Anchors for job quality: Sectoral systems of employment in the European context

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Anchors for job quality: Sectoral systems of employment in the European context

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Author(s): Damian Grimshaw , Steffen Lehndorff

Publication date (Print): Spring 2010

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

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This paper argues that we can improve our understanding of the factors that shape job quality by interrogating the challenges facing sectoral systems of employment in diverse country contexts. Drawing on the work of the EU-funded Dynamo (Dynamics of national employment models) project, we describe an approach that includes paying attention to the set of social actors, product market rules, mix of technologies and skills and the character of the workforce in any given sector. Sectoral characteristics are shaped by the ‘core’ institutions constitutive of each national model but also retain distinguishing features. We then develop the argument that job quality is strengthened and sustained by key ‘institutional anchors’ and that these anchors vary in presence and strength by sector and country. A review of research on two specific sectors — care of the elderly and the automotive industry — shows that an inclusive model of industrial relations is a crucial anchor for job quality, but that its effects are contingent upon the specific production, employment and welfare characteristics of each sector.

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Publication date (Print): Spring 2010

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[3] Banyuls, J., T. Haipeter & L. Neumann (2008) ‘European Works Council at General Motors Europe: bargaining efficiency in regime competition?’ Industrial Relations Journal , Vol 39, No 6:532–547

[4] Banyuls, J., F. Miguélez, A. Recio, E. Cano & R. Morente (2009) ‘The transformation of the employment system in Spain: Towards a Mediterranean Neoliberalism?’ Bosch, G., S. Lehndorff & J. Rubery (eds), European employment models in flux. A comparison of institutional change in nine European countries , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan:247–269

[5] Banyuls, J., F. Miguelez & A. Recio (2009) ‘The experience of the construction and care sectors in Spain’, Paper presented at the Regulating for Decent Work Conference, Geneva, 8 – 10 July 2009.

[6] Accessed on February 15, 2010 from http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/publ/rdwpapers.htm

[7] Banyuls, J. & T. Haipeter (2010) ‘Against erosion of Labour Standards: the Global Reorganisation of the Value Chain and Industrial Relations in the European Motor Industry’, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation , Vol 4, No 1

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[9] Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., D. Grimshaw, M. Lallement & M. Miozzo (2010) ‘Can European employment models support fast-growing markets for knowledge-intensive business services? Evidence from the IT services sector’, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation , Vol 4, No 1

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[11] Bosch, G., S. Lehndorff & J. Rubery (eds) European employment models in flux. A comparison of institutional change in nine European countries , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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[16] Gallie, D. (ed) (2007) Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work . Oxford: Oxford University Press

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[22] Katz, H. & O. Darbishire (2000) Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems , Ithaca and London: Cornell

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[25] Lorenz, E. & A. Valeyre (2003) ‘Les formes d'organisation du travail dans les pays de l'Union européenne’, Document de travail du CEE , No 32, Noisy-le-Grand: Centre d'études de l'emploi

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[28] Neumann, L. & A. Tóth (2009) ‘Crisis of the post-transition Hungarian model’ in Bosch, G., S. Lehndorff & J. Rubery (eds) European employment models in flux. A comparison of institutional change in nine European countries , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan:155–177

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[37] Wickham, J. & E. Latniak (2010) European Urban Public Transport: Towards a single European employment model?’, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation , Vol 4, No 1