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Opening the black box of works council–management team interaction: Germany and the Netherlands compared Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Annette van den Berg, Yolanda Grift, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Saraï Sapulete, Martin Behrens, Wolfram Brehmer
Researchers still struggle with unravelling the internal interaction processes between management and employees (and their representatives). In empirical studies explaining the effects of works councils, the multidimensional nature of the works council–management team relationship is therefore largely ignored. By utilising a unique questionnaire among works councillors, this article examines the (potential)
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Better off solo? Comparative well-being of Māori employers, sole traders and paid employees Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Carla Houkamau, Kieren Lilly, Jamie Newth, Kiri Dell, Jason Mika, Chris Sibley
Māori, New Zealand’s Indigenous people, are projected to make up over 20% of the New Zealand workforce in 20 years. Employment plays a big role in determining one’s well-being. Drawing on data from 2,378 Māori who completed the survey-based Māori Identity and Financial Attitudes Study in 2017, this article examines differences in subjective well-being between workers in three categories: paid employees
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Feeling safe to speak up: Leaders improving employee wellbeing through psychological safety Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Emma Clarke, Katharina Näswall, Annick Masselot, Sanna Malinen
Leaders play an integral role in developing psychologically safe workplaces. To better understand the mechanisms that transmit leadership behaviors and the broader employee wellbeing outcomes as a result, more insight in high-demand, hierarchical working environments is necessary. In this article the authors explore psychological safety as a mechanism through which leadership influences wellbeing and
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The active production of consent for employment precarity and the euphemisation of coercion in platform economies: The case of food delivery riders Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sofía Pérez-de-Guzmán Padrón, Amparo Serrano-Pascual, Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio
The mobilisation of new distance-based technologies that permit the governance of platform workers’ behaviour constitutes a watershed in the organisation of work and a transformation of the grammar of wage-earning society. Employing a qualitative methodology, this article analyses Spanish riders’ (delivery couriers) experiences of these psychopolitical mechanisms. The results show that the neoliberal
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Social partnership, company-level collective bargaining and union revitalization in Ireland Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Valentina Paolucci, William K Roche
This article explores recent trade union efforts in Ireland to re-engage activists and members and promote revitalization following the termination of a 22-year period of tripartite social partnership. It analyses four case studies of major unions’ strategies to involve activists and members in a workplace-anchored model of firm-level collective bargaining. The findings indicate that decentralized
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Beyond democratic degeneration, horizontal and liberated organization? The agonistic approach of a Belgian food co-op Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Kévin Pastier
This research focuses on democratic organizations and the risk of degeneration. The author studies how horizontal management may maintain a democratic organization’s stability through the examination of a Belgium food cooperative with democratic governance. The article reaches two main conclusions. First, it concludes with a simple empirical finding: horizontal organization does not necessarily prevent
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Employee beliefs about the consequences of a union default: Implications for support and intention to remain in union membership Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall, Margaret Wilson
Union decline and the ‘representation gap’ are two commonly recognised and interrelated phenomena. Numerous proposals have been made to solve this double-sided problem. One of the most radical is to conceive of a union default, where the default position is union membership. This article seeks to understand how employee beliefs about the consequences of union membership, both positive and negative
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Out with the old, in with the new? Institutional experimentation and decent work in the UK Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Mathew Johnson, Eva Herman
Drawing on an extended critical case study of the Greater Manchester (GM) city region in the UK, this article contributes to debates around the changing role of social actors within local labour markets, and how they contribute to processes of regulatory experimentation and innovation. While recent literature has drawn attention to new actors and novel strategies in responding to labour market disruptions
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‘Mining women’ and livelihoods: Examining the dominant and emerging issues in the ASM gendered economic space Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 George Ofosu, David Sarpong, Mabel Torbor, Shadrack Asante
The intractable challenges faced by female mine workers have come to dominate the discourse and scholarship on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operations. However, the extensive focus on the informal and labour-intensive segments has engendered a failure to capture the nuances in the duality of ASM operations and how it impacts female outcomes. Drawing on intersectionality as a lens, in this
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The gendered effect of an overwork climate and high personal standards for work–home conflict during the pandemic Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Arūnas Žiedelis, Jurgita Lazauskaitė-Zabielskė, Ieva Urbanavičiūtė
Although working from home and various other forms of flexible work are often presented as measures to strengthen work–life balance, research depicts a less optimistic picture. Previous research ha...
