Social rights and market freedom in the European constitution : a labour law perspective / Stefano Giubboni ; translated by Rita Inston.

Originally published as 'Diritti sociali e mercato : la dimensione sociale dell'integrazione Europea' : Bologna : Il Mulino, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction; Part I. Social policies and market principles. European social integration revisited: 1. Embedded liberalism: the original constitutional compromise and its crisis; 2. Re-embedding liberalism: towards a new balance between negative and positive integration of European welfare states; Part II. The market, competition law into national systems of labour law and its antidotes: 3. Forms of regulation of social Europe and models of the European economic constitution; Conclusions; Index.

Stefano Giubboni presents, from a labor law perspective, a case study of the changes the European Community/European Union has undergone from its origins to the present day and on the ways these changes have affected the regulation of European Welfare States at national level. Drawing on the idea of 'embedded liberalism', Giubboni analyzes the infiltration of EC competition and market law into national systems of labor and social security law, and provides a normative framework for conceptualizing the transformation of regulatory techniques implemented at the EU level.