This paper is a comparative exploratory study of the changing nature of employee voice through trade union representation in the retail industry in the UK and Australia. In both countries, the retail industry is a major employer and is one of the few private sector service industries with...

Rezension (Daniel Behruzi, junge Welt, 19.06.2018)Dieser Artikel untersucht Gewerkschaftsstrategien im Krankenhaussektor in Deutschland und Großbritannien. Die Gesundheitssysteme der beiden Länder stehen vor ähnlichen Herausforderungen, z.B. demografischer Wandel, Privatisierung von...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the restructuring approach followed by the highly profitable Telefónica in its 2011 redundancy plan, and explores unions’ response to management strategy. Design/methodology/approach – The research follows a case study approach...

In the context of a growing detachment of workers from organizations and from traditional forms of interest representation, social networks are considered as an important means of individual risk-coping and for union strategies to improve working conditions and organize workers’ interests. To...