TY - BOOK ID - 113147175 TI - Social Europe, the road not taken : the left and european integration in the long 1970s PY - 2022 SN - 0191959235 0192692682 0192692690 0192867091 9780192867094 3763946667 1849647704 1914268059 0810135183 1910634751 1787356213 1910634328 1787351920 1787355489 1910634557 1911576240 1910634859 1787351084 178735105X 178735329X 178735332X 9781787350014 1787350010 9781787350007 178735444X 1787351203 9781787352933 1911307053 178735377X 1787353761 1787352366 1787352331 1911576380 1787351742 1787353885 1787351688 1787352757 1787352781 1787351378 1787353508 1787353265 1787350738 1787356337 1351660624 1943208352 194320831X 3961103437 9781802201703 PB - Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Social Europe. KW - Europe KW - History KW - History. KW - Europe : bulletin quotidien KW - Right and left (Political science) KW - European Union KW - Left (Political science) KW - Left and right (Political science) KW - Right (Political science) KW - Political science KW - European Union countries KW - EU countries KW - Euroland KW - Politics and government KW - Droite (science politique) KW - Gauche (science politique) KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - European Union. KW - Union européenne KW - Histoire. KW - Histoire KW - Climatic changes. KW - Climatic changes KW - Economic aspects. KW - Shakespeare, William, KW - Knowledge and learning. KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Europäische Union KW - Membership. KW - Alte Prager Akten KW - Verfassungsgeschichte KW - Rechtsgeschichte KW - Antiqua KW - Denegata antiqua KW - Höchstgericht KW - Reichshofrat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:113147175 AB - This book examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s. Based on fresh archival research, it shows that the western European Left-in particular, social democratic parties, trade unions, and to a lesser extent 'Eurocommunist' parties-formulated a broad project to turn 'capitalist Europe' into a 'workers' Europe'. This alternative model of European unity favoured coordinated measures for wealth redistribution, market regulation, a democratization of the economy and of European institutions, upward harmonization of social and fiscal systems, more inclusive welfare regimes, guaranteed employment, economic and social planning with greater consideration for the environment, increased public spending to meet collective needs, greater control of capital flows and multinational corporations, a reduction in working time, and a fairer international economic order favouring the global South. During the pivotal years following 1968, deeply marked by labour militancy, new social movements, economic crisis, and the unmaking of the 'postwar compromise', a window of opportunity opened in which European integration could have taken different roads. The defeat of 'social Europe' was a result of a decade-long social conflict which ended with the affirmation of a neoliberal Europe. Investigating this forgotten power struggle and the reasons of its defeat can be useful not just to scholars and students eager to understand the historical evolution of European integration, the European Left, and European capitalism, but also to anyone interested in building alternative European and global futures. ER -