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      <title>Making Britain the best place in the world to work: how to protect and enhance workers' rights after Brexit … and coronavirus</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/274066</link>
      <description>Title: Making Britain the best place in the world to work: how to protect and enhance workers' rights after Brexit … and coronavirus
Authors: Sisson, Keith
Abstract: The UK government's promise in the Queen's Speech of 19 December 2019 to protect and enhance worker's rights after Brexit has taken on new urgency in the light of the coronavirus pandemic, the inadequacy of the present framework being exposed for all to see. Issues highlighted include the social safety net, anytime/anywhere working, employment status and, above all, the low pay and insecurity of many of the 'key' workers society depends on for everyday services. A Ministry for Employment and Social Affairs and a specialist social partnership body like the Low Pay Commission are needed to ensure that worker's rights are regularly reviewed and updated to reflect changing circumstances. Effective enforcement mechanisms are a must, which means a well-funded enforcement agency and requiring businesses to take responsibility for what happens in their supply chains, with provisions for social licensing as well as mandatory due diligence. The government also needs to improve the evidence base for decision making about workers' rights including a regular survey of management policies and practices based on the internationally renowned Workplace Employment Relations Survey. Overall, the task will make sense to more people if the government uses the language of 'fairness'.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Conflict in the workplace: The concept of structured antagonism reconsidered</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197743</link>
      <description>Title: Conflict in the workplace: The concept of structured antagonism reconsidered
Authors: Edwards, Paul K.
Abstract: The concept of a 'structured antagonism' in the workplace, introduced in 1986, is revisited and extended. Part of the revisiting clears up misunderstandings about the idea which have arisen as a result of its being cited without always being fully understood. The core idea, that the SA exists because exploitation is inscribed in the organization of work, is defended. There are none the less weaknesses in the initial formulation. In particular, [1] it relied too heavily on the idea that only the direct producers of goods and service produce what has value, namely, the product; and [2] it did not sufficiently ground activity at the point of production in structures of ownership and control. In relation to [1], production also entails co-ordination and planning, and those engaging in such activities are productive. In relation to [2], though co-ordination and planning are productive, exploitation continues to exist because of the rights of control that ownership gives to capitalists. A research implication is the need to examine the links between directly productive labour and the activities of co-ordination and planning.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>European industrial relations: An increasingly fractured landscape?</title>
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      <description>Title: European industrial relations: An increasingly fractured landscape?
Authors: Marginson, Paul
Abstract: In the face of continuing European market and economic integration, European industrial relations has become more fractured. This fracturing is occurring in two senses. First, the main institutional pillars of the industrial relations dimension of the European social model (or models) are weakening. Second, common features of industrial relations across countries are no longer so apparent. Further, industrial relations outcomes such as wages and conditions have become more unequal and less solidaristic. The immediate causes of this fracturing are eastern enlargement of the EU, and the nature of the responses to the financial and economic crisis propounded by the European authorities and some national governments. These have sought to accelerate European integration by removing perceived institutional rigidities. At an underlying level, a more fractured industrial relations landscape is the result of asymmetries as between countries in the effects and impact of market and economic integration and the further exacerbation of the imbalance between negative and positive integration measures in favour of the former. The paper concludes with proposals, directed at the EU as well as national level, which could stem or even reverse the decline in the institutional pillars of European industrial relations and result in a less fractured landscape.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Preventing labour exploitation</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197746</link>
      <description>Title: Preventing labour exploitation
Authors: Beels, Margaret</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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