Globalizing employment relations: multinational firms and central and eastern Europe transitions

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 theroles played by US, British and German multinational companies (MNCs) in Central and Eastern Europe SYLVIE CONTREPOIS Senior Researcher at London Metropolitan University's Working Lives Research Institute, UK, and member of the CRESPPA CNRS institute in France is the author of Syndicats, la nouvelle donne. Enquête au Coeur d'un bassin industriel et ouvrier, Paris:Syllepse, 2003. STEVE JEFFERYS Director ofLondon Metropolitan University's Working Lives Research Institute, UK, and Professor of European Employment Studies 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, Senior Lecturer, Director of the department European Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France, member of ICEE-Paris 3, Author of numerous articles and research paperson Europeanization of social relations, Social Models in Europe, Strategy of firms and social relationships. PATRICK DIEUAIDE, Senior Lecturer, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France, member of ICEE-Paris 3, and Researcher associated à Ensta-ParisTech. Author of numerous articles and research papers on the transformations of the work, the strategy of firms and social relationships. INDICE: 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 andautomobile sectors - MNCs, HRM and Social Dialogue in the East European Food Industry: the Principal Findings of a Field Survey - Exporting the German workmodel 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, continuitiesand change - Central and Eastern European employment relations models and thechallenge of change? - CEE: a laboratory to test new forms of employment relations -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-25243-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 14/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido