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Getting together or breaking apart? Trade union strategies, restructuring and contingent workers in Southern Europe

Kornelakis, Andreas; Voskeritsian, Horen

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Authors

Andreas Kornelakis



Abstract

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. The article considers the strategies of trade unions towards the representation of call centre workers. Using a comparative case study, it examines the divergent union responses to the growth of contingent labour by looking at the telecommunications industries in Italy and Greece. Although the trade unions in Italy pursued inclusive strategies embracing the call centre workers and negotiating the restructuring of the whole sector, the unions in Greece followed a policy of exclusion leaving call centre workers outside representation and negotiating their internal restructuring. The article argues that the different union identities, and the diverse power resources and internal organizational politics help explain the variation in the trade unions’ strategic responses.

Citation

Kornelakis, A., & Voskeritsian, H. (2018). Getting together or breaking apart? Trade union strategies, restructuring and contingent workers in Southern Europe. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 39(2), 357-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X15627500

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 29, 2016
Publication Date May 1, 2018
Deposit Date Mar 7, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Economic and Industrial Democracy
Print ISSN 0143-831X
Electronic ISSN 1461-7099
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 39
Issue 2
Pages 357-375
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X15627500
Keywords contingent employment, Greece, Italy, telecommunications industry, trade union strategies
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/920585
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831X15627500