ABSTRACT
The frontiers of industrial relations in the various countries are enfolded by the economic framework and performance of their respective countries. Economic growth in France has been due to a number of factors, most of which would have occurred without the birth of the Community, though this had an external stimulating effect. Germany’s post-war economic expansion is a case study of recovery after the devastation of World War II. No one who saw the ruins of buildings and factories from Cologne to Dortmund and Essen at the time, can fail to look at Germany today as an economic miracle. Denmark had about a quarter of its labour force in agriculture in 1949, and one-fifth ten years later. It has considerable exports of farm produce and relies much on international trade, especially as a member of European Free Trade Association, along with Norway, and with the European Economic Community.
