European Union discourses on un/employment : an interdisciplinary approach to employment, policy-making and organizational change / Peter Muntigl, Gilbert Weiss, Ruth Wodak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muntigl, Peter.

Contributor:

Weiss, Gilbert.

Wodak, Ruth, 1950-

Series:

Dialogues on work and innovation ; v. 12.

Dialogues on work and innovation ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manpower policy--European Union countries.

Manpower policy.

Unemployment--European Union countries.

Unemployment.

Physical Description:

234 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Employment is clearly one of those fields of political activity that reveal the manifold problems and difficulties accompanying the process of European integration and supranational institutionalization. In particular the conflict between supranationalists and intergovernmentalists and the degree to which member states show willingness to cooperate with each other become manifest. The Union is struggling for new employment policies that should, on the one hand, be compatible with the European model of the welfare state, and, on the other, adopt to new economic constraints. These debates are accompanied by many conflicts between different interest groups and lobbies. This study succeeded in looking behind closed doors within the EU organizational system. Committee meetings were tape-recorded and analysed, drafts of policy papers were examined for recontextualizations and the impact of interest groups and different economic and ideological concepts on policy-making made explicit. A comparison of decision-making processes in the European Parliament and in small networks of the Commission illustrates the different argumentation patterns and discursive practices that are involved in the formation of new employment policies. The ethnographic research is accompanied by a systemic linguistic and sociological analysis of various institutional genres and political spaces.

Contents:

EUROPEAN UNION DISCOURSES ON UN/EMPLOYMENT

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. The European Union: Policy-making through organizational discursive practices

Chapter 2. Labor Markets, Unemployment and the Rhetoric of Globalization: Sociological and Economic Background

Chapter 3. Researching the European Union: Data and Ethnography

Chapter 4. From conflict to consensus? The co-construction of a policy paper

Chapter 5. A difference that makes no difference? Decision-making on employment in the European Parliament

Chapter 6. Dilemmas of Individualism and Social Necessity

Chapter 7. Discussion: The EU Committee Regime and the Problem of Public Space

Appendix

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-231) and index.

ISBN:

9786612255144

9781282255142

1282255142

9789027299444

9027299447

9780585461755

0585461759

OCLC:

133169089