This book examines the manner in which the EU affects employee relations systems in economically peripheral European countries, specifically Ireland and Hungary. It asks whether the EU offers peripheral countries the opportunity to modernize their industrial relations. Emer O'Hagan argues that the EU implements an unofficial development policy which it pressures states to adopt. These initiatives amount to the frequently referred to European Social Model (ESM), which, she argues, can cause difficulty for policy makers because it is ill-defined, vague and contradictory.

This book examines the manner in which the EU affects employee relations systems in economically peripheral European countries, specifically Ireland and Hungary. It asks whether the EU offers peripheral countries the opportunity to modernise their industrial relations. The EU dynamically promotes core-like employee practices, and national actors energetically attempt to implement the prescribed initiatives, yet little success has been achieved in modernising production techniques in peripheral economies. O'Hagan argues that the EU implements an unofficial development policy which it pressurises States to adopt. These initiatives amount to the frequently referred to European Social Model (ESM), which, she argues, can cause difficulty for policy makers because it is ill-defined, vague and contradictory.

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Appropriate for introductory undergraduate courses in engineering and technology programs. Also valuable for technical programs offered by community colleges and technical institutes, including those covering machine tool, automotive, electronics and electrical, maintenance and welding.

This straightforward approach to engineering graphics introduces the basics of communicating ideas through detailed and accurate three-view or pictorial sketches that can enable working drawings to be produced by computer. It also explains how to interpret working drawings as well as the basic principles of graphic communications toward understanding computer-aided drafting and design.