ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Transnational political economy and the politics of European (un)employment
Introducing the themes
part |63 pages
The changing political economy of employment
part |60 pages
Europeanizing employment policy
chapter |14 pages
Economic and Monetary Union, employment and gender politics
A feminist constructivist analysis of neo-liberal labour-market restructuring in Europe
1
chapter |22 pages
European unemployment and transnational capitalist class strategy
The rise of the neo-liberal competitiveness discourse
part |90 pages
The articulation of global and EU tendencies with national dynamics
chapter |17 pages
From Thatcherism to New Labour
Neo-liberalism, workfarism and labour-market regulation
1
chapter |22 pages
Competitive corporatism?
National and transnational elements in the Dutch employment ‘miracle'
chapter |26 pages
Mediterranean labour and the impact of Economic and Monetary Union
Mass unemployment or labour market flexibility?
part |8 pages
Conclusion
