Research Catalog

Title

European integration and industrial relations : multi-level governance in the making / Paul Marginson and Keith Sisson ; with the collaboration of James Arrowsmith.

Author

Marginson, Paul.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sisson, Keith.
• Arrowsmith, James, 1968-

Description

xxii, 360 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This book comprehensively analyses the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations, institutions and outcomes. It organizes a body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Developing relatively autonomously rather than by design, this multi-level framework is the product of responses by a range of national and supranational actors to the challenges of European integration. Cross-national influences are shown to mix with national ones and involve the European sector and company, as well as Community, levels. Competing tendencies towards 'Europeanization', 'Americanization' and 'Re-nationalization' of industrial relations are identified. It is unclear whether EU enlargement will extend or unravel these developments." "Drawing on the authors' extensive record to comparative European research, the book provides an integrated treatment of industrial relations at the EU Community, sector and company levels; examines developments within national systems in the light of European integration; and analyses their interaction with the emerging EU framework. The approach is multi-disciplinary and truly cross-national, integrating the material by theme. It deals with both the theory and also the practice of industrial relations in contemporary Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Europe > Economic integration
• Industrial relations > European Union countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-347) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction : contested terrain -- 2. The starting point : three key dimensions -- 3. Multi-level governance in the making : introducing the key processes -- 4. Industrial relations at EU community and sector levels : a glass half full as well as half empty? -- 5. National 'social pacts' : a case of 're-nationalization' and 'Europeanization'? -- 6. National sector agreements : the foundations under threat? -- 7. The changing balance between sector and company bargaining : two sectors compared -- 8. The Euro-company : focal point for the Europeanization of industrial relations? -- 9. Wage developments in a multi-level system : a case of 'convergence without coordination'? -- 10. Working time patterns : confirming the significance of the sector -- 11. 'One Europe' and 'several Europes'? : a review of the findings -- 12. Implications.

ISBN

0333968662 (cloth)

LCCN

2004043854

OCLC

• ocm54669978
• SCSB-5069282

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries