Index
Protecting the Future of Work: New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards
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Publication date: 20 January 2023
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(2023), "Index", Colfer, B., Harney, B., McLaughlin, C. and Wright, C.F. (Ed.) Protecting the Future of Work: New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards (Trade Unionism), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 163-171. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-248-520221022
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INDEX
Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.
Action, Collaboration, Transformation (ACT)
, 136
‘Active political dismantling’ product
, 21
Age of Amazon
, 77
Agriculture
, 118
Allen vs. GMB 2008
, 60
Amabot
, 75
Amazon
, 68, 152
Amazonian work experiences
, 74–76
case of
, 72
customer first
, 74
cutting-edge technology
, 74
drive for ultra-performance
, 73–74
leadership principles
, 73
managerial approach
, 73
warehouses
, 74
‘Amazon Effect’
, 14
Amazon's ‘Upskilling 2025 pledge’
, 75
Amazonians
, 73–74
‘Anglo-American’ countries
, 3
Anxiety-provoking sessions
, 74
Associational power
, 90
Augmented pluralism
, 22, 142, 144, 153
Australia
, 26–28
Ireland
, 28–30
New Zealand
, 23–25
Austerity
, 4, 42
budgets
, 29
EU's turn to
, 41–46
Australia
industrial relations system
, 27
neoliberalism and augmented pluralism in
, 26–28
Australian award system
, 143
Australian Council of Trade Unions
, 26
Australian Modern Slavery Act (2018)
, 130
Austria
, 117
Authentic messengers
, 87
Aviation
, 145
Award system
, 61
Bailout packages
, 42
Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU)
, 85
‘Banded hours’ provisions
, 30
Bangladesh Accord
, 136, 150, 155
Bangladesh Accord on Health and Safety
, 148–149
Banks
, 43, 147
European
, 46
Spain
, 42
Bargaining
, 25, 155
(see also Collective bargaining)
agents
, 27
radical
, 29
wage
, 23
Berlin Rosen campaign
, 87
Bezo signature management tool
, 73
Bezonomics
, 14, 68, 78, 143, 152
Big tech
, 153
Black Lives Matter
, 86
Blending work
, 147
Bloc's soft law mechanisms
, 35–36
Bonus schemes
, 59
Bounded automation
, 77, 153
‘Breaking the Silence’
, 89
Business
business-driven voluntary initiatives
, 10
membership organisations
, 54
new forms of
, 151–155
reviews
, 74
role of business resistance
, 132–134
Business case
, 54, 143
for addressing gender equality
, 54–57
for ethical behaviour
, 5
vis-á-vis legal mechanisms
, 57
BusinessNZ
, 24
California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (2012)
, 130
Campaigns
, 13
Centralised collective bargaining
, 29
Charities
, 9
China
countervailing power
, 107–108
development of gig economy worldwide and
, 98–99
economic and social change
, 101–105
migrant workers and working and life status in gig economy
, 105–107
rising gig economy in
, 98
transitioning web of rules
, 99–101
China Enterprise Directors Association (CEDA)
, 100
Chinese gig workers
, 100
Chinese labour relations
, 97, 99
Cleaning, caring, catering, clerical and cashiering (5 Cs)
, 54
Co-regulation
, 120–122
approach
, 112
Coalition
, 27
building
, 120–122
government
, 58
Collaborative institutional experimentation
, 112
sources of migrant worker agency and vulnerability
, 112–114
Collective bargaining
, 1, 4, 21, 25, 54, 59–62
provisions
, 114
rights
, 23
Collective negotiation
, 107
Commission
, 46–47
Community groups
, 62, 101, 112, 142
Community organisations
, 2, 9, 112, 114
community organising strategies
, 119–120, 151
support
, 119–120
Community-based mobilizing
, 119
Community-based organisations
, 119–120
Computers
, 146
Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO)
, 88
Consumer groups
, 122
Control of labour, separation of management of labour from
, 10–11
Core workers
, 101
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
, 5, 44, 54, 100, 128, 142
commitments
, 144
initiatives
, 144
mechanisms
, 12, 135
COVID-19
, 30
backdrop
, 77
emerging patchwork under
, 145–149
pandemic
, 46, 53, 68, 75, 142, 146
protection
, 77
Crowdwork employment
, 120
Customs and Excise Management Act (1979)
, 131
Decentralised employment relations system
, 26
Deep organising
, 87
Digital disruption
, 152–153
Digital technologies
, 9
Digitalisation
, 4
Disagreement
, 28
Discrimination Law Review (DCLG)
, 57
‘E Le Ma’ platform
, 104
Economic change
, 101–105
Economic destruction
, 24
Economic globalization
, 149
Economic governance
, 44
Education
, 89
Emotional intelligence
, 54
Empathy
, 54
Employability
, 40, 153
Employees
, 25, 67–68, 71
employment security for
, 68
management of
, 68
Employment
agencies
, 10
paradigm
, 129
relations system
, 143
rise of non-standard forms of
, 3–5
Employment contracts, non-standard Forms of
, 7
Employment Contracts Act (1991) (ECA)
, 23, 61
Employment Relations Act (ERA)
, 23, 62
Employment relationships
, 113, 141
HRM and limits to understanding
, 69–72
replacement of
, 11
Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
, 152
Equal Pay Act
, 61
Equal pay legislation
, 61
Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
, 47
Equality Act 2010
, 58
Ethnic minorities
, 5
EU economic and monetary union (EMU)
, 41
Euro Plus Pact
, 43, 43, n9
Europe 2020 strategy
, 43
European Association of Craft
, 38, n2
European Central Bank (ECB)
, 42, n5
European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation (CEEP)
, 38, n2
European Economic Community (EEC)
, 37
European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)
, 43
European Pillar of Social Rights (2017) (EPSR)
, 47
non-binding nature of
, 47
principles of
, 47
European Semester programme
, 43–44
European Social Dialogue
, 35
European Social Model (ESM)
, 13, 36–38, 46–47
austerity
, 41–46
development of
, 38–41
European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
, 43, 43, n10
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
, 38, n2
European Union (EU)
, 35, 117, 133
austerity
, 41
consequences
, 45–46
COVID-19 Recovery plan
, 39
economic governance regime
, 44
legislative framework
, 40
lethal incompleteness
, 46
neo-voluntarist Open Method of Coordination approach
, 40
social and employment policy
, 36–37
social and political consequences
, 44–45
social face
, 47
systems
, 132–134
Euroscepticism
, 46–47
Eurozone's architecture
, 41
Exogenous pressures, intensification of
, 9–10
Exploitation
, 111
risks of
, 113
Extreme market individualism
, 68
Fair Hotels
, 30
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
, 131
Fair Pay Agreements
, 25
Fair Pay Working Group
, 25
Fair Work Act
, 27
Familial hegemony
, 106
Fast Food Forward
, 86
Fight for $15 campaign
, 87–88
Financial crisis in 2008
, 41
Financialisation
, 153
Fissuring
, 9
Five-year long union campaign
, 30
Fixed-term work
, 40
Flexible discipline
, 88
Flexicurity
, 40
Food delivery service company
, 98
Framework of action in youth unemployment
, 40
Franchise owners
, 10
Frontline workers
, 147–148
Future of Work Tripartite Forum
, 25
Gender inequality
business case for addressing
, 54–57
collective bargaining, litigation and undervaluation of women's work
, 59–62
legal experimentation for addressing
, 57–59
Gender pay gap
, 5, 14, 54, 58, 145
Gig companies
, 77
Gig economy
, 4, 11, 67, 102–103
development
, 98–99
interaction between web of rules and actors in
, 107
migrant workers and working and life status in
, 105–107
Gig work in China
, 101–105
Gig workers
, 104
Glass ceiling
, 54
Global economic forces
, 22
Global financial crisis
, 28
Global framework agreements
, 150
Global labour, institutional experimentation for regulating
, 149–151
Global supply chains (GSCs)
, 128, 136, 142, 149
international and multi-state regulation of labour standards in
, 132–136
state regulation of labour standards in
, 129–132
Globalisation
, 128
Governments
, 112, 114, 116
government-affiliated trade unions
, 100
government-led enforcement
, 115
policies
, 102, 116
purchasing projects
, 101
support
, 114–116
Great Recession
, 41
Guardian (Britain's main liberal newspaper)
, 89
‘Hands off’ approach
, 40
Harassment and violence at work
, 40
‘Harmonisation’ of member states’ social security systems
, 39
Healthcare
, 89, 145
High-commitment HRM
, 5
Homeworking
, 146
Horizontal segregation
, 54
Horticulture
, 118
Hospitality services
, 90
Howard government's unitarist policies
, 26
HR professionals
, 54
HSBC
, 147
Human capital
management
, 57
theories
, 53
Human Resource Management (HRM)
, 1, 13, 68, 70, 142
exemplifying tensions
, 72–76
and limits to understanding employment relationship
, 69–72
mechanisms
, 35
progressing
, 76–78
Human Rights Council
, 132
Human rights due diligence (HRDD)
, 130
Hybrid institutional mechanisms
, 135–136
Ideological economic forces
, 22
Ideology
, 26
ILO Convention 100 (1951)
, 53
Immigration policy decisions
, 114
Inclusive labour markets
, 40
Individual crowd workers
, 102
Individual rights system
, 22
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act (1894)
, 23
Industrial relations systems
, 21
IndustriALL
, 136
Insecure work
, 14
Institutional exceptions
, 68
Institutional experimentation
, 11–12, 14, 128
for regulating global labour
, 149–151
in response, manifestations of contraction traditional web of rules and
, 7–11
Institutional variances
, 68
Institutions
, 1
Insurance
, 147
Intensification of exogenous pressures
, 9–10
Internal devaluation
, 41
International and multi-state regulation of labour standards in GSCs
, 132
private regulation of labour standards in GSCs
, 135–136
trade agreements and labour standards in GSCs
, 134–135
UN and EU systems
, 132–134
International Bill of Human Rights
, 132
International Chambers of Commerce
, 100
International comparisons
, 13
International conventions
, 10, 143
International Labour Conference (ILC)
, 133
International Labour Organisation
, 149–150
International migration flows
, 111
Ireland
neoliberalism and augmented pluralism in
, 28–30
system of industrial relations
, 28
Irish Congress of Trade Union (ICTU)
, 28
Irish legal profession
, 54
Job evaluation process
, 59
Joint Labour Committees (JLCs)
, 29
Joint regulation
, 1, 12, 35
mechanisms
, 4
Joint Working Group on Pay Equity Principles
, 61
JP Morgan Chase
, 147
Just in time staffing
, 67
Labour hire contractors
, 10
Labour migration
, 150
Labour Party policy
, 24
Labour process
, 103
Labour standards
, 23, 142
in GSCs
, 134–135
international and multi-state regulation in GSCs
, 132–136
manifestations of contraction traditional web of rules and institutional experimentation
, 7–11
progressing
, 12
rise of non-standard forms of employment
, 3–5
state regulation in GSCs
, 129–132
from systemic web of rules towards emergent patchwork of rules
, 5–7
web of rules
, 2–3
Labour supply, expansion of sources of
, 7–9
Labour-led coalition government
, 25
Legal experimentation for addressing gender inequality
, 57–59
Legislation
, 144
Legislative measures
, 54
Legislative solution
, 28
Liberal market economies
, 10, 21–22, 26
Liberal-National ‘Coalition’ government
, 26
Liquid workforce
, 67, 152
Litigation
, 14, 54, 59–62
‘Living wage’ campaign
, 121
Maastricht Treaty (1992)
, 40
Male breadwinner model
, 5
Marginalisation
, 111
Maritime Labour Convention (MLC)
, 133
Market-mediated contracts
, 152
Mass self-communication
, 86
Mcdonald
#McStrike
, 88–89
analysing #McStrike
, 89–91
fight for $15
, 86–87
networked organizing
, 91–92
SEIU and discontents
, 87–88
#McStrike
, 85–86, 88–89
analysing
, 89–91
‘Meituan Waimai’ food delivery company
, 98
Migrant workers
, 5, 106, 111, 118, 150
coalition building and co-regulation
, 120–122
community organisation support
