标题：Las empresas transnacionales y las «nuevas» relaciones laborales. Un vehículo para volver a pensar en los límites reglamentarios de la nación-estado.
其他标题：Transnational companies and the «new» industrial
relations. A vehicle to re-think the regulatory boundaries
of the nation-state
摘要：Transnational companies (TNCs) have been labelled the driving forces of internationalization in the globalization debate, because they transmit the requirements for efficiency, performance and competition of the global markets to national economies. Since the early 1990s TNCs have been regarded as a core actor in any changes to industrial relations within the world of labour. Their ability to surpass national borders has turned them into a big threat for the stability of the various national arrangements that developed after the Second World War. Our intention is to revisit the relations between the actors before firms decided to break their commitments and internationalize their productive basis and decision-making structure. In particular, we refer to the efforts and initiatives which have been set in motion at a transnational level in recent decades to gain some democratic control over the activity of TNCs’ in the European Union. We have developed a conceptual framework which analyses TNCs as political power arenas at the micro and meso level.
其他摘要：Trans-National Companies (TNCs) have been labelled as the driving forces behind the process
of internationalization. Since the early 1990s TNCs have been regarded as leading actors
in any changes to industrial relations. Their ability to surpass national borders has turned
them into a big threat for the stability of the various national agreements that developed after
the Second World War. Our intention is to review the relations between the actors before
firms decided to internationalize. We examine the various initiatives that have been set in
motion at a trans-national level in recent decades to regain some democratic control over the
activity of TNCs’, particularly in the European Union. We have developed a conceptual
framework which analyses TNCs as political power arenas at the micro and meso level.
关键词：Transnational companies (TNCs);Restructuring and relocation;Trade unions;New forms of workers’ representation;Concession bargaining;Empresas transnacionales;Reestructuración y deslocalización;Sindicatos;Nuevas formas de representación de los trabajadores;Negociación (colectiva) de concesiones
其他关键词：restructuring and relocation. trade unions, new forms of workers’ representation,
concession bargaining.
