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.

• 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.

“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)