Exit, voice, and solidarity : contesting precarity in the US and European telecommunications industries
"Work has become more insecure and unequal. Corporate restructuring strategies hold a good share of the blame, as managers seek to cut costs and shift risk through downsizing, outsourcing, and intensifying performance management. Under what conditions do companies take alternative approaches to...
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| Ort / Verlag / Datum: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Andere Erscheinungsform(en): | Erscheint auch als: Exit, voice, and solidarity, Doellgast, Virginia Lee, 1976- (Online-Ausgabe)
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| Klassifikation: | 331.8 Gewerkschaften, Sozialpartnerschaft, Arbeiterbewegung
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 290 Seiten |
| Anmerkungen: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 261-277 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Work has become more insecure and unequal. Corporate restructuring strategies hold a good share of the blame, as managers seek to cut costs and shift risk through downsizing, outsourcing, and intensifying performance management. Under what conditions do companies take alternative approaches to restructuring, that balance market demands for profits with social demands for high quality jobs? In Exit, Voice, and Solidarity, Doellgast argues that labor unions can play a central role in encouraging high road practices. But they face steep challenges where they lack strong and inclusive social institutions, based on high minimum standards and worker rights to participate in management decisions. Based on detailed case studies in the US and European telecommunications industry, Doellgast shows that cross-national differences in these institutions led to significant differences in restructuring strategies, with implications for worker pay, security, and well-being. However, building and defending these strong social institutions required solidaristic organizing strategies, to push back against intensifying competition across workers and within the labor movement. Constraints on employer exit, support for collective worker voice, and strategies of inclusive labor solidarity together proved to be crucial sources of worker power within core firms and across increasingly fissured and outsourced workplaces. Findings from Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, UK, US, Czech Republic, and Poland give both a wide-ranging and in depth look at why unions succeed or fail in fights to contest intensifying precarity at work and to propose more socially sustainable alternatives." |
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| ISBN: | 9780197659786 9780197659779 |
| AC Nummer: | AC16692287 |
| Hierarchiestufe: | Monografie |
| Erscheinungsform: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Text |
| Medientyp: | Analog |
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