Rhetoric or game changer: Social dialogue and industrial relations in education midst EU governance and privatisation in Europe

This studies aims to fill the gap in research concerning the arrangements for social dialogue and industrial relations across countries in the European Union, whose multi-level nature poses complex challenges to the influence of social partners at the European level. More concretely, the study analyses the development of social dialogue and industrial relations at the European as well as national scales since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, taking into account the global drive towards liberalisation and privatisation in education reform as well as the austerity and recovery measures affecting public policy in many EU members states over the last decade.