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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 03-2014
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 25-04-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-01-2014
Abstract: This article shows how both employers and the state have influenced macro-level processes and structures concerning the content and transposition of the European Union (EU) Employee Information and Consultation (I& C) Directive. It argues that the processes of regulation occupied by employers reinforce a voluntarism which marginalizes rather than shares decision-making power with workers. The contribution advances the conceptual lens of ‘regulatory space’ by building on Lukes’ multiple faces of power to better understand how employment regulation is determined across transnational, national and enterprise levels. The research proposes an integrated analytical framework on which ‘occupancy’ of regulatory space can be evaluated in comparative national contexts.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2016
Abstract: The article critically reviews the reasons for the decline in the engagement with the state in the sociology of work after the 1970s, and for its resurgence after the financial crisis of 2008. It assesses three separate streams of literature (sociology of work, political sociology and welfare state sociology), and argues for the benefits of their integration. Articles in this special section of Work, employment and society provide ex les of the mutual utility of such integration. This introduction concludes by identifying some important avenues for future research on the state and work.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2013
Abstract: This article explores the relationship between job and work quality and argues that while it is important to examine job quality, to understand workers’ experiences fully, the focus should be on the broader concept of work quality, which places the job against its wider socio-economic context. Based on the experiences of 88 rural workers gathered via interviews in Newfoundland and Ireland, it appears that the same or similar jobs can be regarded very differently depending upon the context in which they are embedded, as people at different locations and/or stages of life have an in idual set of aspirations, expectations and life experiences. The study found that the factors that affect work quality are moulded by broader aspects of life – family, friends, community, lifestyle and past experiences – that shape an in idual.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-02-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-06-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JOMS.12585
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-03-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-03-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 28-02-2023
Abstract: Transnational labour governance is in urgent need of a new paradigm of democratic participation, with those who are most affected - typically workers - placed at the centre. To achieve this, principles of industrial democracy and transnational governance must come together to inform institutions within global supply chains. This book traces the development of 'transnational industrial democracy', using responses to the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as the empirical context. A particular focus is placed on the Bangladesh Accord and the JETI Workplace Social Dialogue programme. Drawing on longitudinal field research from 2013–2020, the authors argue that the reality of modern-day supply chain capitalism has neither optimal institutional frameworks nor effective structures of industrial relations. Informed by principles of industrial democracy, the book aims at enhancing emerging forms of private transnational governance as second-best institutions.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-12-2021
DOI: 10.1111/IREL.12299
Abstract: Using the cases of Ireland and Portugal during the post‐2008 Great Recession, we argue that unions' ideological formations around social concertation are central in aiding them to navigate their options about whether to engage in concessionary bargaining with government under crisis conditions. Building on Hyman's triangle of union identity, we show how an ideational perspective can complement interest‐based accounts of unions' strategies to explain their engagement with policymakers or their opposition in the macro‐management of the economy.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-04-2015
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 17-12-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1986009
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 17-12-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2003
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 23-02-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-08-2014
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-06-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-06-2014
Abstract: This article explores employee voice within the specific institutional arrangement of double-breasting. Double-breasting is when multi-plant organizations recognize trade unions in some company sites, with non-union arrangements at other company plants, or where a unionized firm acquires a new site that it then operates on a non-union basis. We examine three research questions in four separate case study organizations that operate employee voice double-breasting arrangements across 16 workplace locations on the island of Ireland. These questions consider employer motives for double-breasting, the practices that characterize double-breasting employee voice, and the micro-political implications of double-breasting. The article contributes to knowledge on the emergence and impact of double-breasting and employee voice systems. We subsequently advance two theoretical propositions: the first theorizing employer motives for double-breasting, and the second explaining the extent to which the practice of double-breasting is durable over time.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-02-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-01-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-08-2015
Abstract: Global labour governance has typically been approached from either industrial relations scholars focusing on the role of organised labour or social movement scholars focusing on the role of social movement organisations in mobilising consumption power. Yet, little work has focused on the interaction of the two. Using an exploratory case study of the governance response to the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, this article examines how complementary capacities of production- and consumption-based actors generated coalitional power and contributed to creating the ‘Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh’, making it binding and convincing more than 180 brand-name companies to sign up. The research has implications for understanding how the interface between production and consumption actors may provide leverage to improve labour standards in global supply chains.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-10-2020
Abstract: The construct of pluralism has allowed us to see a world where parties could pursue ergent interests, sometimes to the point of conflict, and still work together to realise goals. In response to changing models of employment that are threatening many of the values and interests core to workers and society, new readings of pluralism have emerged that we will argue oscillate between antagonism and consensus. In response, we proffer the concepts of agonism and dissensus as bridging different schools of pluralist thought. Our article commences with a review of affordances and limitations of new pluralism. We then introduce the political philosophy of Chantal Mouffe – in particular her conceptualisations of agonism and dissensus – and discuss how these have been employed in consideration of the employment relationship. Next we describe a case salient to our argument, the ready-made garment industry’s stakeholder engagement responses to the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh, into which we bring an understanding of agonism with the possibilities of dissensual engagement. We conclude with our contribution, the development of a nuanced view of pluralism based on dissensus and agonism, which better accounts for the co-existence of cooperation and conflict.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-03-2018
