This article shows how both employers and the state have influenced macro-level processes and structures concerning the content and transposition of the European Union (EU) Employee Information and Consultation (I&C) Directive. It argues that the processes of regulation occupied by employers...

Employment relations : older reflections and new horizons / Adrian Wilkinson, Tony Dundon, Jimmy Donaghey and Alex Colvin -- Perspectives on employment relations -- The field of employment relations : a review / Niall Cullinane -- Economics and employment relations / Paul Willman -- Employment...

Employment relations : older reflections and new horizons / Adrian Wilkinson, Tony Dundon, Jimmy Donaghey and Alex Colvin -- Perspectives on employment relations -- The field of employment relations : a review / Niall Cullinane -- Economics and employment relations / Paul Willman -- Employment...

Transnational labour governance is in urgent need of a new paradigm of democratic participation, with those who are most affected - typically workers - placed at the centre. To achieve this, principles of industrial democracy and transnational governance must come together to inform institutions...

Using the cases of Ireland and Portugal during the post-2008 Great Recession, we argue that unions' ideological formations around social concertation are central in aiding them to navigate their options about whether to engage in concessionary bargaining with government under crisis conditions....