Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecom

Description: Exit, Voice, and Solidarity by Virginia Doellgast Downsizing, outsourcing, and intensifying performance management have become common features of corporate restructuring. They have also helped to drive up job insecurity and inequality. Under what conditions do companies take alternative approaches to restructuring that balance market demands for profits with social demands for high quality jobs? In Exit, Voice, and Solidarity, Doellgast compares strategies to reorganize service jobs in the US and Europeantelecommunications industries. Market liberalization and shareholder pressure pushed employers to adopt often draconian cost cutting measures, while labor unions pushed back with creativecollective bargaining and organizing campaigns. Their success depended on the intersection of three factors: constraints on employer exit, support for collective worker voice, and strategies of inclusive labor solidarity. Together, these proved to be crucial sources of worker power in fights to keep high quality jobs within core employers, while extending decent pay and conditions across increasingly complex networks of subsidiaries, subcontractors, and temporary agencies. Based on research atincumbent telecom companies in Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, UK, US, Czech Republic, and Poland, this book provides an original framework for analyzing cross-national differences inrestructuring strategies and outcomes. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Virginia Doellgast is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations in the ILR School at Cornell University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Wirtschafts-und Sozial-wissenschaftliches Institut (WSI) of the Hans Böckler Stiftung. Table of Contents Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Theorizing exit, voice, and solidarityChapter 2: Mapping exit, voice, and solidarity in the case studiesChapter 3: DownsizingChapter 4: Performance managementChapter 5: Externalization: Outsourcing, agency work, and subsidiariesChapter 6: Conclusions Review Doellgast finds that worker solidarity enhances worker power, leading to better working conditions, pay, job security, and well-being. Doellgasts work updates classic industrial relations to the broader concept of "employment relations." The goal is the same: to understand the changing world of work. * Choice * Long Description Downsizing, outsourcing, and intensifying performance management have become common features of corporate restructuring. They have also helped to drive up job insecurity and inequality. Under what conditions do companies take alternative approaches to restructuring that balance market demands for profits with social demands for high quality jobs? In Exit, Voice, and Solidarity, Doellgast compares strategies to reorganize service jobs in the US and Europeantelecommunications industries.Market liberalization and shareholder pressure pushed employers to adopt often draconian cost cutting measures, while labor unions pushed back with creative collective bargaining and organizing campaigns. Their success depended on the intersection of three factors: constraints on employer exit, support for collective worker voice, and strategies of inclusive labor solidarity. Together, these proved to be crucial sources of worker power in fights to keep high quality jobs within core employers,while extending decent pay and conditions across increasingly complex networks of subsidiaries, subcontractors, and temporary agencies. Based on research at incumbent telecom companies in Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, UK, US, Czech Republic, and Poland, this book provides anoriginal framework for analyzing cross-national differences in restructuring strategies and outcomes. Details ISBN0197659780 Author Virginia Doellgast Short Title Exit, Voice, and Solidarity Language English ISBN-10 0197659780 ISBN-13 9780197659786 Format Paperback Subtitle Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations 15 Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-02-07 NZ Release Date 2023-02-07 US Release Date 2023-02-07 UK Release Date 2023-02-07 Alternative 9780197659779 DEWEY 331.8811621382 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2023-04-26 Pages 312 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:140153170;

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