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The price is wrong: Why capitalism won't save the planet by BrettChristophers. 2024, 432 pp., ISBN: 9781804292303, Price £17.60, h/b British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Vincent Collins
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Social dialogue in the gig economy: A comparative empirical analysis By Bonvin, J., Cianferoni, N. & Mexi, M. ISBN: 9781800372368, £80.00 British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Tom Barratt
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Recasting workers’ power: Work and inequality in the shadow of the digital ageEdwardWebster and LynfordDor. Bristol University Press, 2023, pp. British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Brian Maregedze
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The politics of the minimum wage: Explaining introduction and levels British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Michal Kozák, Georg Picot
There is much economics research on the effects of minimum wages, but little research on their politics. Yet, ever more advanced capitalist democracies have introduced minimum wages, and the setting of minimum wage levels has become increasingly politicized. This article is the first comprehensive study of the politics of the minimum wage: We analyse the determinants of adopting minimum wages as well
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A technological construction of society: Comparing GPT‐4 and human respondents for occupational evaluation in the UK British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Paweł Gmyrek, Christoph Lutz, Gemma Newlands
Despite initial research about the biases and perceptions of large language models (LLMs), we lack evidence on how LLMs evaluate occupations, especially in comparison to human evaluators. In this paper, we present a systematic comparison of occupational evaluations by GPT‐4 with those from an in‐depth, high‐quality and recent human respondents survey in the UK. Covering the full ISCO‐08 occupational
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Under which conditions do unions succeed in pushing back dualization? A configurational study of collective agreements in Portugal British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Paulo Marques, Chiara Benassi, Ana Costa, André Pinto
This article explores the conditions under which unions achieve inclusive outcomes for nonstandard workers in their collective agreements. Using fsQCA, it compares 52 collective agreements signed in Portugal between 2003 and 2019. Additionally, it reports on three short case studies. Results show that the unions’ potential to mobilize resources in favour of outsiders is crucial and is due to either
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Union decline through extension of collective agreements? British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Trond Flaarønning
This study investigates the effects of the mandatory extension of collective agreements on union membership. This relationship is investigated using a difference‐in‐differences framework on the staggered industry‐ and county‐wide introduction of mandatory extension in Norway from 2005 to 2011. The introduction of mandatory extension was championed by labour and social partners and motivated by the
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The regulator‐regulatee relationship in high‐hazard industry sectors: New actors and new viewpoints in a conservative landscape By Jean‐ChristopheLe Coze, BenoîtJourné (Ed.), Cham: Springer. 2024. vi and 114 pp. EUR 29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐49569‐4 British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Fanny Sakinah, Hertantri Yulia Rahmi, Jilda Sofiana Dewi
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Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell workers’ fifteen‐year fight for justice and a living wage By AlDavidoff (2023). Ithaca and London: ILR Press. 238 pages, ISBN: 9781501771552 British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Deepa Kylasam Iyer, Francis Kuriakose
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Employment systems in the twenty‐first century British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Peter Gahan, Peter Turnbull
In this article, we honour David Marsden's most important contribution: his Theory of Employment Systems (ToES). Grounded in standard economic analysis, ToES sets out to explain how a relatively small number of employment systems solve fundamental problems associated with open‐ended employment relationships (flexibility and opportunism). In the period since its publication, the employment relationship
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Marsden as organization theorist British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Marc Salesina
I argue that David Marsden, lauded in Employment Relations (ER) and Human Resource Management, deserves recognition as an organization theorist. Viewing his works as a unified theory, I demonstrate how his focus on the interaction between individual actions, institutions and organizational structures aligns with the fields core concerns. Further, I apply an organizational dialectics approach to his
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Encyclopedia of human resources management By S.Johnstone, J. K.Rodriguez and A.Wilkinson, London: Edward Elgar. 2023 British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Diane‐Gabrielle Tremblay
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Menopause transitions and the workplace theorizing transitions, responsibilities and interventions Edited by VanessaBeck and JoBrewis. Bristol University Press, Jan 10, 2024, 186 pp., ISBN: 978–1529215700, Price GBP 79.99, h/b British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Laura McQuade
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Working women on screen: Paid labour and fourth wave feminism By EllieTomsett, NathalieWeidhase and PoppyWilde, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2024, 333 pp, ISBN 978‐3‐031‐49575‐5, Price EUR 119,99 (Hardcover book) British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Moh. Asman Novi Ambar, Desy Hikmatul Siami
