Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 356
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-8501-1 • Paperback • November 1997 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Jytte Klausen is associate professor of comparative politics at Brandeis University and a fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Louise A. Tilly is Michael E. Gellert Professor of History and Sociology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 European Integration in a Social and Historical Perspective
Chapter 3 A Third Lens: Comparing European Integration and State Building
Part 4 Historical Perspectives on Defining and Implementing Citizenship in the State Formation Process
Chapter 5 Reinterpreting the History of European Integration: Business, Labor, and Social Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Europe
Chapter 6 Citizenship and Nationality in Nineteenth-Century France
Chapter 7 Crossing Borders and Building Barriers: Migration, Citizenship, and State Building in Germany
Chapter 8 Foreign Workers in Western Europe: The "Cheaper Hands" in Historical Perspective
Part 9 The Social Process of Developing Group Representational Institutions in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European States
Chapter 10 Markets, Industrial Relations, and the Law: The United Kingdom and France, 1867-1906
Chapter 11 From the Warfare State to the Welfare State: Postwar Reconstruction and National Incorporation
Chapter 12 Markets, States, and Social Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe
Part 13 Citizenship and Group Representation at the Transnational Level
Chapter 14 European Labor and Transnational Solidarity: Challenges, Pathways, and Barriers
Chapter 15 Migration in Contemporary Europe: European Integration
Chapter 16 Gender and Europe: National Differences, Resources, and mpediments to the Construction of a Common Interest by European Women
Chapter 17 An Afterword: European Union at the End of the Century
The authors provide lucid perspectives often lacking in books on the travails of the EU.
— Foreign Affairs
An ambitious volume. Its broad substantive and temporal scope as well as its interdisciplinary foundations open up new perspectives on integration in Europe. This book represents a successful and original attempt to move beyond the narrow academic debates surrounding the integration initiatives of the past decade.
— Jeffrey Anderson, Brown University
...the editors do provide some insightful overviews in their brief introductions to each of the main sections, and bring out the links between these diverse strands.
— Stephen George, University of Sheffield; English Historical Review, Nov.1999
Individual contributions to European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective are important, perceptive, and often fascinating. ...A valuable contribution to contemporary debates on the European Union and similar pursuits. ...Students of the European Union and the relationship between sociopolitical actors and political institutions, as well as comparative-historical researcherswill benefit from the numerous contributions made by European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective.
— Contemporary Sociology