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Transnational trade union strategies in the context of market integration: The case of company union clubs in the Nordic finance sector European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Raoul Gebert
The creation of a common European market for financial services has significantly altered the strategic edifice for banks, as well as for the trade unions representing their employees. In the Nordic countries, where regulation of the labour market has long relied on multiemployer bargaining and strong sector-level actors, this has led to a strategic realignment. Faced with mergers and acquisitions
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Working apart: Domestic outsourcing in Europe European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Wouter Zwysen
Lower-skilled workers face increasing pressures. Their bargaining position is declining under the twin pressures of globalisation and technological change; and they risk losing access to better positions as firms’ pay and conditions arrangements increasingly drift apart. Rising between-firm differences partly come about through increasing separation of lower-skilled workers into lower-paying firms
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Platform work meets flexicurity: A comparison between Danish and Dutch social partners’ responses to the question of platform workers’ contract classification European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Matteo Marenco
In the broader discussion on how to organize protection in the future of work, social partners sought to tackle the question of whether on-location platform workers are employees or freelancers. Extant literature investigating responses to platform work concentrates on institutions as main explanatory factor. While this provides valuable insights, it overlooks actors’ creativity and motivation as factors
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The European Company: Milestone or small step towards transnational employment relations in the European Union? European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Berndt Keller, Sophie Rosenbohm
The paper deals with the European Company (SE), the first supranational company form. The focal question is its impact on the development of transnational employment relations. We show that only a minority of SEs has set up SE Works Councils and we discuss the reasons for this non-compliance. Board-level employee representation (BLER), the other form of voice, is even less common. We compare both concepts
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Is labour migration disrupting dual vocational education and training systems? Empirical evidence from the Danish and Norwegian construction sectors European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Jens Arnholtz, Ståle Østhus
This article studies how labour migration affects dual vocational education and training (VET) systems. We argue that because dual VET systems rely on employers engaging in training, an alternative source of labour – such as labour migrants – may make employers less likely to train, especially when pressure on industrial relations institutions makes it possible for employers to use migrant labour as
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Lost in the crowd? An investigation into where microwork is conducted and classifying worker types European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Ryan A Morgan, Ward van Zoonen, Claartje ter Hoeven
The global expansion of the platform economy raised questions about where and by whom different forms of platform work are performed in Europe. This study focuses on microworking – that is, where a...
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Manufacturing informality. Global production networks and the reproduction of informalized labour regimes in Europe’s peripheries European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Francesco Bagnardi
This paper investigates the drivers of informal employment persistence in Global Production Networks. Building on a structuralist perspective, it reframes informalization as a tool of labour contro...
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Unions and precarious work: How power resources shape diverse strategies and outcomes European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Arjan Keizer, Mat Johnson, Trine P Larsen, Bjarke Refslund, Damian Grimshaw
This paper investigates the ability of unions to tackle precarious work by analysing three illustrative case-studies from Denmark, Germany and the UK. It draws on the power resource theory to analy...
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The social policy preferences of EU employers’ organizations: An exploratory analysis European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Igor Guardiancich, Andrea Terlizzi, David Natali
Despite decades of European social dialogue, little is known about the social policy preferences of EU employers’ organizations (EEOs). Building on the literature on industrial relations and the ro...
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Making and breaking coalitions for a more ‘Social Europe’: The path towards the revision of the posted workers directive European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Anna Kyriazi
The article traces the passage of the legislative amendment that changed the rules of the intra-EU posting of workers, proposed by the Juncker Commission in 2016. Using data gathered from the news ...
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Trade union revitalization in hard times: a mission impossible? European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Aurora Trif, Magdalena Bernaciak, Marta Kahancová
The relation between trade unions’ power resources and their ability to revitalize is contentious. One strand of literature claims that weak power resources prevent unions from undertaking efforts ...
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Multiple strategies but small gains: Trade union revitalization and power resources in Central Eastern Europe after 2008 European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Magdalena Bernaciak, Aurora Trif
This study comparatively examines the relationship between revitalization strategies and trade union power resources in Central Eastern Europe. It shows that the post-2008 weakening of union power ...
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Strengthening legislation, weakening collective bargaining? Two faces of trade union strategies in Czechia and Slovakia European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Marta Kahancová, Monika Martišková
The paper studies how unions used two types of resources, namely, access to national legislation/policy and to collective bargaining, to improve working conditions in healthcare and in agency work ...
