Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency by Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó, Vincenzo Maccarrone ISBN 9781009054362, 9781009053433, 1009054368, 1009053434 instant download

Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency by Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó, Vincenzo Maccarrone ISBN 9781009054362, 9781009053433, 1009054368, 1009053434 instant download

This book examines the new economic governance (NEG) regime that the EU adopted after 2008. Its novel research design captures the supranational formulation of NEG prescriptions and their uneven deployment across countries (Germany, Italy, Ireland, Romania), policy areas (employment relations, public services), and sectors (transport, water, healthcare). NEG led to a much more vertical mode of EU integration, and its commodification agenda unleashed a plethora of union and social-movement protests, including transnationally. The book presents findings that are crucial for the prospects of European democracy, as labour politics is essential in framing the struggles about the direction of NEG along a commodification–decommodification axis rather than a national–EU axis. To shed light on corresponding processes at EU level, it upscales insights on the historical role that labour movements have played in the development of democracy and welfare states. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

-Gives scholars and students across all disciplines a clear account of the arcane NEG regime, enabling readers to understand its internal contradictions and change in its policy direction

-Facilitates future comparative research in the field by establishing a novel, transnational, but also context-specific analytical research design

-Gives readers a clear understanding of the commodifying policy direction of EU executives' NEG prescriptions after 2008; the countervailing collective actions that they triggered; and the actions' feedback effects on the EU's post-Covid NEG regime, welfare states, and democracy in Europe