindustrialization
- 5 Challenges of Computerization and Globalization: The Example of the Printing Unions, 1950s to 1980s
- 6 Soft Skills in an Age of Crises: Continuing Training as an Economic Coping Strategy in West German Companies
- SECTION THREE (Dis-)Continuities
- 7 Deindustrialization and the Globalization Discourse in France since 1980
- 8 Look to the Future, Embrace Your Past: Regional Industrialization Policies and Their Aftermath
- 9 The End of Long-Established Certainties: The Transformation of Germany Inc. since the Late 1980s
- Contributors
- Index