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Gains and pitfalls of coalitions: Societal resources as sources of trade union power in Croatia and Poland European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Hrvoje Butković, Jan Czarzasty, Adam Mrozowicki
This article explores the experiences of trade unions in Croatia and Poland with societal power resources as a source of trade union revitalisation in the post-2008 crisis period. In the context of...
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Where to find power resources under a hostile government? The prospects for trade union revitalization after the loss of institutional resources in Hungary and Romania European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Aurora Trif, Imre G Szabó
The experience in Western Europe suggests that overreliance on institutional stability hinders trade union revitalization. This paper explores the other side of this coin: what is the impact of dis...
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Class politics, collective labor rights, and worker-management conflict in comparative perspective European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Pablo Pérez Ahumada
This article studies how perceptions of worker-management conflict are shaped by individual-level and macro-level variables. Drawing upon data from 33 countries from the 2015 International Social S...
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Defining the problem of low wage growth in Australia and Denmark: From the actors’ perspectives European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Søren Kaj Andersen, Chris F Wright, Russell D Lansbury
Low wage growth is a challenge common to many OECD countries including countries with very different institutional systems. This paper utilises and extends Rochefort and Cobb’s (1993) ‘problem defi...
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Labour market regulation and the demand for migrant labour: A comparison of the adult social care sector in England and the Netherlands European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Stefania Marino, Arjan Keizer
This article contributes to the theoretical understanding of institutions as fundamental in shaping the demand for migrant labour by investigating labour market regulation as possible explanation f...
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Bringing labour market flexibilization under control? Marginal work and collective regulation in the creative industries in the Netherlands European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Wike Been, Maarten Keune
The cultural and creative industries (CCI) is a sector where the workforce is highly educated, yet precarious working conditions are prominent. Although flexible and marginal work is often treated ...
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MNC effects? A cross-national comparison of the role of aerospace multinationals in the UK and Australian professional engineering skill formation systems European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Cassandra Bowkett
This article undertakes a cross-national comparison of the aerospace sectors in two ‘liberal’ countries, the UK and Australia, examining how several multinational firms engage with engineering skil...
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Negotiation of psycho-social risks of remote working. An enterprise-level comparison in Italy and France European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Francesco Seghezzi
The article focuses on how the actors of industrial relations acted at firmlevel in multi-national company, Danone, in two different institutional contexts (Italy and France), in order to set rules...
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Trade union project-based revitalization strategies in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Slovenia and Estonia European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Barbara Samaluk, Kairit Kall
This article studies trade union revitalization within broader trends of projectification that marks a shift towards project work and its temporary organization. It accordingly compares instances o...
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Working in hospitality and catering in Greece and the UK: Do trade union membership and collective bargaining still matter? European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Orestis Papadopoulos, Gregoris Ioannou
Existing literature suggests that terms and conditions of employment are universally poor in hospitality and catering. Based on fieldwork comprising more than 70 semi-structured in-depth interviews...
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The power of the economic outlook: An ideational explanation of the distinct pattern of Finnish wage setting within the Nordic context European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Joel Kaitila, Ville-Pekka Sorsa, Antti Alaja
Industrial relations scholars are paying increasing attention to the role of ideas in explaining shifts in bargaining systems and wage policies. This article contributes to this growing body of lit...
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Ryanair pilots: Unlikely pioneers of transnational collective action European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Darragh Golden, Roland Erne
In aviation, EU single market rules empowered Ryanair over three decades to defeat all pilot unions across Europe, regardless of the notionally strong power resources on which they were relying in ...
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The platform effect: How Amazon changed work in logistics in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-04-10 Anke Hassel, Felix Sieker
While the effects of the platform economy on work are mainly studied through the lens of gig or cloud workers, many more employees are likely to be affected in non-platform firms or sectors. We dis...
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Corrigendum to Work accommodations and sustainable working: The role of social partners and industrial relations in the employment of disabled and older people in Estonia, Hungary and Poland European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-03-07
European Journal of Industrial Relations 27(2) 149–165. DOI: 10.1177/0959680120971896
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Compensation policies and comparative capitalisms European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Fátima Suleman, Henrique Duarte, Chris Brewster, Abdul Suleman
A widespread rhetoric suggests that market-like rules dominate employment relationships, and particularly compensation, but empirical evidence is inconclusive. This research examines organisations’...
