Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Beyond media portrayals of lobbying -- Revisiting the relations between capitalism, bourgeoisie and bureaucracy at the European level -- Exploring what the power of an administration does to the market and to business representatives -- A socio-history of the "discreet" relations between EU officials and the staff of business associations that become "European"--An enquiry into everyday relations between bureaucrats and representatives of interests -- 1 Entanglement: a new administration in search of economic interlocutors (1958-1980) -- The primitive accumulation of bureaucratic capital -- The CAP and the obligatory grouping of the food industry -- An administrative world looking to business -- 2 1970-2010: how Brussels became crucial to the private sector -- Business representation mirroring EEC institutions -- The explosion of lobbying with the Single European Act: companies gain direct access to the Commission -- Selling access to a closed administrative world: the emergence of a market in the representation of business interests -- 3 Lobbying: harnessing bureaucratic resources as a weapon for business -- Different levels of company investment in lobbying: different degrees of dependency on Commission resources -- Investing in Brussels to influence market standardisation -- 4 Routine lobbying: the personal appropriation of administrative knowledge -- Lobbyists: an intellectual, intermediary element of the business bourgeoisie -- Arranging tours and drafting position papers: lobbying on behalf of a business association -- Lobbying dependent on administrative timeframes -- 5 Containing the political and depoliticisation: behind the closed doors of the administration