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Organizing the Self-Employed: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Findings
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Abstract Trade unions across Europe have pursued various strategies in their attempt to revitalize. Austria’s largest trade union has chosen to broaden its membership base by organizing and representing new membership groups such as dependent self-empl... mehr
Trade unions across Europe have pursued various strategies in their attempt to revitalize. Austria’s largest trade union has chosen to broaden its membership base by organizing and representing new membership groups such as dependent self-employed workers. We argue that this new category of workers poses a distinct challenge to a union’s identity, since their heterogeneous and highly individualized working conditions contribute to very individualistic personality traits. This article draws a picture of identity conceptions, normative orientations and prospective behaviour of dependent self-employed workers towards unions and suggests union strategies to deal with them.... weniger
Freie Schlagwörter
Austria; organizing; self-employment; trade unions; union revitalizing;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Seitenangabe
S. 125-142
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Industrial Relations, 12 (2006) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680106065024
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)