Danièle Fraboulet is Professor of Contemporary Economic History at the University of Paris 13 – Sorbonne Paris Cité. She is currently managing a five year research programme on Business Organizations in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published extensively on the history of French companies, entrepreneurs and business interest associations. Her other main research field is risk management of industrial hazards and accidents in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Andrea M. Locatelli is Assistant Professor of Economic History at the Catholic University in Milan, where he teaches Economic History and Business History. He has published on the economic development of the Lombardy region between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and the evolution of the banking system in Italy. His recent research topics concern the history of Lombard business interest Associations and the Italian fiscal and administrative system from the 1860s to the 1970s.Paolo Tedeschi is Assistant Professor of Economic History at the University of Milan-Bicocca DEMS, where he teaches Economic History and European Integration History. His recent research and publications have focused on the history of European integration, the economic history of the Lombardy region between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and the history of Lombard business interest associations, trade unions and friendly societies.

• Contents: Danièle Fraboulet: Historical and International Comparison of Business Interest Associations (19th-20th Centuries) – Valeriy Kerov: Old Believers Communities of the Nineteenth Century as the First Business Interest Associations in Russia (1860-1914) – Cédric Humair: The Genesis of the Swiss Business Interest Associations (1860-1914) – Irina Potkina: The Russian Business Interest Associations. Economic and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Maturation (1861-1917) – Pierre Vernus: An Overview about Business Interest Associations in France (1880s-1920s) – Andrea M. Locatelli/Paolo Tedeschi: Notes on the Genesis and Development of Business Interest Associations in Milan (19th-20th Centuries) – Bram Bouwens/Joost Dankers: Origins and Shifting Functions of Business Interest Associations. The Dutch Case in the Twentieth Century – Danièle Fraboulet: The Employers’ Organisations in the French Metalworking Industry and their Strategies (1901-1940) – Philip Ollerenshaw: The Growth and Role of Employers’ Associations in the UK (1916-1945). Comparisons and Contrasts – Niklas Stenlås: Business Interests in the Welfare State. The Strategies of Sweden’s Business Associations during the Twentieth Century – Neil Rollings: Business Eurofederations and European Integration from the Second World War to the 1970s.

Danièle Fraboulet is Professor of Contemporary Economic History at the University of Paris 13 – Sorbonne Paris Cité. She is currently managing a five year research programme on Business Organizations in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published extensively on the history of French companies, entrepreneurs and business interest associations. Her other main research field is risk management of industrial hazards and accidents in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Andrea M. Locatelli is Assistant Professor of Economic History at the Catholic University in Milan, where he teaches Economic History and Business History. He has published on the economic development of the Lombardy region between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and the evolution of the banking system in Italy. His recent research topics concern the history of Lombard business interest Associations and the Italian fiscal and administrative system from the 1860s to the 1970s.Paolo Tedeschi is Assistant Professor of Economic History at the University of Milan-Bicocca DEMS, where he teaches Economic History and European Integration History. His recent research and publications have focused on the history of European integration, the economic history of the Lombardy region between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and the history of Lombard business interest associations, trade unions and friendly societies.

• Contents: Danièle Fraboulet: Historical and International Comparison of Business Interest Associations (19th-20th Centuries) – Valeriy Kerov: Old Believers Communities of the Nineteenth Century as the First Business Interest Associations in Russia (1860-1914) – Cédric Humair: The Genesis of the Swiss Business Interest Associations (1860-1914) – Irina Potkina: The Russian Business Interest Associations. Economic and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Maturation (1861-1917) – Pierre Vernus: An Overview about Business Interest Associations in France (1880s-1920s) – Andrea M. Locatelli/Paolo Tedeschi: Notes on the Genesis and Development of Business Interest Associations in Milan (19th-20th Centuries) – Bram Bouwens/Joost Dankers: Origins and Shifting Functions of Business Interest Associations. The Dutch Case in the Twentieth Century – Danièle Fraboulet: The Employers’ Organisations in the French Metalworking Industry and their Strategies (1901-1940) – Philip Ollerenshaw: The Growth and Role of Employers’ Associations in the UK (1916-1945). Comparisons and Contrasts – Niklas Stenlås: Business Interests in the Welfare State. The Strategies of Sweden’s Business Associations during the Twentieth Century – Neil Rollings: Business Eurofederations and European Integration from the Second World War to the 1970s.