This is the third volume dedicated to a World Congress of the IIRA: the one for the Tokyo Congress in 2000 and it is dealing with the European scene. The perspective reflects the fact that Europe has reached a stage where it does no longer make too much sense to analyse national systems in...

Increasing signs seem to indicate that, in the areas of both politics and thought, the age of neoliberal supremacy is approaching its end. An ideology based exclusively on the free play of the market is bound, ultimately, to lose its attraction. Growing inequality and social exclusion, with new...

The European Union (EU) of today is the result of a 50-year process of confidence building between countries that used to be enemies. Although it has had setbacks and periods of marking time, European integration has, on the whole, been a success story. The EU has always been so attractive that...

Working Paper 4/2007 - This text was originally published in spring 2007 as an article in volume 95 of the “Edition de Hans Boeckler Stiftung” series. The volume was entitled Social Embedding and the integration of markets: an opportunity for transnational trade union action or an impossible...