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Labour is one of the rare markets1 that have almost always given rise to specific, intensive and recurrent public intervention since antiquity. Evidence dating as far back as the Code of Hammurabi (17th or 18th century BCE) shows that it was then, as it still is, one of the rare markets whose prices are subject to scaling. In Rome the labour market was governed by different rules that prefigured the guilds of the European Middle Ages. These guilds officiated for seven centuries, pronouncing for each trade a set of rules which, today, can be associated with different branches of law, such as those governing competition, consumption and labour.2
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Vercherand, J. (2014). General Introduction. In: Labour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373618_1
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