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This is a timely and urgent initiative! More than 380 social and labour lawyers have signed a manifesto urging the EU to respect and promote fundamental social rights in the crisis-related measures it calls for. Members of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Experts Network (TTUR) drafted a manifesto with the intention of raising awareness about [...]
Watch Paul de Beer of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) discuss the expansion of public services to reduce inequality in the era of austerity. This talk was recorded at the conference ‘From (un)economic growth to future well-being’ organised by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Public Service Union (EPSU) in [...]
Watch Fabian Zuleeg of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels discuss the Eurozone crisis and economic growth. This talk was recorded at the conference ‘From (un)economic growth to future well-being’ organised by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Public Service Union (EPSU) in Brussels on 15th and 16th October 2012. This video [...]
Watch Wouter Van Dooren of the University of Antwerp discuss how to measure the contribution of public services and what impact they have on social progress. This talk was recorded at the conference ‘From (un)economic growth to future well-being’ organised by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Public Service Union (EPSU) in Brussels [...]
Watch Andrew Simms, Fellow at the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in London, discuss climate change and the flaws of the GDP-based growth model. This talk was recorded at the conference ‘From (un)economic growth to future well-being’ organised by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the European Public Service Union (EPSU) in Brussels on 15th [...]
You may have seen the advert for the ETUI/ETUC Benchmarking Working Europe publication over on the right of the SEJ homepage. You can download the whole thing for free, but I thought that, in this and a few follow-up blogs, I would pull out what I see as some of the most interesting graphs and [...]
The ETUI has just issued an e-book entitled A triumph of failed ideas. European models of capitalism in the crisis. Generous to a fault, the book can be downloaded for free here. Edited by Steffen Lehndorff (University Duisburg-Essen), the book contains analyses by national experts of the way the crisis has affected policymaking and socio-economic [...]
The ETUI has just published a book entitled: Exiting from the crisis: towards a more equitable and sustainable model of growth Download and further details are here. (Download is free, but do consider ordering a shiny printed copy, either for a significant other or your institution’s library.) The book is a collective work of around [...]
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