 IntroductionEmer O’Hagan A chapter in Employee relations in the periphery of Europe, 2002, pp 1-5 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The primary question pursued throughout this book is how employee practices in economically peripheral states are affected by accelerated European integration. Remarkably few studies in this field straddle that relatively young, once political, now only economic, frontier between Eastern and Western Europe. Most commentators claim that the two regions followed fundamentally different industrial trajectories and therefore it is not fruitful to use western models of industrial relations as reference points against which developments in employee practices may be analysed (Thirkell et al., 1995). This book has attempted to contribute to the discipline by turning this assumption on its head. A main supposition which underpins the work is that we may gain a clearer picture of the nature of the ‘European Project’ if we can locate patterns in the manner in which under-developed industrial regions integrate within the Community. It follows that this finding would be all the more significant if these patterns emerge from states which are the product of very diverse historical trajectories. Keywords: European Union; Foreign Direct Investment; Industrial Relation; Employee Relation; European Economic Community (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51239-9_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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