The Struggle for a Social Europe - Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring (Hardcover, New)

This book provides a detailed investigation and comparison of the trade unions of five EU member states: Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and their positions on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Several European-level trade union organisations are also examined. The focus of this project, however, is not limited to EMU as a case study. Rather, EMU is regarded as a vehicle to assess trade unions' options and possibilities to respond to global structural change in general and to participate in the formation of the future economic-political system of the EU in particular. Two principal hypotheses are investigated. Firstly, that a labour movement's position on EMU depends crucially on its length and degree of exposure to the competitive pressures of globalisation, and secondly, that those trade unions which lose influence within the domestic institutional set-up are most in favour of the establishment of an industrial relations system and social regulation at the European level to counter global pressures. By contrast, unions which continue to enjoy a strong position at the national level, are less likely to engage in European co-operation. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Critical Labour Movement Studies
Release date:	September 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Andreas Bieler
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-7252-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	0-7190-7252-2
Barcode:	9780719072529

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