Social Policy—From a Prisoner’s Dilemma to a European Cartel

Yaman Kouli () and Léonard Laborie ()
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Yaman Kouli: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Léonard Laborie: French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR Sirice

Chapter Chapter 6 in The Politics and Policies of European Economic Integration, 1850–1914, 2022, pp 121-157 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract European social policy, as we know it today, was born during globalisation after the 1870s. Interestingly, international treaties did not play a decisive role in this process. While there have been influential agreements for every other topic covered in this book, European social policy worked in a different way. It indeed came to a convergence of both worker protection and social insurances. However, this happened predominantly on the basis of mutual observations, competition, information exchange and economic incentives. Social policy is therefore a telling example of European convergence in which multilateral treaties were of relatively little importance.

Keywords: Social policy; European labour market; Migration; Worker protection; Social insurances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-00296-0_6

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