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Book Review: Social Rights and Market Freedom in the European Constitution: A Labour Law Perspective

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AuthorFrans Pennings
Date01 June 2006
Published date01 June 2006
DOI10.1177/138826270600800208
Subject MatterBook Review
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The range of material presented necessarily means that a degree of depth is sacrificed
and that arguments and debates can only be presented in summary form. The book
therefore functions best as an introduction and a road map to the vast subject of
European Welfare States. In many areas it is not able to explore the full complexity of the
issues and additional reading is necessary. One area in particular that is noticeable by its
absence is the impact of immigration and migration on individual welfare states and on
the possibility of developing European Welfare State policies. However this is not meant
to detract from the book’s value. Cousins has produced a very wide-ranging and
stimulating analysis of the topic and this book should feature prominently on the
reading list for social policy and politics undergraduates.
Audrey MacDougall
School of Social and Political Studies
University of Edinburgh
Stefano Giubboni, Social Rights and Market Freedom in the European Constitution:
A Labour Law Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, xxviii +
318 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-521-841269 (hardcover), ISBN-10: 0-521-84126-7 (paper-
back)
National and European labour law and social security law are changing continuously.
The time-consuming study which is necessary to keep track of all these developments
means that many experts are unable to look beyond the limits of their own specialist
area to see such developments as part of a broader view. This book by Stefano
Giubboni is, therefore, most welcome as it describes the development of European
labour and social security law and their interrelation with the evolution of market
integration in the European Union.
For this purpose Giubboni, who is Professor of Labour Law at the University of
Florence, analyses the original view of the Founding Fathers of the EC, with their focus
on the four freedoms, which he refers to collectively as ‘embedded liberalism’: opening
national economies for free trade.
Since the...

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