Today FDR's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to the economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Cultural historian Schivelbusch investigates their shared elements...

"The economic crisis has brought about a watershed in institutional, political and social relations, reshaping the labour market and the class structure in southern Europe. This book provides a critical comparative assessment of the dynamics of change in the employment field, focusing on Spain,...

Part I. Southern Europe : the labour market and the crisis. The themes, the concepts, and the field -- Employment relations and crisis management -- Part II. The changing context of employment relations in Spain, Greece, and Cyprus. Spain : compression and upheaval -- Greece, suppression,...