“…Similar approaches have on the shop floor-level (especially in the automotive industry) been pursued for quite some years under the title of 'sharing the pain'-strategies. Here, mass layoffs or other concessions were split between several plants of the company, in order to protect single subsidiaries from closing down (Pernicka et al, 2015).…”
The article develops a conceptual proposal for the inquiry of trade unions. On the basis of Karl Polanyis theory, four patterns of political mobilization applied by trade unions in the current Transformation are pointed out.
“…Similar approaches have on the shop floor-level (especially in the automotive industry) been pursued for quite some years under the title of 'sharing the pain'-strategies. Here, mass layoffs or other concessions were split between several plants of the company, in order to protect single subsidiaries from closing down (Pernicka et al, 2015).…”
The article develops a conceptual proposal for the inquiry of trade unions. On the basis of Karl Polanyis theory, four patterns of political mobilization applied by trade unions in the current Transformation are pointed out.
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