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First published in 1999, this volume evaluates the context, role
and development of EWCs through eight case studies and asks whether
EWCs will promote the Europeanisation of Industrial relations. The
EWCs were the first European institution in the field of social
policy and went far beyond simply requiring national implementation
of a common framework. They were innovative in their requirements
for a judicious blend of subsidiarity, shared responsibility and
flexibility. This study represents the culmination of research
carried out between September 1996 and September 1997 and sets out
to anchor a number of qualitative case-studies in a systematic,
nationally comparative approach.
This title was first published in 2003.The completion of the Single
Market and the launching of the European Monetary Union during the
1990s have been accompanied by processes of socio-economic
restructuring and major changes in the structure and forms of
governance within the dynamic multi-level EU system. The patterns
of reaction and adaptation of national industrial relations systems
to these EU - developments are discussed under the heading of
"Europeanisation" of national IR-systems. The Maastricht and
Amsterdam Treaties have extended - to a certain degree - the scope
for legislative and coordinated activities by the EU in the fields
of social, labour - market and employment policies. These basic
legal and political decisions have created new avenues for the
development of transnational industrial relations and the
establishment of new arenas for EU - level interaction, including
social dialogues between the social partners. .
This title was first published in 2001. The emergence of the
European Works Councils (EWCs) is one of the most important
developments in international industrial relations and the most
significant intervention by the European Union in the industrial
relations field. This volume is the second of three studies into
the establishment and operation of EWCs conducted by the authors.
It examines the development of a typology of EWCs and explores the
prospects for establishing networks of EWCs, using case studies
drawn from the food, banking and insurance sectors. The book is an
informative text for researchers, academics and practitioners who
wish to locate empirical material and practical experience in a
developmental and theoretical framework.
This title was first published in 2002: Negotiated Europeanisation
is the final study in a three-volume series on European Works
Councils by an international research group. The first two studies
have already been published by Ashgate. The current study is rooted
in an analysis of the establishment of EWCs under Articles 5 and 6
of the 1994 EWC Directive. This is now a mandatory procedure and
completes the development of EWCs from bodies set up purely by
voluntary negotiation to bodies set up within a binding statutory
procedure. The study is based on cases of five (named) major
European firms in a variety of industrial sectors. As well as a
detailed consideration of how negotiations using the mandatory
procedure took place, there are more general reflections on the
'quality' of the actors involved, the negotiating process and the
outcomes. As well as their analytical value, these observations
offer a number of practical pointers on the establishment of
information and consultation arrangements internationally. The
study also asks why EWCs have been set up in only one third of
eligible companies and why the pace of establishing new EWCs slowed
after the mandatory procedure came into force in September 1996.
This part of the study is based upon a pan-European questionnaire
and offers the first empirical findings on this issue. European
Works Councils exemplify a new mode of regulation at the European
level, not only within industrial relations but in the field of
European integration more widely conceived - Europe as a
multi-level system of governance within a framework of devolved
subsidiarity. This study is of both academic and practical
interest, particularly in view of the continuing process of change
in this area, exemplified in new Directives on the European Company
Statute and information and consultation at national level.
First published in 1999, this volume evaluates the context, role
and development of EWCs through eight case studies and asks whether
EWCs will promote the Europeanisation of Industrial relations. The
EWCs were the first European institution in the field of social
policy and went far beyond simply requiring national implementation
of a common framework. They were innovative in their requirements
for a judicious blend of subsidiarity, shared responsibility and
flexibility. This study represents the culmination of research
carried out between September 1996 and September 1997 and sets out
to anchor a number of qualitative case-studies in a systematic,
nationally comparative approach.
This title was first published in 2003.The completion of the Single
Market and the launching of the European Monetary Union during the
1990s have been accompanied by processes of socio-economic
restructuring and major changes in the structure and forms of
governance within the dynamic multi-level EU system. The patterns
of reaction and adaptation of national industrial relations systems
to these EU - developments are discussed under the heading of
"Europeanisation" of national IR-systems. The Maastricht and
Amsterdam Treaties have extended - to a certain degree - the scope
for legislative and coordinated activities by the EU in the fields
of social, labour - market and employment policies. These basic
legal and political decisions have created new avenues for the
development of transnational industrial relations and the
establishment of new arenas for EU - level interaction, including
social dialogues between the social partners.
This title was first published in 2001. The emergence of the
European Works Councils (EWCs) is one of the most important
developments in international industrial relations and the most
significant intervention by the European Union in the industrial
relations field. This volume is the second of three studies into
the establishment and operation of EWCs conducted by the authors.
It examines the development of a typology of EWCs and explores the
prospects for establishing networks of EWCs, using case studies
drawn from the food, banking and insurance sectors. The book is an
informative text for researchers, academics and practitioners who
wish to locate empirical material and practical experience in a
developmental and theoretical framework.
Industrial relations has traditionally been a national affair,
characterized by distinct local laws, practices and cultures. The
process of European integration, exemplified by the Single Market
Programme, the Maastricht Treaty and the imminent prospect of
Economic Monetary Union, has created a framework within which
national practices have been exposed to growing cross-border
influences - including European Union legislation requiring
European Works Councils to be set up in large transnational firms.
