Industrial Relations, Migration, and Neoliberal Politics: The Case of the European Construction Sector

Nathan Lillie and Ian Greer
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Nathan Lillie: University of Groningen in the Netherlands, nathan.lillie@helsinki.fi
Ian Greer: Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Leeds University Business School's Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change, icg@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

Politics & Society, 2007, vol. 35, issue 4, 551-581

Abstract: Transnational politics and labor markets are undermining national industrial relations systems in Europe. This article examines the construction industry, where the internationalization of the labor market has gone especially far. To test hypotheses about di ferences between “national systems,†the authors examine the United Kingdom, Finland, and Germany, alongside European-level policy making. Regardless of overall national institutional framework, employers seek to avoid industrial relations rules, while unions attempt to relocalize labor relations. Both use shop-floor, national, and European power resources. The authors argue that comparative industrial relations should take seriously the connection between action at the national and transnational levels.

Keywords: trade unions; varieties of capitalism; migration; European Union; construction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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