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Resisting labour market insecurity: old and new actors, rivals or allies?

Hyman, R. and Gumbrell-McCormick, Rebecca (2017) Resisting labour market insecurity: old and new actors, rivals or allies? Journal of Industrial Relations 59 (4), pp. 538-561. ISSN 0022-1856.

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Abstract

In most of the world, work has usually been precarious. For several decades, however, greater employment security was achieved in the developed economies. These gains have been increasingly eroded by neoliberal globalisation. We focus on Western Europe to examine whether trade unions are merely protectors of the remaining labour market ‘insiders’, or whether they can also represent the interests of the growing numbers of ‘outsiders’. We also examine the role of ‘new’ social movements in mobilising against insecurity. Our reflections end by considering whether and how the two modes of response offered by trade unions and social movements may be integrated.

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Item Type: Article
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Labour market insecurity, globalisation, trade unions, social movements, protest, Europe
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
Depositing User: Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick
Date Deposited: 19 Jun 2017 13:30
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2025 00:52
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18987

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