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Arbeidsmarkten, welvaartsstaat en ongelijkheid: integratie tussen een micro- en macro-analyse KU Leuven
Production Regimes and Class Compromise among European Warehouse Workers KU Leuven
The orderly functioning of global capitalism increasingly depends on the labor of logistics workers. But social scientists have yet to produce nuanced accounts of the labor process in the many ports, warehouses, and distribution centers that lie at the heart of logistics work. In this study, the authors seek to connect the nascent field of critical logistics studies to theories of the labor process in an effort to understand the production ...
Digital Cleavages and Risk in the Platform Economy in Belgium KU Leuven
The adoption of digital technologies challenge existing institutional approaches towards labour markets segmentation and dualisation by dissolving the employer-employee nexus. When national governments adapt to digitalisation by deregulation they risk to fostering ‘flexibility at the margin’ which can reinforce digital cleavages at the intersection of tasks, skills and new technology. This is because deregulation threatens the existing ...
Re-introducing the company in the analysis of labour market dualisation: variety of patterns and diversity of outcomes between standard and non-standard workers in multinational subsidiaries in Belgium, Germany and Britain KU Leuven
This article re-introduces the company in the analysis of labour market dualisation by studying local actors’ (i.e. management and employee representatives) strategies as embedded in organisational and institutional contexts. Building on twelve case studies of multinational corporation (hereinafter MNC) subsidiaries in Belgium, Germany and Britain, we illustrate how organisational and institutional legacies influence (but do not determine) local ...