Trade Unions and European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integration. The Great Recession has brought new attention to structural problems of the European integration process, specifically monetary integration; holding the potential of disabling any trans-national co-ordination. Other authors argue that the current crisis also poses the chance for mobilization and new impulses for European trade unionism. This is discussed in the volume alongside a variety of topics including bargaining coordination, co-determination, European governance regimes, and European wide mobilization. While the importance of the question of how trade unionism and wage policy can, will, and should develop under the conditions of European integration seems widely shared, the polarization of the debate itself deserves our attention to learn about the opposing arguments and points of view; and to enhance academic discussion as well as consultancy to policy makers. This volume addresses this debate by bringing together the most distinguished voices and searching for common ground as well as new perspectives on European trade unionism and collective bargaining. The chapters of the volume, organised topically, are each accompanied by a comment from a distinguished scholar, highlighting the divisions of the debate. With this innovative approach, this book advances the dialogue between what have become openly opposed camps of optimists and pessimists on the future of European integration, trade unionism and its future chances.Trade Unions and European Integration will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as European Studies, Industrial Relations, Political Economics, Social Movements and Sociology of Work.
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Trade Unions under the Pressure of European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integration.
1 Introduction: Trade Unions under the Pressure of European Integration. A Question of Optimism and Pessimism? Martin Seeliger and Johannes Kiess2 Trade unions in the European crisis: a social movement perspectiveDonatella della Porta3 Comment on della PortaWolfgang Streeck4 Conceptualising the Development of European Industrial Relations from a neo-Gramscian PerspectiveAndreas Bieler and Hans-Jürgen Bieling5 Self-intimidation. Comment on Bieler/BielingGeorg Vobruba6 The Europeanisation of Wage Bargaining CoordinationSusanne Pernicka and Vera Glassner7 The coordination paradox: A comparative political economy perspective on transnational wage coordinationMartin Höpner8 Ambiguities of Social Europe: Political Agenda Setting among Trade Unionists from Central and Eastern Europe and Western EuropeMartin Seeliger9 Comment on SeeligerGuglielmo Meardi10 EWC – ineffective bureaucratic body or institutionalising labour regulation at European company level?Ludger Pries11 The European Works Council – Not an effective Means against Site-Competition and Multiscalar Social FragmentationStefanie Hürtgen12 The long and winding road to pan-European co-determination rightsSara Lafuente Hernández13 Europe is not the answer. Some remarks on the future of worker co-determination in Europe Benjamin Werner14 European economic governance, autonomy of collective bargaining and democratic capitalismDaniel Seikel15 Going beyond institutional restrictions: conflict as a challengeJohannes Kiess16 Contention in Times of Crisis: British and German Social Actors and the Quest of Framing CapitalismJohannes Kiess17 Comment on "Contention in Times of Crisis"Oliver Nachtwey18 A constant tug of war: Neoliberalism and social unrest in (post)-crisis EuropeMadelaine Moore and Anne Engelhardt19 Comment on "A constant tug of war"Roland ErneIndex
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ISBN
9780367188856
Publisert
2019-06-13
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Routledge
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566 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
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U, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
274

Biographical note

Johannes M. Kiess is a post-doctoral researcher at Siegen University, Germany

Martin Seeliger is an assistant professor at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany