Product Description: The state of European integration is a contested issue raising many important questions: what is the impact of enlargement on the social standards in old and new EU Member States? Will public sector employment relations suffer from governments' attempts to make their national economies more competitive? What are the prospects for a European Social Model? What influence can governments, employers and trade unions have on industrial relations that are changing with the European integration process? These are the issues that this book addresses on the basis of solid empirical evidence...read more

Product Description: Management of the employment relationship changed markedly throughout the world in the last two decades of the 21st century, and a major part of this change has been the extension of employee involvement and participation in the workplace...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)