What is it about?
We focus on Italy and Spain, two of the countries with the most precarious labour markets in Europe, and address the specificity and variety of union responses. We relate these responses to the different institutional contexts, including employment and welfare regulation, and the power resources unions can draw upon
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Why is it important?
Conversely to what some consider that unions protect insiders against outsiders we found that in neither country did unions develop strategies of exclusion.
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This page is a summary of: Union responses to precarious workers: Italy and Spain compared, European Journal of Industrial Relations, December 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0959680115621410.
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