The European Commission, Europe's central supranational bureaucracy, is often depicted as a playground for external interests. The scholarly literature offers a range of sensible explanations how the Commission position is bound by national, organised societal, or party political interests....

Introduction -- Terms and concepts -- Work discourses -- Work and language -- Categories of analysis -- Divisions of labour: the simultaneity and combination of (different) labour relations -- Historical cross-sections -- Combining labour relations in the longue duree

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality...