The Constitution of European Works Councils: From Information Forum to Social Actor?

Lecher, Wolfgang; Rüb, Stefan

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“…These limited forms of employee involvement were nevertheless an important ingredient in the post-World War II rapid economic expansion of Japan, which was based on the efficient production of high-quality manufactured goods in the electronics and automobile industries (Cole 1989). European versions of employee involvement, in contrast, are based on elected work councils and legislatively backed codetermination principles that allow a broader range of topics to be considered and include a more direct consideration of workers' rights and interests (Lecher and Rü b 1999).…”

Section: Organizational-level Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational Success and Worker Dignity: Complementary or Contradictory?

Hodson

Roscigno

2004

American Journal of Sociology

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Section: Organizational-level Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational Success and Worker Dignity: Complementary or Contradictory?

Hodson

Roscigno

2004

American Journal of Sociology

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“…While other scholars are not necessarily positive about current practices, they stress the potential of EWC for worker representation (Dølvik, 1997;Lecher and Rüb, 1999;Lecher et al, 2001;Marginson and Sisson, 2006). Several factors have been identified facilitating worker coordination, including information technology (Whittall et al, 2009); sensitivity to language barriers (Stirling and Tully, 2004); using traditionally strong national industrial relations platforms (Marginson et al, 2004); union networking activities (Turner, 1996); or high union density in some countries (Waddington, 2011).…”

Section: The Internationalization Of Worker Representationmentioning

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Mapping the frontier of theory in industrial relations: the contested role of worker representation

Tapia

Ibsen

Kochan

2015

Socio-Economic Review

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The widespread decline of trade unions and the emergence of various alternative forms of worker voice and representation have posed a challenge to the field of industrial relations and generated significant rethinking of the future directions for this field of study. In this article, we examine how well industrial relations meta-theories, when combined with efforts to build middle-range theories, provide distinctive explanations and different predictions for the alternatives that have emerged to date to fill the void. We propose new directions for theory and research that expand the range of actors or institutions that shape employment relations and include social identities outside of the employment relationship as the basis for mobilizing collective actions and voice. Finally, we suggest using these theoretical arguments to test among alternatives as a means of revitalizing and reshaping industrial relations as well as carrying forward the problem-solving norms that have characterized the field since its inception.

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“…Todavia, sem deixar igualmente de alertar para o facto de ser incontornável uma vigilância permanente sobre o exercício das boas práticas. (Wills, 2000), ação sindical e reivindicação coletiva (Lecher et al, 1999;Telljohann, 2005) e fomento de uma identidade laboral europeia Knudsen;Huijgen, 2007).…”

Section: Conselhos De Empresa Europeus Militantes?unclassified

Conselhos de Empresa Europeus militantes? Obstáculos, acordos e boas práticas à luz da experiência portuguesa na VW

Costa

2017

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The transnational organization of workers makes use of different institutional configurations and modes of action. This text analyzes one of these forms of organization: European Works Councils (EWCs). These structures reveal how information and consultation processes in EU-scale enterprises can enhance transnational labor participation. Based on the sectoral impact of the EWCs in Portugal, this text emphasizes two dimensions of analysis: on the one hand, a formal and quantitative dimension associated with a content analysis of EWCs agreements involving workers' representatives in the metallurgical, chemical and financial sectors. On the other hand, a qualitative dimension resulting from interviews with workers' representatives in EWCs seeking to show good practices associated with their operation. In this case, the EWC of Volkswagen Group deserves special attention. It is argued that effective labor transnationalization will always have to promote a trade-off between handling persistent obstacles and maximizing emerging good practices. In this sense, even being a reality, whose path is already made, the EWCs proceed in building, as heretofore (and perhaps even more so in the context of economic crisis), a more cohesive transnational labor identity. Introdução ualquer análise que incida sobre a relevância sociopolí-tica do sindicalismo não deixará de considerar, porventura como critério prioritário, a questão da representatividade sindical (medida através da sindicalização). E, mesmo admitindo que o cenário internacional está longe de ser uniforme, esse critério nem sempre é usado pelos melhores motivos, pois é recorrentemente apresentado como expressão da crise do sindicalismo. Mas de par com a (quebra da) sindicalização, a questão da autonomia sindical, a relação do sindicalismo com organizações não sindicais, ou os seus apelos internacionalistas são outros desafios que a abordagem do fenómeno sindical suscita (Estanque; Costa; Silva, 2015).Neste texto concede-se prioridade ao "desafio transnacional". Como é sabido, não se trata de um desafio novo, pois o apelo internacionalista, conjuntamente com a busca de emancipação e homogeneização laboral, esteve na génese do sindicalismo (Hyman, 1999, p. 95; Costa, 2008, p. 42-43). Porém, foi o capital o que melhor se globalizou de modo a superar as "variedades de capitalismo" (Hall; Soskice, 2001), ao passo que o trabalho lidou de forma menos audaz com as "variedades de sindicalismo" (Frege;Kelly, 2004; Hyman, 2013, p. 6-27). Assim, enquanto categoria analítica, o trabalho, fruto das mutações e metamorfoses (Antunes, 2013; Estanque; Costa, 2012) nos espaços nacionais, sentiu maiores dificuldades em congregar esforços no plano transnacional, pelo que é lícito afirmar que o sindicalismo transnacional se configurou como "metáfora adiada" (Costa, 2008).Essa secundarização da escala transnacional não deve, todavia, ser vista como uma fatalidade, mas antes como um caminho a desbravar. Aliás, convém ter presente que a organização transnacional de trabalhadores é pro...

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The Constitution of European Works Councils: From Information Forum to Social Actor?

Cited by 59 publications

References 1 publication

Organizational Success and Worker Dignity: Complementary or Contradictory?

Organizational Success and Worker Dignity: Complementary or Contradictory?

Mapping the frontier of theory in industrial relations: the contested role of worker representation

Conselhos de Empresa Europeus militantes? Obstáculos, acordos e boas práticas à luz da experiência portuguesa na VW

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