Euros and Europeans

Andrew Martin is a research affiliate at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. He is the co-author of Brave New World of European Labor (with George Ross, 1999). George Ross is Morris Hillquit Professor in Labor and Social Thought and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University. His recent books are Brave New World of European Labor (with Andrew Martin, 1999), Jacques Delors and European Integration (1995) and Searching for the New France (edited with James Hollifield, 1991).

'For those interested in the development of the EU it is essential reading.' The Sprout

• 1. Introduction Andrew Martin and George Ross; 2. The EMU macroeconomic policy regime and the European social model Andrew Martin; 3. Shaping a polity in an Economic and Monetary Union: the EU in comparative perspective Alberta Sbragia; 4. Monetary integration and the French model George Ross; 5. EMU and German welfare capitalism Nico A. Siegel; 6. Maastricht to modernization: EMU and the Italian social state Vincent Della Sala; 7. Constraint or motor? Monetary integration and the construction of a social model in Spain Sofia A. Pérez; 8. The Netherlands: monetary integration and the polder model Jos De Beus; 9. Belgium: monetary integration and precarious federalism Philippe Pochet; 10. The political dynamics of external empowerment: the emergence of EMU and the challenge to the European social model Kevin Featherstone; 11. Welfare reform in the shadow of EMU Anton Hemerijick and Maurizio Ferrera; 12. Industrial relations in EMU: are re-nationization and Europeanization two sides of the same coin? Jon Erik Dolvik; 13. Conclusion Andrew Martin and George Ross.