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European Unions: Labor's Quest for a Transnational Democracy.

Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: European Unions: Labor's Quest for a Transnational Democracy.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
European Unions: Labor's Quest for a Transnational Democracy By Roland Erne. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008, 260 pp., ISBN 978-0-801446-48-1 (cloth: alk. paper).

The reviewer should begin by explaining his relationship to this book, as I was present at some meetings described by the author and provided him with one or two tiny tiles in the elaborate evidential mosaic that he presents here.

Roland Erne poses two main questions: has a European trade union movement emerged? And to what extent and under what conditions do European trade unions contribute to the making of a more democratic European Union? He follows a bold line of argument and suggests that a means of addressing the European Union's "democratic deficit" is emerging in the form of trans-national European labour politics. He examines two important areas, i.e. attempts to co-ordinate wage bargaining policy within the Eurozone and efforts by trade unionists...

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