Introduction
A. Aims
B. Historiographic Introduction
C. Sources
CHAPTER I. AMERICAN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO WESTERN EUROPE, 1948-53
A. American Initiatives
B. European Policies
C. The Moody Negotiations
D. Europeanization of the Productivity Drive: Creation of the EPA
E. Conclusion
CHAPTER II. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE EPA, 1953-61
A. A Chaotic Start (1953-54)
B. The EPA Back on Track (1954-56)
C. The Swiss Crisis (1956-57)
D. In Search of a Role (1958-60)
E. The Winding up of the EPA (1960-61)
F. Conclusion
CHAPTER III. AN OPERATIONAL AGENCY OF THE OEEC
A. An Operational Body
B. A Branch of the OEEC
C. Working Procedures
D. Administration
E. Conclusion
CHAPTER IV. AN AMERICAN AID AGENCY
A. The US and the Financial Resources of the EPA
B. The US and the EPA’s Program
C. Conclusion
CHAPTER V. A EUROPEAN FEDERATOR
A. The National Productivity Centers
B. 1953-57. Clash of Visions: Leader or Clearing House?
C. The Amended Constitution of the EPA (1957): An Illusory Compromise
D. The Battle Goes On
E. Conclusion
CHAPTER VI. A TRIPARTITE ORGANIZATION?
A. America’s Labor Policy in the 1950s and the EPA
B. The Advisory Board
C. ‘Dividing the Cake’ Between Labor and Management
D. Labor and the EPA’s Trade Union Policy
E. The EPA’s Trade Union Activities
F. Impact of the EPA’s Activities
G. Conclusion
CHAPTER VII. THE EPA AND MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
CHAPTER VIII. THE EPA AND DEVELOPMENT AID: THE PILOT AREA IN SARDINIA
A. The EPA’s Assistance to Areas in the Process of Economic Development
B. Origins of the Sardinian Pilot Project
C. The Sardinian Pilot Project, 1957-62
D. Activities
E. Handicaps
F. Impact Outside the Pilot Area
G. Conclus
Pressen skrev
"In the wake of the Marshall Plan, some elements in the US administration
set out to reform West European business practices, in order to boost
efficiency, increase consumption, and thereby, it was hoped, help stave off
the threat of communism. [...] In later decades, this whole episode was
largely forgotten, but, prompted by events in Eastern Europe, and a renewed
interest in technical assistance, scholars have recently begun to look at it
again, and, in this judiciously argued and impeccably well researched book,
Boel makes a significant contribution to the reassessment."
- Nick Tiratsoo, London School of Economics, English Historical Review, vol.
119, no. 480. February 2004.
"Die 'Amerikanisierung' Westeuropas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ist seit
einiger Jahren Gegenstand kontroverser historiographischer Diskussionen.
[...] Die nunmehr vorliegende Florentiner Dissertation zur Geschichte der
European Productivity Agency (EPA) von Bent Boel trägt einen wichtigen
Baustein zur Weiterentwicklung der angesprochene Diskussion bei. [...] Damit
gelingt Boel eine abgewogen differenzierte Urteilsbildung, die die
einschlägigen wirtschaftshistorischen Diskussionen positiv beeinflussen
sollte."
- Werner Plumpe, Historische Zeitschrift, Band 278, 2004.
"Die EPA ist in der einschlägigen Literatur bislang weitgehend ignoriert
worden. Boel kann überzeugend nachweisen, dass dieses Desinteresse aus
mehreren Gründen unberechtigt ist: Zum einen wird der beachtliche Beitrag
der EPA zur europäischen Kooperation in den 1950er Jahren übersehen, zum
anderen lassen sich an diesem Fall die Ziele und Probleme der amerikanischen
Europapolitik jener Jahre sehr differenziert demonstrieren, und schliesslich
führt die Untersuchung dieser Institution mitten hinein in die nach wie vor
wichtige Debatte um 'Amerikanisierung' und 'Europäisierung'. Insofern stelt
die EPA in der Tat mehr als eine Fussnote der europäischen
Nachkriegsgeschichte dar."
- Werner Bührer, Technische Universität München, Journal of European
Integration History, vol. 10, no. 1, 2004.
"The book is clearly written, there are long helpful footnotes, some
useful appendices, but no index. Overall, Boel shows that the Americans did
make a difference in limited but important areas even in the 1950s after the
far larger Marshall Plan programme was over - an important conclusion."
- John Roper Killick, University of Leeds, History - The Journal of the
Historical Association, vol. 89:2, no. 294, April 2004.
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