Liberalization, Flexibility and Employment Relations Change in Southern European Telecoms since the 1990s

September 11, 2012 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Summary: How do we explain divergent trajectories of change in employment relations institutions? Existing studies maintained that European economic integration and liberalisation, decline in trade union power, changing work organization and new pay systems would push national wage-setting institutions towards decentralisation. This crude version of the neoliberal convergence thesis, however, was not borne out. Instead, … Continue reading Liberalization, Flexibility and Employment Relations Change in Southern European Telecoms since the 1990s