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Euro-Unionism and Wage Policy. The German Paradox: A Driving Force But Also a Brake?

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Social Policy and the Euro Crisis

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The past 30 years have seen a massive redistribution of the income from wages towards capital.1 This raises the question of what could be done to promote a more equitable redistribution of wealth. In other words, what kind of trade union strategies could be developed at both national and supranational levels that would be able to counter the policy of wage restraint enforced in Europe since the beginning of the 1980s?

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  1. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    Amandine Crespy (Lecturer in Political Science and European Studies) (Lecturer in Political Science and European Studies)

  2. Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

    Georg Menz (Professor of Political Economy and Jean Monnet Chair) (Professor of Political Economy and Jean Monnet Chair)

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Dufresne, A. (2015). Euro-Unionism and Wage Policy. The German Paradox: A Driving Force But Also a Brake?. In: Crespy, A., Menz, G. (eds) Social Policy and the Euro Crisis. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137473400_5

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