Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10242589231175259
Giovanni Orlandini, G. Meardi
Southern European countries, with their apparently high degree of collective bargaining centralisation and state regulations, may seem to be little affected by the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages. This article looks at the case of Italy, the EU country generally reported to have the highest collective bargaining coverage in Europe, to show how the situation on the ground is more problematic than conventional indicators suggest. Not only does Italy lack a national minimum wage and a legal framework for collective bargaining extension, but its apparent high level of collective bargaining coverage is vulnerable to wage dumping practices. The article identifies the weaknesses of the Italian system and proposes some possible lines of reform.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10242589231173072
Amandine Crespy, Mario Munta
Focusing on two key instruments, the Just Transition Fund and the Social Climate Fund, this article assesses to what extent the EU’s pledge for a ‘just transition’ has the potential to foster greater social justice while implementing the European Green Deal. We analyse the related objectives, policy tools and patterns of political conflict and find that both Funds have narrow objectives anchored in a reactive logic complementing existing social investment initiatives with a focus on reskilling the workforce hit by decarbonisation. Both instruments rely on multi-level investment aiming to generate green growth, combined with targeted compensation for the more vulnerable. This, we argue, is not conducive to a just transition that addresses the intersection of environmental and social problems in a holistic way. Finally, various political fault lines pose the threat that EU action will be insufficient to tackle exacerbated inequalities in the future.
{"title":"Lost in transition? Social justice and the politics of the EU green transition","authors":"Amandine Crespy, Mario Munta","doi":"10.1177/10242589231173072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589231173072","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on two key instruments, the Just Transition Fund and the Social Climate Fund, this article assesses to what extent the EU’s pledge for a ‘just transition’ has the potential to foster greater social justice while implementing the European Green Deal. We analyse the related objectives, policy tools and patterns of political conflict and find that both Funds have narrow objectives anchored in a reactive logic complementing existing social investment initiatives with a focus on reskilling the workforce hit by decarbonisation. Both instruments rely on multi-level investment aiming to generate green growth, combined with targeted compensation for the more vulnerable. This, we argue, is not conducive to a just transition that addresses the intersection of environmental and social problems in a holistic way. Finally, various political fault lines pose the threat that EU action will be insufficient to tackle exacerbated inequalities in the future.","PeriodicalId":23253,"journal":{"name":"Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86265950","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 : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1177/10242589231169683
Robin Huguenot-Noël, F. Corti
When does the EU employment growth agenda also serve social progress? Scholars concerned with the equality/efficiency trade-off generally look at the EU as an agenda-setter. Little attention has yet been paid to its role as direct provider of social rights. Building on a data set of 71 EU measures and 317 judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU, this article evaluates the extent to which EU employment policies helped to advance social citizenship by assessing the scope and distribution of individual entitlements over time (2009–2022). Our findings show that, after almost two decades of silence, the EU not only expanded the scope of its influence over individual social rights but also took an inclusive turn, driven by more ‘universalising’ and ‘capacitating’ initiatives. Looking ahead, better monitoring of the distributive profile of EU initiatives indirectly affecting rights production (such as SURE or the Recovery and Resilience Facility) would help to ensure that this shift increasingly benefits those needing it the most.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/10242589231169664
C. Kilpatrick
Social Europe is not only back but, we aim to show, bigger and bolder than ever before. Through historical comparison we make the case that, rather than being a false dawn, legislative developments linked to the 2017 European Pillar of Social Rights (Pillar or EPSR) beckon such a significant and broad-based burgeoning of Social Europe that it can be characterised as the ‘Roaring 20s’ for Social Europe. This is quite a surprise based on recent Social Europe history, the Pillar itself and established EU competence limits and practices. How Social Europe has defied these justifiably low expectations is the primary focus of this analysis. It aims to characterise and illustrate what we see as a new and quite dramatic turn for Social Europe.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/10242589231152409
Niccolo Durazzi
partnership across Europe. Crisis management is dominated either by the respective government (for example, in Poland), or social partnership, social pacts or social concertation are used by governments to increase legitimacy (for example, Spain). Likewise, they also prove a renaissance of corporatism (neo-corporatism) in times of crisis (for example, Germany) despite neoliberal developments. In addition, they show the limitations of social partnership with regard to crisis management at the European level. Although the European Commission officially promotes the idea of a Social Europe and structures that resemble national social partnership, the authors show that in times of crisis it is the European Commission that is unilaterally in charge of crisis management. Taking into consideration the different levels of European social dialogue, one could argue that the sectoral perspective at the European level would have enriched the overall picture. During the Great Recession some sectors were affected more by the economic repercussions (such as the metal sector) than others (such as the textile sector). Therefore, different sectors needed different crisis management approaches. It would have been interesting to examine the crisis management carried out by the trade union and employer umbrella organisations representing specific sectors, especially the banking sector, in direct reaction to the banking crisis. Altogether, in terms of the theoretical perspective of crisis corporatism, this anthology offers a lot of potential for further research, such as crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic at the different levels of social dialogue (companies, Member States and EU social dialogue).
