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.
Chapter 1 Transnational political economy and the politics of European
(un)employment, Henk Overbeek; Part 1 The changing political economy of
employment;
Chapter 2 Globalization, neo-liberalism and the employment
question, Henk Overbeek;
Chapter 3 Changes in welfare regimes and the search
for flexibility and employability, Bob Jessop;
Chapter 4 European employment
policy between neo-liberal rationalism and communitarianism, Hans-Jürgen
Bieling; Part 2 Europeanizing employment policy;
Chapter 5 The emergence of
European employment policy as a transnational political arena, Stefan Tidow;
Chapter 6 Economic and Monetary Union, employment and gender politics,
Brigitte Young;
Chapter 7 European unemployment and transnational capitalist
class strategy, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn; Part 3 The articulation of global and
EU tendencies with national dynamics;
Chapter 8 From Thatcherism to New
Labour, Bob Jessop;
Chapter 9 Competitive corporatism?, Uwe Becker;
Chapter
10 The political economy of labour-market restructuring and trade union
responses in the social-democratic heartland, Magnus Ryner, Thorsten
Schulten;
Chapter 11 Mediterranean labour and the impact of Economic and
Monetary Union, Leila Simona Talani, Emma Cervińo; Part 4 Conclusion;
Chapter
12 Conflicting views on how to address (un)employment in Europe, Henk
Overbeek;
Henk Overbeek is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Webster University, also in the Netherlands.