Pub Date : 2023-12-30DOI: 10.1177/10242589231221518
Joachim Becker
Neo-nationalist parties emerged victorious in Hungary and Poland after the financial crisis as a political consequence of disenchantment with the neoliberal approaches ushered in by EU accession and subordinate economic integration. This article analyses, in a comparative perspective, the strategies adopted by the governing neo-nationalist parties in Hungary and Poland with regard to trade unions and industrial relations as part of their broader political-economic projects.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1177/10242589231219749
Kairit Kall
In this article the question of how transnational organising has become institutionalised in some trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is examined by studying three prominent organising initiatives in the region. It is argued that international union networks, facilitated by European integration, and the meagre resources of unions in the region have affected the development of organising with a transnational dimension. Originally initiated by a few activists, by the early 2020s organising has shown some promising results and has become an accepted strategy for strengthening unions. But local unions still lack sufficient resources of their own to organise properly. This has encouraged the institutionalisation of transnational organising. Although this has provided CEE unions with more resources, it also gives rise to problems of its own, notably the need for CEE unions to adjust their operations in accordance with the funding process and funders’ preferences.
{"title":"From a handful of activists towards an organising subculture: institutionalisation of transnational union organising in Central and Eastern Europe","authors":"Kairit Kall","doi":"10.1177/10242589231219749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589231219749","url":null,"abstract":"In this article the question of how transnational organising has become institutionalised in some trade unions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is examined by studying three prominent organising initiatives in the region. It is argued that international union networks, facilitated by European integration, and the meagre resources of unions in the region have affected the development of organising with a transnational dimension. Originally initiated by a few activists, by the early 2020s organising has shown some promising results and has become an accepted strategy for strengthening unions. But local unions still lack sufficient resources of their own to organise properly. This has encouraged the institutionalisation of transnational organising. Although this has provided CEE unions with more resources, it also gives rise to problems of its own, notably the need for CEE unions to adjust their operations in accordance with the funding process and funders’ preferences.","PeriodicalId":23253,"journal":{"name":"Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research","volume":"17 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139148420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1177/10242589231219747
Dennie Oude nijhuis
{"title":"Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in the Low Countries: the case of the Netherlands","authors":"Dennie Oude nijhuis","doi":"10.1177/10242589231219747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589231219747","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23253,"journal":{"name":"Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research","volume":"2 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139150751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1177/10242589231190566
Sarah Abdelnour, Émilien Julliard, Dominique Méda
In France, the growth of digital labour platforms has benefited from the support that has been provided by one section of the governing political class for the sake of the ‘employment opportunities’ that they are expected to generate. However, their operating model, which relies on outsourced labour carried out by supposedly self-employed workers, has been the subject of inspection operations and objections initiated by the social security agencies and institutions that ensure compliance with labour law. Based on interviews with these stakeholders – labour and social security inspectors – this article illustrates how they are seeking to reintegrate these workers into the employed workforce, not only for the purpose of maintaining their safety at work but also with a view to preserving the French social model. These inspectors rely on their traditional control tools but also on the framing of anti-fraud policies. Ultimately, their actions seek to inform legal disputes with a view to reclassifying the workers concerned.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1177/10242589231186963
Ana Diakonidze
Much has been written about the precarious nature of platform work, whether in high-income or less advanced economies. The lack of alternative employment opportunities and the high level of informal work in the latter are often assumed to be the key incentive for local workers to take on platform work. There is however little research on how exactly local conditions affect workers’ choices and most importantly on the factors making them accept the precariousness of platform labour. Based on 40 interviews with ride-hailing drivers in Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia, this article argues that, rather than the lack of alternative opportunities, the poor quality of available jobs and the lack of social protection are the factors leading workers to accept and internalise precariousness, making the inherent features of app-based work seem normal.
