New Governance and the European Employment Strategy [Hardcover]

In recent years new or experimental approaches to governance in the EU, namely the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), have attracted great interest and controversy. This book examines the European Employment Strategy (EES) and its implementation through the OMC, exploring the promises and limitations of the EES for EU social law and policy and for the safeguard of social rights. This significant and timely work offers new insights and fresh perspectives into the operation of New Governance and its relationship with both European and national law and constitutionalism.

This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in European law  specifically in the field of EU employment law and gender equality  and European governance studies in general.

1. Introduction  2. Conceptualizing New EU Governance: Revisiting Law and Constitutionalism in an Evolving European Union  3. The Impact of Globalization, Market Integration and EMU on EU Social Governance  4. The Evolution of European Labour Law: from Employment Law to Employment Policy   5. The European Employment Strategy and its Implementation through the Open Method of Coordination  6. Gender Equality and Mainstreaming in the Re-Articulation of Labour Market Policies in Italy, Denmark and the Czech Republic  7. An Assessment of Ten Years of Existence of the European Employment Strategy  8. Conclusion

'this book represents a very useful contribution for students of EU legal and political science studies ... the academic and political potentials of Velluti's elaborate, subtle and imaginative conceptual frame--revisiting the relationships between law, constitutionalism and new governance--are important. Her book deserves to be read carefully by the vast community of EU labour lawyers as well as by the federalism-oriented EU political scientists, l¬