The Relationship between Working Life and Individualisation

A Study among Danish Trade Union Members

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2376216
AutoresMorten Madsen (0000-0002-6036-8240, University of Copenhagen, autor correspondente)
Ano1997
Volume11
Fascículo2
Páginas197-217
Data de publicação1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0950017097112001
OpenAlexW2053357554
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas10

A significant current trend in the industrialised countries is a growing individualization among wages-earners: i.e changes from collective value orientations based on solidarity and equality towards more individualistic value orientations based on self-interest and personal opportunities. This paper analyses relations between these changes in wage-earners' identity, labour market position, job characteristics, and relationship to the company and trade union: both empirically, by using Danish survey data from the research project: `The Employee Perspective on Working Life and Politics', and theoretically, by discussing the contrasting ideas of Hirsch and Roth (1986) and Valkenburg (1995) and Zoll (1995). The analysis shows both expected and surprising relationships between labour market positions, job characteristics and individualization. Furthermore, the paper demonstrates that the term individualization' must be understood as a relative concept, and that an increased individualization does not necessarily lead towards a dissolution of the trade union movement as a representative of wage-earners' interests in modern society

Business · Danish · Economics · Individualism · International trade · Labour economics · Linguistics · Market economy · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Sociology · Solidarity · Trade union · Value (mathematics · Wage · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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