Politicising Commodification

European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency

Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó, Vincenzo Maccarrone

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009062589
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figure and Tables
• List of Tables in the Online Appendix
• List of Authors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• Part I Analytical Framework
• Part II EU Economic Governance in Two Policy Areas
• Part III EU Economic Governance in Three Sectors
• Part IV Comparative Analysis and Post-Pandemic Developments
• 14 Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Index