Industrial Citizenship Under Regime Competition: The Case of the European Works Councils

摘要: As integrated Europe will not turn into a federal state, rights of citizenship, including industrial remain nationally based. The article explores some the consequences this for social policy, at both European and national level. For empirical reference, it reconstructs evolution Union legislation on workplace representation, in particular its movement two decades from company to labour law, harmonization co-ordination systems, legal prescription voluntaristic bargaining shadow market, project citizenship protection integrity systems. shows that fragmentation public power an economy, however internationally co-ordinated, exposes advanced versions economic competition. While thereby pressuring systems lower their standards, even falls short affording non-nationals equal...