The Bounded Creativity of Domestic Appropriation. Explaining Selective Flexicurity in Continental Countries

Zirra, Sascha

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“…Although France has incorporated the objectives of the European Employment Strategy (EES) into its policy discourse and agenda, therefore, it has done so ‘in a peculiar (French) way’ (Graziano, 2011: 595). Adaptation has depended on the ideology of the political executive and on trade unions’ willingness to negotiate (Clegg and van Wijnbergen, 2011; Fayolle, 2008; Graziano, 2011; Milner, 2005; Zirra, 2010).…”

Section: France: An Ambiguous Europeanization Of Debates On Labour Market Reformmentioning

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Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain

Milner

2012

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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The EU's flexicurity approach to labour market policy promised advantages for trade unions but also posed challenges, given their weak situation in policy formulation at EU level and in many member states. This article explores the potential for union mobilisation on flexicurity and unions' capacity to influence policy debates and outcomes in two member states. In the UK, flexicurity has low political salience and unions' weakened voice has given them little capacity for mobilisation or influence, although they have linked flexicurity to campaigns on agency workers and restructuring. In France, unions have developed alternative proposals on making employment pathways secure and have succeeded in shifting debate towards these proposals rather than the Commission's flexicurity recommendations, although divergence between the positions of unions, employers and the state have limited outcomes to date. Unbalanced or instrumental application of flexicurity measures tends to erode rather than promote trust between social partners, in line with wider developments across member states. EU policies provide only weak leverage since trade unions' ability to influence labour market policy depends on their position within domestic institutions.

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Section: France: An Ambiguous Europeanization Of Debates On Labour Market Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain

Milner

2012

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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The Bounded Creativity of Domestic Appropriation. Explaining Selective Flexicurity in Continental Countries

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References 69 publications

Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain

Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain

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