Editorial Addressing the climate emergency is coming to be recognised as a top policy priority by more and more policy-makers. In order to rein human activity back within planetary limits our entire production and consumption model needs a fundamental, paradigmatic change. The welfare state that... Find out more

Editorial Tomas Berglund, Torsten Müller One of the greatest risks affecting workers on today’s labour markets is unemployment. Losing one’s job usually entails not only the loss of one’s main source of income, but also psychological consequences resulting, for example, from the loss of colleagues... Find out more

Editorial David Natali This issue of Transfer addresses some of the main analytical and substantive questions stemming from the pandemic that first hit Europe in February 2020. The magnitude of the crisis, in terms of both its impact on health and well-being, and its consequences for economic... Find out more

Editorial Vera Šćepanović, Philippe Pochet The past decade has not been easy for the European trade union movement, and the still ongoing COVID-19 crisis has only added urgency to some of the longstanding questions: how to cope with technological transformations and climate change, with ageing... Find out more

Editorial Béla Galgóczi and Calvin Allen This second issue of the SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe for 2021 continues to focus on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the region. As the title suggests, this main section of the issue was aiming to draw some lessons from... Find out more

Editorial Béla Galgóczi This first issue of the SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe for 2021 focuses on the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic across the region, with a view also to the role of the EU. When the SEER devoted an issue to the pandemic a year ago, the region... Find out more

Editorial Mathew Johnson, Valeria Pulignano This thematic special issue of Transfer titled ‘Transforming care work within an era of changing priorities of care policy’ explores how policy, institutional and market-driven transformations of care regimes across Europe impact upon the quality of care... Find out more

Editorial Wieteke Conen, Karin Schulze Buschoff Over recent decades, the nature and organisation of work have been transformed as a result of – among other things – technological developments, institutional reforms and globalisation. This has resulted in more flexible and fragmented labour markets... Find out more

Editorial Lisa Dorigatti, Roberto Pedersini Inequality has been a growing concern in recent years. The internationalisation of production and markets, the rampant financialisation of the economy, the deregulation of labour markets, and the retrenchment of welfare systems are only some of the factors... Find out more

This second issue of the SEER Journal for labour and social affairs in Eastern Europe for 2020 focuses on the heritage of the Dayton peace agreement 25 years after its signature as well as on wider EU-western Balkans relations. Following the dissolution of the former state of Yugoslavia, by early... Find out more