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From resentment to deconstruction: Whistleblowing as a politico-legal tool of labour law enforcement Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Petr Mezihorak, Annalisa Murgia
By focusing on three groups of whistleblowers in Slovakia speaking out against the use of bogus self-employment in their companies, this study contributes to the debate on the political dimension o...
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Workplace democracy and democratic legitimacy in Europe Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Bilal Hassan
This study investigates the political spillover and stealth democracy hypotheses as complementary mechanisms to account for any relationship between workplace democracy and democratic legitimacy in...
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The European Minimum Wage Directive – and why it is a challenge to trade unions’ but not employers’ unity Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Irene Dingeldey, Ilana Nussbaum Bitran
The proposal of a European minimum wage directive by the European Commission was supposed to improve working conditions. This article asks why such an initiative created a challenge to the unity of...
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Workplace regimes in Western Europe, 1995–2015: Implications for intensification, intrusion, income and insecurity Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Seán Ó Riain, Amy Erbe Healy
The article investigates the emergence of ‘new’ forms of working such as ‘lean production’ and ‘learning organisations’ in Western Europe, 1995–2015. First, the article identifies the dominant form...
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The union participation construct: A mixed-methods assessment Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Linda Duxbury, Christopher Smith, Michael Halinski
Using interview and survey data, in this article the authors compare discrepancies between emic (how union members classify their union participation) and etic (how researchers classify union parti...
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Attenuating the relationship between job insecurity and job satisfaction: An examination of the role of organizational learning climate in three countries Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Tahira M Probst, Jasmina Tomas, Lara Roll, Darja Maslić Seršić, Lixin Jiang, Melissa R Jenkins
Research indicates job insecurity (JI) is related to lower job satisfaction, partially mediated by psychological contract breach (PCB; a perceived breaking of the implicit exchange relationship bet...
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Self-initiated expatriates in menial jobs: Destructive psychological contracts in the hospitality sector Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Johannes M Kraak, Yannick Griep, Yochanan Altman
This qualitative research explores the psychological contract (PC) of a sample of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) working in the French hospitality sector, focusing on PC evaluation as well as re...
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Do they need us? Linking functional indispensability and voice behavior: The role of psychological ownership, job insecurity and organizational ambidexterity Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Diogo Alves, Ana Patrícia Duarte, Miriam Rosa, Sílvia da Silva
This study looked into how workers’ perception of their team’s functional indispensability motivates them to engage in promotive voice behavior. The mediating role of psychological ownership and th...
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Trade unions, stigma and legitimacy: A case study about academic wages in British universities Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Nicholas Black
This article applies the concept of legitimacy to reinterpret collective bargaining as a war of words instead of an institutional arrangement of negotiations and power struggles between employers a...
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Entrepreneurial action and eudaimonic well-being in a crisis: Insights from entrepreneurs in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Constanze Eib, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel
Based on transactional stress theory, this article provides an empirical glimpse into how entrepreneurs in Sweden have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors investigated the impact of two ...
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Class, union membership, and organizational commitment: A multilevel analysis of 28 countries Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Pablo Pérez Ahumada
This article studies how organizational commitment is shaped by individual and macro-level factors. Drawing upon data from the 2015 International Social Survey Program (ISSP) and using multilevel m...
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Work values and hybrid careers in the gig economy: The evidence from an online labor market Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Andrey Shevchuk, Denis Strebkov, Dieter Bögenhold
Current debates about the gig economy pay increasing attention to the heterogeneity of platform workers. Using a large sample of 10,574 freelancers from an international online labor market, this a...
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Small sums, big impact: Corruption and microfinance institutions Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Godfred Adjapong Afrifa, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Adolf Acquaye, Fred A Yamoah, Fredah G Mwiti
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been promoted worldwide as developmental platforms that can help eliminate some of the major global challenges such as poverty and economic development. The ef...
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Union purpose and power: Regulating the fissured workplace Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Alison Rudman, Bradon Ellem
Notwithstanding long membership decline and fresh threats in workplaces, there is evidence that unions can still exercise power even in the unlikely setting of fissured workplaces. The question is:...
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Wage determination in the shadow of the law: The case of works councilors in Germany Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. However...
