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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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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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The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self‐)Exploitation By HeejungChung, Bristol: Policy Press. 2022, ISBN: 978‐1447354789, Price GBP 26.99. British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Clelia Li Vigni
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Just reallocated? Robots displacement, and job quality British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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 2.432) 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
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The collective voice of unions and workplace training in Italy: New insights from mixed methods British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Fabio Berton, Anna Carreri, Francesco Devicienti, Andrea Ricci
Using a three-phase approach that combines quantitative (pooled OLS, fixed effects and IV) with qualitative (semi-structured interviews) analyses, we find that in Italy, workplace unions are more likely to enhance training when they sign a firm-level agreement and when they can get access to external funds for financing. We also identify three channels: what we call a ‘maturation effect’, double-track
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All about power after all? A multi-level analysis of employers’ organization membership in Europe British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Alex Lehr, Giedo Jansen, Bernd Brandl
Employers’ organizations (EOs) are the voice of business interests in social partnership and socio-economic policy making. Their legitimacy depends on the willingness of employers to join them as members. We examine the role of two types of power that EOs confer onto their members as drivers of EO membership: countervailing power against labour and organizational power. By analysing large-scale micro-level
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The limitations of overtime limits to reduce long working hours: Evidence from the 2018 to 2021 working time reform in Korea British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Stéphane Carcillo, Alexander Hijzen, Stefan Thewissen
This article provides a first assessment of the causal impact of the 2018–2021 reform in Korea meant to combat its long working-hour culture. The reform consists of lowering the statutory limit on total weekly working hours from 68 to 52. We apply a difference-in-difference approach in which we take advantage of the stepwise implementation of the reform by firm size using individual-level data. We
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Social movement unionism in Spain's feminized precarious service sector: Criticism, cooperation and competition British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Verna Alcalde-González, Ana Gálvez-Mozo, Alan Valenzuela-Bustos
‘Social movement unionism’ (SMU) has been suggested as a suitable strategy for union renewal in Spain, yet the literature on union renewal and SMU has two major shortcomings: (1) a lack of bottom-up studies, and (2) a lack of dialogue between industrial relations and social movement research. To redress these shortcomings, we make three contributions in this article: first, we provide evidence on the
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Job satisfaction and employer-sponsored training British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Vasilios D. Kosteas
This article examines whether participation in employer-sponsored training has a causal impact on job satisfaction by accounting for individual fixed effects, individual-by-employer fixed effects and controlling for promotions in a sub-sample of the data to address the endogeneity of participation arising from within employer job changes. The estimates show a consistent, positive effect of participation
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The link between computer use and job satisfaction: The mediating role of job tasks and task discretion British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Saverio Minardi, Carla Hornberg, Paolo Barbieri, Heike Solga
This study focuses on the consequences of the use of computerized work equipment (hereafter: computer use) on the content and quality of work. It investigates, first, the relationship between computer use and both job tasks and task discretion and, second, their mediating role for the relationship between computer use and job satisfaction. With our German-UK comparison, we contribute to the long-standing
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Two paths towards job instability: Comparing changes in the distribution of job tenure duration in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2014 British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Xavier St-Denis, Matissa Hollister
This study provides novel evidence on trends in job stability in the United Kingdom and Germany, two capitalist economies with distinct sets of institutions and labour market reform trajectories. While we find evidence of an increase in short-term jobs for men in both countries, we also find important differences in the overall patterns of change in the distribution of job tenure duration. The United Kingdom
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How state influence on project work organization both drives and mitigates gendered precarity in cultural and creative industries British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Valeria Pulignano, Deborah Dean, Markieta Domecka, Lander Vermeerbergen
This article develops an understanding of gendered precarity in project work by considering how the transfer of risk from employer to worker is shaped by the contextual pressures of state policy and the organization of the industrial field. The focus is the organization of project work as a condition underpinning the shifting of this risk in a mature field of precarious employment, the cultural and
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Employer associations in Italy: Trends and economic outcomes British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Bernardo Fanfani, Claudio Lucifora, Daria Vigani
This study analyses the representativeness of employer associations in Italy, using unique firm-level data with information on employers' affiliation and their characteristics. We document that a persistent decline in affiliation rates to employers' associations has occurred during the last two decades. We show that affiliated companies are positively selected, as they tend to be larger, older, more
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The mythology of ‘Big Data’ as a source of corporate power British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Michael David Maffie
In this article, the author explores how companies leverage the mythology of their ‘Big Data’ as a source of power. Drawing on two case studies from the ‘gig’ economy, the author finds that the mythology of Big Data allows companies to claim a monopoly over truth about their industries, marginalizing external researchers. In doing so, companies position themselves as the only legitimate source of knowledge
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Workplace gender segregation in standard and non-standard employment regimes in the US labour market British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Alex Makarevich
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of workplace gender segregation in non-standard employment in the United States. It compares segregation in standard and three non-standard work arrangements paying special attention to independent contracting – a segment of contingent employment representing novel and consequential developments in work organization. In line with the prediction that inequality
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From monopoly to voice effects? British workplace unionism and productivity performance into the new millennium British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Michail Veliziotis, Guy Vernon
