European labour movements in crisis (eBook)

From indecision to indifference

Thomas Prosser (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
256 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3666-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2019
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Competition • Cooperation • Crisis • Disintegration theory • dualization • EU • Intergovernmentalism • Labour Movements • neofunctionalism • Social-democratic parties • Trade unions
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-3666-X / 152613666X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-3666-4 / 9781526136664