Work organization and Europe as a development coalition

Work Organization has achieved recent prominence as new employment guidelines are embodied in the policies of all European Member States. This book, based on decades of action research in separate European nations, identifies the research background from which these new insights and policy initiatives have emerged. Rather than arguing for a stronger role for the state, or simply leaving matters to the market, the book presents a "third way" based on networks and coalitions, illustrated with numerous current European case studies, which provide explanations for developments at the level of enterprises, regions and the European Union itself.