We analyse how different labour market institutions — employment protection versus ‘flexicurity’ — affect technology adoption in unionised firms. The analysis is cast in a setting of corporate globalisation, where domestic unionised labour face the double threat of labour-saving technological innovations and international outsourcing of domestic production. In the main part of the analysis, we ...

This article traces the pattern of conflict, collaboration, and compromise among trade unions, employers, political parties, executive branches, and economic research institutes in Germany, all of which have different stances regarding the introduction of a general statutory minimum wage there. This article examines the degree of political intervention in collective bargaining autonomy. First, ...

This article examines the role of trade unions in the health service at workplace level under the Labour government’s modernisation agenda, and focuses on the shifting balance between forms of direct and indirect participation drawing on case studies of three acute hospital trusts. There has been a strong growth in forms of direct communication within the case study trusts and some increase in ...

In this article, we offer insights into the plurality of interest groups’ strategic responses to socially, politically, and economically transformative phenomenon democratic backsliding. For purpose term “ideational plurality” has been coined refer a ideas leading their activities in general choice strategies concerning government particular (attitudinal behavioural aspects). Two policy fields ...

This two country comparative study examines the effects of globalisation on the room for maneuvre and channels of influence for Austrian and German trade union movements on labour market policy in these countries since the early 1990s. The case selection is informed by the common assessment of these two countries as strongly neocorporatist and " medium " neocorporatist respectively. If the role...

THE AIM OF THIS PAPER is to compare the experiences of Australian and Canadian unions during die 20th century. This comparison reveals many more similarities than differences. The similarities are best understood within a framework developed by Ross Martin. He identifies five types of national trade union movements based on the relationship between unions, the state, and political parties: part...

The role of trade unions in the social shaping digital technologies is a vital question for research, public policy and justice. This article draws on interviews with two grocery retail sector United Kingdom Norway, examines their involvement technology decisions, whether they can shape better outcomes workers. By comparing ‘neo-liberal’ economy ‘Nordic welfare state’, considers stronger instit...

To what extent, and in what way, do labor unions shape workers’ political preferences? Despite a decline in membership rates, few other organizations have the reach and ongoing access to such a sizable share of the electorate. A key question that arises is the degree to which this access translates into political influence. Empirical analyses often find that union members exhibit political view...