Abstract In many Western countries, coresidential unions of lower educated people are less stable than those higher people. A prominent explanation this gradient in union dissolution holds that the experience more strain. Evidence for has been limited by a focus on only economic dimension strain and one partner each union. study, we broadened concept to cover multiple life domains capture both ...

Abstract Food-delivery digital labour platforms started to operate in Spain 2016. As other national contexts, these have misclassified workers as independent contractors rather than employees, shifting responsibilities and risks onto who been forced under marketized relationships lacking protection. This paper analyses trade unions practices strategies targeted towards food-delivery platform (r...

Gender equality is a global norm, and the existing norm mechanisms attribute to trade unions globally stakeholder position in diffusion promotion. This well-articulated official documents institutions within United Nations (UN) regime that collaborates with both local international accordingly. Complementarily, collaborate UN bodies of gender their localities. Nevertheless, this multi-layered p...

This article analyses how, through adopting responsibility for their co-workers’ livelihoods, workplace-based unionists shaped Zambian mining capitalism. I argue that union branch executives learnt they could best assist co-workers through offering them financial services and co-operation with company HR. During wage negotiations, unionists drew strength from this understanding, encouraging the...

‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and ‘ethnic’ conflict among workers. We model a twodimensional contest, where two unions, representing different sections of workers, j...