Social Europe, the road not taken : : the left and European integration in the long 1970s / / Aurélie Dianara Andry.

This book 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. Based on fresh archival research, it shows that the western European Left-in particular, social democratic parties, trade unio...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford, UK : : Oxford University Press,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Oxford Academic.
Physical Description:1 online resource (287 pages)
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  • Also issued in print: 2022.
  • "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND)".
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Social Europe, the Road Not Taken
  • Why This Forgotten Struggle Matters
  • Methodology and Book Structure
  • 1. The 'Social Dimension' of Postwar Europe
  • The European Rescue of 'Welfare Capitalism'
  • Liberalism, Social Welfare, and the Treaty of Rome
  • Socialism and European Integration
  • 2. 1968, 1969: Social Protest, European 'Revival'
  • The Spirit of 1968 and Europe's Social Deficit
  • The Left's (Crippled) European Turn
  • The Hague, 1969: European Revival and Social Policy
  • 3. A New Social Wind
  • False New Start
  • Europe Goes Left
  • Enlargement and 'Socialist Europe'
  • The 1972 Paris Summit: Economic, Monetary, and 'Social Union'?
  • 4. 'For a Social Europe'
  • Socialism through Europe
  • The Socialists' 'Theses for a Social Europe'
  • The Social Action Programme
  • 5. There Were Alternatives
  • European Socialism Turns Left
  • Beyond Capitalist Planning
  • A Socialist Alternative to Neoliberal Europe?
  • European Trade Unions beyond Keynes
  • 6. The Defeat
  • Dropping the 'European Social Union'
  • Trying Eurocorporatism
  • Takin' It to the Streets
  • Renouncing Economic Democracy
  • Coup de Grâce
  • Epilogue: The Road Taken
  • The Other 'Social Europe'
  • Reasons for the Defeat
  • Bibliography
  • Index.