{"title":"Internalising precariousness: experiences of Georgian platform workers","authors":"Ana Diakonidze","doi":"10.1177/10242589231186963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589231186963","url":null,"abstract":"Much has been written about the precarious nature of platform work, whether in high-income or less advanced economies. The lack of alternative employment opportunities and the high level of informal work in the latter are often assumed to be the key incentive for local workers to take on platform work. There is however little research on how exactly local conditions affect workers’ choices and most importantly on the factors making them accept the precariousness of platform labour. Based on 40 interviews with ride-hailing drivers in Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia, this article argues that, rather than the lack of alternative opportunities, the poor quality of available jobs and the lack of social protection are the factors leading workers to accept and internalise precariousness, making the inherent features of app-based work seem normal.","PeriodicalId":23253,"journal":{"name":"Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89162746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1177/10242589231179169
Maxime Bellego, Virginia Doellgast, Elisa Pannini
In this article we examine work reorganisation in technician units at France Télécom (FT/Orange) following the social crisis associated with employee suicides in 2007–2009. As a result of trade union campaigns and changes in leadership, the company moved to a more collaborative model, relying on broadened skills and enhanced worker participation in decision-making. Drawing on the framework of organisational and institutional experimentation, we argue that the crisis provided an opportunity to shift from top-down, Taylorised practices to a high-involvement model based on multi-skilled teams. This new model fostered mutual gains for workers in terms of increased autonomy and broadened skills, and for the employer through improved efficiency and customer service. It was underpinned, however, by the strengthening of labour’s countervailing power following the social crisis, which encouraged and supported managers in prioritising psychosocial health as a key organisational objective.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1177/10242589231177353
V. Pulignano, Claudia Marà, Milena Franke, Karol Muszyński
This article explains how digitally mediated provision of domestic care services perpetuates the invisibility and informality of such work through individualising risk, which we operationalise by one of its dimensions, that of unpaid labour. We understand unpaid labour as the cost of the risk borne individually by workers at the intersection of the social (inter-personal) and economic (monetary) spheres. Drawing on the experiences of domestic care workers providing their services through platforms, the study shows how platforms have made their way into the labour markets and welfare structures of two mature economies, Belgium and France. Via their (digital) rules, they pursue ‘regulatory compliance’ and ‘disruption’ as distinct strategies for establishing platform dominance, albeit with country-based differences. Platform-mediated employment outcomes remain generally unrecognised, undocumented and informal, with unpaid labour characterising the cost of the individualisation of risk.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-13DOI: 10.1177/10242589231175281
Laust Høgedahl
{"title":"Book Review: Arise. Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence","authors":"Laust Høgedahl","doi":"10.1177/10242589231175281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589231175281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23253,"journal":{"name":"Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85153076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1177/10242589231174778
Ajla Rizvan
{"title":"Book Review: Neue Europäische Arbeitspolitik. Umkämpfte Integration in der Eurokrise","authors":"Ajla Rizvan","doi":"10.1177/10242589231174778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589231174778","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23253,"journal":{"name":"Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77683166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10242589231175607
S. Vitols
In the past few years a number of important initiatives have been launched to try to ensure that companies provide accurate information about their impacts on the environment and society. In 2022 the EU legislators approved the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which provides a legal basis mandating sustainability reporting by large EU companies.1 At the international level, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), a private initiative launched in 2021, has started work on voluntary reporting standards. And in the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked for input on corporate reporting requirements on environmental, social and governance issues. These initiatives are in response to the growing societal expectation that corporate reporting should go beyond financial issues. As the dimensions and consequences of climate change become clearer, pressure on corporations to disclose not only their impacts on the environment but also their plans for reducing their negative impacts is increasing. Furthermore, growing awareness of child and forced labour in supply chains and in-work poverty has increased expectations that companies should report on human rights and working conditions. Although all of these initiatives are aimed at reducing ‘greenwashing’ and satisfying stakeholders’ needs for credible information on companies’ impacts on people and planet, there are significant differences between them regarding the role of workers’ representatives.2 These initiatives highlight three fundamental questions that are currently being debated. First, for whom is sustainability reporting intended? Is it primarily for investors or for other ‘users’, including trade unions and NGOs? Second, which stakeholders should be involved in the development of rules for sustainability reporting: auditors, investors and companies, or a broader set of stakeholders? And third, which stakeholders should be involved in sustainability reporting at the company level? How these questions are answered will be crucial for defining workers’ representatives’ role in sustainability reporting and in the relevance of sustainability reports for workers. This report focuses on the two initiatives most relevant to EU companies: the mandatory system regulated by the CSRD, and the private initiative centred on the ISSB. It starts with the ISSB, which is intended primarily for investors and defines no explicit role for trade unions and works councils. It contrasts this with the CSRD, which includes the right for workers’ representatives to 1175607 TRS0010.1177/10242589231175607TransferVitols news2023
在过去的几年里，已经启动了一些重要的举措，以确保公司提供有关其对环境和社会影响的准确信息。2022年，欧盟立法者批准了《企业可持续发展报告指令》(CSRD)，该指令为欧盟大型公司的可持续发展报告提供了法律依据在国际层面，国际可持续标准委员会(ISSB)是一个于2021年启动的私人倡议，已开始制定自愿报告标准。在美国，证券交易委员会(Securities And Exchange Commission，简称SEC)已就企业在环境、社会和治理问题上的报告要求征求意见。这些举措是为了回应越来越多的社会期望，即企业报告应超越财务问题。随着气候变化的规模和后果变得更加清晰，企业不仅要披露其对环境的影响，还要披露其减少负面影响的计划，这一压力正在增加。此外，越来越多的人意识到供应链中的童工和强迫劳动以及工作中的贫困问题，这提高了人们对企业应报告人权和工作条件的期望。尽管所有这些举措都旨在减少“漂绿”，并满足利益相关者对公司对人类和地球影响的可靠信息的需求，但在工人代表的角色方面，它们之间存在显著差异这些倡议突出了目前正在辩论的三个基本问题。首先，可持续发展报告是为谁准备的?它主要是针对投资者还是其他“用户”，包括工会和非政府组织?其次，哪些利益相关者应该参与可持续发展报告规则的制定:审计师、投资者和公司，还是更广泛的利益相关者?第三，哪些利益相关者应该参与公司层面的可持续发展报告?如何回答这些问题对于确定工人代表在可持续发展报告中的作用以及可持续发展报告对工人的相关性至关重要。本报告重点关注与欧盟公司最相关的两项举措:由CSRD监管的强制性体系，以及以ISSB为中心的私人举措。首先是ISSB，它主要针对投资者，没有明确规定工会和劳资委员会的作用。它与CSRD形成对比，CSRD包括工人代表的权利，以1175607 TRS0010.1177/10242589231175607TransferVitols news2023
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