ON KOHLER, HANSMANN, AND CHAPMANt

Integration is increasing the power of Community-wide governing institutions at the expense of individual nation-states. Since the strength of capital relative to labour is greater at the Community level (at least for the near future), that seems a defeat for worker control. Moreover, integration seems certain to strengthen the power of the multinationals at the expense of smaller, more locally rooted enterprises. At the same time, integration is threatening worker interests by eroding the power of centralized national labour institutions fostered by corporatist legal regimes. Centralization previously enabled these labour movements to engage in beneficial strategies - taking base wages and working conditions 'out of competition' and trading wage restraint for employment - that are much more difficult to pursue in more decentralized labour systems. To be sure, the centralized national labour movements such as the West German ones were not subject to high degrees