Enterprise in the period of fascism in Europe / edited by Harold James and Jakob Tanner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James, Harold, 1956-

Tanner, Jakob.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses.

Entrepreneurship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

The essays in this volume consider the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s: in the move away from the market and also from democracy, towards state control and authoritarianism, including the massive intervention of the state in property rights. How far did businesses attempt to guide this intervention for their own purposes, and to what extent did they succeed? This debate deals, centrally, with the role of German business, of banks, of industrial corporations, and of small tradesmen in the Nazi regime. An older discussion of how they may have facilitated the Nazi takeover has been supplemented here by an investigation into how they made the regime's policies possible, and the extent to which the profit motive drove them to participate - with sometimes more, sometimes less enthusiasm - in the politics of inhumanity. Such discussion has been given further impetus by legal action, initially in the United States, in the form of class action suits on behalf of the victims of Nazism. What do such legal and political debates mean for business history? What are the current responsibilities of business facing the consequences of historical action? And what lessons should be learned concerning the ethics of business behaviour? The contributions to this volume were originally presented as papers at a conference organised by the Society for European Business History in Paris in November 1998.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part I 1 The Economic Origins and Dimensions of European Fascism 3 Gerald D. Feldman 2 Banks and the Era of Totalitarianism: Banking in Nazi Germany 14 Harold James 3 Industry under the Swastika 26 Peter Hayes 4 Comment 38 Christopher Kopper Part II 5 Spanish Entrepreneurs in the Era of Fascism: From the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship to the Franco Dictatorship, 1923-1945 43 Mercedes Cabrera and Fernando del Rey 6 The Fascist Regime and Big Business: The Fiat and Montecatini Cases 62 Franco Amatori 7 Entrepreneurs and the Fascist Regime in Italy: From the Honeymoon to the Divorce 78 Luciano Segreto 8 Comment 94 Pablo Martin Acenia Part III 9 Enterprises in Switzerland during the Second World War 105 Jean-Francois Bergier 10 Business as Usual? The Danish Economy and Business during the German Occupation 115 Per H. Hansen 11 Comment 144 Jakob Tanner Part IV 12 Business in the Grossraumwirtschaft: Eastern Europe, 1938-1945 151 Richard J. Overy 13 Polish and Jewish Entrepreneurs during the German Occupation in Poland, 1939-1945 178 Zbigniew Landau 14 Comment 189 Boris Barth Part V 15 The Belgian Business Elite, Economic Exploitation and National Socialist Corporatism 195 Dirk Luyten 16 The Dutch Economy during the German Occupation, 1940-1945 219 Hein A.M. Klemann 17 French Enterprises under German Occupation, 1940-1944 259 Patrick Fridenson.

Notes:

"These papers were originally given at a conference organized by. in November 1998"--Pref.

First published 2002 by Ashgate.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-93985-8

1-315-25637-1

1-351-93986-6

9781315256375

OCLC:

993637165