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Trade unions challenges in organising Polish workers: A comparative case study of British and Swiss trade union strategies European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Adam Rogalewski
This article analyses challenges in organising Polish workers by Unison (UK) and Unia (Switzerland). Using case studies of projects delivered by those unions with the aim to enhancing inclusion of Polish workers, the article argues that the internal union dynamics, such as union identity and structures are instrumental for a sustainable organisation of migrant members. Furthermore, the example of Unia
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Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow: The ‘thick and thin’ of comparative (statactivist) research with a European trade union federation European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Peter Turnbull
The greater insight and deeper understanding generated by slow comparative international research is beyond doubt. However, there are times when researchers need to ‘quicken up’, most notably when engaged in ‘real-time’ social science that is directly responsive to policy initiatives by the (supranational) state and/or new business strategies and employment practices developed by (multi-national) employers
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The labour market impact of robotisation in Europe European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 José-Ignacio Antón, David Klenert, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Maria Cesira Urzì Brancati, Georgios Alaveras
This paper explores the impact of robot adoption on European regional labour markets between 1995 and 2015. Specifically, we look at the effect of the usage of industrial robots on jobs and employment structures across European regions. Our estimates suggest that the effect of robots on employment tends to be mostly small and negative during the period 1995–2005 and positive during the period 2005–2015
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Product markets and working conditions on international and regional food delivery platforms: A study in Poland and Italy European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Karol Muszyński, Valeria Pulignano, Claudia Marà
Researchers search for factors explaining the disruptive impact of labour platforms on work, yet very few studies explore how platforms approach product markets and the resultant effects on platform workers’ working conditions. Looking at this question, this paper studies distinct but similar international and regional food delivery platforms in Poland and Italy, exploring which factors explain differences
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When accumulation pressures meet regulatory institutions: A comparison in logistics European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Valeria Pulignano, Paul Thompson, Nadja Doerflinger
This comparative study explores whether and how institutions can become a source of influence on accumulation dynamics in the labor process. It examines how employer strategies for the realization of value within the warehousing, parcel, and transport business divisions of a lead logistics multinational are operationalized in Germany, Belgium, and Sweden. Findings indicate within (and across) country
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The digitalisation of service work: A comparative study of restructuring of the banking sector in the United Kingdom and Luxembourg European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Andreas Kornelakis, Vassil Kirov, Patrick Thill
The article compares the process of digitalisation and outcomes from work restructuring in two banks from the United Kingdom and Luxembourg. The banking sectors in both countries have been challenged by digitalisation pressures such as online and mobile banking, pressures from ‘Fintech’ banks, and the automation of back-office operations. Yet, the adjustment paths in the two countries differed. In
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Orchestrators of coordination: Towards a new role of the state in coordinated capitalism? European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Marius R Busemeyer, Martin B Carstensen, Patrick Emmenegger
Liberalization poses significant challenges for the continued provision of collective goods within coordinated market economies (CME). Extant scholarship suggests two dominant sets of responses. Either CMEs continue to rely on employer coordination, but only for a privileged core, leading to dualization. Or, in cases where the state enjoys high capacity, the state instead compensates for liberalization
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The new EU Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions in the context of new forms of employment European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Despoina Georgiou
The article examines the reach, protective effects and limitations of the recently adopted European Union (EU) Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions. After explaining the need for a new instrument, the article analyses the Directive’s protective provisions. Cases of the European Court of Justice are presented to provide the wider context and explain how the EU social acquis impacts
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Combatting exploitation of migrant temporary agency workers through sectoral self-regulation in the UK and the Netherlands European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Wike Been, Paul de Beer
The recent growth of precarious work has sparked a vivid debate on whether this tendency can be reversed by the social partners through sectoral self-regulation. In this sectoral case study of the temporary work agencies sector in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the views, approaches, power and interaction between trade unions and employers’ organizations are studied in the context of increasing
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Position in global value chains and wages in Central and Eastern European countries European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Sabina Szymczak, Aleksandra Parteka, Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz
This paper examines the relationship between the relative position of industries in Global Value Chains (GVC) and wages in 10 Central and Eastern European countries. We combine GVC measures of global import intensity of production, upstreamness and the length of the value chain with micro-data on workers. We find that the wages of Central and Eastern European countries workers are higher when their
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Rationalizing the irrational: Making sense of (in)consistency among union members and non-members European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Sinisa Hadziabdic, Lorenzo Frangi
