Despite celebrations from governments, corporations and international financial institutions around increasing economic growth, the majority of world’s urban labour force continues to work under informal conditions, lacking enforceable contracts, adequate earnings, democratic representation, secure employment social protection. The pervasiveness globally has given rise numerous calls adopt a wi...

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The industrial relations (IR) environment in India and its labour market, have been undergoing significant transformations multiple domains for around two decades after the economic liberalization. Gillan Lambert (2013) observe several restructurings at workplace level country. These include, among others, farming out job functions or services to any third party through outsourcing, engaging co...

How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage and employment objectives of unions are rearranged to derive measures of union success or welfare. These indicato...

Althusser’s pioneering concept of “ideological state apparatuses” is extended to the unique role of consumerism as a particular ideology enabling and supporting U.S. capitalism. It is argued that rising levels of worker consumption have functioned effectively to compensate workers for (and thereby allow) rising rates of exploitation and their negative social effects. For such compensation to su...

It is often assumed that the ideological dominance of neoliberalism has profoundly altered job security and long-term employment relationships. Such claims a more unstable insecure jobs market in twenty-first century are focus this paper. Using Labour Force Survey data stability private sector over than 20 years Ireland examined. As liberal economy, represents fitting context which to examine i...

Abstract The study looks at the defining features of various labour dispute resolution modes and their appropriateness in Zimbabwe. Researchers used a qualitative approach to collect analyse data, drawing on purposive sampling method select distribute open-ended questionnaires 38 participants. established that alternative (ADR) Zimbabwe are collective bargaining, conciliation, arbitration, all ...

The aim of this paper is to analyse a new form employment which has appeared in the Polish labour market recent years, i.e. work via digital platforms. author discusses issue platform context its impact on current market. Particular attention paid identification threats connected with employment, demands European and trade unions put forward relation workers regulations planned field at EU leve...

Agency workers (AWs) were originally employed on a substitutional and short-term contract basis, but recently they are found to be long-term purpose in Nigeria. Although agency labour helps solve recruitment challenges, it correspondingly erodes employment relations causes conflicts across employers, trade unions workers. As such, the current research aimed examine rise of AWs analyse its influ...

Abstract This article studies the effect of labour unions on policy‐making in six different parts welfare state (passive and active market policy, employment protection, old‐age pensions, health care education) OECD countries after 1980 with a two‐level strategy: At micro‐level, we investigate union members’ preferences. Ordered logit regression analyses indicate that members favour generous so...