Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Section One: Ambiguities
5. Introduction 3
6. SECTION ONE Ambiguities
7. 1 Crisis or Opportunity? Amway and an Unfamiliar Story of Economic Growth in the 1970s 35
8. 2 Crisis? What Crisis? Mass Consumption in Great Britain in the 1970s and Early 1980s 56
9. 3 Decent Work in the Home? Household Workers and the Crisis of Social Reproduction since the 1970s 78
10. SECTION TWO Adaptations
11. 4 The Clandestine Crisis: Migrant Labour in an Age of Deindustrialization 103
12. 5 Challenges of Computerization and Globalization: The Example of the Printing Unions, 1950s to 1980s 129
13. 6 Soft Skills in an Age of Crises: Continuing Training as an Economic Coping Strategy in West German Companies 153
14. SECTION THREE (Dis-)Continuities
15. 7 Deindustrialization and the Globalization Discourse in France since 1980 189
16. 8 Look to the Future, Embrace Your Past: Regional Industrialization Policies and Their Aftermath 209
17. 9 The End of Long-Established Certainties: The Transformation of Germany Inc. since the Late 1980s 237
18. Contributors 267
19. Index 269