Date: 2004
Type: Thesis
Organised labour : an actor of euro-democratisation, euro-technocracy or re-nationalisation? : trade-union strategies concerning the European integration process
Florence, European University Institute, 2004, EUI PhD theses, Department of Political and Social Sciences
ERNE, Roland, Organised labour : an actor of euro-democratisation, euro-technocracy or re-nationalisation? : trade-union strategies concerning the European integration process, Florence, European University Institute, 2004, EUI PhD theses, Department of Political and Social Sciences - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/5175
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This thesis addresses two questions: first, has there emerged in Europe a system of industrial relations which crosses national boundaries? Secondly, does organised labour contribute to the process of democratisation of the European Union? Scholars have argued that the EU cannot be democratised because there is no European society as such, no European network of intermediate social institutions, no European public sphere, no European demos and no Euro-democratic citizens’ movement. This thesis has discovered evidence to the contrary.
Additional information:
Defence date: 28 June 2004; Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Ulrich K. Pressus (Freie Universität Berlin) ; Prof. Dr. Franz Traxler (Universität Wien) ; Prof. Dr. Philippe C. Schmitter (EUI) ; Prof. Dr. Colin Crouch (EUI)(Supervisor); Conferring date: 1 October 2004. First made available online on 6 December 2016
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/5175
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/57028
Series/Number: EUI PhD theses; Department of Political and Social Sciences
LC Subject Heading: Democracy -- European Union countries; Political participation -- European Union countries; Labor unions -- European Union countries
Published version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/28837