Globalizing Employment Relations: Multinational Firms and Central and Eastern Europe Transitions

INTRODUCTION Globalising Employment Relations and Crisis: the role of Multinational Company transfers to Central and Eastern Europe; S. Contrepois, V. Delteil, P. Dieuaide and S. Jefferys PART I: FDI TRANSFERS AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Exporting the American model of employee representation; A. Ferner MNC social transfers to CEE; G. Meardi, F. Traxler and S. Strohmer Manufacturing and services FDI trajectories: colonial perceptions and union opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe; S. Jefferys PART II: EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN DIFFERENT SECTORS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Surviving the Global Financial Crisis; S. Contrepois, V. Delteil, P. Dieuaide and S. Jefferys MNCs, HRM and Social Dialogue in the East European Food Industry; P. Dieuaide Exporting the German work model to Central and Eastern Europe; M. Krzywdzinski PART III: MULTINATIONALS AND HOST COUNTRIES IN THE CRISIS Employment relations and the opening up to MNCs in Hungary; J. Koltay How French are French MNCs in Hungary? L. Szabo and V. Zentai MNCs and the transformation of Bulgarian employment relations'; Z. Vladimirov Polish employment relations under the challenge of French FDI; A. Kwiatkiewicz Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue in the Baltic States - Crisis, Conflict and Compromise; C. Woolfson, J. Birzins and E. Kallaste PART IV: EUROPEAN SOCIAL INTEGRATION, MNCS AND CHANGE Internationalizing Firms and Employee Representation: French Multinationals in Central and Eastern Europe; S. Contrepois Central and Eastern European employment relations models and the challenge of change? V. Delteil Is Central and Eastern Europe a Laboratory for New Forms of Employment Relations? G. Groux

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349322075
• ISBN13: 9781349322077
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"