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Lavorare alla Fiat – Arbeiten bei VW. Technologie, Arbeit und soziale Regulierung in der Automobilindustrie
No full text¿Solamente despilfarro? Sobre redundancia y "slack" en la producción ligera
No full textJust waste? On redundancy and slack in the lean production – The autor’s reflections on the different forms of ”slimming down” in lean production lead directly to the heart of some of the most radical thinking on the subject of the organisation of work in his social context. After examining the different forms of slack and redundancy, the autor considers the ways in which flexibility in the use of resources, labour, technology and capital is identified and managed. These reflections on the redundancy of human labour in particular prove highly fruitful for the conceptualization and discussion of the various models of production, and above all, of their impact beyond the factory, in society as a whole
Giano bifronte. L’ambivalenza asimmetrica del private equity nell’economia finanziarizzata
No full textThe articles examines the business model and the activities of private equity funds. Starting point of the analysis is the ambivalence of private equity: the principally positive function of private equity for the enterprises as alternative financial source to the bank system stands in stark contrast do the negative labels, such as «barbarians» or «locusts», used for them. Firstly, the article shows that the ambivalence is immanent to the «business model» of private equity. Against this background the articles then examines the development of private equity funds in Italy, building on statistical data and the empirical evidence linked with the financial crisis. At the end four ideal types of private equity are proposed: the «entrepreneurial», the «speculative» and two hybrid forms in between. In the entrepreneurial ideal type, PE investments are linked to a minority owner¬ship of private equity fund(s), maintaining the employer's leadership industrial strategies and low or no leverage; the speculative ideal type is characterized by high leverage, depersonalizing and invisibility of ownership and reduction of the enterprise to a simple commodity among others in the portfolio of PE funds
Jenseits von Konvergenz und Pfadabhängigkeit – Über die Europäisierung der industriellen Beziehungen in Zeiten der Globalisierung [Oltre la convergenza e la path dependency. Sull’europeizzazione delle relazioni industriali in un’economia globalizzata]
No full textTema dell’articolo sono le possibilità di una (ulteriore) europeizzazione delle relazioni industriali. Dapprima si considera l’evoluzione dei sistemi nazionali di relazioni industriali e l’influenza della globalizzazione. Successivamente si prende in esame lo sviluppo più recente a livello europeo, l’implementazione dei Comitati aziendali europei (Cae), spostando l’attenzione sulle reti di produzione e servizi transnazionali quale terreno fondamentale nella costruzione di un sistema di relazioni industriali in Europa. Sulla base di una schematica comparazione tra sindacato italiano e tedesco si mostra come l’europeizzazione delle relazioni industriali non rivesta dappertutto la stessa rilevanza strategica per l’azione sindacale e si evidenziano i fattori su cui focalizzare l’analisi comparativa in una prospettiva che combini, in misura maggiore di quanto avvenuto sinora, ottica istituzionale e ottica organizzativa
Beteiligung, Partizipation, Mitbestimmung – das Statut der Europäischen Aktiengesellschaft und der babylonische Turm europäischer Arbeitsbeziehungen [Coinvolgimento, partecipazione, codeterminazione. Lo Statuto della Società per Azioni Europea e la torre di Babele delle relazioni industriali in Europa]
No full textIn Summer 1997 the group of experts on the ”European Company Statute” ,chaired by Etienne Davignon, presented proposals on the presence and the rights of worker representatives in the company bodies of the future European Company. While the Davignon-group put forward a prudent solution (negotiation plus reference rules), the proposed definitions of ”involvement” and ”participation” are untenable since the qualitative distinctions (intensity) among different levels of participation are lost. The argumentation the group of experts considers necessary to help its solution succeed is not convincing, and may even turn out to be counterproductive. The article argues in favour of a clear terminology and an open discourse on participation, not least among the trade unions, as the only way of coping with the ”phantom of the German model”
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