Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • 5 - Solidarity, COVID-19 and a New Social Contract

  • Edited by Julia López López, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
  • Book:
    Inscribing Solidarity
    Published online:
    03 November 2022
    Print publication:
    17 November 2022, pp 77-97
    • Chapter
      • You have access
      • Open access
    • PDF
    • HTML
    • Export citation

  • Summary

    The concern in this chapter is the “principle” of solidarity in the context of “state” action at EU level. The role of the “state” in promoting solidarity is twofold: first to support and encourage solidarity through autonomous institutions (trade unions) and processes (collective bargaining, collective action, and social dialogue); and second to initiate and develop through “state” institutions its own solidarity measures and programs. The concern has also been to explore and examine that “principle” of solidarity in the context of proposals for renewing the “social contract,” highlighting different conceptions of the social contract, but focusing mainly on that proposed by the ETUC. It is argued, however, that there are both constitutional and institutional problems in relation to EU support for a social contract of this kind, these problems relating to an over-rigid economically liberal constitution and a weak political program in the form of the Social Pillar, both of which predate COVID-19, and both of which seem ill-equipped to meet the challenges presented by the pandemic.