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"Employee participation at company level is one of the core institutions of what can be called the ‘European social model', based on national regulations and regulations at EU level, such as the directives on European Works Councils (EWCs) and the Societas Europaea (SE). This process of institutionalisation coincides with fundamental changes in the current era of globalisation and transformation, which increase the importance of the company level for employee participation. We argue that this development highlights the problem of articulation within the multi-level system of employee participation. By comparing institutions of participation at national – we include the cases of France, Germany, Spain and Sweden – and at EU level we analyse whether and how these institutions create opportunities to influence company decisions by giving voice to workers' representatives. In doing so we identify good practices and, on that basis, develop policy recommendations to strengthen the articulation of employee representation at company level."

"Negli ultimi anni, gli Accordi Quadro Internazionali sono diventati un nuovo strumento di regolazione nell'ambito dei gruppi transnazionali. Alla luce di una rapida panoramica sulla nascita degli AQI e di un'analisi quantitativa di tali strumenti, nonché di un'analisi delle strategie messe in atto dalle Federazioni Sindacali Globali, l'articolo analizza il ruolo di tali nuovi strumenti per l'internazionalizzazione delle relazioni industriali e conclude che devono esistere delle condizioni specifiche inerenti alla categoria e al gruppo transnazionale."

"The increasing number of transnational agreements signed in recent years at the EU-company level suggests a form of Europeanization of industrial relations, as these agreements constitute a formal recognition of social dialogue across national borders. However, empirical results based on a multi-level research about the experiences with these agreements in the metal sector offer a more complex picture. The strategies of the actors at European, national and local levels, and more importantly the degree and type of their coordination, are crucial to understanding the processes and mechanisms which encourage or prevent the emergence of cross-national negotiations at company level. "

"This book pursues principal aims. First it describes and reviews current concerns in regard to the conditions of labour markets, production organizations, working conditions, and industrial and employment relations. Prominent among these concerns are the crisis in trade unions and in democratic labour market institutions, and the rise of what many critics regard as technocratic administrative powers in the displacement of democratic practices. Furthermore the book explores aspects of the search for socio-cultural innovation in the wide areas of work, industrial, organizational, management, and employment relations. It therefore deals with participatory democratic practices in the world of work and production, with citizenship, social cohesion, wider participation in education and training, as well as with cultural interests in identity, solidarity and non-market values. "

"This paper presents the main results of a research project which analysed the 'inner life' of the European Works Council (EWC), that is, the structures and processes of communication and patterns of interaction within EWCs, and between EWCs and other actors such as trade union organisations, company-level employee representatives and management. The project set out to be a qualitative investigation into the processes of communication and interaction which condition and influence the functioning of EWCs. It involved systematic case study research into the interests, motives, expectations and perceptions of the actors involved and the barriers to socio-cultural interaction which characterise the operation of EWCs. Furthermore, the project examined the concrete activities performed by EWCs in order to identify their actual role. The latter part of the analysis deals with the development of EWC activities over time, with specific reference to the involvement of Italian unions in EWCs. This paper argues that, under certain conditions, EWCs take on a role which goes beyond the tasks defined by the European Directive. "