Trade Unions and European Integration

1 Introduction: Trade Unions under the Pressure of European Integration. A Question of Optimism and Pessimism?

Martin Seeliger and Johannes Kiess

2 Trade unions in the European crisis: a social movement perspective

Donatella della Porta

3 Comment on della Porta

Wolfgang Streeck

4 Conceptualising the Development of European Industrial Relations from a neo-Gramscian Perspective

Andreas Bieler and Hans-Juergen Bieling

5 Self-intimidation. Comment on Bieler/Bieling

Georg Vobruba

6 The Europeanisation of Wage Bargaining Coordination

Susanne Pernicka and Vera Glassner

7 The coordination paradox: A comparative political economy perspective on transnational wage coordination

Martin Hoepner

8 Ambiguities of Social Europe: Political Agenda Setting among Trade Unionists from Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe

Martin Seeliger

9 Comment on Seeliger

Guglielmo Meardi

10 EWC - ineffective bureaucratic body or institutionalising labour regulation at European company level?

Ludger Pries

11 The European Works Council - Not an effective Means against Site-Competition and Multiscalar Social Fragmentation

Stefanie Huertgen

12 The long and winding road to pan-European co-determination rights

Sara Lafuente Hernandez

13 Europe is not the answer. Some remarks on the future of worker co-determination in Europe

Benjamin Werner

14 European economic governance, autonomy of collective bargaining and democratic capitalism

Daniel Seikel

15 Going beyond institutional restrictions: conflict as a challenge

Johannes Kiess

16 Contention in Times of Crisis: British and German Social Actors and the Quest of Framing Capitalism

Johannes Kiess

17 Comment on "Contention in Times of Crisis"

Oliver Nachtwey

18 A constant tug of war: Neoliberalism and social unrest in (post)-crisis Europe

Madelaine Moore and Anne Engelhardt

19 Comment on "A constant tug of war"

Roland Erne

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