Since the boom : continuity and change in the Western industrialized world after 1970 / edited by Sebastian Voigt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Voigt, Sebastian, editor.

Series:

German and European studies.

German and European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Western countries--Economic conditions--21st century.

Western countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-4875-3705-0

1-4875-3704-2

OCLC:

1155389078