Short circuits in multinational companies: the extension of European works councils to Poland.
European Journal of Industrial Relations
2004
10
2
July
161-178
European works council ; foreign investment ; labour relations ; multinational enterprise
Workers participation and European works councils
English
Bibliogr.
"The extension of European Works Councils to central and eastern Europe is a rare attempt to create transnational employee representation covering both low- and high-wage areas. Research carried out in Poland in 2001 provides a quantitative estimate of such enlargement and a qualitative assessment of its effects. The evidence undermines fears of ‘social dumping' and reveals indirect effects definable as ‘short circuits'."
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