Free trade and social welfare in Europe : explorations in the long 20th century
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Free trade and social welfare in Europe : explorations in the long 20th century
(Routledge studies in modern European history)
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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  Switzerland
  France
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  Netherlands
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [171]-185
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 number of particularly meaningful episodes and moments, the eight chapters of this edited volume provide an overview of how the liberalisation/welfare nexus has been addressed in Europe since the end of the 19th century. Describing the oscillations from phases in which state, non-state and transnational actors saw the two elements as widely conflicting, to others in which more harmonious visions prevailed, the book uncovers the political complexity of the issue and contributes to clarifying its connections with the current economic situation, political balances and general social conditions.
Table of Contents
- 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
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