Conveners
1.1: Employment regulation and new work inequalities
- Mario Pianta (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Facts such as globalization, changing production and management
techniques, and flexibility have created new forms of employment. One
of these forms of employment is home-based work. Home-based work,
which existed before the 19th century, when the industrial revolution
was experienced, did not disappear with the increase in
mechanization, but was transformed. According to...
This paper is concerned with the multiple lines of labour divisions unfolding under the Code on Social Security Code (2020) through varying definitions of workers, different payment scales, different accessibility to social security and the reproduction and intersection with social divisions of caste, class and gender. By looking at the implications of the Act on the process of collective...
Nonstandard forms of employment commonly involve precarious conditions of labour. Given such challenges, trade unions are expected to fight against the use of (precarious) nonstandard employment. However, in reality, some unions refuse to represent nonstandard workers.
This study aims to explore why unions fail or even refuse to represent nonstandard workers by revisiting the...
Increased use of precarious employment contracts is a growing issue for workers in higher education institutions (HEIs) internationally. In 2020 the first UK national lockdown due to COVID-19 coincided with the end of national industrial action in the sector by the University and College Union (UCU). Emerging from industrial strike action over precarious contracts, workload and pensions, the...
