TY - JOUR
T1 - Unions and precarious work: How power resources shape diverse strategies and outcomes
AU - Keizer, Arjan
AU - Johnson, Mat
AU - Larsen, Trine p
AU - Refslund, Bjarke
AU - Grimshaw, Damian
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to all the colleagues who contributed to the European Commission funded project ‘Reducing Precarious Work: Protective Gaps and the Role of Social Dialogue’. This holds in particular for the teams in Denmark, Germany and the UK on whose work the current paper draws. Danish team: S. Rasmussen, B. Refslund, O.H. Sørensen, T.P. Larsen; German team: K. Jaehrling, C. Weinkopf, I. Wagner, G. Bosch, T. Kalina; UK team D. Grimshaw, M. Johnson, A. Keizer, J. Rubery.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/3/10
Y1 - 2023/3/10
N2 - This paper investigates the ability of unions to tackle precarious work by analysing three illustrative case-studies from Denmark, Germany and the UK. It draws on the power resource theory to analyse how different dimensions of power interact with union strategies towards workers in precarious employment, shaping outcomes in both collective representation and labour market conditions. The analysis stresses how unions need multiple forms of power, with important interactions among and across different levels of power resources and important differences between countries, sectors and workplaces. The paper discusses these interactions with a specific focus on the need to develop new resources, in particular ideational resources that are inclusive to those in precarious work, and the interaction between power resources and union strategies as the availability or absence of resources affects the strategies that unions can develop.
AB - This paper investigates the ability of unions to tackle precarious work by analysing three illustrative case-studies from Denmark, Germany and the UK. It draws on the power resource theory to analyse how different dimensions of power interact with union strategies towards workers in precarious employment, shaping outcomes in both collective representation and labour market conditions. The analysis stresses how unions need multiple forms of power, with important interactions among and across different levels of power resources and important differences between countries, sectors and workplaces. The paper discusses these interactions with a specific focus on the need to develop new resources, in particular ideational resources that are inclusive to those in precarious work, and the interaction between power resources and union strategies as the availability or absence of resources affects the strategies that unions can develop.
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U2 - 10.1177/09596801231162517
DO - 10.1177/09596801231162517
M3 - Article
SN - 0959-6801
JO - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
JF - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
M1 - 095968012311625
ER -