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The postwar 1940–1950s marked a global change in the history of Western Europe, as its traditional nation-states faced a world of increasing porous frontiers and changing cultural standards. The ever-increasing mobility of trade, communication, and labor was accompanied by the slow disintegration of these very states—once the ultimate sources of power and authority—in favor of worldwide globalization and fragmentation.1 International movements and a global consciousness that increasingly questioned national symbols and politics, traditional values and institutions were developing. The mid-1950s saw the rise of protest factions in the Western labor movement that opposed dominant social democrat and Stalinist traditions. It was a period of intense social changes and transitions on the mental and political level, in which some important and actual evolutions and structures are rooted.
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Schandevyl, E. (2008). Immigrants and the Brussels Labor Movement: Activism, Integration, and Exclusion since 1945. In: Pojmann, W. (eds) Migration and Activism in Europe Since 1945. Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230615540_8
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