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Pub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1177/10242589231160419
Franziska Laudenbach
The financial crisis of 2008 unleashed a serious economic crisis across the globe and, accordingly, across the European Union (EU). The so-called Great Recession hit Europe severely and caused both short-term and long-term consequences at different levels for economic growth and employment, but also with regard to income inequality (Brzezinski, 2018). The EU’s policy responses to this crisis focused strongly on European actors, which promoted structural reforms at the national level (De la Porte and Pochet, 2014). In this multi-level context, however, it is also the Member States’ duty to respond to such a crisis in order to absorb the economic, political and social consequences. When reading about EU Member State policy responses, the relevance of the respective institutional contexts becomes evident (Kiess et al., 2017). It is this institutional context in which the social partners come into play. Policy-making by governments together with collective actors in neo-corporatist settings is not new. However, neo-corporatist structures seem to be especially relevant in times of crisis. It is this perspective of collective crisis management and policymaking that the anthology The role of social partners in managing Europe’s great recession. Crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis? (edited by Bernhard Ebbinghaus and J Timo Weishaupt) draws together. By means of a comparative analysis, they aim at understanding crossnational variations in Europe with regard to government involvement of the social partners in crisis management. Moreover, the authors ask ‘what have been the main consequences of such concertation efforts (or their failure or their absence) on labour relations and the future of neocorporatist policymaking?’ (p. 5). In this book, the authors make use of the traditional concept of crisis corporatism, which was initially theorised by Schmitter and Lehmbruch (1979). By including socio-economic, political (politics, elections, institutions) and power-resource factors in industrial relations, they analyse the involvement of social partners across European countries during the financial and economic crisis in 2008/2009 and afterwards. In the space of 293 pages, the book covers national as well as European perspectives on corporatism in times of crises, as analysed by 17 authors. The country chapters1 explain in detail the political situation, the economic context and the respective industrial relations systems. They thus systematically shed light on the role of corporatist actors in crisis management processes, the prompt establishment of social pacts between actors in the respective social dialogues, but also government activities without social partnership. 1160419 TRS0010.1177/10242589231160419TransferBook Reviews book-review2023
2008年的金融危机在全球范围内引发了一场严重的经济危机，因此也波及了整个欧盟(EU)。所谓的大衰退严重打击了欧洲，在不同程度上对经济增长和就业以及收入不平等造成了短期和长期后果(布热津斯基，2018)。欧盟对这场危机的政策反应主要集中在欧洲参与者身上，这促进了国家层面的结构性改革(De la Porte and Pochet, 2014)。然而，在这种多层次的情况下，会员国也有责任对这种危机作出反应，以便吸收其经济、政治和社会后果。在阅读欧盟成员国的政策反应时，各自制度背景的相关性变得明显(Kiess等人，2017)。正是在这种制度背景下，社会伙伴开始发挥作用。在新社团主义背景下，政府与集体行动者共同制定政策并不新鲜。然而，新社团主义结构似乎在危机时期尤为重要。正是这种集体危机管理和政策制定的视角，造就了《社会伙伴在管理欧洲大衰退中的作用》这本选集。危机社团主义还是危机中的社团主义?(由Bernhard Ebbinghaus和J Timo Weishaupt编辑)。通过比较分析，他们的目的是了解在欧洲关于政府参与危机管理的社会伙伴的跨国差异。此外，作者还提出了这样的问题:“这种协调努力(或它们的失败或缺失)对劳资关系和新社团主义政策制定的未来产生了什么主要后果?”(第5页)。在这本书中，作者利用了危机社团主义的传统概念，该概念最初是由Schmitter和Lehmbruch(1979)提出的。通过将社会经济、政治(政治、选举、机构)和权力资源因素纳入工业关系，他们分析了2008/2009年及之后金融和经济危机期间欧洲国家社会伙伴的参与情况。在293页的篇幅里，本书涵盖了17位作者对危机时期社团主义的国家和欧洲视角的分析。国家章节1详细解释了政治形势、经济背景和各自的劳资关系制度。因此，它们系统地揭示了社团主义行动者在危机管理过程中的作用，在各自的社会对话中行动者之间迅速建立社会契约，以及没有社会伙伴关系的政府活动。1160419 trs0010.1177 /10242589231160419 transferbookreviews bookreview2023
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10242589231156515
O. Molina, Florian Butollo, C. Mako, A. Godino, Ursula Holtgrewe, Anna Illsoe, Sander Junte, T. Larsen, Miklós Illésy, Jószef Pap, Philip Wotschack
