Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of
fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and …

The creation of European Works Councils is arguably the most important measure taken in
global industrial relations in recent years. Adopted with the primary goal of facilitating …

The book examines the integration of European trade union movement and explores the
prospects for European or transnational solidarity among workers. Contrary to much existing …

East–West union co‐operation in Europe is discussed as the most serious test to cross‐
border union solidarity, in the light of new frameworks capable to make sense of …

Since 1996 a growing number of European employees have access to a European works
council (EWC), a transnational employee body designed to complement national forms of …

■ The European works council (EWC) at General Motors is widely regarded as an
outstanding example of cross-border trade union cooperation. This article reconstructs its …

This article is about current developments of codetermination by works councils as a core
institution of labour relations in Germany. It is argued that we can observe seven different …

In the light of the growing transnationalisation of companies, the adoption of the EWC
Directive in September 1994 represented an important step to redress the imbalance …

This paper is about industrial relation (IR) strategies and practices in multinational
companies (MNCs). It is based on a comparison of these practices in subsidiaries of different …

Die deutschen Arbeitsbeziehungen zeichnen sich–gerade auch im internationalen
Vergleich–durch ein komplexes Geflecht unterschiedlicher Akteure, Ebenen und …