Review of Nina Bandelj: quot;From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europequot;, Princeton 2007: Princeton University Press, xviii, 303 pages

Foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the service sector are widely attributed an important role in bringing more skill-intensive activities into the Visegrád Four (V4). This region—comprising Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia—relied heavily on FDIs in manufacturing, which was...

This article investigates the influence of the European Union (EU) on legal resources available to labour to tackle labour market challenges in central and east European countries after their accession to the EU in 2004 and 2007. Its conclusion is that the EU’s impact has been complex and...