Social Movements and the Change of Economic Elites in Europe after 1945

Stefan Berger,Marcel Boldorf

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9783319771977
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

This book explores the changing nature of social movements and economic elites in post-Second World War Europe. In the years following 1945, Europe faced diverse challenges connected by the overriding question of how the reconstruction of the continent should proceed. For the Central Powers, the implementation lay in the hands of the Allied occupying forces who organised the process of denazification and the establishment of a new economic order. In countries without military occupation, there was a deep gap between the new governmental forces and the former collaborators. In both cases, social movements which were formed by anti-fascists on the left of the political spectrum assumed the task of social reorganisation. The chapters in this book explore the discourses about economic systems and their elites which moved to the fore across a range of European countries, uncovering who was involved, what resistance these social movements faced and how these ultimately failed in the Westto bring about change, while in Eastern Europe Stalinism forcibly imposed change.

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A

Absenteeism

Ad hoc corporatism

Administrative Council (Administrasjonsrådet)

Aftenposten

Agrarian Liberals (Venstre)

Agrarian Party

Ahlström, A.

Algemeen Belgisch Vakverbond/Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique (General Federation of Belgian Workers, ABVV/FGTB)

Alliance administration

Allied Control Commission

Allied Control Council’s Directive

Antagonisms

conflict resolution, co-determination and social policy

growth and reconstruction, paradigms

persistence and the resolution

strike movements

Antagonistic conflict

Anti-capitalist movements

at the end of second world war, social movements and

of post-war

Anti-communism

Anti-Communist campaign

Antifascist commissions, and antifascist commissions, cooperation between

Aristov, V.A.

Association for Chemical and Metallurgical Production ( Spolek pro chemickou a hutní výrobu )

‘Association of Freedom Fighters’

Attlee, C.

Auto Union

B

Balcar, Jaromír

Barcelona

BBC broadcasts

The Belgian Case

Belgian democracy

Belgian economic policy

Belgian government

Belgian system, of social organisation

Belgian trade union movement

Belgium

Best, W.

Betriebsgewerkschaftsleitungen (Company Union Leadership)

Betriebsrätegesetz

Beveridge, W.

Bevin, E.

Bill, retroactive legislation

Birth, of labour councils

Blue Legion

Board of Government Mediators ( College van Rijksbemiddelaars , CvR)

Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik (Bohemian-Moravian Machine Factory)

Boldorf, Marcel

Bolshevik revolution

‘The bourgeoisie,’

Bourgeois specialists

Boycott campaign, against Franco’s Spain

Breakthrough (Doorbraak)

Britain

British Beveridge Plan

British Communist Party

British Foreign Office

British IR exceptionalism

British liberation

British Officer

British trade unions

British workplace industrial relations

Broad-based coalition government

Brown, G.

Buhl, Vilhelm

Buitengewoon Besluit Arbeidsverhoudingen (Extraordinary Decree on Labour Relations, BBA)

Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis ( Centraal Planbureau , CPB)

Burkart, Odilo

Business elites

purges in

Business organisations

C

Caballero, L.

CAFWI

SeeCentral Association of the Finnish Woodworking Industries

Capitalist economic system

Capitalists

Catholic Labour Movement ( Katholieke Arbeiders Beweging , KAB)

Catholic organisations

Catholic trade unionist

Catholic trade unions

Catholic unions

Central Association of the Finnish Woodworking Industries (CAFWI)

Central Commission of Finnish industry (Teollisuuden Keskusvaliokunta)

Central Control Commission

Central Council of the Revolutionary Trade U...