, 119–120
exploitation
, 121
government support
, 114–116
labour market position
, 15
marginalisation
, 121
mobility
, 115
sources of
, 112
trade union support
, 116–119
and working and life status in gig economy
, 105–107
Migrants
, 112
Million Unit Club
, 74
Mobility
, 113
Modern Slavery Act
, 130
Monopoly face strategy
, 117
Multi-party cooperation
, 108
Multinational companies
, 130
National-led coalition government
, 24
Neoliberal economic policies
, 117
Neo-liberalisation of industrial relations
, 141
Neoliberalism
Australia
, 26–28
Ireland
, 28–30
New Zealand
, 23–25
Network station net
, 102, n5
New business models
, 152, 154
New Deal
, 12
‘New economic governance’ regime
, 43
New York Communities for Change (NYCC)
, 86
New Zealand
industrial relations system
, 23
market
, 25
neoliberalism and augmented pluralism in
, 23–25
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (CTU)
, 24
Next Generation EU Recovery Programme (NGEU)
, 46
No-win no-fee law firm
, 60
Non-standard economy
, 106
Non-standard employment
, 103, n6
Non-standard forms
, 12
Non-standard forms of employment
contracts
, 7
rise of
, 3–5
Non-standard workers
, 106
Non-work communities
, 121
Non-binding CSR
, 44
Non-governmental organisation (NGOs)
, 9, 101, 142
winter event
, 101
NZ Human Rights Commission (NZHRC)
, 62
NZ Nurses Organisation (NZNO)
, 62
Occupy Wall Street
, 86
Online platforms
, 142
Open Method of Coordination
, 36
Open-ended intergovernmental working group
, 133
Organic leaders
, 87
Organisation United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart)
, 86, 91–92, 154
Organising model
, 90
Oxford Group
, 105
Pandemic
, 147–148
public policy and
, 148
Paradigm shift
, 146
relating to patchwork
, 148–149
Parental leave
, 40
Paris Summit (1972)
, 39
Part-time work
, 40
Patchwork of rules
, 2, 5, 12, 108, 128, 142
emerging
, 142–145
frontline workers and pandemic
, 147–148
paradigm shift
, 148–149
public policy and pandemic
, 148
remote working
, 146–147
from systemic web of rules towards emergent
, 5–7
People management theory
, 70
Platform companies
, 103
Platform economy
, 97, n1
(see also Gig economy)
role of
, 101–105
‘Platform plugin’ pessimism
, 155
Platform workers
, 101
Platform's technology
, 105
Pluralist system of compulsory arbitration
, 26
Policy mechanisms
, 54
Policy-makers
, 148
Post-war industrial relations
, 5
Professional organizers
, 91
Professional services
, 5
Public policy and pandemic
, 148
Public pressure
, 7
Public services
, 89
Rana Plaza disaster (2013)
, 149
Regulatory experimentation
business case for addressing gender equality
, 54–57
collective bargaining, litigation and undervaluation of women's work
, 59–62
legal experimentation for addressing gender inequality
, 57–59
Religious organisations
, 9
Remote working
, 146–147
Renting talent
, 67
Reserve Bank of Australia
, 27
Residential Care Association
, 61
Retailers
, 10
Reverse discrimination
, 59
‘Right to bargain’ law
, 28–29
Rudd-Gillard labour governments
, 27
Rules-based approach
, 45
Sectoral employer association
, 61
Sectoral employment orders (SEOs)
, 29
Self-employment
, 103
Selfishness and opportunism
, 106
Senate Bill
, 74
Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU)
, 61
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
, 85
and discontents
, 87–88
mobilising model
, 88
Service sector workers
, 143
Shallow mobilising
, 87
Sharing economy
, 4, 67
Shunfeng (giant delivery company)
, 102
‘Sign or resign’ approach
, 23, 61
Silent revolution
, 44
Single European Act
, 40
Single Status Agreement (SSA)
, 59
Skill
, 113
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (UEAPME)
, 38, n2
Smartphones
, 146
Social Action Programme (1974)
, 39
Social change
, 101–105
Social dumping
, 10
Social media
, 86, 91
networks
, 9, 91
platforms
, 154
Social partnership
, 28
Social protection
, 147
Socialist memory
, 106
