European works councils : negotiated Europeanisation between statutory framework and social dynamics

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 -- PART 1: THE EWC PROCESS AND THE EUROPEANISATION OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS -- THE THEORETICAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT -- 2 Range of Theoretical Debate and Analytical Approaches 13 -- 3 Origins and Implementation of the EWC Directive and Process 27 -- PART 2: ESTABLISHMENT OF EWCs UNDER THE STATUTORY PROCEDURE -- THE ARTICLE 6 PHASE -- 4 The Establishment of EWCs as a Research Object 43 -- 5 Five EWC Case Studies 58 -- 6 Negotiation, representation, Europeanisation: the quality of the EWC process 119 -- 7 The Slackening Pace of Quantitative EWC Development: a Causal Analysis 144 -- PART 3: ASSESSMENT AND PROSPECTS -- 8 EWCs - Types: Quality of the Actors: Fields of Activity 177