| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, charts |
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Routledge Advances in European Politics ; 115 |
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Routledge advances in European politics ; 115.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: social dumping and the EU integration process; Part I Intra-EU labour and service mobility: threat to labour standards?; 1 Large-scale migration in an open labour market: the Irish experience with post-2004 labour mobility and the regulation of employment standards; 2 Breaking the law? Varieties of social dumping in a pan-European labour market; 3 The politics of migrant irregularity: social dumping in the French construction industry |
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4 Varying perceptions of social dumping in similar countries5 Socioeconomic cleavages between workers from new member states and host-country labour forces in the EU during the Great Recession; Part II Social dumping pressures in manufacturing sectors; 6 Marketization and social dumping: management whipsawing in Europe's automotive industry; 7 Social dumping with no divide: evidence from multinational companies in Europe ; 8 Coordinated interest representation along the automotive value chain as a response to social dumping practices |
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Part III The deregulation agenda at the EU and national levels9 EU economic freedoms and social dumping; 10 Have your competitiveness and eat it too: the pull and limits of cost competition in Hungary and Slovakia; 11 Tracing the competitiveness discourse in Spain: social dumping in disguise?; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
The term social dumping regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations. This book systematically examines social dumping in the context of the European integration process. It defines social dumping as the practice, undertaken by self-interested market participants, of undermining or evading existing social regulations with the aim of gaining a competitive advantage. It also shows how the two major EU integration projects? the creation of the Internal Market, and EU enlargement to the east and to the south? have provided market actors with new incentives and opportunities to contest existing social constraints. The empirical chapters examine social dumping practices accompanying labour migration, employee posting and cross-border investment distribution. In addition, they outline the process of formation of social standards and trace initiatives at EU and national levels that contribute to the spread of social dumping in Europe. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of employment relations, EU studies, international political economy, globalisation studies, welfare studies, social policy and migration studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Labor market -- Europe Union countries
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Labor laws and legislation -- Europe Union countries
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Free trade -- Europe Union countries
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Foreign workers -- Europe Union countries
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Competition, Unfair -- Europe Union countries
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Marginality, Social -- Europe Union countries
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Competition, Unfair
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Foreign workers
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Free trade
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Labor laws and legislation
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Labor market
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Marginality, Social
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Social policy
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European Union countries -- Social policy
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European Economic Community countries -- Social policy
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| Subject |
European Union countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bernaciak, Magdalena, editor
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| ISBN |
9781315766607 |
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1315766604 |
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1138787140 |
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9781138787148 |
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