Will Europe Work?

In Britain, the Thatcherite revolution destroyed the unions, removed employees' safeguards and created labour mobility and flexibility. The result has been booming part-time work, low unemployment and a huge growth in inequality of income. In Germany, France and other parts of Europe the famed 'Rhineland model' persists of management-union co-operation and generous unemployment and social security benefits. The consequence appears to be high joblessness. Is the 'Anglo-Saxon' model the answe...