Industrial relations in the new Europe: enlargement, integration and reform

Leisink, Peter, Steijn, Bram and Veersma, Ulke (Eds.) (2007) Industrial relations in the new Europe: enlargement, integration and reform. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 978 1 84542 614 9 (hbk), 978 1 78100 760 0 (ebk)

Abstract

The state of European integration is a contested issue raising many important questions: what is the impact of enlargement on the social standards in old and new EU Member States? Will public sector employment relations suffer from governments’ attempts to make their national economies more competitive? What are the prospects for a European Social Model? What influence can governments, employers and trade unions have on industrial relations that are changing with the European integration process? These are the issues that this book addresses on the basis of solid empirical evidence. The authors are expert researchers from Western and Eastern Europe, and their work comes at a timely moment for scientific and political audiences.

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