Abstract Platform work represents an important challenge for the ‘Danish model’ of unionisation. Using interviews and ethnographic data, this article analyses strategies Danish grassroots union movement Wolt Workers' Group, representing principally migrant couriers using food‐delivery platform Wolt. This study is attempt to map emergent form flexible labour organisation based on horizontal, inf...

In this article I analyse the changing contours of public sector employment relations in Germany during and after the financial and debt crisis. In order to understand what is distinctive in German experience and what is similar with that elsewhere, I provide a comparative perspective of selected EU member states, especially Austria. First, I describe in some detail the impact of various auster...

This paper aims at contributing to the employment e ects of minimum wages in a unionised economy. In a dual labour market model, the rst sector outcome is characterised by bargaining between unions and rms, while in the second sector rms have to pay a statutory minimum wage. The model shows that a minimum wage increase has negative employment effects only if the bargaining outcome is described ...

How will EMU influence the European political economy? This paper argues that most of the likely alternatives are unsustainable for at least some of the EMU member-states. As a result, the Stability Pact imposed by the Kohl government and the Bundesbank is likely to be rejected by other member-states. Additionally, EMU will most likely also have an effect on the relations within the German poli...

Any sophisticated study of labour law mandates an understanding not only the discipline’s legislative content but also historical, social, political, and economic context within which it has evolved, its legislation plays out. Thus, scholars have been receptive to socio-legal methods—going beyond doctrinal legal sources looking other disciplines. Labour scholarship stands out for retaining open...

Trade unions’ legitimacy is rooted in membership, since unions result from the organization of workers who found they were stronger through a collective voice. Accordingly, union representativeness has been assessed primarily ‘density’ – ratio members to total workforce. We argue that density crucial but insufficient. First, decline trade membership jeopardizes internal legitimacy; second, have...

The embodiment of the pragmatic school 100 years old Eurasianism movement - Eurasian Economic Union took inspiration from European to create a single internal market. Hence, EU and EAEU both aim liberalize economic relations between their member states despite fundamentally distinct histories development levels. Both unions have achieved some degree success in establishing common labour As inte...

Abstract In China, a significant and rising number of workers are engaged in on-demand work. The legal status has been widely debated, it seems that the vast majority not protected by labour law, since law accords rights only to those with ‘labour relationships’. While there is widespread consensus China need more protection, steps taken direction date have small indeed. This paper seeks explai...