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Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.671

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Number of Followers: 16

Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 1024-2589 - ISSN (Online) 1996-7284
Published by Sage Publications

[1176 journals]

Introduction to the Transfer special issue. Regulating AI at work: labour
relations, automation, and algorithmic management
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  Authors: Valerio De Stefano, Virginia Doellgast
  Pages: 9 - 20
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 9-20, February 2023.
  
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-04-15T12:33:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231157656
  Issue No: Vol. 29, No. 1 (2023)
The emerging corporate sustainability reporting system: what role for
workers’ representatives'
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  Authors: Sigurt Vitols
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-05-29T08:52:11Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231175607
Informal employment on domestic care platforms: a study on the
individualisation of risk and unpaid labour in mature market contexts
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  Authors: Valeria Pulignano, Claudia Marà, Milena Franke, Karol Muszynski
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  This article explains how digitally mediated provision of domestic care services perpetuates the invisibility and informality of such work through individualising risk, which we operationalise by one of its dimensions, that of unpaid labour. We understand unpaid labour as the cost of the risk borne individually by workers at the intersection of the social (inter-personal) and economic (monetary) spheres. Drawing on the experiences of domestic care workers providing their services through platforms, the study shows how platforms have made their way into the labour markets and welfare structures of two mature economies, Belgium and France. Via their (digital) rules, they pursue ‘regulatory compliance’ and ‘disruption’ as distinct strategies for establishing platform dominance, albeit with country-based differences. Platform-mediated employment outcomes remain generally unrecognised, undocumented and informal, with unpaid labour characterising the cost of the individualisation of risk.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-05-23T08:36:04Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231177353
Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in
southern Europe: the odd case of Italy
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  Authors: Giovanni Orlandini, Guglielmo Meardi
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  Southern European countries, with their apparently high degree of collective bargaining centralisation and state regulations, may seem to be little affected by the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages. This article looks at the case of Italy, the EU country generally reported to have the highest collective bargaining coverage in Europe, to show how the situation on the ground is more problematic than conventional indicators suggest. Not only does Italy lack a national minimum wage and a legal framework for collective bargaining extension, but its apparent high level of collective bargaining coverage is vulnerable to wage dumping practices. The article identifies the weaknesses of the Italian system and proposes some possible lines of reform.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-05-23T08:34:44Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231175259
Book Review: Arise. Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence
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  Authors: Laust Høgedahl
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-05-13T09:36:47Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231175281
Poverty and social exclusion in the EU: third-order priorities, hybrid
governance and the future potential of the field
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  Authors: Paul Copeland
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  EU leaders have agreed to reduce the number of people who are at risk of poverty or social exclusion by 15 million (including at least five million children) by 2030. This article explores this ambitious target and analyses the positioning of the field throughout the EU’s broader governance hierarchy, as well as the governance arrangements within the field. It finds that throughout such governance arrangements, the issue of being at risk of poverty or social exclusion is largely dealt with by intergovernmental agreements and is thereby a third-order priority for the EU, with economic integration first-order and employment policy second-order. Meanwhile, within the field EU governance arrangements are currently being transformed to further encourage the Member States to take action. While this is a significant development, the overall ability of the EU to reduce the number of those at risk of poverty or social exclusion requires the field to move beyond its current third-order status.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-05-13T09:32:47Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231171091
Lost in transition' Social justice and the politics of the EU green
transition
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  Authors: Amandine Crespy, Mario Munta
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  Focusing on two key instruments, the Just Transition Fund and the Social Climate Fund, this article assesses to what extent the EU’s pledge for a ‘just transition’ has the potential to foster greater social justice while implementing the European Green Deal. We analyse the related objectives, policy tools and patterns of political conflict and find that both Funds have narrow objectives anchored in a reactive logic complementing existing social investment initiatives with a focus on reskilling the workforce hit by decarbonisation. Both instruments rely on multi-level investment aiming to generate green growth, combined with targeted compensation for the more vulnerable. This, we argue, is not conducive to a just transition that addresses the intersection of environmental and social problems in a holistic way. Finally, various political fault lines pose the threat that EU action will be insufficient to tackle exacerbated inequalities in the future.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-05-12T12:11:39Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231173072
Book Review: Neue Europäische Arbeitspolitik. Umkämpfte
Integration in der Eurokrise
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  Authors: Ajla Rizvan
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-05-10T05:56:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231174778
EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive
turn after the Social Pillar'
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  Authors: Robin Huguenot-Noël, Francesco Corti
