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A German Employee Network and Union Renewal

Published:2007-05-10 Issue:1 Volume:62 Page:143-169
ISSN:1703-8138
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Author:

Croucher Richard¹,Martens Helmut²,Singe Ingo³

Affiliation:

1. Professor of Comparative Employment Relations,Middlesex University,London,UK,

2. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter,Sozialforschungsstelle,Dortmund,Germany.

3. independent researcher,Hamburg,Germany.

Abstract

The paper shows how redundancies were resisted by Hi-Tech workers in a large German company. It details an employee network’s emergence to provide support to individuals and to pursue legal cases against the company, and analyzes the network’s norms and operation. The network operated in complementary ways to the union and works council, to achieve a favourable outcome. The case is used to test theoretical propositions derived from literature on Hi-Tech workers, union renewal and mobilization theory and it is suggested that mobilization theory requires further extension in several directions.

Publisher

Consortium Erudit

Subject

Management of Technology and Innovation,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Strategy and Management

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