The political economy of European employment : European integration and the transnationalization of the (un)employment question / / edited by Henk Overbeek

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783958703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-134-49276-6; 1-134-49277-4; 1-280-06230-4; 0-203-01064-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Collana: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy
• Classificazione: 83.61
• Altri autori (Persone): OverbeekHenk
• Disciplina: 331.12/042/094
• Soggetti: Labor market - European Union countries; Unemployment - European Union countries; Labor policy - European Union countries; Globalization - Economic aspects - European Union countries; Europe Economic integration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-262) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 communitarianismPart 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 regulation9. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited collection examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, 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.