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Undoubtedly the single most significant event in the evolution of the European Community’s social dimension in recent years was the adoption of the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers by eleven of the twelve EC member states at the Strasbourg summit in December 1989 (Commission of the EC, 1992a).
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The author is grateful to Mark Hall, Duncan Matthews and David Mayes for comments on an earlier version of this chapter which appeared as EC Social and Labour Policy — an Overview and Update, Working Paper no. 11 (London: National Institute of Economic and Social Research) 1992. NIESR is carrying out a research project on behalf of the Department of Employment on the implications of the evolution of European integration for UK labour markets.
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Gold, M. (1993). Overview of the social dimension. In: Gold, M. (eds) The Social Dimension. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23062-4_2
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