European Integration and Industrial Relations: Multi-Level Governance in the Making

Book Description
This book explores the impact of the Single European Market (SEM) on the institutions of industrial relations and their outcomes after ten years of operation. The authors consider two competing hypotheses: "Europeanization" and "Americanization", and find that both are true up to a point. They show how the SEM is bringing about a measure of cross-border convergence between companies within sectors whilst simultaneously leading to a greater within-country diversity between companies in different sectors. Based on the results generated by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council's 'One Europe or Several?' program, this book provides a multi-disciplinary and truly cross-national approach dealing with the both the theory and practice of industrial relations in the SEM.



About the Author
Paul Marginson is Principal Research Fellow, IRRU, University of Warwick Business School, UK.

Keith Sisson is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, IRRU, University of Warwick Business School, UK.



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"This book comprehensively analyses the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations, institutions and outcomes. It organizes a body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Developing relatively autonomously rather than by design, this multi-level framework is the product of responses by a range of national and supranational actors to the challenges of European integration. Cross-national influences are shown to mix with national ones and involve the European sector and company, as well as Community, levels. Competing tendencies towards 'Europeanization', 'Americanization' and 'Re-nationalization' of industrial relations are identified. It is unclear whether EU enlargement will extend or unravel these developments." Drawing on the authors' extensive record to comparative European research, the book provides an integrated treatment of industrial relations at the EU Community, sector and company levels; examines developments within national systems in the light of European integration; and analyses their interaction with the emerging EU framework. The approach is multi-disciplinary and truly cross-national, integrating the material by theme. It deals with both the theory and also the practice of industrial relations in contemporary Europe.


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