Format:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415268721
,
9780203010648
Series Statement:
RIPE Series in Global Political Economy Series
Content:
Focuses on the emergence of employment policy as a political issue and examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU
Note:
Cover -- The Political Economy of European Employment: European Integration and the Transnationalization of the (Un)Employment Question -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Transnational political economy and the politics of European (un)employment: introducing the themes -- Part I: The changing political economy of employment -- 2. Globalization, neo-liberalism and the employment question -- 3. Changes in welfare regimes and the search for flexibility and employability -- 4. European employment policy between neo-liberal rationalism and communitarianism -- Part II: Europeanizing employment policy -- 5. The emergence of European employment policy as a transnational political arena -- 6. Economic and Monetary Union, employment and gender politics: a feminist constructivist analysis of neo-liberal labour-market restructuring in Europe -- 7. European unemployment and transnational capitalist class strategy: the rise of the neo-liberal competitiveness discourse -- Part III: The articulation of global and EU tendencies with national dynamics -- 8. From Thatcherism to New La0bour: neo-liberalism, workfarism and labour-market regulation -- 9. Competitive corporatism? National and transnational elements in the Dutch employment 'miracle' -- 10. The political economy of labour-market restructuring and trade union responses in the social-democratic heartland -- 11. Mediterranean labour and the impact of Economic and Monetary Union: mass unemployment or labour-market flexibility? -- Part IV: Conclusion -- 12. Conflicting views on how to address (un)employment in Europe: a tentative conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Overbeek, Henk W. The Political Economy of European Employment Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415268721
Language:
English
Keywords:
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