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Confronting Crisis and Precariousness
Organised Labour and Social Unrest in the European Union
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2019
Summary
The 2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent Eurozone crisis triggered dramatic changes in European labour relations. Unemployment and precariousness increased considerably. This was further exacerbated by austerity measures, leading to declining minimum wages and layoffs in the public sector. These structural changes varied considerably by country but collectively pose challenges to organized labour as they confront neoliberal restructuring. Concurrently, recent social struggles continue to develop with unemployed and precarious workers playing a major role as protest actors.
Focusing on the triangular relationship of precariousness, trade unions and social movements, this book draws on a range of exciting cases, both comparative and country case studies, in order to understand how the shadow of the crisis still haunts organized labour in Europe. The chapters in this collection each offer a unique perspective on how the results of the crisis, in Western, Southern and Eastern Europe, are leading to a variety of new social movements as a consequence of increased precariousness and also how trade unions are attempting to respond.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-047-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-78661-048-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
232
Product type
Edited Book
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Ch01. Confronting Crisis and Precariousness in the European Union No access Pages 1 - 14
Ch02. Precariousness in the Eurozone No access Pages 15 - 32
Ch03. The Competitive Architecture of European Integration No access Pages 33 - 52
Ch04. Precarious Environment No access Pages 53 - 72
Ch05. Holding Its Own No access Pages 73 - 92
Ch06. Are Trade Unions Trapped? No access Pages 93 - 110
Ch07. Enduring Austerity No access Pages 111 - 128
Ch08. Spatialities of Precarity No access Pages 129 - 150
Ch09. The End of the German Model? No access Pages 151 - 168
Ch10. Precarity and Countermovements in the European Semi-Peripheries No access Pages 169 - 188
Ch11. Labour Protests in Eastern Europe No access Pages 189 - 208