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Responsible autonomy: The interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19 Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Neve Abgeller, Reinhard Bachmann, Tony Dobbins, Deirdre Anderson
This article revisits the concept of responsible autonomy, analysing the interplay of employee autonomy, management control and trust experienced by knowledge professionals in the UK compelled to w...
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Covid-19 and health and safety at work: Trade union dilemmas in Germany, France and Luxembourg (March 2020–December 2021) Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Adrien Thomas, Nadja Dörflinger, Karel Yon, Michel Pletschette
Given the traditional commitment of trade unions to occupational health and safety standards, unions might have been expected to be strongly involved in containing the Covid-19 pandemic. This artic...
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Power resources and the battle against precarious employment: Trade union activities within a tripartite initiative tackling undeclared work in Sweden Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Carin Håkansta, Maria Albin, Bertina Kreshpaj, Virginia Gunn, Christer Hogstedt, Nuria Matilla-Santander, Patricia O’Campo, Cecilia Orellana Pozo, David H Wegman, Theo Bodin
The aim of this case study was to explore the abilities and limitations of trade unions in their response to undeclared work, which has received scant attention in research on working conditions an...
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Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Lisa Dorigatti, Wike M Been, Luigi Burroni, Maarten Keune, Trine P Larsen, Mikkel Mailand
This article presents a comparison of interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands. While traditional industrial relations actors play a minor role, inter...
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In search of the ‘buffering’ effect in the job demands–control model: The role of teamwork HRM practices and occupations Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Min Zou, Ying Zhou, Mark Williams
The job demands–control/support (JDC/JDCS) models are highly influential in the HRM and employee well-being literature. Despite the high face validity, however, research has failed to find convinci...
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The union experience: Workplace instrumentality, prosocial unionism, and union satisfaction Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Andrew Keyes, Zachary A Russell, Jack Fiorito
Although prior research on union satisfaction emphasized the importance of workplace issues, such as wages, hours, and working conditions for union member satisfaction, some research has suggested ...
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Enforcing rules regulating the use of temporary positions in Norway: A matter of exit, voice or silence? Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Jørgen Svalund, Kristin Alsos
Companies’ access to temporary workers is an important aspect of the functioning of labour markets. The strictness of regulations is not determined by the regulations alone, but also how these are ...
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Labour market collectivism: New solidarities of highly skilled freelance workers in medicine, IT and the film industry Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Birgit Apitzsch, Maximiliane Wilkesmann, Caroline Ruiner, Mona Bassyiouny, Ronny Ehlen, Lena Schulz
Highly skilled freelance workers are mainly depicted as a challenge to trade unionism because of their mobility, market power and specific interests in organisational support. The authors explore t...
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The effects of public goods framing for a union default policy Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall, Margaret Wilson
Union provision of collective bargaining and political lobbying generates positive outcomes across society. A union default holds significant promise to revive the flagging fortunes of unions by en...
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Editorial Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Lars Magnusson, Jan Ottosson
The articles in this issue of Economic and Industrial Democracy cover, e.g., union renewal, value chains and unions, job insecurity, workplace health, and various institutional and legal conditions in different countries.
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Corrigendum to Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-07-28
Ahlstrand R and Gautié J (2022) Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies. Economic and Industrial Democracy. Epub ahead of print 24 June 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X221101427
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Workplace discrimination against LGBT employees in Mauritius: A sociological perspective Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Shabneez Bhankaraully, Michel Goyer, Jeremy Aroles
This article focuses on workplace discrimination against LGBT employees in Mauritius – a multi-ethnic society in the Indian Ocean. Drawing from the insights of sociological studies that highlight h...
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A just transition: Insights from the labour unions of a steel locality (Taranto, Italy) Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Lidia Greco
The just transition (JT) perspective has gained a generalized attention in recent years in conjunction with the increasing pressures that Western societies are under to green their economies as a w...
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Qualitative job insecurity and voice behavior: Evaluation of the mediating effect of affective organizational commitment Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Felipe Muñoz Medina, Sergio López Bohle, Lixin Jiang, Maria José Chambel, Sebastian M Ugarte
Using social exchange theory as the foundation, this research examines the consequences of qualitative job insecurity on voice behavior, considering the indirect effect of affective organizational ...
