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Beneath the Surface of Stability: New and Old Modes of Governance in European Industrial Relations
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Abstract Despite surface stability, there are significant changes in the modes of governance regulating the relationship between law and collective bargaining as a source of labour rights, and between norms defined at EU, national, sectoral and company... view more
Despite surface stability, there are significant changes in the modes of governance regulating the relationship between law and collective bargaining as a source of labour rights, and between norms defined at EU, national, sectoral and company level. This article focuses on the European integration process as a key source of change, first outlining the weaknesses of informal coordination of wage bargaining within and across countries, then discussing the tensions for trade unions created by Economic and Monetary Union. It concludes by examining the diffusion of ‘opening clauses’ in sectoral agreements, the displacement of collective by individual rights promoted by EU law and the reduction in statutory standards of welfare and social rights.... view less
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 287-306
Journal
European Journal of Industrial Relations, 11 (2005) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680105057212
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)