TY - BOOK AU - Erne,Roland TI - European unions: labor's quest for a transnational democracy SN - 9780801446481 U1 - 322.2094 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - ILR Press, Cornell University Press KW - Labor unions KW - Political activity KW - European Union countries KW - Labor movement KW - International labor activities KW - Democratization KW - Industrial relations N1 - Approaching Euro-democracy and its alternatives -- Do unions have an interest in Euro-democratization? -- Wage policy and the European monetary union -- The rise of national competitive corporatism -- European wage-bargaining coordination networks : contrasting insights from manufacturing and the construction industry -- Beyond competitive corporatism? : insights from Germany, France, and Italy -- The European regulation of transnational company mergers -- A Euro-democratization union strategy : the ABB Alstom Power case -- A Euro-technocratization union strategy : the Alcan-Pechiney-Algroup case ER -