Employee Relations: Volume 33 Issue 6

Worker resistance and response to the crisis of neo‐liberal capitalism

Gregor Gall

The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the special issue on “Collective worker responses to redundancy and restructuring”.

“Acting out” institutions: A cross‐sector analysis of local unions' response and practices of resistance to collective redundancy in Belgium

Vickie Dekocker, Valeria Pulignano, Albert Martens

Restructuring has assumed a significant importance across Europe due to the growing pressures of internationalisation affecting transnational capital. By drawing from two…

Contemporary workplace occupations in Britain: Motivations, stimuli, dynamics and outcomes

Gregor Gall

This paper aims to examine the more militant response of a minority of workers to collective redundancy and restructuring in Britain since 2007.

Redundancy and workplace occupation: the case of the Republic of Ireland

Niall Cullinane, Tony Dundon

This paper aims to examine the antecedent influences and merits of workplace occupations as a tactical response to employer redundancy initiatives.

Labour struggles against mass redundancies in France: understanding direct action

Sylvie Contrepois

This article aims to examine recent labour struggles against mass redundancies in France. It seeks to understand the well reported incidences of direct action within the terrain…

From action to communication?: Explaining the changing context of worker occupations as direct forms of action with reference to the case of contemporary Spain

Miguel Martínez Lucio

The relative absence of worker occupations in recent years in a context of major restructuring and unemployment has raised issues in Spain as to the changing nature of specific…

Collective and individual conflicts in five European countries

Steve Jefferys

The purpose of this paper is to explore comparatively the relationship between the employment relations contexts and trends in collective conflicts based at the workplace and…

Special issue on employment relations, migration and geographical mobility