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Abstract
Few would dispute that many Western industrial democracies undertook extensive deregulation in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet this narrative, in its most familiar form, depends upon several historiographical assumptions that bely the complexities and pitfalls of studying the recent past. Across thirteen case studies, the contributors to this volume investigate this “deregulatory moment” from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decades in isolation and ignores broader trends that extend to the end of the Second World War.
Stefan Müller is a research fellow at the Archiv der sozialen Demokratie (AdsD) der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. His recent publications include “Humanisierung der Arbeitswelt 1.0. Historisch-kritische Befragung eines Reformprogramms der Neunzehnhundertsiebzigerjahre“ (in Solidarität im Wandel der Zeiten, ed. Willy Buschak, 2016) and “West German Trade Unions and the Policy of Détente, 1969–1989”(Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements 52, 2014).
Knud Andresen is a research fellow at the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg. His recent publications include Gebremste Radikalisierung. Die IG Metall und ihre Jugend 1968 bis in die 1980er Jahre (2016) and European Youth Revolt: European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s (2016; coedited with Bart van der Steen).
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contesting Deregulation | i | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Tables | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | viii | ||
| Introduction: Contesting Deregulation | 1 | ||
| Part I .Continuities, or: The Long Second Half of the Twentieth Century | 21 | ||
| Chapter 1. The Global Spread of Export Processing Zones, and the 1970s as a Decade of Consolidation | 23 | ||
| Chapter 2. Continuity and Change in Germany’s Social Market Economy | 41 | ||
| Chapter 3. Pioneers of Capitalism | 57 | ||
| Chapter 4. Against the Deregulatory Tide | 74 | ||
| Chapter 5. Changes in Business Organization | 87 | ||
| Part II. Conceptual Transition in (State) Regulation from the 1970s to the 1980s | 109 | ||
| Chapter 6. Helmut Schmidt, the ‘Renewal’ of European Social Democracy, and the Roots of Neoliberal Globalization | 111 | ||
| Chapter 7. The Changing Corporate Tax Order of the European Community | 125 | ||
| Chapter 8. The European Community and the Rise of a New Educational Order (1976–1986) | 138 | ||
| Chapter 9. Project-Based Learning from the Late 1960s to the Early 1980s | 152 | ||
| Part III. Regulatory Transitions in Enterprise Practices | 167 | ||
| Chapter 10. Technological Advance, Transatlantic Trade, External Equilibrium | 169 | ||
| Chapter 11. Capital Hits the Road | 185 | ||
| Chapter 12. Marketization of the Enterprise | 199 | ||
| Chapter 13. From Mutual Society to Public Corporation | 214 | ||
| Index | 229 |