Fighting for a neoliberal Europe: Swiss business associations and the UNICE, 1970–1978
研究1970年代瑞士商业领袖如何利用欧洲商业圈矛盾推动经济自由化，并揭示欧洲雇主集团的形成及其在“新自由主义转向”中的作用。
The 1970s were a defining moment for the European business associations, which were faced with the most important social upheavals of the post-war period, a major economic crisis and the British process of accession to the EEC. This article aims to broaden our knowledge of how Swiss business leaders contributed, during this tumultuous period, to lead the European institutions towards further economic liberalisation. This article intends to demonstrate that their main strategy to promote their own interests was to rely on and even accentuate the contradictions between the main European business circles. Moreover, this article aims to highlight the gradual emergence, during the period, of a bloc of European employers and to investigate the role of the main Swiss trade association in what has been known as the ‘neoliberal turn’.