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  When does the EU employment growth agenda also serve social progress' Scholars concerned with the equality/efficiency trade-off generally look at the EU as an agenda-setter. Little attention has yet been paid to its role as direct provider of social rights. Building on a data set of 71 EU measures and 317 judgments of the Court of Justice of the EU, this article evaluates the extent to which EU employment policies helped to advance social citizenship by assessing the scope and distribution of individual entitlements over time (2009–2022). Our findings show that, after almost two decades of silence, the EU not only expanded the scope of its influence over individual social rights but also took an inclusive turn, driven by more ‘universalising’ and ‘capacitating’ initiatives. Looking ahead, better monitoring of the distributive profile of EU initiatives indirectly affecting rights production (such as SURE or the Recovery and Resilience Facility) would help to ensure that this shift increasingly benefits those needing it the most.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-04-24T01:00:51Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231169683
The Roaring 20s for Social Europe. The European Pillar of Social Rights
and burgeoning EU legislation
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  Authors: Claire Kilpatrick
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  Social Europe is not only back but, we aim to show, bigger and bolder than ever before. Through historical comparison we make the case that, rather than being a false dawn, legislative developments linked to the 2017 European Pillar of Social Rights (Pillar or EPSR) beckon such a significant and broad-based burgeoning of Social Europe that it can be characterised as the ‘Roaring 20s’ for Social Europe. This is quite a surprise based on recent Social Europe history, the Pillar itself and established EU competence limits and practices. How Social Europe has defied these justifiably low expectations is the primary focus of this analysis. It aims to characterise and illustrate what we see as a new and quite dramatic turn for Social Europe.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-04-21T09:44:07Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231169664
Book Review: Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited
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  Authors: Niccolo Durazzi
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-04-01T08:41:01Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231152409
Book Review: The role of social partners in managing Europe’s great
recession. Crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis'
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  Authors: Franziska Laudenbach
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-03-23T12:50:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231160419
Editorial
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  Authors: Valerio De Stefano, Virginia Doellgast
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-03-14T12:41:32Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231164224
Determinants of union strategies towards the twin digital and green
transitions in the German and Belgian automotive industry
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  Authors: Valeria Pulignano, Marco Hauptmeier, Dorien Frans
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines union strategies towards the twin digital and green transitions, comparing the German and Belgian automotive industries. The drive towards net-zero and more digital economies is manifested through the move from fossil fuel-powered cars to electric cars, engendering a reorganisation of production, work and employment among car manufacturers. We identified two strategic union response patterns. While German unions are developing proactive strategies and proposals to influence and shape the ongoing transition of the automotive industry, Belgian unions are more passive, reacting primarily to management proposals and focusing narrowly on employment and working conditions without a broader strategy on how to influence the transformation of the automotive industry. We explain the observed cross-national differences by two factors: the importance of national institutions, i.e., the varying integration of labour into management decision-making, and the role of union knowledge regimes. The latter refers to internal union organisations and structures such as research departments, research institutes and foundations tasked with providing own research and funding external research on change topics from a union perspective, publishing studies and developing programmatic agendas, and disseminating the knowledge to union members through training, workshops and conferences.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-03-14T12:39:32Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231158066
It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and
artificial intelligence
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  Authors: Oscar Molina, Florian Butollo, Csaba Makó, Alejandro Godino, Ursula Holtgrewe, Anna Illsoe, Sander Junte, Trine Pernille Larsen, Miklós Illésy, Jószef Pap, Philip Wotschack
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  The extension of artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic management mechanisms by companies has led to growing trade union demands to regulate their use. This article explores the role of collective bargaining and employee participation mechanisms in regulating the use by companies of AI and algorithms. This is done through a comparative analysis of institutional developments at EU level, as well as in four countries with different industrial relations models (Denmark, Germany, Hungary and Spain). The article shows that there are remarkable differences between countries in the roles of social partners and in the combination of protective and participative mechanisms used to respond to the challenges of AI and algorithmic management. However, the analysis also serves to highlight the limits of existing institutions and practices to cope with the complexity of challenges associated with AI and algorithmic management. This calls for institutional adaptation and additional regulatory efforts at EU and national levels to support collective bargaining.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-03-14T12:38:24Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231156515
Book Reviews: Re-Union – How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize,
and Reunite the United States
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  Authors: Thomas Klikauer
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-02-08T05:18:23Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589231152405
Worker voice and algorithmic management in post-Brexit Britain
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  Authors: Philippa Collins, Joe Atkinson
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  In this article, we consider the legal frameworks that enable workers to influence the deployment of new workplace technologies in the United Kingdom and the future of worker voice and algorithmic management in a post-Brexit Britain. The article demonstrates how the legal mechanisms that facilitate voice at work, primarily collective bargaining via trade unions, can be leveraged to influence employers’ choices regarding algorithmic management. However, it also identifies both familiar and novel challenges regarding using these routes to ‘negotiate the algorithm’. The article then outlines major regulatory proposals emerging from the EU that would establish greater co-determination in this context and assesses their relevance to the UK labour market. It concludes by considering whether specific regulatory measures are necessary in the UK context to enhance the exercise of worker voice regarding the deployment of algorithmic management and close the widening gap between the position of UK and EU workers.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-01-28T12:38:17Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589221143068
