Henk Overbeek is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Webster University, also in the Netherlands.

• Chapter 1 Transnational political economy and the politics of European (un)employment, Henk Overbeek; Part 1 The changing political economy of employment; Chapter 2 Globalization, neo-liberalism and the employment question, Henk Overbeek; Chapter 3 Changes in welfare regimes and the search for flexibility and employability, Bob Jessop; Chapter 4 European employment policy between neo-liberal rationalism and communitarianism, Hans-Jürgen Bieling; Part 2 Europeanizing employment policy; Chapter 5 The emergence of European employment policy as a transnational political arena, Stefan Tidow; Chapter 6 Economic and Monetary Union, employment and gender politics, Brigitte Young; Chapter 7 European unemployment and transnational capitalist class strategy, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn; Part 3 The articulation of global and EU tendencies with national dynamics; Chapter 8 From Thatcherism to New Labour, Bob Jessop; Chapter 9 Competitive corporatism?, Uwe Becker; Chapter 10 The political economy of labour-market restructuring and trade union responses in the social-democratic heartland, Magnus Ryner, Thorsten Schulten; Chapter 11 Mediterranean labour and the impact of Economic and Monetary Union, Leila Simona Talani, Emma Cerviño; Part 4 Conclusion; Chapter 12 Conflicting views on how to address (un)employment in Europe, Henk Overbeek;