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Labour Standards and Migration in the New Europe: Post-Communist Legacies and Perspectives

Author(s) -

Charles Woolfson

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

european journal of industrial relations

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.251

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1461-7129

pISSN - 0959-6801

DOI - 10.1177/0959680107078253

Subject(s) - member states , communism , order (exchange) , labour economics , labour law , economics , scale (ratio) , political science , economy , european union , economic policy , geography , law , politics , cartography , finance

The post-communist New Member States of Eastern Europe have experienced significantforms of labour exploitation, with deterioration in labour standards and the workingenvironment. This is leading to increasing labour force `exit' on a scale nothitherto anticipated. Migrant workers from the Baltic states, paid lower wages andwith poorer working conditions, have been at the centre of a number of high-profilelabour disputes in the EU-15. This article uses Latvia as a case study in order todiscuss the implications of increasing labour migration for the New Member Statesand for labour standards in the wider EU

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