Synopses & Reviews
A unique exploration of the the contributions made by multinational corporations to the difficult labour market transitions towards full integration of Central and Eastern Europe members of the European Union. This book considers the roles played by US, British and German multinational companies (MNCs) in Central and Eastern Europe.
About the Author
SYLVIE CONTREPOIS is Senior Researcher at London Metropolitan Universitys Working Lives Research Institute, UK, and member of the CRESPPA CNRS institute in France. Contrepois is the author of
Syndicats, la nouvelle donne. Enquête au Coeur dun bassin industriel et ouvrier, Paris:Syllepse, 2003. STEVE JEFFERYS is Director of London Metropolitan Universitys Working Lives Research Institute, UK, and Professor of European Employment Studies. Jeffreys is the author of
Management, Work and Welfare in Western Europe: an historical and contemporary analysis with Mick Carpenter, and of
Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité at Work: Changing French Employment Relations and Management.VIOLAINE DELTEIL is Senior Lecturer and Director of the department European Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France. Delteil is also a member of ICEE-Paris 3 and author of numerous articles and research papers on Europeanization of social relations, Social Models in Europe, Strategy of firms and social relationships.
PATRICK DIEUAIDE is Senior Lecturer at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France, a member of ICEE-Paris 3, and Researcher associated à Ensta-ParisTech. He is the author of numerous articles and research papers on the transformations of the work, the strategy of firms and social relationships.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Globalising Employment Relations and Crisis: the role of Multinational Company transfers to Central and Eastern Europe
FDI TRANSFERS AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Exporting the American model of employee representation: institutional resistance and accommodation
MNC social transfers to CEE: British, US, Austrian and German experiences reviewed
Manufacturing and services FDI trajectories: colonial perceptions and union opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe
EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN DIFFERENT SECTORS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Responses to recession: FDI in the finance and automobile sectors
MNCs, HRM and Social Dialogue in the East European Food Industry: the Principal Findings of a Field Survey
Exporting the German work model to Central and Eastern Europe
MULTINATIONALS AND HOST COUNTRIES IN THE CRISIS
Employment relations and the opening up to MNCs in Hungary
How French are French MNCs in Hungary?
MNCs and the transformation of Bulgarian employment relations.
Polish employment relations under the challenge of FDI
Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue in the Baltic States - Crisis, Conflict and Compromise
EUROPEAN SOCIAL INTEGRATION, MNCS AND CHANGE
Employee representation in MNC subsidiaries in CEE: management strategies, continuities and change
Central and Eastern European employment relations models and the challenge of change?
CEE: a laboratory to test new forms of employment relations