Might European integration create the basis for a new distinctly
European-level of industrial relations? And what impact would this
have on exisitng national systems? This volume explores the
prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern of
industrial relations, in which the European-level organizations
representing employers and trade unions gain in importance
vis-a-vis their national organisations. In particular, individual
contributions analyze the impact of the "Social Chapter" to the
Maastricht Treaty, which created a new institutional framework
within which European-level employers and trade unions can
negotiate.
This title was first published in 2002: Negotiated Europeanisation
is the final study in a three-volume series on European Works
Councils by an international research group. The first two studies
have already been published by Ashgate. The current study is rooted
in an analysis of the establishment of EWCs under Articles 5 and 6
of the 1994 EWC Directive. This is now a mandatory procedure and
completes the development of EWCs from bodies set up purely by
voluntary negotiation to bodies set up within a binding statutory
procedure. The study is based on cases of five (named) major
European firms in a variety of industrial sectors. As well as a
detailed consideration of how negotiations using the mandatory
procedure took place, there are more general reflections on the
'quality' of the actors involved, the negotiating process and the
outcomes. As well as their analytical value, these observations
offer a number of practical pointers on the establishment of
information and consultation arrangements internationally. The
study also asks why EWCs have been set up in only one third of
eligible companies and why the pace of establishing new EWCs slowed
after the mandatory procedure came into force in September 1996.
This part of the study is based upon a pan-European questionnaire
and offers the first empirical findings on this issue. European
Works Councils exemplify a new mode of regulation at the European
level, not only within industrial relations but in the field of
European integration more widely conceived - Europe as a
multi-level system of governance within a framework of devolved
subsidiarity. This study is of both academic and practical
interest, particularly in view of the continuing process of change
in this area, exemplified in new Directives on the European Company
Statute and information and consultation at national level.
The service sector has not always received the attention it merits
in industrial relations research when set against its enormous
economic significance. One factor in this is certainly the highly
diverse nature of services. Research attention has also lagged
behind long-standing processes of transnationalization undertaken
by service sector companies and the challenges these pose for
policy and practice in the field of employment relations. This
study by Stefan Rub and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer represents a
pioneering effort to remedy this gap. Through six named company
case studies, Rub and Platzer explore the scope and background for
transnational employee relations conflicts and the mechanisms that
have emerged to resolve and anticipate these, highlighting the
complex relationships between employee representatives, management
and trade unions. The choice of case studies aims to capture a
broad range of service sector employment, in terms of both working
conditions and employment relations arrangements. As well as
covering a number of key sectors, the choice of home countries of
the selected firms also aims to capture the impact of national
influences for the main industrial relations models in Europe.
Overall, the study offers insights into the complexities of the
Europeanization of company-level industrial relations in a dynamic
field now also confronted by the convulsions unleashed by the
Eurozone crisis.
This timely book seeks to contribute to the debate on the transfer
of values, rules, and practices by European actors to former soviet
countries. The actors in focus include multilateral organisations,
such as the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as
European governments and non-governmental organisations. The
contributions in this collection address different aspects of the
export or transfer of values, such as democracy, human rights, and
the rule of law, as well as rules and practices in the fields of
education and migration management, examining motives, mechanisms,
and effects of the European engagement.
This groundbreaking volume offers a historical comparison between
the events leading up to World War I and current global tensions
related to the economical and political rise of Asia. What are the
risks that the desire of the new super power China and great powers
like India to be recognized by the West could set off a chain of
events resulting in the nightmare of a great power war? Assessing
the similarities as well as differences between the build-up of
World War I and today, it is argued that we need to understand the
driving forces behind the scene of global politics: The conflict
between rising, established, and disintegrating powers and the
desire of recognition on all sides. Carefully dissecting the
current power dynamics in play, the authors hope to contribute to a
better understanding of world events in order to ensure that
history will not repeat itself.
Durch die Weltfinanzmarktkrise des Jahres 2008 - mit ihren bis dato
nur zum Teil bewaltigten Folgen - und vor allem durch die
dramatischen Entwicklungen in der Eurozone zu Beginn des Jahres
2010 hat die Frage "Europa - Quo Vadis?" eine beispiellose
Aktualitat und Brisanz gewonnen. Die Europaische Union befindet
sich in einer Lage, in der mit den Weichenstellungen zur
Bewaltigung der Euro-Krise auch uber die Zukunft der EU als
politisches Projekt entschieden wird.
Aus einer deutsch-franzoesischen Perspektive setzen sich die
Beitrage dieses Bandes mit dieser politisch wie wissenschaftlich
gleichermassen vielschichtigen und brisanten Thematik auseinander.
Dabei werden zwei Forschungsstrange zusammengefuhrt, die bislang
ein eher getrenntes Dasein fuhrten: die europawissenschaftliche
Forschung uber europaische Identitat und europaisierte
OEffentlichkeiten und die Rechtspopulismus- und
Rechtsextremismusforschung.
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