Social Europe, the Road not Taken

This book examines the European Left''s attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a ''social Europe''-during the long 1970s.Based on fresh archival material, it shows that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and to a lesser extent ''Eurocommunist'' parties-formulated a project to turn ''capitalist Europe'' into a ''w...