Britain has featured prominently in debates about unionism and productivity. This article suggests a recent revolution in the productivity effect of British unionism. A thorough review of extant evidence at various levels of aggregation indicates that whatever the broader cost to employee welfare and well-being, the hollowing and erosion of workplace unionism under Thatcherism delivered a one-off productivity
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Lopsided inclusion: The impact of multi-employer bargaining and class-based unionism on non-regular employment in South Korea British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Dongwoo Park
This study examines the impact of multi-employer bargaining on non-regular workers across different unions and types of non-regular employment. Using national representative survey data from South Korea, I find that multi-employer bargaining increases the likelihood that a workplace union would address a pay increase for non-regular workers when the union was affiliated with a confederation espousing
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All work intensity is not created equal: Effort motives, job satisfaction and quit intentions at a grocery chain British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Argyro Avgoustaki, Hans T. W. Frankort
Prior research has shown that the well-being of employees engaged in intensive work can vary with the discretion their jobs afford regarding how and when to carry out the work. This article explores a different avenue. It argues that well-being also varies with employees’ individual motives for working intensively. The article introduces self-determination theory to the domain of work intensity and
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How should we think about employers’ associations? British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Alex Bryson, Paul Willman
We maintain that employer associations are a specific form of employer collusion that is overt, formal and labour market-focused which encompasses but is by no means confined to collective bargaining. We consider the conditions under which this form of collusion might emerge, and how it might develop. Since the context is the decline of employers’ associations in collective bargaining, we look at how
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What did unions do for union workers during the COVID-19 pandemic? British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Eunice S. Han
This research examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on labour market outcomes of union workers, based on nationally representative data. I employ the difference-in-difference estimation to identify the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment, labour earnings and other labour market outcomes of union workers, relative to non-union workers. I find that, compared to non-union workers
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Conflict or cooperation? Exploring the relationship between cooperative institutions and robotisation British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Toon Van Overbeke
Robotization of production challenges the status-quo in the economy, some win, while others lose out. Literature has argued that automation causes redistribution, both between capital and labour as within either category. We also know that many economies have chosen to adopt cooperative institutions to negotiate the negative by-products of such economic changes. What is, however, less clear is how
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Contrasting union orientations and engagement with international private regulation: The agency and role of labour in MNC subsidiaries in Ghana British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Nathaniel Tetteh, Stephen Mustchin
This article focuses on multinational company subsidiaries in Ghana with contrasting approaches to international private regulation. The findings explore the nature and outcomes of international private regulation but also the agency of unions and their orientations in terms of whether they valued and engaged with international private regulation or otherwise. Local union orientations and industrial
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Flexible labour market and trade unions: Surprising career paths of Dutch sub-Saharan Africans British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Diane Confurius, Herman van de Werfhorst, Jaco Dagevos, Ruben Gowricharn
Starting from the empirical evidence that minorities are more likely to work on flexible contracts, we investigated the existence of an ethnic gap in flexible contracts between the native Dutch population and sub-Saharan African immigrants between 2006 and 2012. The migrant group is taken as a test case of ‘outsiders’. This study found, quite surprisingly and contrary to what several theories predict
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The decoupling between labour compensation and productivity in high-income countries: Why is the nexus broken? British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Walter Paternesi Meloni, Antonella Stirati
During the last decades, mature economies have tended to experience a divergence between labour compensation and productivity growth. Interpretations of this trend are still under debate. Our article aims at contributing to a sound, evidence-based understanding. We estimate the magnitude of this decoupling for a panel of 22 high-income economies (1970–2018) and empirically assess the role of a variety
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Is this workplace bullying? How ideas about conflict shape conflict management strategies British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Paulo Marzionna
The adoption of specific conflict management strategies has usually been linked to various factors, such as litigation avoidance, union substitution and the pursuit of strategic benefits. This study advances the hypothesis that actors’ different frames of reference impact how workplace conflicts are interpreted and managed by unions and employers. Drawing on original data from the Brazilian banking
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Organizational leadership: How much does it matter? British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Getinet Astatike Haile
I study the influence of leadership on organizational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). Our most conservative estimates from fixed effects regressions on a panel of organizations reveal that virtuous leadership is significantly and positively linked to an upbeat assessment of organizational performance, and an increase in
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The relationship between works councils and firms’ further training provision in times of technological change British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Alexander Lammers, Felix Lukowski, Kathrin Weis
Participating in further training is strategically important for employees to ensure their employability. Particularly for employees in low-skilled jobs, works councils — firm-level organizations that represent employees — constitute an important employee advocacy instrument in European countries, such as France and Germany. With comprehensive co-determination rights, works councils can influence firms’
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Retooling militancy: Labour revitalization and fixed-duration strikes British Journal of Industrial Relations (IF 2.432) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 John Kallas
Despite decades of decline in strike rates, recent scholarship has examined how unions and labour organizations are retooling the strike to confront increasing employer power. This study focuses on a militant labour union and the emergence of an understudied type of strike – the fixed-duration strike – as a source of labour revitalization. Drawing from qualitative data gathered on fixed-duration strikes