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Paolucci, Valentina and Galetto, Manuela (2020) The collective bargaining of flexicurity : a case for sector-level analysis? The Italian chemical and metalworking sectors compared. Human Resource Management Journal, 30 (2). pp. 165-179. doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12255
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12255
Abstract
Although employment relations in Europe have long been seen as a factor of rigidity, limiting managerial discretion and adaptability, in the last 30 years, they have witnessed a trend towards decentralisation of collective bargaining and negotiations increasingly centred on flexibility–security trade‐offs between employers and employees. Research on the contribution of collective bargaining to the so‐called flexicurity has mostly focused on national‐level institutional arrangements. In this article, we contend that meso‐level differences need to feature more prominently in the debate. Our comparison of two sectors in the same country (chemicals and metalworking in Italy) shows that decentralisation has divergent effects on flexicurity issues depending in particular on differences in market structures and on depth of bargaining. The interplay between these two factors affects what we refer to as procedural security, which we view as important in ensuring sustainable trade‐offs between flexibility and security.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Collective bargaining, Collective bargaining -- Chemical industry, Collective bargaining -- Chemical industry -- Italy, Collective bargaining -- Metal-workers, Collective bargaining -- Metal-workers -- Italy, Industrial relations, Industrial relations -- Italy, Job security, Job security -- Italy, Labor market, Labor market -- Italy | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Human Resource Management Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0954-5395 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 30 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 165-179 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1748-8583.12255 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Paolucci, V, Galetto, M. The collective bargaining of flexicurity: A case for sector‐level analysis? The Italian chemical and metalworking sectors compared. Hum Resour Manag J. 2019; 1– 15., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12255. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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