This book represents an important contribution to a better understanding of the history of European economic integration in the fifties. The main asset of the work lies in its transnational character linking, from a comparative angle, the ideas and the action of French and German employers in an analysis which allows to grasp the similiarities and the differences between the two national backgrounds and to demystify a series of clichés and commonplaces. (Francesco Petrini, Journal of European Integration History) ukryj opis