This study analyses the characteristics of members leaving trade unions in Spain – specifically the Catalonia branch of Workers’ Commissions (CCOO-Catalonia) – alongside their reasons for leaving using a variety of data sources. Our findings indicate higher union attrition among members in more precarious employment situations (i.e. temporary employment, low seniority). In general, union leaver...

The economic globalization that began in the late 1970s and early 1980s has generated job insecurity for workers. This coincides with two trends: a reduction wage share of income increasingly precarious employment, both which have been seen most market economies since 1980s. article proposes an efficiency-wage model demand-constrained equilibrium scenario, to explain how rising reduced made emp...

The world of work is facing an ongoing pandemic and economic downturn with severe effects worldwide. Workers trapped in precarious employment (PE), both formal informal, are among those most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we call attention to at least 5 critical ways that consequences crisis workers PE will be felt globally: ( a) increase, b) become more precarious, c) face unemploymen...