In this article, we investigate labour struggles under the condition of digital capitalism. The main research question paper addresses is: How do German unions evaluate and respond to rapidly accelerating digitalisation economy work? Based on a series interviews with union representatives in Germany, trace recent developments an increasingly digitised outline challenges opportunities for unions...

Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage-determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models (trade unions and oligopsony), although there are many more. It also asks if imperfectly competitive models should be used whenever researchers are modelling...

The history of Toronto's Jewish labour movement provides a critical context for examining the relationship between feminist and socialist currents in Canada's past. It also illuminates the relationship between these currents and ethnic identity within a key section of the working class. In the 1920s and 1930s, Toronto's Jewish labour movement was not only militant but also had a strong radical ...

This research paper aims to provide an empirical validation of the impact of human capital accumulation and labour market institutions on productivity growth. The primary objective of this study is to analyse economic and employment growth tendencies in the period between 1985 and 2007 in various OECD member countries. In our estimations we followed a specific taxonomy to identify the features ...

Many thanks go to Delphine Corteel and Steve Casper for comments on a previous version, as well as to the participants in seminars organised by the European Metalworkers' Federation for their criticisms and comments. The final responsibility is, as usual, only mine. Abstract This paper deals with the situation in the European car industry since the crisis of the early 1990s. After a short revie...