Focusing on 13 OECD countries over 25 years, we examine the factors that explain why a sizable fraction of wage-earners exhibit an inconsistency between their union membership status and their confidence in unions by being either confident non-members or non-confident members. While structural factors associated with joining constraints generate inconsistency in specific labour market categories, wage-earners
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With or without U(nions)? Understanding the diversity of gig workers’ organizing practices in Italy and the UK European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Lorenzo Cini, Vincenzo Maccarrone, Arianna Tassinari
Since 2016, mobilizations of gig workers across European countries have become increasingly common within location-based services, such as food delivery. Despite remarkable similarities in workers’ mobilization dynamics, their organizational forms have varied considerably, ranging from self-organization, to work councils, to unionization through rank-and-file or longstanding unions. To start making
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Looking for a North Star? Ideological justifications and trade unions’ preferences for a universal basic income European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Luca Michele Cigna
Trade unions are often said to be hostile to a universal basic income (UBI). Their judgement may be affected by factors such as their work ethic, perceptions of the unemployed and preferences for labour decommodification. Yet, most studies fail to sketch out the reasons for which unions oppose or support a UBI from a normative standpoint. To understand the impact of ideology on unions’ appreciation
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The different faces of international posting: Why do companies use posting of workers? European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Dries Lens, Ninke Mussche, Ive Marx
The importance of the posting of workers across EU borders has grown considerably in the past decade, causing concern regarding its impact on labour standards in Europe. This article asks why posting has taken such a flight. Building on quantitative analysis and in-depth interviews set against other sources, we shed light on employer motives for deploying posted workers. We develop a typology of posting
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From gradual erosion to revitalization: National Social Dialogue Institutions and policy effectiveness European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-05-31 Igor Guardiancich, Oscar Molina
We explore the factors behind the long-term erosion of National Social Dialogue Institutions (NSDIs) to provide insights about the conditions for their revitalization. By applying policy analysis insights into the industrial relations field, we argue that limited policy effectiveness goes a long way towards explaining the erosion experienced by many NSDIs worldwide in recent years. Drawing on a global
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Foreign- and domestic firm ownership and its impact on wages. Evidence from Poland European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-05-09 Paulina Broniatowska, Paweł Strawiński
This study concentrates on the effect of foreign ownership of companies on worker wage distribution. Using an innovative methodological approach that combines the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition and the modified DiNardo et al. reweighting approach, we estimate the wage gap between domestic-owned and foreign-owned firms. The study confirms that firm ownership (domestic or foreign) influences the wage distribution
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Mind the gap between discourses and practices: Platform workers’ representation in France and Italy European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Paolo Borghi, Annalisa Murgia, Mathilde Mondon-Navazo, Petr Mezihorak
This article, based on a 6-month cross-national ethnography conducted in France and Italy, aims at contributing to comparative debates on the representation of platform workers. The study takes the cases of both traditional and alternative actors that currently represent platform workers. In particular, by investigating both trade unions and grassroots groups, research findings show the gap between
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The management of the Eurozone in crisis times: Actors, institutions and the case of bailout packages European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Michel Goyer, Miguel Glatzer, Rocio Valdivielso del Real
The adjustment to the financial crisis was particularly brutal for Eurozone countries targeted by private bondholders. Financial assistance through the newly created Eurozone governance system was conditional on the implementation of austerity measures and the introduction of structural reforms in industrial relations (decentralization of collective bargaining and liberalization of employment protection)
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Forces of reproduction and change in collective bargaining: A social field perspective European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Susanne Pernicka, Vera Glassner, Nele Dittmar, Klaus Neundlinger
The paper addresses the endurance of sector collective bargaining despite many announcements of its demise. Bourdieusian social theory is used to interpret collective bargaining as a dominated social field that is distinct and relatively autonomous from other economic, political and transnational fields. Empirically, we trace the trajectories of German and Italian metal sector’s collective bargaining
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Opening the black box: Actors and interactions shaping European sectoral social dialogue European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Barbara Bechter, Sabrina Weber, Manuela Galetto, Bengt Larsson, Thomas Prosser
This article highlights the importance of organizational resources and individual capabilities for interactions and relationships among social partners in European sectoral social dialogue committees (SSDCs). We use an actor-centred approach to investigate work programme setting in the hospital and metalworking SSDCs. Our research reveals differences in how European social partner organizations coordinate
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Editorial European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Guglielmo Meardi
At the European Journal of Industrial Relations (EJIR), we have been concerned with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on research and publication. First, we have monitored possible effects on the flow of submissions. In total, during 2020, submissions to the EJIR have increased compared to 2019 (+26 percent). They have been, in comparison to the previous year, relatively slower in the second and
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Power resources and supranational mechanisms: The global unions and the OECD Guidelines European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Michele Ford, Michael Gillan