State Economic and Trade Commission (SETC)
, 100
Statutory minimum standards
, 12
Statutory regulation
, 35
Stefan Cross Solicitors
, 60
Stock-market
, 153
Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act (Stop BEZOS Act)
, 74
Strike waves (2010)
, 99
Structural economic bargaining power
, 90
Substantive social policy interventions
, 38
Swiss Responsible Business Initiative
, 131
Systemic web of rules
, 3
emergent patchwork of rules
, 5–7
Tablets
, 146
Tactical engagement
, 76
Taxation
, 147
Technology
, 77, 152
companies
, 69
co-operatives
, 154
Telework
, 40
Teleworking
, 146
Temporary migrants
, 27
Temporary visa schemes
, 112–113
Thematic subheadings
, 13
Three-pronged approach
, 142
Time Off Task
, 105
Trade agreements in GSCs
, 134–135
Trade liberalization
, 134
Trade unions
, 2, 104, 112, 114, 142, 144
membership
, 1
in New Zealand
, 22
support
, 116–119
Traditional non-standard employment
, 102
Traditional web of rules
, 3, 12, 14, 112, 142
expansion of sources of labour supply
, 7–9
and institutional experimentation
, 7–8
intensification of exogenous pressures
, 9–10
non-standard forms of employment contracts
, 7
replacement of employment relationship
, 11
separation of management of labour from control of labour
, 10–11
Transformation of web of rules
, 107
Transitioning web of rules
, 99–101
Treaty of Rome (1957)
, 37
Treaty of Rome (1957)
, 39
Treaty on European Union (TEU)
, 37
Troika bailouts
, 42
UK Equal Pay Task Force
, 57
UK Institute for Employment Rights
, 132
UK local authority (LA)
, 54
UK policy debate
, 57
UK Supreme Court
, 61
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)
, 132
UN Sustainable Development Goals
, 143
UN systems
, 132–134
Uncertainty
, 107
Undervaluation of Women's Work section
, 54
Unemployment
, 45
‘Union of Industrial and Employers’ Confederations of Europe
, 38, n2
Unions
, 23–24, 30, 60, 104, 112, 117
officials
, 24
UNISON
, 121
Unitarism
, 72
Unitarist ideology
, 70
United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW)
, 91
US Federal Trade Commission
, 75
US labour campaign
, 86
‘US low-wage workers’ movement
, 91
US-based journal
, 70
Val Duchesse social dialogue process
, 40
Value-based trade agenda
, 134
Visa
, 113
Voluntarist
, 150
HRM
, 12
Voluntarist web of rules
, 143
Vredeling directive
, 39
Wages
, 54, 61–62
determination mechanisms
, 106
Walmart
, 91–92
Walmart workers
, 91
Web of rules
, 2–3, 5, 35, 128
interaction between web of rules and actors in gig economy
, 105–107
social and political consequences of lurch to austerity and consequences for
, 44–45
Women
, 5
undervaluation of women's work
, 59–62
and Work Commission
, 54, 57
Work life integration
, 75
Workers
, 5, 153
(see also Migrant workers)
centres
, 119
collectivism
, 108
in platform economy
, 146
Workers Directive
, 41
Workplace meetings
, 119
Workplace social networks
, 90
Workplace surveillance
, 147
Work-related stress
, 40
World Economic Forum
, 149
World Health Organisation (WHO)
, 75
Younger workers
, 27
Zero hour contracts
, 6–7, 30
- Prelims
- Introduction: New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards
- Chapter 1: Neoliberalism or Augmented Pluralism? Defending the Web of Rules in New Zealand, Australia and Ireland
- Chapter 2: The European Social Model and the Patchwork of Rules
- Chapter 3: Regulatory Experimentation and Gender Inequality
- Chapter 4: The Limits of HRM in a New Era of Work: Bezonomics and the Amazon Effect
- Chapter 5: Beyond Mobilisation at Mcdonald's: Towards Networked Organising
- Chapter 6: The Rising Gig Economy in China: Implications for the Protection of Migrant Workers
- Chapter 7: Collaborative Institutional Experimentation to Address the Exploitation and Marginalisation of Migrant Workers
- Chapter 8: Global Supply Chains and Labour Standards: From a Patchwork of Rules to a Web of Rules?
- Conclusion: Towards a New Web of Rules
- Index