Bündnisse für Arbeit und Beschäftigung liegen im Trend. Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeber, Politik und Verwaltung, die Arbeitsämter, Industrie- und Handelskammern, Kirchen und andere Akteure lassen sich für die Sicherung und Schaffung von Arbeit in die Pflicht nehmen. Diese Arbeit beschreibt...

Using the cases of Ireland and Portugal during the post-2008 Great Recession, we argue that unions' ideological formations around social concertation are central in aiding them to navigate their options about whether to engage in concessionary bargaining with government under crisis conditions....

Efforts on promoting social dialogue have focused on measuring labour statistics and enhancing international comparability. One of their goals is to strengthen tripartism and social dialogue by creating a set of indicators specific to measuring social dialogue, which would overall contribute to...

This article addresses the representativity questions that arise from the formal insertion of private, functional groups within the European Union (EU) governance, via the EU social dialogue. It depicts the debate regarding the quot;representation gapquot; of the EU social dialogue, and its...