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Economic Integration and State Responses: Change in European Industrial Relations since Maastricht
Author(s) -
Meardi Guglielmo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/bjir.12307
Subject(s) - industrial relations , collective bargaining , internationalization , liberalization , welfare state , state (computer science) , economics , neoliberalism (international relations) , corporate governance , bargaining power , economic system , politics , political economy , market economy , political science , international trade , law , management , finance , computer science , microeconomics , algorithm
The article analyses industrial relations change in the six largest EU countries since 1992 in relation to increased internationalization pressures. Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis, it distinguishes between associational and state governance, and detects that despite a predominant, but not universal, trend of weakening trade unions and collective bargaining, no overall liberalization has occurred in the political regulation of employment (employment policies, welfare state, labour law, state support to collective bargaining, public sector). Rather than converging towards neoliberalism, industrial relations emerge as more politically contingent and dependent on multiple forms of power, which are affected by internationalization in different ways.