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Development and validation of the employer anti‐unionism scale based on data from US workers British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Piotr Zientara, Joanna Adamska‐Mieruszewska, Monika Bąk
Labour union organizing has experienced a resurgence of interest in the United States. However, a series of unionization drives have spotlighted the hostility of employers toward unionization. Despite numerous studies examining employer anti‐unionism from a qualitative perspective, a significant gap remains as there is currently no available instrument to quantitatively measure this phenomenon. This
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Do minimum wages crowd out union density? British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Michal Kozák, Georg Picot, Peter Starke
Minimum wage legislation has spread across rich democracies in recent decades in response to rising inequality and in‐work poverty. However, there are concerns that state regulation of wages could reduce incentives to join a union. We empirically test this crowding out hypothesis, using (1) an event‐study macro‐level analysis of trade union density in 19 advanced capitalist countries between 1960 and
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Do employers’ equality certifications improve equality outcomes? An assessment of the United Kingdom's Two Ticks and Disability Confident schemes British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Kim Hoque, Nick Bacon, David Allen
This article contributes to debates on equality, diversity and inclusion by exploring the efficacy of employers’ equality certifications, focusing on the UK government's Two Ticks and Disability Confident certifications. In Study 1, using data on Two Ticks certification matched into the nationally representative Workplace Employment Relations Study 2011, we found the adoption of disability equality
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Just reallocated? Robots displacement, and job quality British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Liliana Cuccu, Vicente Royuela
Concerns over widespread technological unemployment are often dismissed with the argument that human labour is not destroyed by automation but rather reallocated to other tasks, occupations or sectors. When focusing on pure employment levels, the idea that workers are not permanently excluded but ‘just’ reallocated might be reassuring. However, while attention has been devoted to the impact of automation
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The effect of enterprise unions on employment adjustment speed in Japanese firms British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Tomohiko Noda, Daisuke Hirano
Using 20‐year dynamic panel data, we analysed the difference in employment adjustment speed and behaviour between unionized and non‐unionized firms, whether continuous or discontinuous, to investigate the effects of enterprise unions on job security in Japan. We confirmed that unionized firms were more reluctant to downsize and continue to offer stronger job security than non‐unionized firms. However
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Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working‐Class Hero by GregorGall, Manchester University Press, 2024. ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐7309‐6. Price: £20.00 British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Michael Andrew MacNeil
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The presence, role and economic impact of Employers’ Associations in Europe British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Dieter Sadowski
1 INTRODUCTION Employers’ Associations (EAs), a major pillar of Western industrial relations and corporatist political systems, are notoriously under-researched compared to their counterparts, the unions. Beginning with Mancur Olson, their theoretical analysis has been further developed by Philip Schmitter and Wolfgang Streeck in particular. Beyond some descriptive studies of mainly aggregate developments
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Do unions increase participation in further education? British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Fredrik B. Kostøl
The race between education and technology is a key issue for trade unions. Unions often include skill upgrading and training in collective bargains, which might be an important tool to facilitate lifelong learning. In this article, I investigate how trade unions influence workers’ participation in further education using Norwegian‐matched employer–employee panel data on full‐time workers and a fixed‐effects
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Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic rewards British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Lisa Dorigatti, Francesco E. Iannuzzi, Valeria Piro, Devi Sacchetto
While there are normally positive expectations concerning job quality in cooperatives, many studies have described a more complex picture. The extant literature has, however, found it difficult to deal with evidence of poor working conditions in these organisations. Some contributions downplay the relevance of this issue, arguing that poor extrinsic aspects of job quality are compensated by intrinsic
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On the emergence of cooperative industrial and labour relations British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Andrea Ricci, Sergio Scicchitano, Giovanni Sulis
We explore the long‐run determinants of current differences in the degree of co‐operative labour relations at the local level. We do this by estimating the effect of the medieval communes –that were established in certain cities in Centre‐Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century – and that contributed to the emergence of a co‐operative attitude in the population on various proxies for current
