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International Political Economy of Labour and collective bargaining in the automotive industry
(Sage, 2018-03-23)
This article shows how International Political Economy of Labour (IPEL) approaches can be fruitful in the study of working class and institutional transformation in contemporary capitalism. It draws from an analysis of ...
To sign or not to sign? Union strategies towards provincial metal sector agreements in the Catalan and Basque automotive industries
(Sage, 2018-07-13)
I compare collective bargaining in the Basque and Catalan automotive industries to show that since the early 2000s, two contrasting bargaining frameworks have emerged. The two largest Spanish unions have followed ‘top-down’ ...
Unions as ‘managers of precariousness’: The entrenchment of micro-corporatism in the Spanish automotive industry and its drawbacks
(Emerald, 2018-07-06)
This paper enriches and updates the literature on micro-corporatism, collective bargaining in transnational corporations, and the erosion of trade union power resources which dates back to the 1990s and early 2000s. Whilst ...
International Political Economy of Labour and Gramsci’s Methodology of the Subaltern
(Sage, 2018-12-20)
Gramscian IPE scholarship has predominantly focused on studying capital’s power to subsume labour under different hegemonic projects. Various autonomist Marxists have recently sought to ‘voice labour’ by proposing a ...