Governing the work-related risks of AI: implications for the German
government and trade unions
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  Authors: Anke Hassel, Didem Özkiziltan
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  This article discusses the risks that artificial intelligence (AI) poses for work. It classifies risks into two types, direct and indirect. Direct risks are AI-induced forms of discrimination, surveillance and information asymmetries at work. Indirect risks are enhanced workplace automation and the increasing ‘fissurisation’ of work. Direct and indirect risks are illustrated using the example of the transport and logistics sector. We discuss policy responses to both types of risk in the context of the German economy and argue that the policy solutions need to differ according to the type of risk. Direct risks can be addressed by European and national regulation against discrimination, surveillance and information asymmetries. As for indirect risks, the first step is to monitor the risks so as to gain an understanding of sector-specific transformations and establish relevant expertise and competence. This way of addressing AI-induced risks at work will help to improve the prospects of decent work, fair remuneration and adequate social protection for all.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-01-27T01:17:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589221147228
Digitalisation of work in aerospace manufacturing: expanding union frames
and repertoires of action in Belgium, Canada and Denmark
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  Authors: Julie M É Garneau, Sara Pérez-Lauzon, Christian Lévesque
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  The digitalisation of work is associated with a range of technologies, including digital platforms and so-called artificial intelligence (AI), as well as ideas about how they will improve productivity and competitiveness. This article analyses how unions anticipate the consequences of digital technologies and how they mobilise to address their impact on employment, skills, and quality of work. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in aerospace manufacturing in Belgium (Wallonia), Denmark and Canada (Quebec), our findings suggest that unions are mobilising contrasting frames and repertoires of action, drawing on traditional institutions, and experimenting with new ones to shape the future of work in the aerospace industry.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-01-25T12:47:09Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589221146876
Book Review: Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich
Democracies
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  Authors: Marta Kahancová
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  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2023-01-25T12:42:16Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589221144267
Negotiating limits on algorithmic management in digitalised services:
cases from Germany and Norway
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  Authors: Virginia Doellgast, Ines Wagner, Sean O’Brady
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  Artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms are increasingly used to monitor employees and to automate management decisions. In this article, we ask how worker representatives adapt traditional collective voice institutions to regulate the adoption and use of these tools in the workplace. Our findings are based on a comparative study of union and works council responses to algorithmic management in contact centres from two similar telecommunications companies in Germany and Norway. In both case studies, worker representatives mobilised collective voice institutions to protect worker privacy and discretion associated with remote monitoring and workforce management technologies. However, they relied on different sources of institutional power, connected to co-determination rights, enforcement of data protection laws, and labour cooperation structures.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T04:28:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589221143044
Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their
strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany
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  Authors: Martin Krzywdzinski, Detlef Gerst, Florian Butollo
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world of work. For trade unions, the issue of how to regulate the use of AI is a central but difficult topic because the technology is still at an early stage and experience on its use limited. Focusing on Germany, this article addresses the following questions: (1) what areas of application and use cases for AI are relevant for trade unions and works councils', (2) what role do trade union positions and demands play in the political discussion on regulating the use of AI', (3) what strategies are trade unions using to influence the regulation and use of AI in the workplace', and (4) what experiences are they gaining during this process' Reviewing trade union strategies, this article shows which concepts of human-centred AI the trade unions are trying to promote, how they try to ensure that works councils and trade unionists get appropriate training to understand the new technologies, and how dealing with AI is changing the way works councils work. The article also shows how the characteristics of the German system of industrial relations influence discussions on AI and the processes of implementing it in the workplace.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2022-12-23T01:18:59Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589221142273
Algorithmic management and collective bargaining
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  Authors: Valerio De Stefano, Simon Taes
  Abstract: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, Ahead of Print.
  This article addresses the challenges raised by the introduction of algorithmic management and artificial intelligence in the world of work, focusing on the risks that new managerial technologies present for fundamental rights and principles, such as non-discrimination, freedom of association and the right to privacy. The article argues that collective bargaining is the most suitable regulatory instrument for responding to these challenges, and that current EU legislative initiatives do not adequately recognise the role of collective bargaining in this area. It also maps current initiatives undertaken by national trade union movements in Europe to govern algorithmic management.
  Citation: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
  PubDate: 2022-12-09T08:11:50Z
  DOI: 10.1177/10242589221141055