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Digital skills in context: Working with robots in lower-skilled jobs Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Caroline Lloyd, Jonathan Payne
Digital skills are increasingly presented as essential for work and labour market inclusion, with fears the low-skilled could be left behind. Lack of clarity about these new skill demands and limit...
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Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Roland Ahlstrand, Jérôme Gautié
Existing research has found heterogeneity in the implementation of Lean and its outcomes in terms of employee involvement across countries. This article explores the potential role of labour–management relations. It relies on in-depth company case studies carried out in the aerospace industry in France and Sweden. The study finds significant variations in employee involvement – higher in the Swedish
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The multidimensional configuration of platform work: A mixed-methods analysis of the Argentinian case Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Julieta Haidar
The aim of this article is to make a contribution to understanding platform work in a comprehensive and geographically situated way, and thus to consider comprehensive responses to its precarising character. The author proposes an analytical framework in which platform work is the result of the articulation of three dimensions: technological-organisational, institutional and ideological. In turn, this
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Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Yijing Lyu, Chia-Huei Wu, Ho Kwong Kwan, Cynthia Lee, Hong Deng
Job insecurity is negatively associated with employees’ extra-role behavior. Studies of this negative impact often use a social exchange or stress–strain perspective to explain how job insecurity impairs employees’ extra-role behavior. This study offers an alternative account. Based on a conservation of resources perspective, the authors propose that job insecurity denotes a threat of loss of resources
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The impact of job quality on organizational commitment and job satisfaction: The moderating role of socioeconomic status Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 KonShik Kim
This study analyzes the effects of each of three dimensions of job quality on organizational commitment and job satisfaction. The interactions between job quality and socioeconomic status also are examined to understand the relationship between job quality and organizational commitment and job satisfaction. This study found that all three dimensions of job quality – quality of income, job security
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Underemployment due to overeducation: An analysis of worker cooperatives versus conventional firms Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Lidia Valiente-Palma, María del Carmen Pérez-González
This research study analyses overeducation in worker cooperatives (WCs) compared to conventional firms (CFs) to determine whether there is any evidence to suggest that underemployment due to overeducation is less probable in WCs (where decisions are made democratically by worker members to maximise collective wellbeing) than in CFs in Spain. A total sample of 945 workers (315 worker members from WCs
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Commitment issues? Analysing the effect of preference deviation and social embeddedness on member commitment to worker cooperatives in the gig economy Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Damion Jonathan Bunders, Agnes Akkerman
As enterprises that are owned and governed by workers themselves for their mutual benefit, worker cooperatives are currently re-emerging as a promising antidote against precarity and economic dependence in the gig economy. Considering the social and geographic fragmentation of gig workers, it remains unclear whether cooperatives can count on the member commitment necessary to survive. This study investigates
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Sex, breadwinner status, and perceived job insecurity: A comparative analysis in Europe Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Clotilde Coron, Géraldine Schmidt
Previous research has produced contradictory results about the relationship between sex and perceived job insecurity (JI). The male-breadwinner ideology has been put forward to explain the fact that women often report less JI. In addition, previous research on JI has highlighted the importance of the national socioeconomic context, and gender studies have underlined the need to take gender dimensions
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Towards what end? Collective bargaining and the making and unmaking of the working class Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Zaad Mahmood, Supurna Banerjee
In contemporary literature, bargaining is often construed as an instrument in the hands of the employer, a practice that is sustained by undermining worker solidarity and promoting interests of privileged unionized workers at the expense of other workers. This article challenges such narratives by foregrounding the idea of solidarity and highlighting the complex interplay of solidarity emanating from
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‘Walking a fine line’: Union perspectives on partnership in nursing and midwifery workplaces Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Cécile Guillaume, Gill Kirton
Drawing on qualitative research in the main UK unions for nurses/midwives, this article explores union reps’ views of the functioning of workplace partnership in two feminized professions working in the English National Health Service (NHS). Through the investigation of two professional unions, which despite their vitality remain under-researched, the study offers an investigation of the interactions
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Editorial Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Lars Magnusson, Jan Ottosson
The articles in this issue cover global aspects of changing working life conditions. Changing technology, different roles of the unions, e.g. gender aspects, and inequality in working life to mention a few of the dimensions here covered.
