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Book SynopsisActors in the world of work are facing an increasing number of challenges, including automatization and digitalization, new types of jobs and more diverse forms of employment. This timely book examines employer and worker responses, challenges and opportunities for social dialogue, and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work.
Through interviews and surveys, the volume provides direct evidence on three central questions: how can we cultivate autonomous, bipartite social dialogue in order to meet these critical challenges? How can the social partners strengthen their representativeness and membership, and extend their influence? What role can social partners and social dialogue play regarding digitalization, and what best practices can be identified?
The volume also addresses significant trends such as demographic changes, migration flows, global supply chain management and environmental objectives. It covers the current EU member states while extending analysis to EU candidate and potential candidate countries, thus enlarging coverage to 34 European nations. The detailed evidence by theme and by individual country will provide a unique source of ideas on social actors’ innovative roles in ensuring sustainable and inclusive practices in the future world of work.
This will be an invigorating read for labour economics and labour policy scholars looking for a better understanding of the new world of work. Labour organizations, employers, trade unions and representatives of national and supranational institutions will also benefit from the detailed case studies in the volume.
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Heinz Koller ix 1. Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue’s roles and capacity in the new world of work: Overview 1 Youcef Ghellab and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead 2. Strengthening the representativeness of the social partners and their institutional capacity to shape labour markets through social dialogue 28 Dominique Anxo 3. Supporting the autonomous role of the social partners 69 Bernd Waas 4. Digitalization and social dialogue: Challenges, opportunities and responses 110 Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente 5. Enhancing the social partners and social dialogue in the new world of work in the Czech Republic 155 Soňa Veverkov. 6. Reforms and new challenges for work and employment in France: Social dialogue under pressure 188 Christine Erhel 7. The German industrial relations system under pressure: Structure, trends and outcomes 216 Ulrich Walwei, Lutz Bellmann and Christoph Bellmann 8. Striking the right balance between autonomy and assumption of responsibility: A way forward for social dialogue in Greece 255 Daphne Nicolitsas 9. Social dialogue and the new world of work in Ireland 285 Philip J. O’Connell 10. Enhancing the social partners and social dialogue in the new world of work: The case of Italy 319 Lorenzo Bordogna 11. Social partners and the world of work in Poland: Between East and West 369 Dominika Polkowska 12. Social dialogue and world of work challenges in Romania 406 Magda Volonciu 13. Enhancing social partners’ capacity and social dialogue in the new world of work: The case of Spain 429 Oscar Molina 14. Industrial relations, social dialogue and the transformation of the world of work: The Swedish experience 465 Dominique Anxo 15. Turkey: Enhancing social partners’ capacity and social dialogue in the new world of work 491 Gaye Burcu Yıldız 16. Social dialogue and the future of work in the Adriatic region 528 Igor Guardiancich 17. Social dialogue and the new world of work: The case of the Baltic states 579 Jaan Masso, Kerly Espenberg and Inta Mierina Index 619
