{"product_id":"since-the-boom-continuity-and-change-in-the-western-industrialized-world-after-1970-hardback-9781487507831","title":"Since the Boom; Continuity and Change in the Western Industrialized World After 1970 (Hardback) 9781487507831","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSince the Boom\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eContinuity and Change in the Western Industrialized World After 1970\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSebastian Voigt (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487507831\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 7 figures\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1970s are of particular relevance for understanding the socio-economic changes still shaping Western societies today. The collapse of traditional manufacturing industries like coal and steel, shipbuilding, and printing, as well as the rise of the service sector, contributed to a notable sense of decline and radical transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding on the seminal work of Lutz Raphael and Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, \u003ci\u003eNach dem Boom,\u003c\/i\u003e which identified a \"social transformation of revolutionary quality\" that ushered in \"digital financial capitalism,\" this volume features a series of essays that reconsider the idea of a structural break in the 1970s. Contributors draw on case studies from France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and Germany to examine the validity of the \"after the boom\" hypothesis. \u003ci\u003eSince the Boom\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to bridge the gap between the English and highly productive German debates on the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSebastian Voigt \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection One: Ambiguities \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Crisis or Opportunity? Amway and an Unfamiliar Story of Economic Growth in the 1970s\u003cbr\u003eJessica Burch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Crisis? What Crisis? Mass Consumption in Great Britain in the 1970s and Early 1980s\u003cbr\u003eSina Fabian\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Decent Work in the Home? Household Workers and the Crisis of Social Reproduction since the 1970s\u003cbr\u003eEileen Boris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Two: Adaptations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Clandestine Crisis: Migrant Labor in an Age of Deindustrialization\u003cbr\u003eMichael Kozakowski\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Challenges of Computerization and Globalization: The Example of the Printing Unions, 1950s to 1980s \u003cbr\u003eKarsten  Uhl\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Soft Skills in an Age of Crises: Continuing Training as Economic Coping Strategy in West German Companies \u003cbr\u003eFranziska Rehlinghaus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Three: (Dis-)Continuities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Deindustrialization and the Globalization Discourse in France since 1980\u003cbr\u003eAndreas Wirsching\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Look to the Future, Embrace Your Past: Regional Industrialization Policies and Their Aftermath\u003cbr\u003eBart Hoogeboom and Marijn Molema\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The End of Long-Established Certainties: The Transformation of Germany Inc. since the late 1980s\u003cbr\u003eHartmut Berghoff\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595482132760,"sku":"9781487507831","price":41.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/since-the-boom-continuity-and-change-in-the-western-industrialized-world-after-1970-hardback-9781487507831","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}