Raquel Varela is a labour historian, researcher and Professor at New University of Lisbon, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute for Social History. She is also president of the International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts and co-editor of its journal. She is the author of A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution (Pluto, 2018).Kevin Murphy is Associate Lecturer in History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

• Foreword by Kevin Murphy Preface 1. The War of Wars, the Revolution of Revolutions, 1917 2. ‘Man, Controller of the Universe’: The Crisis of 1929, the Revolutions of the 1930s and Nazism3. Midnight in the Century: The Second World War 4. The 1945 European Social Pact 5. Anti-Colonial Revolutions6. Crisis and Revolution: From May 68 to the Carnation Revolution 7. The End of the Social Pact (1981–2018) Conclusion Notes Index

'A vivid and passionate fresco of a century of tumultuous European social history'