Reconstructing solidarity : labour unions, precarious work, and the politics of institutional change in Europe / Virginia Doellgast, Nathan Lillie, and Valeria Pulignano.

First edition.

9780191834110 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

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338.88094

Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. This work argues the opposite: that unions try to represent precarious workers using a variety of creative campaigning and organisational tactics. 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. Exploring the struggle of the unions against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, the text explains the importance of how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity.

Many people feel that unions represent the interests of protected workers in good jobs at the expense of workers with insecure employment, low pay, and less generous benefits. This work argues the opposite: that unions try to represent precarious workers using a variety of creative campaigning and organisational tactics. 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. Exploring the struggle of the unions against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, the text explains the importance of how unions build, or fail to build, inclusive worker solidarity.

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