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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.
Social Europe. --- Europe --- History --- History. --- Europe : bulletin quotidien --- Right and left (Political science) --- European Union --- Left (Political science) --- Left and right (Political science) --- Right (Political science) --- Political science --- European Union countries --- EU countries --- Euroland --- Politics and government --- Droite (science politique) --- Gauche (science politique) --- Politique et gouvernement --- European Union. --- Union européenne --- Histoire. --- Histoire --- Climatic changes. --- Climatic changes --- Economic aspects. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Knowledge and learning. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Europäische Union --- Membership. --- Alte Prager Akten --- Verfassungsgeschichte --- Rechtsgeschichte --- Antiqua --- Denegata antiqua --- Höchstgericht --- Reichshofrat
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A history of the rise and abolition of slavery in the Americas covers such topics as the plantation revolution of the seventeenth century, the emergence of anti-slavery thought, and the contributions of such figures as Thomas Paine and Frederick Douglass.
Slavery --- Slaves --- Antislavery movements --- Human rights --- Esclavage --- Esclaves --- Mouvements antiesclavagistes --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- History --- Emancipation --- Economic aspects --- Histoire --- Affranchissement --- Aspect économique --- Europe --- Colonies --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Abolitionism --- Anti-slavery movements --- Human rights movements --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Aspect économique --- Europe : bulletin quotidien
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