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At Your Service?: Comparative Perspectives on Employment and Labour Relations in the European Private Sector Services: 27 (Travail & Societe/Work & Society) - Softcover

 
9789052019406: At Your Service?: Comparative Perspectives on Employment and Labour Relations in the European Private Sector Services: 27 (Travail & Societe/Work & Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9052019401 ISBN 13: 9789052019406
Publisher: Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes, 2002

Synopsis

The dynamics and implications of employment growth in private sector services have become a key issue in the debate on labour market organisation, social regulation and welfare policies in Western Europe. While expansion of private services is considered crucial to fight unemployment and social exclusion, the private services are often associated with social polarisation, untamed flexibility, and erosion of the standard employment relationship, trade unionism and collective bargaining - confronting the social and political actors with difficult dilemmas. In view of the limited knowledge about developments in services labour markets, the aim of this book is, on the basis of eleven country studies, to provide a comparative overview of main trends in the pattern of employment and labour relations in private sector services in Western Europe. The analyses emphasise the heterogeneity of the private sector services, reveal significant diversity across countries, and caution against the notion of a universal de-standardisation of service employment, underscoring the importance of institutions in shaping national trajectories of employment growth in services. Particular attention is paid to the challenges facing trade unions in meeting the diverse and changing aspirations of the workforce in private sector services.

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About the Author

The Editor: Jon Erik Dølvik is Research Director at the Fafo Institute of Labour and Social Research, Oslo, member of the editorial panel of European Journal of Industrial Relations and the editorial committee of Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research. He has published numerous books and articles on European industrial relations and trade unionism.

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Publisher
Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9052019401
ISBN 13 
9789052019406
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
556
Editor
Dolvik Jon Erik, Pochet Philippe