TY - JOUR T1 - Shaping The Future Of Industrial Relations In The EU: Ideas, Paradoxes And Drivers Of Change JF - International Labour Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Maarten Keune KW - EU KW - EU countries KW - European Union KW - labor relations KW - market economy KW - precarious employment KW - quality of working life KW - trade unionism AB -

The author argues that Europe's future industrial relations will be shaped by the resolution of three paradoxes embedded in today's labour markets, unionization dynamics, and EU policy. The first is the increasing individualization of employment relationships versus fictional “individual autonomy” and workers' growing market dependency and vulnerability. The second centres on the deterioration of job quality and precarious workers' growing need for protection versus their low unionization and the failure of unions to reach out to them despite declining membership. The third is the EU's current market-oriented stance, encouraging employment conditions ultimately conducive to a political backlash against the EU itself.

VL - 154 L2 - eng CP - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Three Scenarios For Industrial Relations In Europe JF - International Labour Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Richard Hyman KW - employment KW - EU KW - Europe KW - European Union KW - industrial relations KW - informal economy KW - labor relations KW - market economy KW - trade unionism KW - trend AB -

The author outlines three scenarios for the future of industrial relations in Europe. The first – perhaps the most realistic – projects continuing erosion of national industrial relations systems and conditions of employment, in line with current trends. The second envisages that “elite reform” from above will succeed in re-engineering industrial relations and workers' protection according to an ideal social policy agenda – an unlikely prospect given the overriding importance of financial considerations and globalized competition. The third scenario centres on a counter-movement from below which presents trade unions with the daunting challenge of mobilizing the discontented far beyond their traditional constituency.

VL - 154 L2 - eng CP - 1 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism Y1 - 2009 A1 - Hung, H. KW - China KW - economy KW - globalization KW - income distribution KW - international market system KW - labor KW - market economy AB -

With one of the world's fastest-growing economies and a population quickly approaching two billion, China holds substantial sway over global financial, social, and cultural networks. This volume explains China's economic rise and liberalization and assesses how this growth is reshaping the structure and dynamics of global capitalism in the twenty-first century.

China has historically been the center of Asian trade, economic, and financial networks, and its global influence continues to expand in the twenty-first century. In exploring the causes for and effects of China's resurging power, this volume takes a broad, long-term view that reaches well beyond economics for answers. Contributors explore the vast web of complex issues raised by China's ascendancy.

The first three chapters discuss the global and historical origins of China's shift to a market economy and that transformation's impact on the international market system. Subsequent essays explore the ability of large Chinese manufacturers to counter the might of transnational retailers, the effect of China's rise on world income distribution and labor, and the consequences of a stronger China for its two most powerful neighbors, Russia and Japan. The concluding chapter questions whether China's growth is sustainable and if it will ultimately shift the center of global capitalism from the West to the East.

This cutting-edge collection of works by leading global political economists links current events to long-term trends in global capitalist development to provide a comprehensive analysis of China's impact on the world. Scholars of China, world systems and globalization, international relations, and political economy will find this assessment worthy of study and an important starting point for further research.

Contributors: Richard P. Appelbaum, Giovanni Arrighi, Edna Bonacich, József Böröcz, Paul S. Ciccantell, John Gulick, Ho-Fung Hung, Stephanie Luce, Beverly J. Silver, Alvin Y. So, and Lu Zhang. (publisher's statement)

PB - The Johns Hopkins University Press CY - Baltimore L2 - eng ER -