Globalization and Labour or The European Union

Globalization and Labour: The New "Great Transformation"

Author: Ronaldo Munck

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of labor's worldwide response to globalization. Ronaldo Munck argues that the national period in labor history is decisively over. Now the labor movement is itself acting in a more transnational manner, with workers developing common interests and ways of organizing that transcend national boundaries. Indeed, the trade union movement could play a major role in the regulation of a global economic system now largely out of control.

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The European Union: Economy, Society, and Polity

Author: S Rodroguez Pos

At the beginning of the 21st century the European Union faces twin challenges: the institutional challenge, linked to the processes of greater integration and expansion, and the structural challenge, which will in the medium-run determine the place of the EU in the world. This book deals with this latter set of challenges, focusing on economic aspects, such as competitiveness and cohesion, as well as on other important issues such as ageing, migration, social polarization, and the emergence of regionalism and nationalism.

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Rodr<'i>guez-Pose (economic geography, London School of Economics, UK) has written an introductory textbook to the EU and the challenges it faces. Among the topics addressed are the problem of competition, the impact of NAFTA, the potential negative impact of economic integration on social cohesion, the high percentage of an aged population, the impact of migration, and the political impact of the EU's expansion to the East. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	List of tables
	List of figures
	Glossary of terms
	Prologue: The Challenges to the European Union	1
Pt. I	Economy	5
1	Competitiveness	7
	The stages of economic integration	8
	Economic integration as a means to achieve competitiveness	11
	The impact of economic integration	21
2	Cohesion	34
	National and regional disparities in the EU	34
	European development policies	41
	The efficiency of European development policies after the reform of the Structural Funds	53
Pt. II	Society	63
3	Ageing	65
	Demographic change in the EU	65
	The factors behind ageing	79
	Policies aimed at tackling demographic change	82
4	Migration and xenophobia	89
	Migration and its forms	90
	Mass migration in post-war Europe	92
	The renewal of migration in the 1990s	96
	The European response to migration	105
5	Unemployment and social polarization	113
	Employment change in the post-industrial age	114
	The roots of persistently high unemployment	123
	The impact of labour market flexibility on unemployment	129
Pt. III	Polity	137
6	Enlargement	139
	Change in central and eastern Europe	140
	The different transitions in central and eastern Europe	142
	Enlargement and European integration	155
7	Regionalism and regionalization	163
	Regional devolution in Europe	163
	The transfer of power from the nation state to the regions	175
	The roots of the regionalization process	178
	Towards a 'Europe of the Regions'?	181
	References	185
	Index	193