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

In: The Politics and Policies of European Economic Integration, 1850–1914

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  • Yaman Kouli

    (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

  • Léonard Laborie

    (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR Sirice)

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.

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  • Yaman Kouli & Léonard Laborie, 2022. "Social Policy—From a Prisoner’s Dilemma to a European Cartel," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: The Politics and Policies of European Economic Integration, 1850–1914, chapter 0, pages 121-157, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-00296-0_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-00296-0_6
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