1st Edition
Trade Unions and European Integration A Question of Optimism and Pessimism?
1 Introduction: Trade Unions under the Pressure of European Integration. A Question of Optimism and Pessimism?
Martin Seeliger and Johannes Kiess
2 Trade unions in the European crisis: a social movement perspective
Donatella della Porta
3 Comment on della Porta
Wolfgang Streeck
4 Conceptualising the Development of European Industrial Relations from a neo-Gramscian Perspective
Andreas Bieler and Hans-Jürgen Bieling
5 Self-intimidation. Comment on Bieler/Bieling
Georg Vobruba
6 The Europeanisation of Wage Bargaining Coordination
Susanne Pernicka and Vera Glassner
7 The coordination paradox: A comparative political economy perspective on transnational wage coordination
Martin Höpner
8 Ambiguities of Social Europe: Political Agenda Setting among Trade Unionists from Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe
Martin Seeliger
9 Comment on Seeliger
Guglielmo Meardi
10 EWC – ineffective bureaucratic body or institutionalising labour regulation at European company level?
Ludger Pries
11 The European Works Council – Not an effective Means against Site-Competition and Multiscalar Social Fragmentation
Stefanie Hürtgen
12 The long and winding road to pan-European co-determination rights
Sara Lafuente Hernández
13 Europe is not the answer. Some remarks on the future of worker co-determination in Europe
Benjamin Werner
14 European economic governance, autonomy of collective bargaining and democratic capitalism
Daniel Seikel
15 Going beyond institutional restrictions: conflict as a challenge
Johannes Kiess
16 Contention in Times of Crisis: British and German Social Actors and the Quest of Framing Capitalism
Johannes Kiess
17 Comment on "Contention in Times of Crisis"
Oliver Nachtwey
18 A constant tug of war: Neoliberalism and social unrest in (post)-crisis Europe
Madelaine Moore and Anne Engelhardt
19 Comment on "A constant tug of war"
Roland Erne
Index
Biography
Johannes M. Kiess is a post-doctoral researcher at Siegen University, Germany
Martin Seeliger is an assistant professor at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany
