Industrial Relations in the New Europe Enlargement, Integration and Reform

The state of European integration is a contested issue raising many important questions: what is the impact of enlargement on the social standards in old and new EU Member States? Will public sector employment relations suffer from governments? attempts to make their national economies more competitive? What are the prospects for a EuropeanSocial Model? What influence can governments, employers and trade unions have on industrial relations that are changing with the European integration process? These arethe issues that this book addresses on the basis of solid empirical evidence. The authors are expert researchers from Western and Eastern Europe, and their work comes at atimely moment for scientific and political audiences.This book presents an evidence-based assessment of the impact of EU enlargement on industrial relations and social standards in old and new EU Member States. It combineschapters which give an overview of the process of enlargement/integration and comparative socio-economic data at EU and national level, with chapters that present anin-depth analysis of the impact of European integration on national industrial relations. These in-depth analyses cover both a number of old EU Member States in WesternEurope and new Member States in Central and Eastern Europe. The book combines supranational European, Western and Eastern perspectives on the impact of Europeanintegration. A combination of solid empirical data and critical theoretically informed analyses, Industrial Relations in the New Europe will be of great interest to researchers and students in various fields, including industrial relations, public sector employment relations, European Studies, socio-economic studies and political science.Leisink, Peter is the author of 'Industrial Relations in the New Europe Enlargement, Integration and Reform', published 2007 under ISBN 9781845426149 and ISBN 1845426142.