ABSTRACT
There was an abundance of interest for the socially oriented regulation of globalization in Western Europe during the 1970s. This translated into varied developments within the EEC thanks to a new project to build a social Europe. Since 1919, discussions pertaining to the coordination of social policies at the international level had usually taken place within the framework of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The years from 1969 to 1974 were characterized by vigorous promotion of the social dimension of the EEC by the German social-democrat chancellor, Willy Brandt. The development of a social regulation of globalization at the European scale was largely the result of the harmonization of laws between 1973 and 1985. In the 1960s, EEC social legislation was essentially limited to facilitating worker migration. Solidarity lies at the heart of the welfare state. The attempt to develop a socially oriented regulation of globalization materialized mainly within the EEC.
