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"Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of social cohesion: social regulations have been forgotten, multinationals use threats of relocations, and workers, left without institutional channels to voice their concerns, have reacted by leaving their countries en masse. Yet migration, for many, increases social vulnerability. Drawing on Hirschman's concepts of Exit and Voice, the book traces the origins of such failures in the management of EU enlargement as a pure economic and market-creating exercise, neglecting the inherently political nature of labour relations. The reinforcement of market mechanisms without political counterbalances has resulted in an increase in opportunistic exit behaviour by both employers and employees, and thereby in a worsening quality of democracy, at workplace, national and European levels. As a result of this process, the EU has become more similar to the North American Free Trade Agreement between USA, Canada and Mexico, where social rights are marginalized and economic integration does not translate into better development. "--

Social rights --- Europe --- European Union countries --- Economic integration --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor --- #SBIB:316.334.2A419 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A470 --- #SBIB:327.7H231 --- Socio-economic rights --- Socioeconomic rights --- Human rights --- Basic needs --- Arbeidssociologie: Europees en wereldsyndicalisme --- Arbeidssociologie: het sociaal-economisch overheidsbeleid: algemeen --- Europese Unie: sociaal-economisch beleid, landbouw-, milieu-, cultuur- en communicatiebeleid --- Law and legislation --- EU countries --- Euroland --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Economic integration. --- Social rights - European Union countries --- Europe - Economic integration --- European Union countries - Economic conditions --- European Union countries - Social conditions

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This research allows the authors to conclude, for the first time, that industrial relations tend to vary more by sector than by country, and consequently demonstrates a strong reason why more attention should be paid to industrial relations at the sectoral level. It also suggests a link between developments in European sectoral social dialogue (ESSD) and sectoral industrial relations structures in the Member States.By analysing the assembled data, the authors of this study were able to test whether the types of industrial relations systems at the sector level resemble the established national ones. In this way, they have been able to propose a reclassification of industrial relations models in the EU by sector, and to show how they differ from national types.The study also attempts to identify, for the first time, distinctive 'types' of industrial relations regimes at sector level, which, the authors argue, provide a more detailed picture of European industrial relations than the more abstract, and sector-insensitive, national definitions allow. (Bron: website bookshop.europa.eu)

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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 --- Economics --- Sociological aspects --- Europe --- Europe --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions.