Contents: Lars Magnusson/Bo Stråth: Introduction: A Social Polity? Challenges to European Inequalities - Martin Heidenreich: The Development of Social Inequalities in Europe - Iain Begg: Is Stability Necessary for Growth? - Ramón Peña Casas: European Integration and Social Inequalities from an Empirical Perspective - Marie-Ange Moreau: European Solidarity and Labour Law. Some Thoughts Stemming from the Question of Restructuring in Europe - Niklas Bruun: The Vaxholm Case and Its Solidarity Lessons from a Swedish and European Perspective - Thomas Fetzer: European Works Councils as Carriers of European Trade Union Solidarity? The Cases of Ford and General Motors - Céline Lafoucrière/Lars Magnusson: Social Dialogue. The Last Guardian of European Solidarity? - Béla Tomka: Social Solidarity in East Central Europe. Strong Welfare and Weak Labour? - Herwig Reiter: The Post-Communist Triangle of (Non-)Solidarity and beyond. Youth and the Perception of Unemployment in the NewWest - Katarzyna Gajewska: Common Market - Common Labour Interests? - Annika Zorn: Bringing Solidarity back in. Solidarity Actions in the Contentious Field of Unemployment - Ulrike Liebert: The Politics for a Social Europe and the Lisbon Process - Jenny Andersson: Solidarity or Competition? Creating the European Knowledge Society - Fred Block: An End to Solidarity? The Case of the United States.