Against erosion of labour standards

This paper analyses the impacts of globalisation on the systems of industrial relations in the motor industry in a comparative perspective. Globalisation, in the form of the global reorganisation of the value chain, has been a key development in this industry since the 1990s. This development has been characterised by the creation of global production networks at the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), the final producers, the internal reorganisation of the companies, involving higher productive flexibility, decentralisation and financialisation, and the restructuring of the value chain, involving a reduction of vertical integration and new forms of network relationships between OEMs and their suppliers. These developments raise a number of questions: Are regime competition and reorganisation undermining national or industry labour standards? What types of standards are in danger and to what extent? Or are there existing or emergent counter forces that can weaken or even prevent a process of erosion of these standards? In order to address these questions, this paper investigates the contents, forms and levels of collective agreements, the roles and strategies of the actors in collective bargaining and possible fragmentations along the value chain. This is achieved by means of a comparative analysis of the developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Spain and Hungary

Business · Collective bargaining · Decentralization · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Global value chain · Globalization · Industrial organization · International trade · Management · Market economy · Original equipment manufacturer · Restructuring · Supply chain · Value chain · Vertical Integration · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Labor Movements and Unions · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Industrial Relations · Marketing

• Offshoring Danish jobs to Germany

  Open Access•Bjarke Refslund, Bjarke Refslund Bjarke Refslund•Work Organisation Labour &…•2012

  Incluir item

• Tarifabweichungen und Flächentarifverträge

  Open Access•Thomas Haipeter•Tarifabweichungen und Flächentarifv…•2009

  Incluir item

• The changing geography of the European automobile system

  Yannick Lung•International Journal of…•2004

  Incluir item

• Changing East–West Division of Labour in the European Automotive Industry

  Open Access•Ulrich Jürgens, Martin Krzywdzinski•European Urban and Regional Studies•2009

  Incluir item

• Global Strategies in the Automobile Industry

  Marie-Claude Bélis-Bergouignan, Gerard Bordenave et al.•Regional Studies•2000

  Incluir item

• The Impact of Internationalisation and Rationalisation of Production on the Spanish Automobile Industry, 1950-90

  Open Access•A Lagendijk•Environment and Planning A…•1995

  Incluir item