Three scenarios for industrial relations in Europe

Richard Hyman

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Abstract: The author outlines three scenarios for the future of industrial relations in Europe. The first – perhaps the most realistic – projects continuing erosion of national industrial relations systems and conditions of employment, in line with current trends. The second envisages that “elite reform” from above will succeed in re-engineering industrial relations and workers’ protection according to an ideal social policy agenda – an unlikely prospect given the overriding importance of financial considerations and globalized competition. The third scenario centres on a counter-movement from below which presents trade unions with the daunting challenge of mobilizing the discontented far beyond their traditional constituency.

Keywords: labour relations; employment; informal economy; market economy; trade unionism; trend; EU countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04-07
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Published in International Labour Review, 7, April, 2015, 154(1), pp. 5-14. ISSN: 0020-7780

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