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Over a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after their accession to the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEECs) still show marked differences with the rest of Europe in the fields of labour, work and industrial relations. This book presents a detailed and original analysis of labour and s
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- Introduction: Revisiting the Transition: Labour Markets, Work and Industrial Relations in the New Europe
Violaine Delteil and Vassil Kirov
Part I. Dependent Capitalisms and Labour changes
- The Limits of Europeanization in Central Europe: A Critical Perspective on Property Rights, Banking Capital, and Industrial Relations
François Bafoil
- Dependent Capitalism and Employment Relations in East Central Europe
Jan Drahokoupil and Martin Myant
- Institutional Transition, Power Relations and the Development of Employment Practices in Multinational Companies operating in Central and Eastern Europe
Ilona Hunek and John Geary
- Segmented capitalism in Hungary: diverging or converging development paths?
Csaba Makó and Miklós Illéssy
- Migration and Remittances in the Central and East European Countries
Eugenia Markova
Part II. Formal Dependencies and informal resistances to the Europeanisation of labour and IR models
- The Fate of the ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Acquis communautaires in the New Member States
Guglielmo Meardi
- The European Social Fund in Poland: a Tool for Europeanization and the Redistribution of Power between Domestic Actors
Amélie Bonnet
- Trade union influence in Eastern and Central Europe, the example of the Czech Republic
Martin Myant
- Building and Reshaping Social Dialogue in the CEECs: from Formal Europeanisation to New Dependencies and Contingencies in Bulgaria and Romania
Violaine Delteil and Vassil Kirov
- Expansion of Higher Education and Graduate Employability: Data and Insights from Central and Eastern Europe
Pepka Boyadjieva and Petya Ilieva-Trichkova
- Between Commitment and Indifference. Trade Unions, Young workers and the Expansion of Precarious Employment in Poland
Adam Mrozowicki, Mateusz Karolak and Agata Krasowska
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About the author
Violaine Delteil is Associate Professor at the Institute for European Studies, Paris University Sorbonne Nouvelle and member of the Research Centre ICEE (Integration and Cooperation in the European Space), France.
Vassil Kirov, PhD (Sciences Po) is Associate Professor at the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (ISSK-BAS) and Associate researcher at the Centre Pierre Naville, University of Evry and at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Bulgaria.
Summary
Over a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and 10 years after their accession to the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEECs) still show marked differences with the rest of Europe in the fields of labour, work and industrial relations. This book presents a detailed and original analysis of labour and s