This article uses the power resources approach to analyse the Global Union Federations’ (GUFs) use of the specific instances mechanism associated with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. While this mechanism has serious limitations, it has proved to be a useful tool when combined with public campaigns and the exercise of other power resources at multiple scales. This is so, we argue
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Transnational transfer of lean production to a dependent market economy: The case of a French-owned subsidiary in Romania European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Zoltán Mihály
This article addresses the implementation of lean production techniques in the Romanian subsidiary of a second-tier automotive supplier. Given the liberal institutional environment of the host country, the company anticipated a smooth transfer of lean production practices. However, the findings show that a host country’s economic dependence can be detrimental to the transfer of practices from the home
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Down but not out: Union strategies and power resources in response to liberalization and changes in national postal services – The cases of Spain and Belgium European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2020-12-20 Sofía Pérez de Guzmán, Esteban Martínez, Ester Ulloa
This article analyses national postal services unions’ strategic capacity in Spain and Belgium in response to the effects of liberalization and changes in the postal sector. The analysis shows, first, that despite having had to operate in a hostile context, Correos and bpost unions have been able to mobilize their power resources to resist the impact of market pressures on employment and working conditions
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Dualism or solidarity? Conditions for union success in regulating precarious work European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Laura Carver, Virginia Doellgast
This article summarizes and reviews research on union responses to precarious work in Europe, based on a systematic coding of 56 case study-based articles published between 2008 and 2019. Analyses of these cases suggest two paths to labour market dualism, with the first involving institutional fragmentation and union division, and the second a combination of weak structural power and partnership-oriented
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Work accommodations and sustainable working: The role of social partners and industrial relations in the employment of disabled and older people in Estonia, Hungary and Poland European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Deborah Foster, Mart Masso, Liina Osila
The under-utilization of the labour of disabled and older people is a problem across the European Union (EU) but is most pronounced in Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states, where labour shortages are greatest. This presents a puzzle that is explored with reference to a project with social partners from Estonia, Hungary and Poland, the objective of which was to stimulate debate and actions
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Social partners’ bargaining strategies in Germany and Spain after the introduction of the Euro: A morphogenetic perspective on corporate agency European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Anna Milena Galazka, Thomas Prosser
This article addresses how far wage imbalances in the Eurozone can be imputable to intentional agency by collective bargaining organizations. Using Archer’s morphogenetic approach, we explain the agentic role of social partners in core (Germany) and periphery (Spain) cases, in relation with the respective collective bargaining regimes. We show that the capacity of macro- and meso-level organizations
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Commission entrepreneurship and EU employment policy – The fate of a former darling European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2020-10-24 Mikkel Mailand
An ongoing disagreement between researchers of EU decision-making processes is about who primarily drives the development – the Commission or the member states. The present article addresses this issue within the context of EU employment policy, a cornerstone in Social Europe. Research has often pointed to a gradually weakening and subordination of these policies to economic policies. However, recent
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How do union membership, union density and institutionalization affect perceptions of conflict between management and workers? European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Josef Ringqvist
This article contributes to debates about trade unions and conflict by studying how individuals’ perceptions of conflicts between management and workers relate to trade union membership, country-level trade union density and institutionalization (collective bargaining coverage, centralization and policy concertation). Hierarchical multi-level models are fitted to data from the International Social
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Future conditional: From just transition to radical transformation? European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Linda Clarke, Carla Lipsig-Mummé
Within the context of an accelerating climate emergency, the introduction frames the strategies and actions adopted by labour and unions to reduce carbon emissions that are presented in the articles contributing to this special issue. Industrial relations scholarship, which has been slow to address the climate emergency, has focussed on the jobs versus environment dilemma, the role of unions, technical
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Trade union strategies on climate change mitigation: Between opposition, hedging and support European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Adrien Thomas, Nadja Doerflinger
This article aims to provide a better understanding of trade unions’ climate change strategies. Using a qualitative methodology based on an analysis of interviews and documents, the article sets out the three ideal-typical strategies of unions towards climate change mitigation policies: opposition, hedging and support. Our analysis finds that current trade union strategies on climate change are primarily
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From Treadmill of Production to Just Transition and Beyond European Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Paolo Tomassetti
Drawing on Treadmill of Production (ToP) and Just Transition (JT) theories, the article proposes a comparative analysis of the labour/environment nexus, evident across Europe and epitomized in the case of the Italian industrial relations system. The research shows continuity between ToP and JT. Despite ToP being the dominant logic of collective action during much of the modern (post-Second World War)