ISBN:
9780192509642
,
0192509640
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 250 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Series Statement:
Economics and Finance
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Reconstructing solidarity
Keywords:
Atypische Beschäftigung
;
Niedriglohn
;
Arbeitsmigranten
;
Leiharbeit
;
Arbeitsbeziehungen
;
Gewerkschaftspolitik
;
EU-Staaten
;
Labor unions Europe
;
Labor Social aspects
;
Work Social aspects
;
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
;
Labor Social aspects
;
Labor unions
;
Work Social aspects
;
Europe
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Europa
;
Gewerkschaft
;
Arbeitsbeziehungen
;
Solidarität
;
Prekariat
Abstract:
1.3.1. Two Models: Low Precarity and High Precarity1.4. ChapterFindings: Expanding Precarity and Reconstructing Solidarity; 1.4.1. Explaining the Expansion of Precarious Work and the Challenge for Solidarity; 1.4.2. Reconstructing Solidarity: Conditions for Regulating Precarious Work; 1.4.2.1. Union Strategies to Represent Precarious Workers; 1.4.2.2. Union Success in Regulating Precarious Work: Building and Accessing Power; 1.5. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References
Abstract:
2: Negotiating Better Conditions for Workers during Austerity in Europe: Unions ́Local Strategies towards Low Pay and Outsourcing in Local Government2.1. Introduction; 2.2. The Context for Comparison: Austerity Spending Cuts and National Institutions; 2.2.1. Austerity Spending Cuts; 2.2.2. National Institutions and Pay Reforms; 2.2.3. National Institutions and Outsourcing; 2.3. Research Design; 2.4. Research Findings 1: Unions ́Success at Improving Pay at Local Level; 2.4.1. Deterioration (Driven Nationally) with Patchwork of Gains for Low-Wage Workers
Abstract:
2.4.2. Compensatory Protections Plus Gains for Low-Wage Workers2.4.3. Sustained Improvements with Varied, Positive Decentralized Outcomes; 2.5. Research Findings 2: Unions ́Success at Promoting Solidaristic Local Outcomes for Subcontracted Workers; 2.5.1. Gaps in Pay and Union Strength Between Local Government and Subcontractors; 2.5.2. Use of Employment Protection Rules and Social Clauses in Procurement; 2.6. Discussion and Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 3: Cutting to the Bone: Workers'́Solidarity in the Danish-German Slaughterhouse Industry; 3.1. Introduction
Abstract:
3.2. Background and Methods3.3. Explaining Patterns of Precarious Work; 3.4. Challenges in Maintaining and Building Inclusive Institutions; 3.4.1. Wage Bargaining in Danish Crown's Danish Production Sites: The Case of Bornholm; 3.4.2. Transnational Action in the German Meat Industry; 3.4.3. Discussing the Findings; 3.4.4. Explaining the Differences; 3.4.5. The Transnational Dimension; 3.5. Conclusion; References; 4: Restructuring Labour Relations and Employment in the European Logistics Sector: Unions ́Responses to a Segmented Workforce; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Methods and Case Selection
Abstract:
Work is widely thought to have become more precarious. Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe argues the opposite: that unions try to represent precarious workers using a variety of creative campaigning and organizational tactics. Where unions can limit employers' ability to 'exit' labour market institutions and collective agreements and build solidarity across different groups of workers, this results in a virtuous circle, establishing union control over the labour market. Where they fail to do so, it sets in motion a vicious circle of expanding precarity based on institutional evasion by employers. Exploring the struggle of the unions against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, Reconstructing Solidarity explains the importance of how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity. It uses a diverse range of comparative case studies to describe the struggles of workers and unions in industries such as local government, music, metalworking, chemicals, meat-packing, and logistics, to argue against the thesis that unions act primarily to protect labour market insiders at the expense of outsiders
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; 1: From Dualization to Solidarity: Halting the Cycle of Precarity; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Past Research on Precarious Work: Three Traditions; 1.2.1. Comparative Political Economy Debates: Dualism and Liberalization; 1.2.2. Critical Sociology Literature: Identity, Subjectivity, and Solidarity; 1.2.3. Comparative Employment Relations; 1.3. Our Framework
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198791843.001.0001
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