
UCD/ETUI Public Seminar - Trade unions and the polity: agendas & alliances
by
Roland Erne
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Following a short introduction by Jeremy Waddington (co-author of the special issue), three authors from the issue will present their article (http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/trsa/24/2).
The Editor of Transfer, Maria Jepsen, will chair the sessions:
Trade unions and the sovereign power of the state. A comparative analysis of employer offensives in the Danish and Irish public sectors
By Imre Szabó, UCD
Discussant: Roberto Pedersini, University of Milan, Italy
Social protests, discontent and politics in southern and eastern Europe: trends, patterns and polarisation
By Maria da Paz Campos Lima, Lisbon University, Portugal, and Antonio Martín Artiles, Autonomous University Barcelona, Spain
Discussant: John Geary, UCD
Direct democracy and trade union action
By Roland Erne, UCD and Markus Blaser, Florence, Italy
Discussant: Ronaldo Munck, DCU
All are warmly welcome!