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  • Chapter 6 - Rethinking EU Social and Labour Law through Racial Capitalism

  • from Part I - Law
  • Edited by Hanna Eklund, University of Copenhagen
  • Book:
    Colonialism and the EU Legal Order
    Published online:
    14 October 2025
    Print publication:
    18 September 2025, pp 134-163
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    This chapter explores the interconnections between European colonialism and European integration, in particular in the creation of the single market. It examines the emergence of regional (EU) social and labour law against the backdrop of decolonization, arguing that the EU market integration project, and the ability to embed that market in the ‘social’, owe much to the ‘racial capitalism’ of European colonial dominance over the territory and resources of other regions. Exploring the temporal and the spatial dimensions of EU integration, a key argument of the chapter is that there has been no clean break between the colonial past of the constituent Member States of the EU, and the neocolonial present of the European project. This ongoing legacy can be seen in the ways in which the development of the EU’s social dimension, or ‘social regionalism’, influences and constrains the policy space available for another regionalism project, the African Union, to develop its own version of social regionalism.