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

ISBN-13: 9781032175140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 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

O autorze

Lucia Coppolaro is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padova

Lorenzo Mechi is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padova