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What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want? British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Nicholas Martindale, Alex J. Wood, Brendan J. Burchell
Despite the considerable debate concerning the gig economy, research has yet to investigate what platform workers themselves want. In part, this is due to the difficulty of undertaking traditional social surveys in this sector. Therefore, this article makes use of a novel research design that generates a strategic non‐probability sample of 510 platform workers with which to investigate workers’ preferences
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Employer associations, adaptive innovation and common goods: An integrated framework British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Peter Sheldon, Edoardo Della Torre, Luca Carollo, Raoul Nacamulli
This article proposes a new theoretical framework of employer association (EA) adaptive innovation, a strategic organizational response to challenging environments facing EAs and/or relevant firms. Through adaptive innovation, EAs can enlarge their span of service offerings beyond collective, selective and elective goods, services typically explained by Olson‐inspired, market‐transactional theorizing
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The missing link: The significance of institutional interdependencies and dynamics of action for transnational labour regulation in multinational companies British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Thomas Haipeter, Sophie Rosenbohm, Christine Üyük
In recent decades, both academic research and industrial relations practice have been increasingly concerned with whether, and to what extent, transnational forms of labour regulation might constitute a countervailing power to globally operating companies. And although numerous studies have analysed the various instruments and institutions of transnational labour regulation – such as Global Framework
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Empirical challenges in the study of employer associations and their representativeness British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Thomas Breda
The article examines the quality and appropriateness of the data available to measure firms' affiliation to employer associations (EAs). We find large discrepancies in affiliation rates obtained from the five different data sources available for France, leading us in particular to discard tax data. Focusing on survey data, we show that asking managers about affiliation to EAs in general or affiliation
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Explaining varieties of social solidarity in supply chains: Actors, institutions and market risks distribution in outsourced public services British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Anna Mori
On the basis of a comparative analysis of market risks (re)distribution between labour and management in public-service outsourcing in Italy and Denmark, this article examines different cross-national patterns of social solidarity in similar encompassing and co-operative employment relations regimes. It seeks to explain why similar inclusive and collaborative systems of public-sector employment relations
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Employee financial participation and corporate social and environmental performance: Evidence from European panel data British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Geert Braam, Erik Poutsma, Roel Schouteten, Beatrice van der Heijden
Compensation and benefit practices are mainly considered as instruments to align employee behaviour to an organization's strategic goals, such as economic outcomes. Going beyond this economic focus, this study examines whether and how employee financial participation, may drive corporate sustainability performance (CSP; i.e. social and environmental performance). We investigate the relationship between
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Income generation on care work digital labour platforms British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Paula McDonald, Penny Williams, Robyn Mayes, Maria Khan
Recently, a growing number of digital platforms have emerged that intermediate or facilitate connections between care workers and people requiring care. Platforms position themselves as a viable response to the ‘care crisis’, yet have been decried for driving down wages and exposing workers to greater risk and precarity. Unlike more transactional types of intermediated work such as ride-hailing or
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Collective bargaining and power: Wage premium of collective agreements in Europe 2002–2018 British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Wouter Zwysen, Jan Drahokoupil
This article uses the European Structure of Earnings Survey to describe the evolution of collective bargaining coverage in European countries during 2002–2018 and how this affected the pay premium associated with being covered. Pay premia are an outcome of negotiations, reflecting the bargaining power on behalf of employees as well as the system of coverage, separately for the public and private sector
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The effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on wages and wage dispersion: Evidence from the Finnish forest and IT industries British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Antti Kauhanen
Recently, Finnish forest industries shifted from sectoral collective bargaining to firm-level bargaining, and the IT services industry shifted to a hybrid of sector- and firm-level bargaining. Using administrative data on monthly wages and the synthetic difference-in-differences method, I study the causal effects of collective bargaining decentralization on the level and dispersion of wages. Despite
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Pay transparency intervention and the gender pay gap: Evidence from research-intensive universities in the UK British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Danula K. Gamage, Georgios Kavetsos, Sushanta Mallick, Almudena Sevilla
