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This book examines the manner in which the EU affects employee relations systems in economically peripheral European countries, specifically Ireland and Hungary. It asks whether the EU offers peripheral countries the opportunity to modernise their industrial relations. The EU dynamically promotes core-like employee practices, and national actors energetically attempt to implement the prescribed initiatives, yet little success has been achieved in modernising production techniques in peripheral economies. O'Hagan argues that the EU implements an unofficial development policy which it pressurises States to adopt. These initiatives amount to the frequently referred to European Social Model (ESM), which, she argues, can cause difficulty for policy makers because it is ill-defined, vague and contradictory.
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'Emer O'Hagan provides a map through which we can negotiate the maze that surrounds the policy and practice of the EU. This is no mean feat, and as such her book is both useful and interesting.' - Irish Journal of Sociology
About the author
EMER O'HAGAN is Research Fellow in the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queen's University, Belfast. Previously she held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Dublin City Business School.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Employee Relations in the Periphery of Europe
Book Subtitle: The Unfolding Story of the European Social Model
Authors: Emer O’Hagan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230512399
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-94727-2Published: 23 September 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42657-7Published: 01 January 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51239-9Published: 23 September 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 265
Topics: International Business, Human Resource Management, European Union Politics, Industries