Workers and Politics in Occupied Austria 1945–1955. By Jill Lewis. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2007. Pp. vi + 224. Cloth $89.00. ISBN 978-0-71907350-2.

摘要

Lewis’s book is at heart a study of Austrian identity formation. It is also a carefullynresearched and persuasively presented nuanced story of Austrian labor’s role in thenemergence of coalition government and social partnership. It stresses the inter-nnational aspects of the early years of the Second Republic which were profoundly affected by the four-power occupation and the ColdWar. She demonstrates thatnAustrian labor policy was made not only in Vienna, but also in Washington,nLondon, Paris, and Moscow. Lewis joins other historians and political scientistsnwho have struggled long and hard to forge a synthesis that integrates the domesticnand international forces that shaped the history of these formative years.