Exporting the American Model: The Post-War Transformation of European Business

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Figures xi
• Tables xii
• Abbreviations xiii
• Introduction 1
• Notes 16
• Part I Cross-National Transfer: Structural Types 19
• 1: The American Structural Revolution Inventing the Corporate System of Industri al Production 23
• Notes 42
• 2: Stability of European Industries Preserving Structural Arrangements Before 1939 61
• Part Ii Cross-National Transfer: Conditions, Channels, and Actors 65
• 3: Crisis Inside, Dependence Outside Preconditions of A Cross-National Transfer 71
• 4: Actors and Institutional Channels Emergence of A Cross-National Modernizing N etwork 94
• Part III: Cross-National Transfer 129
• 5: Voluntary Imitation Adopting the Corporate Model in France 135
• 6: From Coercion to Imitation Transplanting the Corporate Model to West Germany 162
• 7: From Control to Conversion Embedding the Corporate Model in Western Europe 187
• Part Iv Cross-National Transfer: National Limits 223
• 8: The Resistance of European Business Organized Opposition to Structural Transformations 227
• Notes 245
• 9: European Labor and Productivity Between All-Out War and Active Participation 249
• Concluding Remarks 271
• Notes 282
• Bibliography 283
• Index 299

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