This article outlines aconceptual framework for examining recentoutbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 infectionassociated with the consumption of beef in theUnited States. We argue that beef produced inthis country is generally safer frombacteriological contamination than in the past.Paradoxically,...

Abstract Der Beitritt der neuen Mitgliedstaaten aus Zentral- und Osteuropa zur Europäischen Union (EU) könnte durch die schwach ausgeprägten Gewerkschaftsstrukturen und den wenig entwickelten sozialen Dialog dieser Staaten die vorgeschriebenen Arbeitsstandards der Länder mit starken...

The outcome of the so-called <italic>Laval</italic> case and related judgments of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has led to a debate about the future of the European social model. Although several analyses have focused on the downside of the judgments, in particular on the risk of ‘wage dumping’, one...

Introduction : the Baltics and the political economy of austerity / Jeffrey Sommers and Charles Woolfson -- 1. Austerity, internal devaluation, and social (in)security in Latvia / Jeffrey Sommers -- 2. Stockholm syndrome in the Baltics: Latvia's neoliberal war against labor and industry /...