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The Rise of the Competitiveness Discourse- A Neo-Gramscian Analysis. Bruges Political Research Paper No. 19, December 2009
Full text linkThis article focuses on the development of the 'competitiveness discourse' as an element of a hegemonic strategy on the part of an emerging historic bloc of social forces supporting an embedded neoliberal project for European integration. In the framework of a neo-Gramscian understanding of political processes, the rise of neoliberalism in Europe is viewed as the outcome of a material and ideological struggle over the social purpose of EU integration. The discursive construction of an ambiguous concept such as that of the European social model has gone hand in hand with the implementation of largely neoliberal reforms - such as the internal market and EMU - while preserving the traditional European social consensual model. The current legitimacy crisis the EU is arguably experiencing is viewed as the outcome of the relative failure of this hegemonic project to generate consensus, as it further promotes a disembedding of the economy
Why No Wage Solidarity Writ Large? Swedish Trade Unions under Conditions of European Crisis
No full textAs far as Swedish unions are concerned, the analysis of Bengtsson and Ryner supports this view for the years 2008 onwards as no perceivable change in the role of the unions was caused by the crisis. As the two authors argue, the change had happened much earlier, in the late 1980s and early 1990s when Sweden suffered from its deepest economic crisis for decades, which turned out to be a crisis of the socio-economic model which had previously shaped the country. In the ‘Rehn-Meidner’ decades, trade unions’ ‘solidaristic wage policy’ had played a key role in guaranteeing an economically and socially balanced development path. In this era, unions could draw on a mutually supportive interplay between their strong structural, organisational, institutional and societal power resources: high and rising rates of employment, high union density within the ‘Ghent’ framework, high collective bargaining coverage and strong links between unions and the Social Democratic Party. The two authors analyse the restabilisation – if on different foundations – of the system following the turmoil of the 1980s. The unions retreated gradually from their leading role in macroeconomic policy and established the so-called ‘Europe norm’ in wage bargaining: the share of profits claimed by leading export-oriented manufacturing companies has been accepted ever since as an ‘exogenously given’ condition of the annual corporatist framework agreements on a ‘wage corridor’ for all sectors. Against the background of the rise of public and private services in union membership and the persisting gender wage gap, the ongoing dominance of the blue-collar LO in setting this guideline has sparked increasing inter-union tensions and conflicts. Nevertheless, the ‘decided shift towards supply-side oriented competitive corporatism’ is still being widely regarded as ‘the best within the limits of the possible’, which is attributed by Bengtsson and Ryner to the fundamental shift in the balance of power: the rise of international financial market capitalism, which entails a dramatic increase of foreign (mainly US-and UK-based) ownership by institutional investors, which has changed fundamentally the terms of corporate strategy, including the required rate of return on capital. The two authors assess this fundamental structural change to be more important than a certain weakening of institutional and organisational power resources in the 2000s triggered by right-wing governments
Memorandum : betr. die Sicherung und Erschliessung der Quellen zur juedischen Kulturgeschichte und Familienkunde.
No full textDocument about the proposed establishment of a center for German Jewish culture and genealogy in Berlin or HamburgdigitizedThe manuscript has been removed from the ‘Lehranstalt fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums Collection’, AR 11844Born in Hamburg on February 26, 1896, Erna Magnus was a social worker who was engaged in an historical study of the Jewish community of Hamburg during the 1930s. She emigrated to the United States in 1939, where she held various social work and teaching position
Foundations and Perspectives of Trade Union Wage Policy in Europe
Full text linkConsidering the degree of political and economic integration in Europe, trade unions can no longer stick to purely national strategies. Since the 1980s the key political projects of European integration have played a major role to force the neoliberal reorganisation of European capitalism (Bieling and Steinhilber 2000). Especially the introduction of the European Monetary Union has turned out to be an important political catalyst, which put the need for a Europeanisation of wage policy and collective bargaining on the trade unions? agenda. A number of trade union initiatives have meanwhile developed, aiming at European coordination of wage policy. The first goal of these initiatives is to lay down a set of shared ground rules and objectives for national wage policy, which are supposed to prevent competitive underbidding of labour costs and wage dumping. Although the majority of these initiatives are still on their initial stages one can already identify several points of contention and impediments to full success, which might obstruct effective collective bargaining coordination. The experience hitherto indicates that it will not be enough to establish collective bargaining coordination as a mere technocratic procedure. The trade unions need an overarching political project instead, which will amount to nothing less than striving for a reconstruction of solidaristic wage policy in Europe. --
Compte rendu de "The European Union and Global Capitalism. Origins, Development, Crisis"
No full textCompte rendu de l'ouvrage "The European Union and Global Capitalism. Origins, Development, Crisis" de Magnus Ryner et Alan Cafruny, Londres, Red Globe Press, 2016 (The European Union Series). 256 p
Portrait of Paul Heyse.
No full textPhotograph of an oil painting by Eduard Magnus depicting the author, translator and Nobel laureate for literature (1910), Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse.Digital ImageArtwork
The political economy of exchange rate commitments: Italy, the United Kingdom and the process of European monetary integration
No full textDas rhetorische Ich: Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Selbstinszenierungen
No full textThe article discusses the rhetorical strategies underlying Hans Magnus Enzensberger's presentation of his work as an author, editor and poet
Das rhetorische Ich: Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Selbstinszenierungen
Full text linkThe article discusses the rhetorical strategies underlying Hans Magnus Enzensberger's presentation of his work as an author, editor and poet
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