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Reconstructing Solidarity explores the struggles of unions against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, and the implications of these struggles for worker solidarity and institutional change.
List of contents
- 1: Virginia Doellgast, Nathan Lillie, and Valeria Pulignano: From dualization to solidarity: Halting the cycle of precarity
- 2: Damian Grimshaw, Stefania Marino, Dominique Anxo, Jerome Gautié, László Neumann and Claudia Weinkopf: Negotiating better conditions for workers during austerity in Europe: Unions' local strategies towards low pay and outsourcing in local government
- 3: Ines Wagner and Bjarke Refslund: Cutting to the bone: Workers' solidarity in the Danish-German slaughterhouse industry
- 4: Carlotta Benvegnú, Bettina Haidinger, and Devi Sacchetto: Restructuring labour relations and employment in the European logistics sector: Unions' responses to a segmented workforce
- 5: Valeria Pulignano and Nadja Doerflinger: Labour markets, solidarity and precarious work: Comparing local unions' responses to management flexibility strategies in the German and Belgian metalworking and chemical industries
- 6: Chiara Benassi and Lisa Dorigatti: The political economy of agency work in Italy and Germany: Explaining diverging trajectories in collective bargaining outcomes
- 7: Adam Mrozowicki, Branko Bembic, Kairit Kall, Malgorzata Maciejewska, and Miroslav Stanojevic: Union campaigns against precarious work in the retail sector of Estonia, Poland, and Slovenia
- 8: Ian Greer, Barbara Samaluk, and Charles Umney: Better strategies for herding cats? Forms of solidarity among freelance musicians in London, Paris and Ljubljana
- 9: Maite Tapia and Jane Holgate: Fighting precariousness: Union strategies towards migrant workers in the UK, France, and Germany
- 10: Sonila Danaj, Erka Caro, Laura Mankki, Markku Sippola, and Nathan Lillie: Unions and Migrant Workers: The Perspective of Estonians in Finland and Albanians in Italy and Greece
- 11: Steven Vallas: Conclusions. The Puzzle of Precarity: Structure, Strategies, and Worker Solidarity
About the author
Edited by Virginia Doellgast, Associate Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, The ILR School, Cornell University, USA, Nathan Lillie, Professor of Social and Public Policy, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Valeria Pulignano, Professor of Sociology of Labour and Industrial Relations, Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Belgium
Virginia Doellgast is Associate Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her research focuses on the impact of collective bargaining and labour market institutions on inequality, job quality, and worker voice. Past projects include comparative studies of organizational and work restructuring in the European and US telecommunications and call centre industries. She is the author of Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy (Cornell University Press, 2012).
Nathan Lillie is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research relates to migration and posted work, free movement in the European Union, and trade union strategies. Past projects include an ERC-funded multi-country study on industrial relations around posted work. In his current project, Protecting Mobility through Improving Labour Rights Enforcement in Europe, he is working together with stakeholders on improving labour protection and access to industrial democracy for posted workers.
Valeria Pulignano is Professor in Sociology of Labour and Industrial Relations, and Scientific Coordinator of CESO at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on the changing nature of employment (industrial) relations and labour markets and its implication for workers voices. She examined the transformations of labour markets and employment (industrial) relations and its impact on workers' representation, working conditions, and job quality in Europe. Projects include change in production and work organization in the auto industry; transnational labour coordination and solidarity; employment relationships in MNCs; corporate restructuring and trade unions; flexibility and employment security; and dualisation and inequality in labour markets. She co-edited (with James Arrowsmith) The Transformation of Employment Relationships (Routledge, 2013).
Summary
Reconstructing Solidarity explores the struggles of unions against the expansion of precarious work in Europe, and the implications of these struggles for worker solidarity and institutional change.
Additional text
A noteworthy feature of the overview chapter is a chart that summarizes-for main outcomes and comparative findings-the nine research-based chapters of the book. The chapters are rich in the variety of research focus yet the coeditors manage to pull them all into their ambitious comparative framework.
