While the spread of neoliberal ideas through networks has attracted much attention
worldwide, the ideational content of the recent counter-waves to liberal democracy has still …

This article discusses the European wave of contention catalysed by the financial market
crash of 2008/9 and the subsequent imposition of austerity measures by governments …

Industrial relations scholars have argued that east-west labour migration may benefit trade
unions in Central and Eastern Europe. By focusing on the distributional aspect of wage …

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic and technological adjustment
increased the risk of unemployment, underemployment and skills mismatch across Europe …

This article introduces the individual contributions to this issue, which takes stock of the
results of the first decade of eastern enlargement of the EU. Combining the insights of the …

The western-driven wave of globalization that began with the liberalization of financial
markets from the 1970s onward, and strengthened even further with the collapse of the …

The article examines varieties of trade union protest across industrial relations regimes,
using protest event data for 27 European countries between 2000 and 2021. We present a …

We discuss a number of issues relating to how the crisis impacts on the citizenry. More
specifically, we discuss three main issues which are the focus of the three parts of the book …

This chapter links the political consequences of the Great Recession in the electoral arena
and the protest arena. Integrated research on the two types of responses is important …

Taking into consideration the debate on the role of social movements and of trade unions in
organising social protests, in the light of contentious and conventional politics, this article …