This article explores age as a factor defining the labour market experience of older women. Drawing upon work histories it argues that discrimination on grounds is bound up with gender, race and class. Older women described how all three categories had structured their working lives, occupational sectoral segregation underpinning legacy disadvantage. Intersectionality provides tool to explore interaction social divisions over life course, in preference those privileging instability diversity...

This article explores supply chain pressures in parcel delivery and how the drive to contain costs ‘preserve value motion’, including of failed delivery, underpins contractual differentiation. It focuses on owner-drivers home couriers paid by delivery. considers precarity through lens labour process, while locating it within chain, political economy ‘instituted economic process’ that define it. Focus process shows ‘self-employment’ is used remove so-called ‘unproductive’ time from remit...

Austerity places intense pressures on labour costs in paid care.In the UK, electronic monitoring technology has been introduced to record (and materially reduce) working time and wages of homecare workers.Based empirical findings, we show that, a 'time austerity', care is reductively constructed as consumption time.Service users are needy, greedy, time-consumers workers resource-wasting time-takers.We point austerity temporal ideology aimed at persuading populations that individual...

This article explores the use of Electronic Monitoring ( EM ) in homecare and its impact on ratio paid to unpaid working time. It argues that whilst Zero Hours Contracts ZHC s) blur distinction between labour, introduction can formalise regulate demarcation two. In context local authority commissioning constrained budgets, combination 's may excise so‐called ‘unproductive’ but available labour from homecare. particular, minute‐by‐minute care facilitates means cost is anchored time worker's...

The protracted dispute (2009–11) between British Airways and BASSA (British Stewards Stewardesses Association) was notable for the strength of collective action by cabin crew. In-depth interviews reveal collectivism rooted in labour process highlight key agency effectively articulating worker interests. This data emphasizes crews’ relative autonomy, sustained unionate on-board Cabin Service Directors who have defended frontier control against managerial incursions. Periodic attempts to...

Journal Article The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition Get access by Alan Bogg [Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009, 336 pp, hardback, £45, ISBN 978 18411 37902] Sian Moore Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Industrial Law Journal, Volume 39, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 95–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwp032 Published: 18 January 2010

What is the point of industrial relations? Research in field has existed Britain for well over a century, and university teaching subject dates back to 1930s. Yet, recent years, its relevance been increasingly questioned by policymakers, with moves towards form 'disciplinary cleansing'. In this article, we demonstrate why critical, cross-disciplinary, multilevel analysis that central importance relations tradition remains both intellectually ethically essential.

Abstract The Taylor Review asserts that ‘certain groups are also more likely to place a greater importance on flexibility such as carers, women, those with disabilities and older workers’. This article draws upon the experiences of workers non‐standard contracts explore notion worker preference expose how discourse work–life balance is usurped provide justification for in interest employers rather than workers, reconstructing labour market segregation.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore what has happened the notion and reality equal pay over past 50 years, a period in which women have become majority trade union members UK. It does so context record employment levels based upon women’s increased labour market participation albeit reflecting their continued over-representation part-time employment, locating narrowed but persistent overall gender gap broader picture inequality Design/methodology/approach considers voluntary...

This article explores the use of Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods (BNIM) in research on motivations for trade union learning. Our BNIM – a new methodological approach us was intended to test our own practice an effort get further inside 'felt world' and 'lived life' learner. We concluded that educational deficit, employability, ways learning collectivism motivate learners BNIM, though problematic, exposes raw subjectivity learner agency motivation which may not be fully invoked...

This article draws on mobilisation theory to explain the presence and absence of collective organisation in small- medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The analysis is based upon case studies 11 UK SMEs reflecting variation respect employment size, industry sector, workforce composition, ownership product/service market characteristics. It suggests that recently introduced statutory trade union recognition legislation increased formalisation within some larger may provide conditions for...

Contents:IntroductionFrederic Bruggeman and Bernard Gazier1. Comparing Restructuring Processes Across European Countries Gazier2. The Process: Towards a Comprehensive AnalysisDominique Paucard3. Innovation: From Employment Protection to Anticipation Employability MeasuresFrederic Bruggeman4. in Belgium: A Corporatist RegimeFrederic Naedenoen5. France: Law Driven Maxime Petrovski, Rachel Beaujolin-Bellet, Frederic Claude-Emmanuel Triomphe6. Germany: Negotiated RestructuringMatthias Knuth...

ABSTRACT This article explores how far the emergence of public sector Equality Representatives represents a departure from distinct radical model union self‐organisation generated by collective mobilisation politically conscious identities, towards more inclusive liberal equality based on abstract notions ‘fairness’.

Abstract This article examines the different forms of uncertainty that workers in precarious jobs experience on a day‐to‐day basis. The highlights various ways which at work spills over into workers' lives away from workplace and provides representative up‐to‐date comparison experiences permanent, fixed‐term casual employment. achieves its objectives through mixed‐methods research design comprising an analysis data Understanding Society survey interviews with retail, higher education,...

Abstract This article highlights the weakness of UK's occupational health and safety infrastructure exposed by COVID‐19 pandemic. Utilising a political economy perspective, it captures critical role workplace union representatives in mitigating risk contesting expropriation recommodification labour, specifically inadequate sick pay.

Multiple discrimination has emerged as a concept to describe the experiences of people who could be subjected more than one kind discrimination—capturing interaction gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and/or age. Yet multiple is often difficult identify and address in workplace. This research, which was funded by Advisory, Conciliation Arbitration Service Trade Union Congress (TUC) carried out Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University Queen Mary, London,...

Legislation outlawing discrimination on the grounds of age was introduced in UK October 2006 a period when Government policy aims are to increase economic activity rates older people response demographic change. In this context recent research by Working Lives Research Institute, which explores as factor defining labour market experience women workers is particularly timely. The concept and, particular, interaction with gender, race and class. funded under Objective 3 European Social Fund...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to reassert the persistent association decline in collective bargaining with increase income inequality, fall share wages national and deterioration macroeconomic performance UK; second, present case studies affirming concrete outcomes organisational for workers, terms pay, job quality, working hours work-life balance. Design/methodology/approach based upon two methodological approaches. First, econometric analyses using industry-level...

This article explores the inter-relationship of gender, sexuality, race and class among cabin crew, members trade union BASSA, in British Airways dispute 2009–2011. It evaluates utility intersectional analysis context industrial action, investigating ways crew mobilised identities interests. In their narratives, evoked 1984–1985 miners’ strike, but rejected a version militancy based on perceived historical legacy as white, heterosexual male. Engaging with debates Sociology class, restores...

The paper explores the role of UK union health and safety representatives changes to representative structures governing workplace organisational Occupational Health Safety (OHS) during COVID-19. It draws upon a survey 648 Trade Union Congress (TUC) (H&S) representatives, as well case studies 12 organisations in eight key sectors. indicates expanded H&S representation, but only half respondents reported committees their organisations. Where formal mechanisms existed, they provided...