Pathways in Decentralised Collective Bargaining in Europe

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18395-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

One of the main challenges in labour relations in Europe is the ongoing decentralisation of collective bargaining from national and sectoral levels to company levels. Decentralisation might be an answer to business needs in competitiveness and organisational flexibility. However, it risks erosion of collective bargaining structures, more inequality in employment conditions and fragmentation in trade unions' powers. Based on recent qualitative research, this book shows high varieties across European countries and economic sectors in degrees, forms and impacts of decentralisation. The authors explore, in interdisciplinary and multi-level perspectives, continuity and change in regulating and practicing collective bargaining in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden. In cross-country comparisons, company case studies in manufacturing and retail show the divergent effects of national regimes and social partners' power resources on trade unions' strategies and influence in company bargaining.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tros, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Decentralisation of collective bargaining: comparing institutional change and company practices in Europe, 2. Decentralised bargaining and the role of law, 3. Decentralisation of collective bargaining in the manufacturing sector, 4. Decentralisation of collective bargaining in the retail sector, 5. Interplay between state and collective bargaining, comparing France and Spain, 6. Does decentralisation leads to new relationships between trade unions and works councils ? Germany and the Netherlands compared, 7. Trade union participation and influence in decentralised collective bargaining, Authors, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Frank Tros is sociologist and senior researcher at AIAS-HSI, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). He is experienced in researching labour relations, collective bargaining, social dialogue and co-determination in the Netherlands and in cross-country comparisons. He initiated and coordinated the research project Comparisons in Decentralised Bargaining (CODEBAR), co-financed by the European Commission (2020-2022).