Forging Europe: Industrial Organisation in France, 1940–1952

Luc-André Brunet is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History at the Open University, UK.  Previously he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and Pinto Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics, where he earned his PhD.

“The book has amply demonstrated the central thesis of Vichy’s transitional influence, not out of ideological adherence but sheer necessity. This is a work that is worth reading.” (Michael B. Miller, H-France Review, Vol. 19 (216), October, 2019)“The author provides nuanced analysis and detailed coverage that will prove of considerable interest to scholars of France’s wartime economic history. … This work provides a valuable insight into the workings of a significant, and long neglected, aspect of France’s wartime past.” (Thomas Beaumont, French History, Vol. 33 (2), 2019)

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: France’s New Industrial Order: Reorganising Industrial Production after the Fall of France.- Chapter 3: ‘Twixt the cup and the lip: Building the New Industrial Order, 1940-1941.- Chapter 4 The Organisation Committees between Collaboration and Resistance, 1941-1944.- Chapter 5: Nous serons les successeurs, sino les héritiers de Vichy: Maintaining the New Industrial Order in Post-Vichy France.- Chapter 6: Conserver la forme en réformant l’esprit: Reforming Vichy’s Industrial Order, 1944-1946.- Chapter 7: From Organisation Committees to Monnet’s Modernisation Commissions.-Chapter 8: L’Unité de l’Europe est à ce prix : The Struggle between CORSID’s Successors and the Creation of the ECSC.-  Chapter 9: Conclusions.