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Difficoltà crescenti per le relazioni industriali europee e italiane
No full textThe object of this article concerns the destiny of the industrial relations as a method of regulation of the labour contracts and as an instrument of achievement of the industrial citizenship, complementary to the social protection of the welfare state. The point of departure regards the effects of new globalized markets on union action and collective bargaining. Effects that mainly consist in new possibilities for multinational companies to exploit a gigantic open shop (the real enemy of industrial relations, especially of the pluralistic type). On the European arena this processes are at the origin of a generalized trend of decentralization of collective bargaining structures, with the withering away of the traditional industry wide agreements. A process that goes with a fall in bargaining coverage, jointly with a decrease of unionization rates. In the fortress of institutionalized industrial relations, the German experience, the channel for decentralization has been the spread of opening clauses of the industrial agreements. On this background the Italian experience follows (as shown by the FIAT case) some European common patterns even if with some particularities, not only the weakness on the institutional framework, but above all the harsh competition among the different trade union cultures. The destiny of the pluralistic industrial relations, not necessarily of the trade unions if involved in policies of union renewal, looks very uncertain. For many aspects a success era could be over
The representation of non-standard workers : theory and culture of collective bargaining
No full textThis article starts by looking at the intriguing similarities between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries as far as the relationships between work and systems or structures of production are concerned. It considers the possible options for representing non-standard (or atypical) workers that can be usefully drawn from the past. Work is termed atypical as compared to the institutionalized forms dominant in the era of Taylorist-Fordist industrial production, although atypical work today has significant precedents in the 19th century. With regard to trade union cultures and policies, the thesis is that only by changing the logic and the practice of bargaining action, drawing inspiration from the theory of the Webbs, can suitable forms of representation be found for those components of non-standard labour more distant from the well-defined, stylized figure of the worker of the industrial age. This is a perspective that can represent both extremes of workers that offer their labour on the market: the highly skilled semi-independent worker, and the contingent worker with generic skills, who is possibly a member of the working poor. This could open the way for a unionism under which few would be excluded from collective representation, even if not 'collective' in the way understood in the past
Confini e globalizzazione
No full textThe issue of borders overcomes some of the differences more forced among scholars and/or schools. The boundaries become not only sources ofstrengthening identity, but also elements that allow the narratives of identity. Other aspects of the use of borders leads to the demarcation of a territory that becomes necessarily constituent part of a nation. The representation and the history of the landscape becomes an indispensable component of nation building
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