Three scenarios for industrial relations in Europe

Abstract

Abstract The author outlines three scenarios for the future of industrial relations in Europe. The first – perhaps the most realistic – projects continuing erosion of national industrial relations systems and conditions of employment, in line with current trends. The second envisages that “elite reform” from above will succeed in re‐engineering industrial relations and workers' protection according to an ideal social policy agenda – an unlikely prospect given the overriding importance of financial considerations and globalized competition. The third scenario centres on a counter‐movement from below which presents trade unions with the daunting challenge of mobilizing the discontented far beyond their traditional constituency.

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