Contesting Deregulation: Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s (Making Sense of History, 31) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785336207 ISBN 13: 9781785336201

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1785336207
• ISBN 13: 9781785336201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Andresen Knud, Müller Stefan