ABSTRACT
The Treaty of Rome states that there should be no barriers to the mobility of labour. The movement of labour both inside and from outside the Common Market has been due more to the ‘pulF of employment and the ‘push’ of unemployment than to the removal of barriers to mobility. There are a number of specific statements in the Treaty of Rome which refer to the need for a rising standard of living based on a high level of employment. Unemployment is to be kept to a minimum, redundancy payments are to be linked to earning power and retraining and resettlement grants are to be generous and widely used. Article 3 of the European Social Fund set up ‘to improve the possibilities of employment for workers’ and their standard of living. The European Economic Community is linking the Fund to its manpower surveys. These show that the long-term movement of labour from agriculture to industry and the cities will continue.
