BEYOND COAL AND STEEL

Lutz Rapahel, historian and professor at the University of Trier

«A social history of industrial labour - gripping, knowledgeable, intelligent.« DIE ZEIT

In the 1970s, many Western European countries were gripped by unprecedented structural change: The factories of the old industries disappeared, millions of jobs were lost, previously booming cities fell into crisis and new social issues dominated the political agenda. But what has become of the proud industrial citizen - of his jobs, career paths and neighbourhoods? How did the social rights and political participation of female workers change when competition became global, management lean and financial capitalism dominant? What ideas and ideologies accompanied the change?

Moderation Robert Misik, Author and journalist

Lutz Raphael, born in 1955, is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Trier and has held visiting professorships in Oxford and Paris, among other places. He is a member of both the Mainz Academy of Science and Literature and the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2013, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation.

Lutz Raphael:
Beyond Coal and Steel - A Social History of Western Europe after the Boom
Suhrkamp/Insel, 2019