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Since the early seventies studies on the Italian economy of the thirties have become one of the liveliest aspects of the debate on Fascism as a whole. This trend reverses the long neglect of the early postwar period and the lack of information that went with it. Fresh ideas and facts are now contributed at a fast pace; all attempts to summarize views and trends are bound to be soon outdated by new research. The central notion of these recent studies is that some of the structural features of the present-day Italian economy came to life in the early thirties as a response to die depression.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Uneasy Promise of the Welfare State, by Alice Kessler-Harris -- 1. Historians Interpret the Welfare State, 1975–1995, by Maurizio Vaudagna -- Part I. Democracy and the Welfare State in Europe and the United States -- 2. Reconciling European Integration and the National Welfare State: A Neo-Weberian Perspective, by Maurizio Ferrera -- 3. Democracy After the Welfare State: An Interview, by Ira Katznelson -- Part II. Varieties of Retrenchment -- 4. Privatization and Self-Responsibility: Patterns of Welfare-State Development in Europe and the United States Since the 1990s, by Christian Lammert -- 5. Paradise Lost? Social Citizenship in Norway and Sweden, by Gro Hagemann -- 6. Social Citizenship in the U.S. Affordable Care Act, by Beatrix Hoffman -- 7. In the Shadow of Employment Precarity: Informal Protection and Risk Transfers in Low-End Temporary Staffing, by Sébastien Chauvin -- 8. From the Welfare State to the Carceral State: Whither Social Reproduction?, by Mimi Abramovitz -- Part III. Gender, the Family, and Social Provision -- 9. Family Matters: Social Policy, an Overlooked Constraint on the Development of European Citizenship, by Chiara Saraceno -- 10. Transforming Gendered Labor Policies in Sweden and the United States, 1960s–2000s, by Ann Shola Orloff -- 11. Breadwinner Liberalism and Its Discontents in the American Welfare State, by Robert O. Self -- Part IV. Possibilities of Resistance -- 12. Nationalism's Challenge to European Citizenship, Democracy, and Equality: Potential for Resistance from Transnational Civil Society, by Birte Siim -- 13. Poor-People Power: The State, Social Provision, and American Experiments in Democratic Engagement, by Marisa Chappell -- 14. Grassroots Challenges to Capitalism: An Interview, by Frances Fox Piven -- Selected Bibliography

Cover -- The American Century in Europe -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Concept of an American Century -- PART ONE DIPLOMATIC RESPONSES -- The United States and Europe in an Age of American Unilateralism -- Democracy and Power: The Interactive Nature of the American Century -- Europe: The Phantom Pillar -- Utopia and Realism in Woodrow Wilson's Vision of the International Order -- The United States, Germany, and Europe in the Twentieth Century -- PART TWO CULTURAL RESPONSES -- European Elitism, American Money, and Popular Culture -- American Myth, American Model, and the Quest for a British Modernity -- American Religion as Cultural Imperialism -- Western Alliance and Scientific Diplomacy in the Early 1960s: The Rise and Failure of the Project to Create a European M.I.T. -- PART THREE SOCIAL RESPONSES -- American Democracy and the Welfare State: The Problem of Its Publics -- A Checkered History: The New Deal, Democracy, and Totalitarianism in Transatlantic Welfare States -- Consuming America, Producing Gender -- The Right to Have Rights: Citizens, Aliens, and the Law in Modern America -- Contributors -- Index