In recent years, the European industrial sector has been facing significant pressures that have sparked concerns about a potential wave of de-industrialisation. The drivers typically invoked are the energy crisis triggered by the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, China's increasing...

This article compares modes of response to the COVID-19 pandemic in three national automotive sectors. Our analyses of the automotive sector in Germany clearly demonstrate that trade unions were included and their interests considered at the national, industrial, and company level, and in the...

The European Union (EU) and Germany were already being confronted with rapidly changing dynamics on the economic, ecological, and technological terrains prior to the Covid-19 crisis. The pandemic, however, has fully exposed critical global value chain (GVC) dependencies, jeopardising the already...