Oxford University Press, USA
Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe
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- Virginia Doellgast
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Paperback
- 9780198853558
- 9 X 6 X 0.8 inches
- 0.9 pounds
- Business & Economics > Economics - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
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. Ieconstructing Solidarity examines how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity to challenge this vicious circle and to re-regulate increasingly precarious jobs. Comparative case studies from fourteen European countries describe the struggles of workers and unions in industries such as local government, retail, music, metalworking, chemicals, meat packing, and logistics. Their findings argue against the thesis that unions act primarily to protect labour market insiders at the expense of outsiders.
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