One Company, Diverse Workplaces

The book offers an inquiry into the construction of employment practices in a multinational company across Western and Eastern Europe. In the complex corporate and host-country influences, social interaction between the firm and local actors is presented as the underlying social mechanism through which work practices are constructed.

Autorentext
MARTA KAHANCOVÁ is a research fellow at the Central European Labour Studies institute in Bratislava, Slovakia and a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Her research interests include multinational firms, industrial relations, civil society and work-related migration. In 2006 and 2008, Marta was a doctoral and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. She earned her PhD. in Social Sciences in 2007 at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her dissertation received the 2009 award of the Dutch Sociological Association.

Inhalt
Introduction: Multinationals and Employment Practices Across Europe Constructing Employment Practices in Mncs: A Framework for Analysis One Multinational, Four Host Countries: On Diversity in Subsidiary Employment Practices Channelling Corporate Values and Interests: Social Interaction within the Multinational Company Building a Local Corporate Presence: Social Interaction Between the MNC and Local Societies From Bargaining to Dancing: Social Interaction Between the Multinational Company and Local Trade Unions The Social Foundations of Trade Union Influence: Cross-Border Interaction of Trade Unions and the European Works Council Accounting for Diversity: Company Interests, Host-Country Effects and Social Interaction Conclusions: Multinationals, Employment Practices and Institutional Change from Below