Overview

Trade unions in Europe face a range of cross-cutting challenges. This includes the near-universal contraction in union membership; the related decline of traditionally highly unionised blue-collar industries; and the rise of automation, microprocessing, and digitalisation, which can make it cheaper for employers to invest in machines than to pay humans to work. The breakdown of the standard contract of employment and increasing rates of precarious work have further transformed the world of work. Taken together, this makes any collectivist vision of society, and the notion of solidarity upon which trade unionism is built, difficult to sustain. All this raises tough questions for trade unionists, policy-makers, and researchers alike regarding the future of trade unions, the oldest and largest civil society movement in Europe. The contributions in this volume explore the prospects for union revival across a range of cases, including by focusing on the pursuit of legal remedies and on the opportunities associated with the network society to defend the interests of workers. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions that consider the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the EU level by researchers coming from a range of disciplines and backgrounds. The volume should especially appeal to researchers and practitioners working in the fields of political science, sociology, law, and business studies.

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Author:   Barry Colfer
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.452kg
ISBN:  

9783030882877

ISBN 10:   303088287
Pages:   319
Publication Date:   30 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

IntroductionBarry Colfer, University of Oxford Chapter 1 : The renewal of trade unionism in France Dominique Andolfatto, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté ; Dominique Labbé, Université de Grenoble-Alpes Chapter 2: Macron’s reform and trade union power in the field of health at work  Sylvie Contrepois. Centre de Recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris (CNRS) Chapter 3: A Primordial Attachment to the Nation? French and Irish Trade Unions in Past EU Referendum Debates  Darragh Golden, University College Dublin; Roland Erne, University College Dublin, Élodie Béthoux, École normale supérieure, Paris Chapter 4: The European Court of Justice’s role in enhancing trade unions’ power in Europe  Lorenzo Cecchetti, University of Bologna Chapter 5: The « Gilets Jaunes » movement - Issues of leadership and purpose in fluid organizing  Yoann Bazin, EM Normandie  Barry Colfer, University of Oxford Chapter 6: New forms of union organising in the Czech Republic Martin Štefko, Charles University, Prague Chapter 7: European Trade Unions in the Age of Migration: the state of the art  Rolle Alho, University of Helsinki Chapter 8: Trade Union Participation and New Forms of Collective Action: Pension Reform in Spain as a case study  Eusebi Colàs-Neila, Univ. Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Chapter 9: Confronting a moral abyss: Unions and the role of law in the France Telecom case  Julia López López, Univ. Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Chapter 10: Political participation and local, national and international assemblies  Dario Cositore, Univ. Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Chapter 11: The right to collective bargaining of economically dependent workers in the digital age  Pieter Pecinovsky, KU Leuven Chapter 12: Normalcy of Militancy: Trade Union Activism and Power for Collection Change 1971-1974  Jordan Brown, University of St Andrews Conclusion: Barry Colfer & Richard Hyman (LSE) Afterword: Esther Lynch, Deputy Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)  

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Barry Colfer is Research Fellow in Politics at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

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