The Political Economy of European Employment: European Integration and the Transnationalization of the (Un)Employment Question

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ISBN: 9780415268721 | 0415268729
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Copyright: 7/29/2003

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This collection examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalization, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU. It combines theoretical chapters with detailed case studies of Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Central Europe.

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Series editors' preface

xiii

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

xvii

Transnational political economy and the politics of European (un)employment: introducing the themes

(10)

Henk Overbeek

PART I The changing political economy of employment

(64)

Globalization, neo-liberalism and the employment question

(16)

Henk Overbeek

Changes in welfare regimes and the search for flexibility and employability

(22)

Bob Jessop

European employment policy between neo-liberal rationalism and communitarianism

(24)

Hans-Jurgen Bieling

PART II Europeanizing employment policy

(60)

The emergence of European employment policy as a transnational political arena

(22)

Stefan Tidow

Economic and Monetary Union, employment and gender politics: a feminist constructivist analysis of neo-liberal labour-market restructuring in Europe

(14)

Brigitte Young

European unemployment and transnational capitalist class strategy: the rise of the neo-liberal competitiveness discourse

113

(22)

Bastiaan Van Apeldoorn

PART III The articulation of global and EU tendencies with national dynamics

135

(90)

From Thatcherism to New Labour: neo-liberalism, workfarism and labour-market regulation

137

(17)

Bob Jessop

Competitive corporatism? National and transnational elements in the Dutch employment `miracle'

154

(22)

Cwe Becker

The political economy of labour-market restructuring and trade union responses in the social-democratic heartland

176

(23)

Magnus Ryner

Thorsten Schulten

Mediterranean labour and the impact of Economic and Monetary Union: mass unemployment or labour-market flexibility?

199

(26)

Leila Simona Talani

Emma Cervino

PART IV Conclusion

225

(8)

Conflicting views on how to address (un)employment in Europe: a tentative conclusion

227

(6)

Henk Overbeek

Bibliography

233

(30)

Index

263

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The Political Economy of European Employment: European Integration and the Transnationalization of the (Un)Employment Question

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