Abstract: Global supply chains are not just instruments for the exchange of economic goods and flow of capital across borders. They also connect people in unprecedented ways across social and cultural boundaries and have created new, interrelated webs of social relationships that are socially embedded. However, most of the existing theories of work are mainly based at the level of the corporation, not on the network of relations that interlink them, and how this may impact on work and employment relations. We argue that this web of relations should not just be seen in economic, but also social terms, and that the former are embedded and enabled by the latter. This article argues for the value of focusing on the role of brokers and boundary workers in mediating social relations across global supply chains. It develops four approaches that lie on a spectrum from structural perspectives focused on brokers who link otherwise unconnected actors to more constructivist ones focused on boundary workers performing translation work between domains.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-08-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2011
Abstract: A growing literature has emerged on employee silence, located within the field of organisational behaviour. Scholars have investigated when and how employees articulate voice and when and how they will opt for silence. While offering many insights, this analysis is inherently one-sided in its interpretation of silence as a product of employee motivations. An alternative reading of silence is offered which focuses on the role of management. Using the non-union employee representation literature for illustrative purposes, the significance of management in structuring employee silence is considered. Highlighted are the ways in which management, through agenda-setting and institutional structures, can perpetuate silence over a range of issues, thereby organising employees out of the voice process. These considerations are redeployed to offer a dialectical interpretation of employee silence in a conceptual framework to assist further research and analysis.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-06-2017
Abstract: The transposition of the 2002/14/EC Directive, establishing a general framework for information and consultation (I& C), has proven contentious in largely voluntarist systems of employment regulation. Receiving particular criticism is the employee ‘opt-in’ mechanism as a means to access I& C rights. For non-union employees in particular, the ability and potential to negotiate rights for I& C is widely seen to be problematic. This article uniquely examines the opt-in mechanism in the context of non-unionism, considering how non-union employers respond to non-union employees invoking their legislative rights to I& C. Drawing upon a case study conducted over four years in a large non-union multinational, the evidence shows how the opt-in and negotiation process function to the advantage of the employer rather than the intended regulatory impact to advance employee rights.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-10-2020
DOI: 10.1111/BJIR.12573
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-04-2012
Abstract: Non-union employee representation is an area which has attracted much interest in the voice literature. Much of the literature has been shaped by a dialogue which considers NERs as a means of union avoidance. More recently however scholars have suggested that for NERs to work in such contexts, they may need to be imbued with a higher set of functionalities to remain viable entities. Using a critical case study of a union recognition drive and managerial response in the form of an NER, this article contributes to a more nuanced interpretation of the literature dialogue than hitherto exists. A core component of the findings directly challenge existing interpretations within the field namely that NERs are shaped by a paradox of managerial action. It is argued that the NER failed to satisfy for employees because of a structural remit, rather than through any paradox in managerial intent.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-07-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-12-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JSCM.12250
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-06-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-09-2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 24-08-2021
DOI: 10.1017/BEQ.2021.27
Abstract: Private governance raises important questions about democratic representation. Rule making is rarely based on electoral authorisation by those in whose name rules are made—typically a requirement for democratic legitimacy. This requires revisiting the role of representation in input legitimacy in transnational governance, which remains underdeveloped. Focussing on private labour governance, we contrast two approaches to the transnational representation of worker interests in global supply chains: non-governmental organisations providing representative claims versus trade unions providing representative structures. Studying the Bangladesh Accord for Fire and Building Safety, we examine their interaction along three dimensions of democratic representation: 1) creating presence, 2) authorisation, and 3) accountability to affected constituents. We develop a framework that explains when representative claims and structures become complementary but also how the politics of input legitimacy shape whose interests get represented. We conclude by deriving theoretical and normative implications for transnational representation and input legitimacy in global governance.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 25-04-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-05-2017
DOI: 10.1111/BJIR.12242
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 25-04-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-03-2117
DOI: 10.1111/IRJ.12383
Abstract: Existing research emphasises employer choice in determining the form and content of non‐union employee representation (NER) structures. This article puts forward an alternative but complementary thesis: we conceptualise NERs as an ‘offer’ that employees can choose to either accept or reject, with several shades of settlement in between. This article argues that employee choice matters insofar as it determines the likely impact and sustainability of the NER offering. Contributing an original typology of employee choices and the associated prospects for the NER, we illustrate our argument via six workplace case studies assessing NER trajectory.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-10-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-10-2203
DOI: 10.1002/HRM.21552
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-11-2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 10-08-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2008
Abstract: This article discusses the potential role of deliberation as an alternative to bargaining in industrial relations. This is carried out through the examination of a case study of a working group designed to formulate mechanisms to encourage workplace financial participation in the Republic of Ireland. It suggests that a specific set of circumstances are required for effective deliberation and that the reality of achieving these in industrial relations contexts is unlikely. In particular, the inability of parties to take an impartial stance hinders them from taking a more detached perspective. In conclusion, the article questions the usefulness of the deliberation concept in industrial relations.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-05-2018
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2013
End Date: 2014
Funder: British Academy
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