Solidarity and Conflict
European Social Law in Crisis

One of the world's leading scholars of EU employment law proposes alternatives to the Union's current social and labour policies.

Silvana Sciarra (Author)

9781107450530, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 October 2019

166 pages
23 x 15.3 x 0.8 cm, 0.26 kg

'[The book is] highly recommended for academic legal scholars and EU and national policy makers who would like to gain new innovative insights into the concept of solidarity, at EU law and beyond, as well as understanding of the implications of the relationship between solidarity and conflict in European social law.' Effrosyni Bakirtzi, European Journal of Social Security

The ongoing austerity crisis is being felt in all sectors of EU law, but has had a particularly severe impact on labour law. Silvana Sciarra, a leading judge and scholar of EU employment law, considers how solidarity regimes have been shaken by the crisis. She brings together existing European policies in social and employment law, to enhance synergies and developments in a post-crisis discourse. She looks at reactions of national constitutional courts to austerity measures and of international organizations in re-establishing respect of fundamental workers' rights. Criticizing soft law approaches in employment policies, she favours recourse to binding measures connected with selective financial incentives through European funds. She highlights developments in European sector social dialogue and new horizons of transnational collective bargaining in large multinationals. Taking a positive, practical approach, Sciarra shows how social policies can enhance solidarity and social cohesion, through European financial support.

1. Europe in time of crisis
2. Employment policies
3. Beyond European 'governance' inside the global crisis
4. Conflict and the uncertain shape of transnational solidarity: Viking and Laval
5. Voices from global law
6. Integration and disintegration.

Subject Areas: Employment & labour law [LNH]