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usually, voice is articulated within standardised systems of workplace representation (established by law or peak-level collect ...

which (as in Britain) is ‘voluntaristic’ – in other words, not subject to detailed statutory regulation – but coordinated by str ...

industrial relations regimes or to exploit cross-national differentiation, certainly poses new challenges. Such mobility is faci ...

Similar arguments have been applied to the welfare regime: that national competitiveness within Europe is incompatible with gene ...

date primarily taken the form of growing interconnectedness at a regional rather than a global level (the consolidation of the e ...

developments in central and eastern Europe since 1989: here, the thesis is that the very different types of economic systems whi ...

indeed be a process of consolidation around two poles. Iversen and Pontusson (2000: 3–8), for example, speak of ‘dual convergenc ...

7 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1 Is the labour market a market, and are there any universal rules which govern its operation? 2 If marke ...

inevitably shaped by non-market influences. Polanyi argues that the twentieth century saw increasing social regulation of employ ...

Harvey, D. (1989) The Condition of Postmodernity, Oxford: Blackwell. Hay, C. and Rosamond, B. (2002) ‘Globalization, European In ...

Ruigkrok, W. and van Tulder, R. (1995) The Logic of International Restructuring, London: Routledge. Sainsbury, D. (1999) ‘Gender ...

17 Industrial Relations in Europe: a Multi-level System in the Making? Keith Sisson 1 Introduction 433 2 Industrial relations at ...

but the establishment of an integrated market for products and services, in which process the introduction of a single currency ...

is having on the processes of industrial relations within national systems. Section 4 concludes by emphasizing that complexity, ...

first to deal with it in a comprehensive manner, sets out the main tasks of European social policy in Article 136: the promotion ...

FIGURE 17.1 Industrial Relations in Europe 437 Stage I: the 1960s and early 1970s The instruments establish- ing and reinforcing ...

FIGURE 17.1 A social policy process The EU also has an established process for arriving at social policy. Systematic social dial ...

conditions of employment for third-country nationals residing in the EU; financial contributions for the promotion of employmen ...

6 November 1986 6 March 1987 26 November 1987 13 February 1990 19 June 1990 10 January 1991 5 April 1991 31 October 1991 20 Dece ...

FIGURE 17.2 and employment will become more evident and stringent’. It invited the social partners in the member states to concl ...