To improve their competitiveness the companies aim to increase the funds available to finance the necessary investments. In order to reduce wage costs company-specific deviations from industry-level wage contracts are concluded. Company-level pacts between the management and the works council...

The return of social pacts in the context of the current economic crisis, as seen in southern European countries, invites the revival of the discussion about the development of social dialogue practice in its specific context. Based on a longitudinal analysis we examine the agenda of Spanish...

Introduction: policy reform in Southern Europe and Ireland and the role of social dialogue / Konstantinos Papadakis and Youcef Ghellab -- Impact of the crisis on industrial relations in Europe / Christian Welz and Andrea Broughton -- Explaining the institutional architecture of the Eurozone and...

A term specifically found in European politics, social concertation refers to cooperation between trade unions, governments and employers in public policy-making. Social Concertation in Times of Austerity investigates the political underpinnings of social concertation in the context of European...

The paper argues why in the nowadays context of accumulation, named Cognitive Capitalism (CC), from an economic point of view, it is not possible a political compromise ("nee deal") as it was in the fordist era. Starting from ch. 24 of Keynes' General Theory, we discuss how the keynesian...