The extension of artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic management mechanisms by companies has led to growing trade union demands to regulate their use. This article explores the role of collective bargaining and employee participation mechanisms in regulating the use by companies of AI and algorithms. This is done through a comparative analysis of institutional developments at EU level, as well as in four countries with different industrial relations models (Denmark, Germany, Hungary and Spain). The article shows that there are remarkable differences between countries in the roles of social partners and in the combination of protective and participative mechanisms used to respond to the challenges of AI and algorithmic management. However, the analysis also serves to highlight the limits of existing institutions and practices to cope with the complexity of challenges associated with AI and algorithmic management. This calls for institutional adaptation and additional regulatory efforts at EU and national levels to support collective bargaining.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10242589231157656
V. De Stefano, Virginia Doellgast
Recent innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, enabled by the shift to cloud computing and increasing internet speeds
最近人工智能(AI)和机器学习方面的创新，得益于向云计算的转变和互联网速度的提高
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10242589231158066
V. Pulignano, Marco Hauptmeier, Dorien Frans
This article examines union strategies towards the twin digital and green transitions, comparing the German and Belgian automotive industries. The drive towards net-zero and more digital economies is manifested through the move from fossil fuel-powered cars to electric cars, engendering a reorganisation of production, work and employment among car manufacturers. We identified two strategic union response patterns. While German unions are developing proactive strategies and proposals to influence and shape the ongoing transition of the automotive industry, Belgian unions are more passive, reacting primarily to management proposals and focusing narrowly on employment and working conditions without a broader strategy on how to influence the transformation of the automotive industry. We explain the observed cross-national differences by two factors: the importance of national institutions, i.e., the varying integration of labour into management decision-making, and the role of union knowledge regimes. The latter refers to internal union organisations and structures such as research departments, research institutes and foundations tasked with providing own research and funding external research on change topics from a union perspective, publishing studies and developing programmatic agendas, and disseminating the knowledge to union members through training, workshops and conferences.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/10242589231152405
Thomas Klikauer
really driven by the changing character of employment in the context of a wide range of societal, political, economic and cultural considerations. Rather than a shortcoming, however, this can be seen as an opportunity to drive new empirical research that would strengthen causal relationships between precariousness and well-being, focusing on post-pandemic labour markets in developed democracies, but also worldwide. To conclude, the book is a timely and important contribution to the relatively large body of literature on precarious work (see, for example, Choonara et al., 2022). While focusing on the drivers and broader effects of precarious work on well-being, it leaves space for more research on the roles of agency and power resources in understanding why precarious work emerges and how it interacts with other aspects of well-being across different institutional settings. The book by Doellgast et al. (2018) partly does justice to the role of agency and power relations in understanding precarious work and solidarity across relevant stakeholders, but the existing body of literature on precarious work and its institutional and welfare buffers is certainly not exhaustive. Rather, it is gaining even more relevance with technological change, and changing paradigms of work, life, policy and institutions in post-COVID labour markets.
在广泛的社会、政治、经济和文化考虑的背景下，就业特征的变化是真正的驱动因素。然而，这不是一个缺点，而是一个推动新的实证研究的机会，这些研究将加强不稳定性与福祉之间的因果关系，重点关注发达民主国家以及全世界的大流行后劳动力市场。总之，这本书是对相对较大的关于不稳定工作的文献的及时和重要贡献(例如，参见Choonara et al.， 2022)。在关注不稳定工作对幸福感的驱动因素和更广泛影响的同时，它为更多研究机构和权力资源的作用留下了空间，以理解不稳定工作出现的原因，以及它如何与不同制度背景下的福祉的其他方面相互作用。Doellgast等人(2018)的书在一定程度上公正地评价了代理和权力关系在理解不稳定工作和相关利益相关者团结方面的作用，但现有的关于不稳定工作及其制度和福利缓冲的文献肯定不是详尽的。相反，它与技术变革以及后covid - 19劳动力市场中不断变化的工作、生活、政策和制度范例的相关性越来越强。
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