A01=Thomas Prosser
Author_Thomas Prosser
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Competition
Cooperation
Crisis
Disintegration theory
Dualization
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EU
Intergovernmentalism
Labour movements
neofunctionalism
Social-democratic parties
Trade unions
Product details
- ISBN 9781526136640
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 2018
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this book, Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. It bases its hypothesis on analysis of four countries – Germany, Spain, France and Poland – and two processes: the collective bargaining practices of trade unions in the first decade of the Eurozone and the response of trade unions and social-democratic parties to austerity in Southern Europe. In the first process, although unions did not intentionally compete, there was a drift towards zero-sum outcomes which benefited national workforces in stronger structural positions. In the second process, during which a crisis resulting from the earlier actions of labour occurred, lack of solidarity reinforced effects of competition.
Thomas Prosser is a Reader in European social policy at Cardiff University
