Transcendental Mediators? Revisiting International Trade Union Theory Post‐Maastricht Available to Purchase

The developments associated with the European Commission's ‘1992 project’ may be seen both as an opportunity for and a challenge to labour movement abilities to organise and bargain across frontiers. This paper will consider the opportunities and the prospective response to them against the backdrop of the challenge (summarised as restructuring and accelerated internationalisation of Euro‐capital, together with response in non‐European MNCs (Ramsay, 1992)). The emphasis will be less on the Social Charter as a window (see Ramsay, 1991 on this) and more on the capacities and limitations within the labour movement in Europe itself.