1st Edition

European Works Councils: Negotiated Europeanisation Between Statutory Framework and Social Dynamics

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Contents: Introduction. The EWC Process and the Europeanization of Industrial Relations: The Theoretical and Political Context: Range of theoretical debate and analytical approaches; Origins and implementation of the EWC directive and process. Establishment of EWCs Under the Statutory Procedure: The Article 6 Phase: The establishment of EWCs as a research object; Five EWC case studies; Negotiation, representation, Europeanization: the quality of the EWC process; The slackening pace of quantitative EWC development: a casual analysis. Assessment and Prospects: EWCs - types: quality of the actors: field of activity; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Wolfgang Lecher, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer