Online Workshop on Thursday, 07 November 2024 (18:00 CET) about the recent book by Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó, and Vincenzo Maccarrone
Speaker
Roland Erne is a Professor of European Integration & Employment Relations at University College Dublin. His research revolves around the politicisation of the EU integration process, shifts in EU economic governance, social, and labour policy, as well as transnational protests of trade unions and social movements.
Discussants
Ian Bruff, Senior Lecturer in European Politics, University of Manchester
Guglielmo Meardi, Professor of Sociology of Work and Economy, Scuola Normale Superiore
Laura Horn, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University
Download a free open access copy of the book here
Abstract
This book examines the new economic governance (NEG) regime that the EU adopted after 2008. Its novel research design captures the supranational formulation of NEG prescriptions and their uneven deployment across countries (Germany, Italy, Ireland, Romania), policy areas (employment relations, public services), and sectors (transport, water, healthcare). NEG led to a much more vertical mode of EU integration, and its commodification agenda unleashed a plethora of union and social-movement protests, including transnationally. The book presents findings that are crucial for the prospects of European democracy, as labour politics is essential in framing the struggles about the direction of NEG along a commodification–decommodification axis rather than a national–EU axis. To shed light on corresponding processes at EU level, it upscales insights on the historical role that labour movements have played in the development of democracy and welfare states.
Critical Political Economy Research Network (RN06) 