Managing the Labour Market in an Open Economy: From the International Labour Organisation to the European Communities.

MECHI, LORENZO; Kaiser, Wolfram; Patel, Kiran Klaus

Since their foundation, the European Communities were characterised by a specific recipe for the labour market, centred on the promotion of labour mobility and a marked focus on vocational training and social dialogue. Drawing on an extensive range of primary sources, this article retraces the roots of that recipe in the reformist thinking of the interwar years, with a special point of reference in the International Labour Office. Identified within that body since the 1920s, the recipe evolved through the experiences of the great crisis and post-war demobilisation. It was then adapted to the needs of European economic integration.

INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation; LABOR market; EUROPEAN Union; EUROPEAN Economic Community; LABOR unions

Contemporary European History, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 2, p221

0960-7773

Academic Journal

10.1017/S0960777318000061