Thomas Prosser

European labour movements in crisis (eBook, ePUB)

From indecision to indifference

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. It bases its hypothesis on analysis of four countries - Germany, Spain, France and Poland - and two processes: the collective bargaining practices of trade unions in the first decade of the Eurozone and the response of trade unions and social-democratic parties to austerity in Southern Europe. In the first process, although unions did not intentionally compete, there was a drift towards zero-sum outcomes which benefited national workforces in stronger structural positions. In the second process, during which a crisis resulting from the earlier actions of labour occurred, lack of solidarity reinforced effects of competition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526136664
• Artikelnr.: 56867470

Autorenporträt

Thomas Prosser is a Reader in European social policy at Cardiff University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: Setting up the question 1 European labour movements in
crisis 2 How do labour movements respond to European integration? Surveying
the field 3 Conceptualizing European labour movements in crisis Part II:
Country studies 4 Germany: Accidental neomercantilism, questionable
solidarity? 5 Spain: Going under 6 France: Au milieu 7 Poland: Splendid
isolation? Part III: Answering the question 8 Insiders and outsiders on a
European scale 9 How do labour movements respond to European integration?
10 Intergovernmentalism, disintegration and the importance of European
unity Appendix 1: List of semi-structured research interviewees Glossary
References