This book explores the impact of the Single European Market (SEM) on the institutions of industrial relations and their outcomes after ten years of operation. The authors consider two competing hypotheses: "Europeanization" and "Americanization", and find that both are true up to a point. They show
European Integration and Industrial Relations: Multi-Level Governance in the Making
✍ Scribed by Paul Marginson, Keith Sisson (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 385
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction: Contested Terrain....Pages 1-27
The Starting Point: Three Key Dimensions....Pages 28-53
Multi-Level Governance in the Making: Introducing the Key Processes....Pages 54-80
Industrial Relations at EU Community and Sector Levels: a Glass Half Full as Well as Half Empty?....Pages 81-117
National ‘Social Pacts’: A Case of ‘Re-nationalization’ and ‘Europeanization’?....Pages 118-142
National Sector Agreements: The Foundations under Threat?....Pages 143-173
The Changing Balance between Sector and Company Bargaining: Two Sectors Compared....Pages 174-215
The Euro-Company: Focal Point for the Europeanization of Industrial Relations?....Pages 216-245
Wage Developments in a Multi-Level System: A Case of ‘Convergence Without Coordination’?....Pages 246-270
Working Time Patterns: Confirming the Significance of the Sector....Pages 271-288
‘One Europe’ and ‘Several Europes’? A Review of the Findings....Pages 289-305
Implications....Pages 306-318
Back Matter....Pages 319-360
✦ Subjects
European Union Politics; Political History; Human Resource Management; International Business; International Economics; Management
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