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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doellgast, Virginia Lee, 1976- editor.

Lillie, Nathan, editor.

Pulignano, Valeria, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Europe.

Labor unions.

Labor--Social aspects.

Labor.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-183411-4

0-19-250964-0