Journal
ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY
Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 1260-1280Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X20983593
Keywords
Collective labor relations; employment rights; juridification; new IR actors; social partnership
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- TraffLab research project
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [756672]
- European Research Council (ERC) [756672] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This article examines a case study in the Israeli construction sector to argue that juridification can motivate unions and employers' associations to initiate strategic and inclusive changes. While not increasing union density or improving wages, this approach broadens the relevance of collective labor relations.
Contributing to debates over relations between the collective and juridified regulation of labor, this article analyzes a rich case study in the Israeli construction sector to claim that juridification can spur unions and employers' associations to initiate strategic and inclusive change. By subsuming processes of juridification into traditional IR frameworks and embracing its logic and practices, the corporatist social partners broaden the relevance of collective labor relations to workers otherwise excluded from direct union representation. In this way, while not increasing union density or improving wages, these 'traditional' IR actors reassert their monopolistic control over worker and employer representation, as well as over the sectoral labor market.
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