Abstract

"Multinationals and Labor in the Single European Market"

Grace Ballor, Bocconi University (grace.ballor@unibocconi.it)

In the late 1980s, the European Commission began to implement social and labor protections and programs to bolster the European labor market as part of its new European Social Charter towards a Social Single Market. How did multinationals respond? This paper examines the reactions of European multinational manufacturers and retailers to these new social protections and how their responses, in turn, shaped labor in the Single Market.