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International trade union networks, European works' councils and international labour regimes
Just when labour movement academics, activists and researchers were becoming
familiar with the complex social and economic trajectories of neo-liberalism,
neo-liberalism, discourse and practice, entered a period of global turmoil. Until 2008,
the UK Government’s assumption was that Britain could be held up as the successful
future for the rest of Europe; a way to protect post-war social gains in however limited
a form. This was curious because for the last 30 years the assault upon variant forms
of the post-war social settlement across Europe, witnessed in large measure, the
preservation of patterns of regulation that have sustained highly intricate relations
between states, employers and workers via their trade unions. While we should
obviously not ignore the ability of labour unions in Britain to protect a range of post-war
gains, often in attenuated fashion, nevertheless, the peculiarities of the political
economy in the UK, initially Thatcherism and then its evolution into New Labourism
(Blatcherism) was the original space where the first wave of neo-liberal attacks upon
the post-war settlement took on a quite distinct shape
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