Employee Relations: Volume 39 Issue 3

Guest editorial

(Re)conceptualising precarity: institutions, structure and agency

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the notion of precarious work and addresses the temporal, historical and analytical weaknesses manifest in many accounts by proposing a…

The state, employment, and regulation: making work not pay

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of specific active labour market policies (ALMP) and increased use of zero hour contracts (ZHCs) in creating an environment in…

An analytical framework for employment regulation: investigating the regulatory space

The purpose of this paper is to advance a conceptual analytical framework to help explain employment regulation as a dynamic process shaped by institutions and actors. The paper…

Regulating wellbeing in the brave new quantified workplace

The purpose of this paper is to lay out the conceptual issues arising alongside the rise of sensory technologies in workplaces designed to improve wellness and productivity.

The role of organizational learning in soft regulation of workplace gender equality

The purpose of this paper is to explain progress, or the lack of it, in achieving workplace gender equality goals prescribed by affirmative action regulation by using concepts…

Labour regulation in small firms: In search of a more comprehensive employment/industrial relations paradigm

The purpose of this paper is to highlight a series of critical points in the traditional theory (and practice) of ER/IR, in search of a more comprehensive paradigm.

Workplace inequality, trade unions and the transnational regulation of the employment relationships: The case of Europe

The purpose of this paper is to report on research on the strategies of inequality at the workplace level of multinational corporations within the context characterized by the…

Organizing Latin American workers in Japan: The case of the community union MIE as an alternative space of regulation

The purpose of this paper is to assess difficulties facing the unionization of foreign workers focusing on the experience of trade unionists in Union MIE, an exemplar of what in…

HRM and work practices in Chile: the regulatory power of organisational culture

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the characteristics of working practices, in particular HRM practices in work settings in Chile, specifically the regulatory…

The perforated borders of labour migration and the formal state: Meta-state and para-state regulation

The purpose of this paper is to explore the variation in migrant labour market regimes and what these reveal about variant patterns of state and extra state regulation in two…

All precarious? Institutional change and turning points in labour market trajectories in Spain: Insights from narrative biographies

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of changes in employment regulation in Spain on individual labour market trajectories. It is well known that the Spanish labour…