Restructuring in the New EU Member States: Social Dialogue, Firms Relocation and Social Treatment of Restructuring(63 Travail et Société / Work and Society)

This book presents a series of extremely stimulating analyses of the process of corporate restructuring in the new Member States of the EU. Particularly noteworthy is the book’s focus on the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) that have joined the EU since 2004, an area which has not been prominent in the research on corporate restructuring conducted in Western Europe in the last twenty years. As with their Asian counterparts, these States have generally been perceived as a threat to employment in Western Europe due to the former’s benefiting from outsourcing away from the latter. By moving east, the book allows for a different perspective on the restructuring process, by placing it in the context of both Europe and the numerous changes affecting the CEECs. The book seeks to understand the impact of European- and national-level policies on the concept of restructuring, the role of the «acquis communautaire», and the place of social and political actors in the process of change in the context of new Member States, where multinational firms have developed mobility and establishment strategies within the context of broader European and global ones. The density of this collection, its wealth in terms of substantive teachings, and its use of a comparative and multidisciplinary approach that links law, political science, sociology and economics make it an essential resource for those wishing to understand restructuring in the European space after the enlargements of 2004 and 2007 and the impact of European policies and the European Social Model.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Annette Jobert: Preface - Marie-Ange Moreau/Maria Esther Blas Lopez: Lights and Shadows of Restructurings in New Member States - Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead: Restructuring in the Enlarged EU. What Effects on the Evolving World of Work? - Katharina Bluhm: Resolving Liberalisation Dilemma. Labour Relations in East-Central Europe and the Impact of European Union - Maarten Keune: Welfare States and Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe - Nikolett Hos: The Impact of European Law on Regulating the Labour Law Dimension of Corporate Restructurings in Central and Eastern Europe - Guglielmo Meardi/Michael Fichter: Production Relocation. Impacts on Home, Host and Cross-border Industrial Relations - Yordanka Chobanova: Strategies of MNEs in Hungary - Catherine Spieser: Managing Mass Dissimissals and High Unemployment - Employment Policies and Unemployment Compensation in Poland after 1989 - Jean-Jacques Paris: Conclusions.

About the Author :
The Editors: Marie-Ange Moreau is Professor of International and European Social Law at the European University Institute of Florence and Full Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille III since 1993. She has been the scientific coordinator of the European Research Project on Anticipating for an Innovative Management of Restructuring in Europe (AgirE), and is also working with the Inter-University Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), of which she is one of the charter members. Maria Esther Blas Lopez is Dr. Senior Lecturer in European and Constitutional Law at the University of Saragossa, Spain. She has been Visiting Researcher at the European Law Research Center, Harvard Law School and Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advance Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, where she has recently been working as Postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Project AgirE.