The meta-regulation of European industrial relations:: Power shifts, institutional dynamics and the emergence of regulatory competition among Member States

Theodoros Papadopoulos; Antonios Roumpakis

doi:10.1111/j.1564-913X.2013.00180.x

The meta-regulation of European industrial relations: Power shifts, institutional dynamics and the emergence of regulatory competition among Member States

Theodoros Papadopoulos, Antonios Roumpakis

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Abstract

The article comprises three parts. First, we discuss three key concepts used in our research; namely structural power, European social space and meta-governance. In the second and empirical part of the article, we examine attempts to institute market-enhancing modes of metagovernance. These attempts are exemplified either through the proposal of the Service Directive or through the rulings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the cases of Laval, Viking, Luxemburg and Rüffert. We examine the response of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) to these challenges, and discuss the tensions that arise from these rulings between labour and capital but also between national and European spaces of action. In the third part we put forward an alternative framework which allows us to elucidate the particular form of (emerging) meta-governance of industrial relations in the EU and the challenges that stem for unions within the European social space.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	255-274
Number of pages	20
Journal	International Labour Review
Volume	152
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2013.00180.x
Publication status	Published - Jun 2013

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Keywords

Competition
ECJ
governance
meta-regulation
social space
power

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