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

Stefan Berger, Marcel Boldorf, Stefan Berger, Marcel Boldorf

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783319771960
• eBook ISBN: 9783319771977
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Economic 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. 

Index ¹

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...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Social Movements and the Change of Economic Elites in Europe: An Introduction
• Confrontation or Cooperation? The Labour Movement and Economic Elites in West Germany After 1945
• Social Movements and the Change of Industrial Elites in East Germany
• France After the Liberation: The Labour Movement, the Employers and the Political Leaders in Their Struggle with the Social Movement
• Social Movements and the Change of Economic Elites in Europe After 1945. The Belgian Case
• The Dutch Post-war Social Movement and the Elite’s Reaction
• The Works Councils in Czechoslovakia 1945–1949. Remarks on the Fate of a Social Movement in the Process of Transformation
• Rebuilding the Donbass. The Impact of Nazi-Occupation on Workers, Engineers and the Economic Development of the Post-War Soviet Union in Late Stalinism
• Change or Continuity in the Danish Elites? Social Movements and the Transition from War to Peace in Denmark, 1945–1947
• Political Radicalisation and Social Movements in Liberated Norway (1945–1947)
• Capitalism Under Attack: Economic Elites and Social Movements in Post-War Finland
• The Swedish Labour Movement and Post-War Radicalisation: Social Democracy Between Economic Elites and the Trade Union Movement
• The Labour Movement and Business Elites Under Waning Fascism: Spain 1939–1951
• Saving Social Democracy? Hugh Clegg and the Post-War Programme to Reform British Workplace Industrial Relations: Too Little, Too Late?
• Social Movements and the Change of Industrial Elites: A European Approach
• Back Matter