Work and Employment in Europe: A New Convergence?

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
WHAT ARE THE FORCES FOR CONVERGENCE?......Page 12
‘THE EUROPEAN STATE’: A NEW FORCE FOR CONVERGENCE?......Page 16
A EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS?......Page 20
ARE ENTERPRISE AND INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES CONVERGING?......Page 24
CAN SOCIAL POLICIES REDUCE SPECIFIC LABOUR MARKET VARIATIONS?......Page 28
ARE THE LATE ENTRANTS CATCHING UP OR LEVELLING DOWN?......Page 30
CONCLUSION......Page 32
REFERENCES......Page 34
INTRODUCTION......Page 37
CONCEIVING THE FUTURE OF EUROPE BY REFERENCE TO HISTORY......Page 39
Old wine—new bottles: defining the actors......Page 42
Societal analysis, societal effects......Page 43
CONCLUSION: TOWARDS A NEW CONVERGENCE OR A NEW SOCIETAL EFFECT?......Page 45
REFERENCES......Page 48
INTRODUCTION......Page 50
Monetary union and collective bargaining......Page 52
The subsidiarity principle......Page 54
Subsidiarity and regional industrial relations systems......Page 55
Wage formation dimension......Page 57
The institutional dimension......Page 61
TWO-SPEED EUROPE AND IRISH LABOUR MARKET GOVERNANCE......Page 63
THE MINIMALIST SCENARIO: AUGMENTED INTERGOVERNMENTALISM AND THE SYMBIOTIC EFFECT......Page 65
The social clauses of the Maastricht Treaty......Page 66
Controversies over the social clauses......Page 67
THE SOCIAL CLAUSES AND IRISH LABOUR LAW......Page 69
The social partners in Ireland and EC social policy......Page 72
CONCLUSIONS......Page 74
REFERENCES......Page 75
INTRODUCTION......Page 78
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS......Page 79
The European company......Page 80
INTERNATIONALISATION OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS......Page 84
SOCIAL DIALOGUE......Page 87
THE SOCIAL CHAPTER......Page 88
EUROPEAN-LEVEL CONSULTATIVE ARRANGEMENTS......Page 89
EUROPEAN-LEVEL COMPANY COUNCILS......Page 90
The new Directive......Page 94
Sector discussions......Page 96
CONCLUSION......Page 97
REFERENCES......Page 99
4 EURO-UNIONISM AND THE GREAT AUCTION......Page 101
THE DIMENSIONS OF THE ‘SOCIAL’ IN EUROPE......Page 103
Political and economic objectives......Page 105
The content of policy......Page 108
TAKING PARTNERS......Page 110
UNICE......Page 114
THE CHALLENGE FROM INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL......Page 116
THE POWER WITHIN?......Page 119
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 123
NOTES......Page 124
REFERENCES......Page 125
INTRODUCTION......Page 130
THE EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONALISATION ON THE TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRIES......Page 131
Recent international trends......Page 132
European strategies in textiles and clothing......Page 133
Como: success through industrial cohesion......Page 137
Lyon: strength through specialisation......Page 138
Leicester: the dangers of an old formula......Page 140
Characteristics of the total sample......Page 141
Strategies of fast-growth firms......Page 144
POLICY IMPLICATIONS......Page 146
CONCLUSIONS......Page 148
REFERENCES......Page 149
6 NEW PRODUCTION CONCEPTS IN GERMANY AND ITALY......Page 152
GERMAN INDUSTRY IN THE 1980s: THE EMERGENCE AND DIFFUSION OF NEW PRODUCTION CONCEPTS......Page 153
The tertiary, services, sector......Page 155
THE ITALIAN SITUATION......Page 156
Different industrial relations......Page 161
Different vocational training institutions......Page 163
Differences in regional diversity......Page 164
CONCLUSION: TOWARDS MUTUAL CONVERGENCE?......Page 165
REFERENCES......Page 166
7 PATTERNS OF WORKING HOURS IN LARGE-SCALE GROCERY RETAILING IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE......Page 167
SIMILARITIES IN PATTERNS OF WORKING HOURS IN FOOD RETAILING IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE......Page 168
Levels of part-time work......Page 170
Work-time flexibility and policy......Page 173
CONVERGENCE IN PATTERNS OF WORKING HOURS POST-1992?......Page 177
The effect of European Community instruments......Page 178
THE EFFECT OF CHANGES IN BUSINESS PRACTICES ON FOOD RETAILING......Page 187
CONCLUSION......Page 189
NOTES......Page 190
REFERENCES......Page 193
INTRODUCTION......Page 198
LOCAL CONTEXTS......Page 199
Vocational education at college......Page 200
General prevocational education (BGJ)......Page 201
Special schemes......Page 202
Links to the dual system......Page 203
Marginalisation processes within the dual system......Page 205
Education......Page 207
Youth Training Scheme (YTS)......Page 208
Employment......Page 210
Prospects for progression......Page 211
ANGLO-GERMAN COMPARISONS......Page 213
CONCLUSIONS......Page 215
REFERENCES......Page 216
INTRODUCTION......Page 219
STATE AND LABOUR RELATIONS......Page 220
LABOUR MARKET AND EMPLOYMENT......Page 222
Possible sources of unemployment for the future?......Page 223
SKILLS AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING......Page 225
WAGES AND WAGE DETERMINATION......Page 228
The new model of wage determination......Page 229
BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS AND POLICIES......Page 231
THE NEW PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION......Page 233
NOTES......Page 236
INTRODUCTION......Page 237
EU integration strategy: from a ‘common’ to a ‘single’ market......Page 238
1992: from pressures for convergence to divergent outcomes?......Page 239
Social policy: a market corrective or a marketing ploy?......Page 243
Social dialogue, the Social Charter and its action programme......Page 244
Finland: an economic and political profile......Page 248
EFTA, the EEA and the EU: integration choices and implications......Page 253
CONCLUSION: LABOUR MARKET SYSTEMS AND LABOUR MARKET REGULATION AFTER MAASTRICHT......Page 255
REFERENCES......Page 258
INDEX......Page 264