Here are six conferences and workshops 1996-2001 on time in history writing. They investigate the connections between the past, the future, and the present, and between continuities and discontinuities in the exploration and explanation of history.
Bo Stråth (ed.), Europe and the Other, Europe as the Other. Multiple Europes No. 10. P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels 2000 4th ed 2010 Abstract This book contributes to the debate on what Europe means by demonstrating the complexities and contradictions inherent in the...
Historical Patterns in Europe and Beyond Bo Stråth (ed.), Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community, Historical Patterns in Europe and Beyond. Multiple Europes No. 9. P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels 2000 Abstract Across and beyond Europe, history is being...
European Discourses on Work and Flexibility Bo Stråth (ed.), After Full Employment. European Discourses on Work and Flexibility. PIE-Peter Lang, Brussels 2000 Abstract The framework of this book is the structural mass unemployment and social marginalisation that...
James Kaye, Bo Stråth (eds.), Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of Modernity. Philosophy and Politics No. 5. P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels 2000 Abstract On the threshold of the twenty-first century, the cry "Never Again!" seems illusory, even absurd. Did it...
This project studied the dissolution of the full employment convention in the 1990s. The approach was centred on the conceptual and interpretive adjustment of societies in Europe to the dramatic structural changes taking place in the labour market since the 1970s. Questions dealt with how the historical and cultural heritage of the full employment convention has played in different national settings. Additionally, the redefinition of the obligations of the state, employer organisations and trade unions were examined.
Metall och samhällsutveklingen, 1957-1976 Mellan medbestämmande och medarbetare: Metall och samhällsutveklingen, 1957-1976 (Between Co-determination and Co-worker: The Swedish Metal Workers' Federation and the Transformation of Society, 1957-1976). Metall,...
The seminar, centred on the debate of the time on the impact of the single currency in several fields of social policies, aimed to bring together experts from various fields. Professors Silvana Sciarra and Bo Stråth provided the theoretical framework in introductory seminars. They highlighted the historical background of the adoption of the single currency and the legal innovations linked to it.
This project explored the plan for a European Monetary Union, the Werner Plan, around 1970s. It discussed the backdrop of the launch of the plan and why it finally failed.
A point of departure for the CONDIS project, Bo Stråth's first major project, was the bias in modernisation theories dominant among comparative social scientists not long ago that economic growth is the ultimate cause of welfare state development, where all states were thought to be caught up in a universal and evolutionist logic of industrialisation. Such theories pay insufficient attention to the political structures and cultural/ideological processes through which highly varied responses to industrialisation come about. During the research process, a critical view of its own historical, sociological point of departure was developed, questioning perspectives of path dependency and intrinsic driving forces in historical processes.