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Membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage in Germany Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Uwe Jirjahn
While there is a strong overlap between membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage, the overlap is far from being perfect. Using unique firm-level data from Germany, this study estimates the determinants of the membership in employers’ associations and the coverage by industry-level or firm-level agreements. The analysis particularly focuses on the various constellations
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Robots and unions: The moderating effect of organized labour on technological unemployment Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Henri Haapanala, Ive Marx, Zachary Parolin
This study analyses the moderating effect of union density on industrial employment and unemployment in advanced economies facing exposure to industrial robots. Applying random effects within-between regression models to a pseudo-panel of observations from 27 European countries and the United States over 1998–2019, the study finds that higher union density is associated with a greater decline in industry-sector
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Pressed to overwork to exhaustion? The role of psychological detachment and exhaustion in the context of teleworking Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Jurgita Lazauskaitė-Zabielskė, Ieva Urbanavičiūtė, Arūnas Žiedelis
This study aims to longitudinally investigate the undesirable effect of overwork climate and its underlying mechanism in the context of telework. Teleworkers have been known for intensive working and even overwork. Moreover, although some empirical evidence shows the adverse effects of overwork climate, its longitudinal effects and mechanism have been underexplored thus far. Consequently, this study
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Self-employment experience effects on well-being: A longitudinal study Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Nicholas Litsardopoulos, George Saridakis, Yannis Georgellis, Chris Hand
The notion that self-employed individuals are more satisfied with their jobs than wage-employees has found broad empirical support. Previous research exploring the well-being effects of self-employment typically relies on direct cross-sectional comparisons between wage-employees and self-employed or on longitudinal investigations of transitions in or out of self-employment. In this study, the authors
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Automation and the future of work: An intersectional study of the role of human capital, income, gender and visible minority status Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Búi K Petersen, James Chowhan, Gordon B Cooke, Ray Gosine, Peter J Warrian
This study extends prior research assessing the impacts of advancements in automation on employment by focusing on the effect on various population groups. Employing a human capital and intersectionality lens, and a moderated-mediation analysis of Canadian 2016 Census data, this study finds the effects of automation differ significantly depending on the intersections of income level, gender and visible
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Trade unions facing a French industrial policy: The emergence of a medical imaging filière Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Samuel Klebaner
The aim of this article is to analyze the power of trade unions to influence a French industrial policy. The study examines the case of the medical imaging industry, in which a trade union managed to convince both the firms and the government to invest in a new innovation center. Through a qualitative study, the author highlights step by step the power resources this trade union used to deploy multi-level
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Occupational change, computer use and the complementarity effect in the digital age: Evidence from Finland Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-04-16 Tuomo Alasoini, Seppo Tuomivaara
This article examines the pattern of occupational change in Finland between 2013 and 2018 in light of hypotheses derived from skill- and routine-biased technological change arguments. As extensions to mainstream studies on occupational change, two alternative means of classifying occupations by skill level are used, and data from Statistics Finland’s Quality of Work Survey are combined with data from
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The hidden layers of resistance to dominant HRM transfer: Evidence from Japanese management practice adoption in Indonesia Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Joey Soehardjojo, Rick Delbridge, Guglielmo Meardi
While resistance to human resource management (HRM) practice transfers from multinationals has been widely researched in economically advanced countries, emerging economies are generally assumed to be institutionally more welcoming. This article contributes to debates on international HRM diffusion both by highlighting hitherto neglected arenas of host-country resistance and identifying the multiple
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Extending the boundaries of alternative dispute resolution: Private dispute resolution in Irish industrial relations Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 William K Roche
This article examines the features and effectiveness of 11 ‘private dispute resolution arrangements’ (PDRAs) established by employers and unions in Ireland since the early 2000s to resolve collective disputes within organizations. These PDRAs are groundbreaking in redrawing the rules aligning internal dispute resolution with services provided by external state agencies. The article extends the boundaries
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Trade union influence on innovation in the British private sector: Direct and indirect paths Economic and Industrial Democracy (IF 1.913) Pub Date : 2022-04-10 Wen Wang, Jason Heyes, Roger Seifert
This article examines relationships between trade unions and firms’ innovation activity. Drawing on nationally representative data covering 1,384 firms in the UK, the article employs probit analysis to estimate the effect of trade union representation at the workplace on different types of innovation. The findings show significant and positive correlations between trade union representation and the