ABSTRACT
Posting of workers provides an easy and flexible solution for promoting European market integration. The existing literature on posting tends to focus on the labour market implications of posting and the legal principles around it. As a result, it has difficulty coming to terms with the varied and multilevel ways in which posting reconfigures industrial relations systems, just as it also misses the dynamic implications of local and national resistance to such pressures. Early works on European integration, and particularly the neo-functionalist work of E. B. Haas, did indeed emphasise the role of subnational actors, such as firms, who, motivated by new transnational market opportunities, drove forward both political and economic integration. Debates on European integration often occur without regard for how institutional developments in Member States affect European Union politics. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