This study investigates the impact of a pay transparency intervention in reducing the gender pay gap in the UK university sector. Introduced in 2007, the initiative enabled public access to average annual earnings disaggregated by gender in UK universities. We use a detailed matched employee-employer administrative dataset that follows individuals over time, allowing us to adopt a quasi-experimental
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Immigrants and trade union membership: Does integration into society and workplace play a moderating role? British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Fenet Jima Bedaso, Uwe Jirjahn
We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism for overcoming the collective action problem less effective. Our empirical analysis with data from the Socio-Economic Panel confirms a unionization gap for first-generation immigrants in Germany. Importantly
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Zero hours contracts and self-reported (mental) health in the UK British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Egidio Farina, Colin Green, Duncan McVicar
This article examines associations between precarious contract types and a range of self-reported health measures for the UK. We focus on zero hours contracts (ZHCs), an extreme form of precarious employment that has grown rapidly in the UK over the last decade, and on mental health. We demonstrate that workers employed on ZHCs are more likely to report a long-term health condition than workers employed
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Do outside options drive wage inequalities in retained jobs? Evidence from a natural experiment British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Veronika Lukesch, Thomas Zwick
We provide evidence that suggests that a reduction in outside wage options reduces wage increases in retained jobs. We use the natural experiment of a reform that reduced outside wage options for employees in deregulated crafts occupations in comparison to employees in not reformed crafts occupations. To avoid estimation biases from general reform effects on wages, we concentrate on employees active
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Disability and trade union membership in the UK British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Melanie Jones
Using data from two national surveys, the Quarterly Labour Force Survey and the Workplace Employment Relations Survey, we establish evidence of a robust disability-related trade union membership differential in the UK. After controlling for differences in other personal and work-related characteristics, disabled employees are found to be 3.6 percentage points (12–14 per cent) more likely to be union
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Solidarity with atypical workers? Survey evidence from the General Motors versus United Auto Workers strike in 2019 British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Carla Lima Aranzaes, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Philip S. DeOrtentiis, Maite Tapia
In this article, we examine the extent to which typical workers act in solidarity with atypical workers. We collected unique survey data from United Auto Workers striking against General Motors in 2019 during the strike and after the ratification vote. Although solidarity was generally high, we do find that typical workers with longer tenure exhibit less solidarity with atypical workers and that they
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Adopting telework: The causal impact of working from home on subjective well-being British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Guillaume Gueguen, Claudia Senik
We study the impact of work from home (WFH) on subjective well-being during the Covid period, where self-selection of individuals into telework is ruled out, at least part of the time, by stay-at-home orders. We use a difference-in-differences approach with individual fixed effects and identify the specific impact of switching to telecommuting, separately from any other confounding factor. In particular
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Do mass layoffs affect voting behaviour? Evidence from the UK British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Nils Braakmann, Wessel N. Vermeulen
How bad are mass layoffs politically? We study this question across both regional and individual-level datasets. Using a difference-in-difference framework with differential timing on constituency-level data for the UK, we find no evidence that mass layoff announcements negatively affect incumbents – either locally or nationally – in the General Elections 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019. Using individual
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Institutional support for new work roles: The case of care coordinators in the United States and England British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Nick Krachler
Drawing on comparative employment relations literature, this article explores how employment relations (ER) institutions support the ‘care coordinator’, a new role tasked with aiding the exchange of information between health and social services in the United States and the UK. Findings show that in both countries, multi-employer collective bargaining facilitated this role by providing good working
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Power and bias in industrial relations research British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Anthony Doucouliagos, Hristos Doucouliagos, T. D. Stanley
We survey 20,439 estimates from 64 distinct research areas to assess power, bias and statistical significance in industrial relations research. The average estimate published in industrial relations research lacks adequate power; average power is 33 per cent, and median power is only 14 per cent, much lower than the conventional 80 per cent standard. Low power means that industrial relations researchers