Before and After the Economic Crisis
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Before and After the Economic Crisis

What Implications for the ‘European Social Model’?

9781849809924 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Marie-Ange Moreau, Professor, Institut d’Études du Travail de Lyon (IETL), University Lyon 2, France and member of Inter-University Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT), Montréal, Canada With assistance from Iryna Ulasiuk, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy
Publication Date: December 2011 ISBN: 978 1 84980 992 4 Extent: 336 pp
This timely book casts new light on the key issues arising from the contentious debate around the future of the European Social Model. The book brings together leading experts to provide a thorough and well-informed response to the recent developments in European social and labour law and policy, in the light of institutional changes. The contributors provide unique insights as they evaluate the impact of the enlargement processes, the implications of the Lisbon treaty, the integration of the Charter into EU law – and, crucially, the consequences of the economic crisis.

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This timely book casts new light on the key issues arising from the contentious debate around the future of the European Social Model.

Marie-Ange Moreau brings together leading experts to provide a thorough and well-informed response to the recent developments in European social and labour law and policy, in the light of institutional changes. The contributing authors provide unique insights as they evaluate the impact of the enlargement processes, the implications of the Lisbon Treaty, the integration of the Charter into EU law and, crucially, the evaluation of the European evolutions in the context of the economic crisis.

Before and After the Economic Crisis will appeal to academics, researchers and graduate students working on European labour law, industry relations, social policy and gender issues and related topics in economics and political sciences.
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‘Recommended for college-level collections strong in European labor laws, industry relations, economics and social policy alike, this is a solid exploration of economic and political issues.’
– The Midwest Book Review
Contributors
Contributors: N. Aliprantis, C. Barnard, M. Bell, S. Deakin, F. Dorssemont, A.-M. Konsta, H. Kountouros, S. Laulom, A. Lo Faro, P. Loi, J. Malmberg, C. Marzo, M.-A. Moreau, U. Mückenberger, J.J. Paris, B. Ryan, A. Supiot, D. Vaughan-Whitehead, C. Vigneau, L. Waddington
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Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction
Marie-Ange Moreau

PART I: THREATS TO THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL
2. Posting Post-Laval: Nordic Responses
Jonas Malmberg

3. Inequalities Before and After the Crisis: What Lessons for Social Europe?
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

4. ‘Quality in Work’ After the Lisbon Strategy: Is There a Future?
Haris Kountouros

5. Transnationalism and Labour Law: The ‘British Jobs’ Protests of 2009
Bernard Ryan

6. What Remedies for Social Derivatives and Expansionism of the Court of Justice of the European Union?
Nikitas Aliprantis

PART II: THE IMPACT OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS ON THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL: GENDER ANALYSIS
7. Carers, Gender and Employment Discrimination: What Does EU Law Offer Europe’s Carers?
Lisa Waddington

8. Gender and ‘Plastic’ Citizenship in European Social Law
Anna-Maria Konsta

Section 1: From Equality to Dignity at Work and Social Citizenship
9. The Reasonableness Principle in the European Court of Justice Age Discrimination Cases
Piera Loi

10. The Principle of Non-Discrimination within the Fixed-Term Work Directive
Mark Bell

11. A Dual European Social Citizenship?
Claire Marzo

Section 2: Trade Union Action and Workers’ Participation
12. Toward New Synergies through Worker Representatives?
Sylvaine Laulom

13. Toward a De-fundamentalisation of Collective Labour Rights in European Social Law?
Antonio Lo Faro

14. How the European Court of Human Rights Gave us Enerji to Cope with Laval and Viking
Filip Dorssemont

PART III: THE CHANGING LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL
15. Towards a Post-Viking/Laval Manifesto for Social Europe
Ulrich Mückenberger

16. European Labour Law after Laval
Catherine Barnard and Simon Deakin

17. The Future of European Social Dialogue
Christophe Vigneau

18. Can we Rely on a New Development of the European Social Action?
Jean Jacques Paris

19. Conclusion: ‘Europe’s Awakening’
Alain Supiot

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