Track 1 - Den forskelligartede arbejdsstyrke - nye og gamle udfordringer
Intens globalisering, migration af arbejdskraft og en ny fleksibel kapitalisme har øget diversiteten i arbejdsstyrken og ført til nye udfordringer. Forskellen i rettigheder, løn og arbejdsforhold er forøget, både inden for og på tværs af arbejdsmarkedsmodeller. Beskæftigelsesforhold varierer mere end nogensinde i mange forskellige dimensioner: legal-illegal, formel-uformel, inklusion-ekslusion. Samtidig forbliver de gamle udfordringer uløste. Ulige løn mellem mænd og kvinder, ulige repræsentation - kønslig og etnisk - i arbejdsmarkedsorganisationer, og problemer relateret til ansattes balance mellem arbejde/fritid er stadig vidt udbredte. De nye og gamle udfordringer er nært forbundne, og forstærker hinanden på forskellig vis.
I løbet af det sidste årti har fagforeninger haft fokus på at gøre deres organisationer mere demokratiske og inkluderende, og udvidet deres agenda til at beskytte ansattes rettigheder og løn uden hensyntagen til ansættelseskontrakt og medlemskab. Yderligere har fagforeninger udviklet nye organisationsstrategier og nye former for samarbejde, fx med NGO'er, lokalsamfund og multinationale virksomheder. Alle disse udviklinger har haft konsekvenser for de nationale arbejdsmarkedsmodeller.
Et vigtigt spørgsmål er, hvorvidt den økonomiske krise vil forstærke udfordringerne yderligere, hvad angår arbejdsstyrkens forskelligartethed og de medfølgende konflikter? Vil migrationen af arbejdskraft blive mindre? Vil vi se nye forhandlingsagendaer og nye former for samarbejde - eller en ny division af ansvar mellem de involverede partnere? Vil migration af arbejdskraft og andre demografiske forandringer transformere fagforeningsstrategier? Og ikke mindst, vil gamle udfordringer stadig blive håndteret?
Papers fra track 1 i pdf:
Trade Union Responses to the rise of precarious employment among young people in Southern Europe
Lefteris Kretsos
Job satisfaction, commitment and intention to stay among Banks' call centre workers: The case of workers in Turkey
I.U. Zeytinoglu, A. Keser, G. Yilmaz & A. Ozsoy
The mobilisation of women trade union leaders - a comparative perspective
Geraldine Healy & Gill Kirton
Migrant domestic workers - beyond regulation regimes?
Line Eldring & Kristin Alsos
Women's Quotas as a Means of Revitalizing Unions in Austria
Sabine Blaschke
We’re coming out of the side-lines: The role of women’s groups in New Zealand, UK and Canadian unions in addressing intersectional interests
Jane Parker, Julie Douglas & Janice Foley
Work-Family Conflict in Western Europe: Gender Roles and Market Pressures
Hanno van Eldik
Towards a typology of trade unions uses of the Internet: Preliminary data on the Portuguese case
Raquel Rego, Reinhard Naumann & Paulo Alves
Putting it all together: Support for and obstacles to women's union leadership
Michelle Kaminski & Jailza Pauly
Several problems of the trans-national activity of labour intermediation services
José María Miranda Boto & Ricardo Rodríguez Contreras
Non-standard forms of employment in Germany. Development, patterns and regulation in a comparative perspective
Berndt Keller & Hartmut Seifert
A twofold unsatisfied demand for organising? Young workers, youth representatives and union confederations' organising efforts
Kurt Vandaele
Revitalization through gender equality: a challenge for trade unions
Anja Kirsch
Cross-border workers and jurisdiction. Some problems from the experience of Spanish labour law
Yolanda Maneiro Vázquez
EU Enlargement and the Subsequent Patterns of Employing Central and Eastern European Labor in the Norwegian Shipbuilding Industry
Sigmund Aslesen & Anne Mette Ødegård
Men, masculinities and flexible working
Amanda Thompson
Trade union learning initiatives and migrant workers in a time of recession and restructuring: The case of the Communication Workers' Union in the United Kingdom
Steve Shelley, Moira Calveley & Jane Hardy
Has the economic crisis been a challenge or an opportunity in achieving more gender equality in social policy outcomes? A comparison of Denmark, Germany and the UK
Janine Leschke & Maria Jepsen
New regulations for temporary work agencies - can a growing informal market be subdued? A case study of the Norwegian construction sector
Anne Mette Ødegård, Øyvind Berge & Kristin Alsos
The true spirit of self-organisation? Migrant worker activists in UNISON
Sian Moore, Greg Thomson & Max Watson
Trade union responses towards immigration in Europe: Policy, politics and the language of inclusion
Heather Connolly & Miguel Martínez Lucio
Does one size fit all? - Trade unions, discrimination and legal regulations
Sonia McKay
Manual Work Matters
Peter Nolan & Gary Slater
Equal Pay and Reflexive Regulation
Colm McLaughlin & Simon Deakin
Unions, learning, migrant workers and trade union "revitalisation" in the UK
Stephen Mustchin
Formal and informal union education in the promotion of union democracy and activism
David Peetz & Michael Alexander
The effects of the diversification of labour force on trade- union activities
Zeynep Şişli
Outsiders and insiders; Gender work in British industiral relations and trade union studies
Sue Ledwith