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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Lucia Coppolaro, Lorenzo Mechi Copyright 2020
200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book deals with the historical relationship between international trade liberalisation – one of the backbones of globalisation – and the development of social welfare. In Europe the issue has regularly been at the centre of the political debate for at least two centuries, and still nowadays it continues to inspire decisions of the highest order, as in the recent case of Brexit. Analysing a... Read more

Introduction: free trade and social welfare in a long-term perspective

Lucia Coppolaro and Lorenzo Mechi

1 The state fights back: protecting the people, protecting the economy (1880–1914)

Donald Sassoon

2 From cradle to grave: the German trade union federation’s wage, welfare and competitiveness programme for the Weimar Republic

Brian Shaev

3 Social security versus global security: early debates about the International Trade Organisation: liberalisation and full employment, 1945–48

Francine Mckenzie

4 A precondition for economic integration? European debates on social harmonisation in the 1950s and 1960s

Lorenzo Mechi

5 The International Chamber of Commerce: the organisation of free-trade and market regulations from the interwar period to the 1960s

Marco Bertilorenzi

Creating a social Europe or completing the Single Market? Debates within the European Economic Community (1973–86)

Laurent Warlouzet

7 Resisting globalisation? The TUC, the CBI and the politics of protectionism in the UK textile industry in the 1970s

Andrew Waterman

8 Surfing (in and out of ) the globalisation wave: labour standards during the GATT/WTO trade negotiations (1947–99)

Lucia Coppolaro

Conclusions: the European social dimension in search of a frame

Èric Bussière

Biography



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

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