Free Trade and Social Welfare in Europe: Explorations in the Long 20th Century

ISBN-13: 9780367109295 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 188 str.

Lucia Coppolaro; Lorenzo Mechi

Opis

Analysing a number of particularly meaningful episodes and moments across eight chapters, this edited volume provides an overview of the multiple ways in which the liberalisation/welfare nexus has been addressed in Europe since the end of the 19th century and uncovers the political complexity of the issue.

Spis treści

Introduction: free trade and social welfare in a long-term perspective;  1. The state fights back: protecting the people, protecting the economy (1880-1914);  2. From cradle to grave: the German trade union federation’s wage, welfare, and competitiveness program for the Weimar Republic;  3. Social security versus global security: early debates about the International Trade Organisation: liberalisation and full employment, 1945–48;  4. A precondition for economic integration? European debates on social harmonisation in the 1950s and 1960s;  5. The International Chamber of Commerce. The organisation of free-trade and market regulations from the interwar period to the 1960s;  6. Creating a Social Europe or completing the Single Market? Debates within the European Economic Community (1973-1986);  7. Resisting globalization? The TUC, the CBI and the politics of protectionism in the UK textile industry in the 1970s;  8. Surfing (in and out of) the globalization wave: labour standards during the GATT/WTO trade negotiations (1947-1999);  Conclusion