The New World of Work
Challenges and Opportunities for Social Partners and Labour Institutions
Published on 31. December 2021
Book
Hardback
672 pages
978-1-80088-804-3 (ISBN)
Description
Actors in the world of work are facing an increasing number of challenges, including automatization and digitalization, new types of jobs and more diverse forms of employment. This timely book examines employer and worker responses, challenges and opportunities for social dialogue, and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work.
Through interviews and surveys, the volume provides direct evidence on three central questions: how can we cultivate autonomous, bipartite social dialogue in order to meet these critical challenges? How can the social partners strengthen their representativeness and membership, and extend their influence? What role can social partners and social dialogue play regarding digitalization, and what best practices can be identified?
The volume also addresses significant trends such as demographic changes, migration flows, global supply chain management and environmental objectives. It covers the current EU member states while extending analysis to EU candidate and potential candidate countries, thus enlarging coverage to 34 European nations. The detailed evidence by theme and by individual country will provide a unique source of ideas on social actors' innovative roles in ensuring sustainable and inclusive practices in the future world of work.
This will be an invigorating read for labour economics and labour policy scholars looking for a better understanding of the new world of work. Labour organizations, employers, trade unions and representatives of national and supranational institutions will also benefit from the detailed case studies in the volume.
Through interviews and surveys, the volume provides direct evidence on three central questions: how can we cultivate autonomous, bipartite social dialogue in order to meet these critical challenges? How can the social partners strengthen their representativeness and membership, and extend their influence? What role can social partners and social dialogue play regarding digitalization, and what best practices can be identified?
The volume also addresses significant trends such as demographic changes, migration flows, global supply chain management and environmental objectives. It covers the current EU member states while extending analysis to EU candidate and potential candidate countries, thus enlarging coverage to 34 European nations. The detailed evidence by theme and by individual country will provide a unique source of ideas on social actors' innovative roles in ensuring sustainable and inclusive practices in the future world of work.
This will be an invigorating read for labour economics and labour policy scholars looking for a better understanding of the new world of work. Labour organizations, employers, trade unions and representatives of national and supranational institutions will also benefit from the detailed case studies in the volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80088-804-3 (9781800888043)
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Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, Founder and Chair of the Fair Wage Network and University of Geneva, Switzerland, Youcef Ghellab, Head of the Social Dialogue and Tripartism Unit, Governance and Tripartism Department, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland and Rafael Munoz de Bustillo Llorente, Professor of Applied Economics, University of Salamanca, Spain
Content
Contents:
Foreword by Heinz Koller ix
1. Enhancing social partners' and social dialogue's roles and capacity
in the new world of work: Overview 1
Youcef Ghellab and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
2. Strengthening the representativeness of the social partners and their
institutional capacity to shape labour markets through social dialogue 28
Dominique Anxo
3. Supporting the autonomous role of the social partners 69
Bernd Waas
4. Digitalization and social dialogue: Challenges, opportunities and responses 110
Rafael Munoz de Bustillo Llorente
5. Enhancing the social partners and social dialogue in the new world of work
in the Czech Republic 155
Sona Veverkov.
6. Reforms and new challenges for work and employment in France: Social
dialogue under pressure 188
Christine Erhel
7. The German industrial relations system under pressure: Structure, trends
and outcomes 216
Ulrich Walwei, Lutz Bellmann and Christoph Bellmann
8. Striking the right balance between autonomy and assumption of
responsibility: A way forward for social dialogue in Greece 255
Daphne Nicolitsas
9. Social dialogue and the new world of work in Ireland 285
Philip J. O'Connell
10. Enhancing the social partners and social dialogue in the new world
of work: The case of Italy 319
Lorenzo Bordogna
11. Social partners and the world of work in Poland: Between East and West 369
Dominika Polkowska
12. Social dialogue and world of work challenges in Romania 406
Magda Volonciu
13. Enhancing social partners' capacity and social dialogue in the new world
of work: The case of Spain 429
Oscar Molina
14. Industrial relations, social dialogue and the transformation of the world
of work: The Swedish experience 465
Dominique Anxo
15. Turkey: Enhancing social partners' capacity and social dialogue in the new
world of work 491
Gaye Burcu Yildiz
16. Social dialogue and the future of work in the Adriatic region 528
Igor Guardiancich
17. Social dialogue and the new world of work: The case of the Baltic states 579
Jaan Masso, Kerly Espenberg and Inta Mierina
Index 619
Foreword by Heinz Koller ix
1. Enhancing social partners' and social dialogue's roles and capacity
in the new world of work: Overview 1
Youcef Ghellab and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
2. Strengthening the representativeness of the social partners and their
institutional capacity to shape labour markets through social dialogue 28
Dominique Anxo
3. Supporting the autonomous role of the social partners 69
Bernd Waas
4. Digitalization and social dialogue: Challenges, opportunities and responses 110
Rafael Munoz de Bustillo Llorente
5. Enhancing the social partners and social dialogue in the new world of work
in the Czech Republic 155
Sona Veverkov.
6. Reforms and new challenges for work and employment in France: Social
dialogue under pressure 188
Christine Erhel
7. The German industrial relations system under pressure: Structure, trends
and outcomes 216
Ulrich Walwei, Lutz Bellmann and Christoph Bellmann
8. Striking the right balance between autonomy and assumption of
responsibility: A way forward for social dialogue in Greece 255
Daphne Nicolitsas
9. Social dialogue and the new world of work in Ireland 285
Philip J. O'Connell
10. Enhancing the social partners and social dialogue in the new world
of work: The case of Italy 319
Lorenzo Bordogna
11. Social partners and the world of work in Poland: Between East and West 369
Dominika Polkowska
12. Social dialogue and world of work challenges in Romania 406
Magda Volonciu
13. Enhancing social partners' capacity and social dialogue in the new world
of work: The case of Spain 429
Oscar Molina
14. Industrial relations, social dialogue and the transformation of the world
of work: The Swedish experience 465
Dominique Anxo
15. Turkey: Enhancing social partners' capacity and social dialogue in the new
world of work 491
Gaye Burcu Yildiz
16. Social dialogue and the future of work in the Adriatic region 528
Igor Guardiancich
17. Social dialogue and the new world of work: The case of the Baltic states 579
Jaan Masso, Kerly Espenberg and Inta Mierina
Index 619