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This title was first published in 2003.The completion of the Single Market and the launching of the European Monetary Union during the 1990s have been accompanied by processes of socio-economic restructuring and major changes in the structure and forms of governance within the dynamic multi-level EU system. The patterns of reaction and adaptation of national industrial relations systems to these EU - developments are discussed under the heading of "Europeanisation" of national IR-systems. The Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties have extended - to a certain degree - the scope for legislative and coordinated activities by the EU in the fields of social, labour - market and employment policies. These basic legal and political decisions have created new avenues for the development of transnational industrial relations and the establishment of new arenas for EU - level interaction, including social dialogues between the social partners. .
Contents
List of Tables and Figures Contributors Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction: The Europeanisation of Industrial Relations 2. The Interprofessional Social Dialogue at European Level: Past and Future 3. Social Dialogues at Sectoral Level: The Neglected Ingredient of European Industrial Relations 4. European Works Councils: A New Mode of EU Regulation and the Emergence of a European Multi-level Structure of Workplace Industrial Relations 5. European Monetary Union and Collective Bargaining 6. Europeanisation of Collective Bargaining: Trade Union Initiatives for the Transnational Coordination of Collective Bargaining 7. European Employment Policy since the 1990s 8. Conclusions and Perspectives: European Integration and Trans-and Supranational Industrial Relations Index
