Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 2021

Session

1.1

16 Sept 2021, 14:15

Altana (Palazzo Strozzi)

Conveners

1.1: Employment regulation and new work inequalities

• Mario Pianta (Scuola Normale Superiore)

7. INVISIBLE LABOUR VISIBLE WORK: HOME-BASED WORK

Dr Sevda Köse (KOCAELI UNIVERSITY)

16/09/2021, 14:15

Track 1

• 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...

33. The Code on Social Security (2020) and Workers’ Movements during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Catharina Haensel (Scuola Normale Superiore)

16/09/2021, 14:45

Track 1

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...

57. Revisiting insider-outsider approach: The role of identity, moral conviction, and union democracy.

Yooseop Chun (King's College London)

16/09/2021, 15:15

Track 2

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...

63. Responding to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for workers in Higher Education Institution: exploring interactions of gender, caring responsibilities and precarity

Dr Louise Schreuders (Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds), Dr Xanthe Whittaker (Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC), University of Leeds)

Track 1

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...