Politicising commodification : European governance and labour politics from the financial crisis to the covid emergency / Roland Erne [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erne, Roland, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--European Union countries.

Labor policy.

Commercial products--European Union countries.

Commercial products.

European Union countries--Economic policy.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 411 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Analyses the EU's new economic governance (NEG) interventions in labour relations and public services (transport, water, healthcare) since 2008; the countervailing social movements that NEG triggered; and their feedback effects on the EU's post-Covid governance regime and EU democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Imprints page

Table of Contents

List of Figure and Tables

List of Tables in the Online Appendix

List of Authors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1 Aims and Objectives of the Book

1.2 Research Design and Methodology

1.3 Plan of the Book

Part I Analytical Framework

2 European Economic Governance and Labour Politics

2.1 Introduction

2.2 EU Economic Governance and Labour Politics before the 2008 Financial Crisis

2.3 The EU's New Economic Governance Regime after 2008

3 A Paradigm Shift in Understanding EU Integration and Labour Politics

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Modes of integration: From Negative/Positive to Horizontal/Vertical Integration

3.3 EU Governance: From State-Centred to Corporate Management Mechanisms

3.4 Politicising EU Governance and Labour Politics

3.5 The Interest of It All: The Commodification of Labour and Public Services

3.6 NEG and Transnational Collective Action: From Agent-Centred to Structural Factors

4 How to Assess the Policy Orientation of the EU's NEG Prescriptions?

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Assessing the Policy Orientation of NEG and Its Methodological Challenges

4.3 Towards a Novel Approach for Assessing the Policy Orientation of NEG Prescriptions

5 Contextualising the EU's NEG Prescriptions and Research Design

5.1 Introduction

5.2 How to Map the Patterns of Prescriptions across Countries, Time, and Policy Areas?

5.3 Research Design

Part II EU Economic Governance in Two Policy Areas

6 EU Governance of Employment Relations and Its Discontents

6.1 Introduction

6.2 EU Governance of Employment Relations until the 2008 Crisis

6.3 The EU's New Economic Governance (NEG) of Employment Relations

6.4 European Unions: Facing Horizontal and Vertical EU Integration Pressures

6.5 Conclusion

7 EU Governance of Public Services and Its Discontents

7.1 Introduction

7.2 EU Governance of Public Services until the 2008 Financial Crisis

7.3 NEG: Pursuing Public Service Commodification by New Means

7.4 Public Services Commodification and the Countermovements That It Triggered

7.5 Conclusion

Part III EU Economic Governance in Three Sectors

8 EU Governance of Transport Services and Its Discontents

8.1 Introduction

8.2 EU Governance of Transport Services before the Shift to NEG

8.3 Governing the Transport Sector through Commodifying NEG Prescriptions

8.4 EU Transport Governance and Transnational Countermovements

8.5 Conclusion

9 EU Governance of Water Services and Its Discontents

9.1 Introduction

9.2 EU Governance of Water Services before the Shift to NEG

9.3 EU Governance of Water Services after the Shift to NEG

9.4 Transnational Countermovements against the Commodification of Water

9.5 Conclusion

10 EU Governance of Healthcare and Its Discontents

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The Governance of Healthcare by European Laws and Court Rulings

10.3 Promoting Commodification by New Means: NEG Prescriptions on Healthcare

10.4 EU Healthcare Governance and Transnational Collective Action

10.5 Conclusion

Part IV Comparative Analysis and Post-Pandemic Developments

11 Labour Politics and the EU's NEG Prescriptions across Areas and Sectors

11.1 Introduction

11.2 NEG Prescriptions on Employment Relations and Public Services

11.3 Comparing NEG Prescriptions on Transport, Water, and Healthcare Services

11.4 NEG's Commodification Script and Transnational Collective Action

12 The EU's Shift to a Post-Covid NEG Regime

12.1 Preventing the EU's Disintegration by New Means?

12.2 The RRF Regulation: Institutionalising the EU's Post-Covid NEG Regime

12.3 EU Governance after Covid: Still Mimicking Transnational Corporations?

13 The Policy Orientation of the EU's Post-Covid NEG Regime and Its Discontents

13.1 Introduction

13.2 EU Governance of Employment Relations: Towards Decommodification?

13.3 EU Governance of Public Services: Public Investment for Private Gain

13.4 EU Governance of Transport Services: Still Commodifying

13.5 EU Governance of Water Services: Towards a New Commodification Push?

13.6 EU Governance of Healthcare Services: Growing Discontent

13.7 Continuity and Change in EU Economic Governance after the Pandemic

13.8 Conclusion

14 Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2024).

ISBN:

9781009062589

1009062581

9781009062398

1009062395

9781009053433

1009053434

OCLC:

1492922745

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access