Contents: Mirella Baglioni/Bernd Brandl: Changing Labour Relations between Path Dependency and Global Trends - An Introduction - John Geary/Anthony Murphy: The Reform of Public Sector Pay in Ireland under Social Pacts - Alessia Vatta: The Reform of Collective Bargaining and the Flexible Work Issue in Italy - Patrick Thill/Adrien Thomas: The End of Consensus? The Effects of the Economic Crisis on Industrial Relations in Luxembourg - Rosa Nonell/Iván Medina/Joaquim M. Molins: Social Pacts and the Institutionalization of Social Partners. The Case of Spanish Employers' Associations - Barbara Bechter: Changing Collective Bargaining: Pay Flexibility and the Search for a Fair Model - Catherine Casey: Gender Mainstreaming in European Industrial Relations - Policy Aspirations, Gender Gaps and Organization Behaviour - Holm-Detlev Köhler/Sergio González Begega: The European Works Council as a Multidimensional Contested Terrain - Mirella Baglioni: The EWC Members and the Union Structure: Are they Living apart Together? - Isabel da Costa/Valeria Pulignano/Udo Rehfeldt/Volker Telljohann: Transnational Negotiations on Employment: Successes and Failures of EWC-Union Coordinated Strategies.