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Underlying the complexity of the EEC's instit'al pattern there is a new principle, tried out in ECSC & modified & extended in EEC-the dialogue between an independent pol'al body whose assigned task is to work for & defend the interests of the Community as a whole, & a body in which nat'l interests are formally represented & defended before a decision is taken. The Commission-Council dialogue is the only entirely original aspect of the Community system. As the volume of work before the Council grows it is possible that 2 important pol'al constitutional issues may be raised-the delegation of powers & the greater use of majority voting. In any future extension of the Community system into the fields of foreign policy or defense, other problems about the working of the Commission-Council dialogue will arise; experience so far would suggest that solutions will not prove impossible to find. IPSA.

This article presents findings from a longitudinal analysis of postwar (1945–2008) changes to coordination in wages and working conditions within a single-case study sector in the UK – ceramic tableware production. It proposes three modes of incremental change during this period: layering in the immediate postwar years ( c. 1950); conversion during the 1970s; and displacement in the early 1980s. Shaped by (a) the internal and external pressures actors faced, (b) the veto possibilities and (c) the levels of discretion in the implementation and enforcement of targeted institutions for key actors at different stages, this sector saw different forms and levels of coordination in wages and working conditions come to prominence at different points during the second half of the twentieth century.