En
Log in

Search results

66 results
Sort by:

Slovakia’s socio-economic and industrial relations trajectory

Slovakia’s modern socio-economic development is shaped by its late but intense industrialisation and its turbulent post-socialist transition. Once the less developed part of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia saw rapid growth in heavy industry, arms, and automotive manufacturing under state socialism, though often at the expense of agriculture and living standards. By 1989, over one million people worked in industry and construction, but inefficiency, technological lag, and poor competitiveness left the economy vulnerable at the regime’s collapse.
Read More…

From limited power to empowerment to negotiate on equal terms’: industrial relations and socio-economic in United Kingdom

Labour relations in the UK have undergone a number of radical transformations since the industrial revolution took shape in the middle of the 18th century. After almost 200 years of very limited power afforded to organised labour, trade unions enjoyed a brief period of 30 years in which they were empowered to negotiate on equal terms’ with employers. Since the late 1970s, however, the pendulum has firmly swung back in favour of employers
Read More…

FUTOURWORK, EGRUiEN and INTEGRATE-DIALOGUE invite policymakers, social partners and industry representatives to a webinar on the EU Platform Work Directive on Wednesday 6th May

Do you work on labour policy, social dialogue, or worker representation? Are you responsible for the implementation of the new EU Platform Work Directive? Join our webinar, co-hosted with fellow Horizon Europe projects EGRUiEN and INTEGRATE-DIALOGUE, where together we’ll explore how increasing platform work is transforming workers’ rights and social dialogue in different sectors across Europe.
Read More…

From integration to re-opening: Social dialogue after the Uber reform in Vienna’s taxi sector

In previous studies, Austria is often cited as a case in which digitalisation and platformisation via Uber were successfully integrated into a coordinated market economy through corporatist regulation. Our Vienna case study qualifies this view, adding to our knowledge on the dynamics of industrial relations in face of transformations in the labour markets. While the 2019–2020 reforms formally embedded platform-based ride-hailing into a unified regulatory framework, from 2021 onwards renewed conflict emerged over pricing, representation, and competitive conditions
Read More…