1st Edition
Social Concertation in Times of Austerity European Integration and the Politics of Labour Market Reforms in Austria and Switzerland
By Alexandre Afonso
Copyright 2013
258 Pages
by
Routledge
Why do governments still negotiate with trade unions and employers in the design of labour market and welfare reforms despite the steady decline of trade union membership almost everywhere in Europe? Social Concertation in Times of Austerity investigates the political underpinnings of social concertation in this new context with a focus on the regulation of labour mobility and unemployment... Read more
List of Tables and Figures, List of Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, 1 The Strange Survival of Social Concertation in Times of Austerity, 2 Social Concertation as a Political Strategy, 3 European Integration, Domestic Politics and Social Concertation, 4 Methods and Cases, 5 The Context of Social Concertation in Switzerland and Austria, 6 Social Concertation and Cross-Border Labour Mobility, 7 Social Concertation and Unemployment Policy Reforms, 8 Synthesis and Comparative Outlook, List of Interviews, Notes, References, Index.
Biography
Alexandre Afonso is lecturer in the department of Political Economy at King's College London.
