European Integration and Industrial Relations: Multi-Level Governance in the Making

This book explores the impact of the Single European Market (SEM) on the institutions of industrial relations and their outcomes after ten years of operation. The authors consider two competing hypotheses: "Europeanization" and "Americanization", and find that both are true up to a point. They show how the SEM is bringing about a measure of cross-border convergence between companies within sectors whilst simultaneously leading to a greater within-country diversity between companies in different sectors. Based on the results generated by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council's 'One Europe or Several?' program, this book provides a multi-disciplinary and truly cross-national approach dealing with the both the theory and practice of industrial relations in the SEM.