Jordan Jamie, Maccarrone Vincenzo, Erne Roland
Jamie Jordan is at De Montfort University Leicester.
Vincenzo Maccarrone and Roland Erne are at the School of Business and Geary Institute for Public Policy University College Dublin.
Br J Ind Relat. 2021 Mar;59(1):191-213. doi: 10.1111/bjir.12522. Epub 2020 Feb 18.
In response to the last recession, the European Union (EU) adopted a new economic governance (NEG) regime. An influential stream of EU social policy literature argues that there has been more emphasis on social objectives in the NEG regime in more recent years. This article shows that this is not the case. It does so through an in-depth analysis of NEG prescriptions on wage, employment protection and collective bargaining policy in Germany, Italy, Ireland and Romania between 2009 and 2019. Our main conclusion is that the EU's interventions in these three industrial relations policy areas continue to be dominated by a liberalization agenda that is commodifying labour, albeit to a different degree across the uneven but nonetheless integrated European political economy. This finding is important, as countervailing transnational trade union action is the more likely, the more there is a common threat. Even so, our contextualized analysis also enables us to detect contradictions that could provide European labour movements opportunities to pursue countervailing action.
针对上一次经济衰退，欧盟（EU）采用了一种新的经济治理（NEG）制度。欧盟社会政策文献中一个有影响力的流派认为，近年来NEG制度对社会目标的重视有所增加。本文表明情况并非如此。本文通过对2009年至2019年德国、意大利、爱尔兰和罗马尼亚在工资、就业保护和集体谈判政策方面的NEG规定进行深入分析来证明这一点。我们的主要结论是，欧盟在这三个产业关系政策领域的干预仍然以自由化议程为主导，该议程正在将劳动力商品化，尽管在不均衡但一体化的欧洲政治经济中，其程度有所不同。这一发现很重要，因为共同威胁越大，跨国工会采取反制行动的可能性就越大。即便如此，我们的情境化分析也使我们能够发现一些矛盾，这些矛盾可能为欧洲劳工运动提供采取反制行动的机会。
