Trade Union responses to precarious employment in Germany

Arbeitspapier | Working paper

Content: Introduction; 1. Precariousness in the German labour market; 1.1 Forms of atypical and precarious employment; 1.2 Dimensions of precarious employment; 1.3 Summary: Incidence of precarious employment in Germany; 2. Trade union strategies against precarious employment - an overview; 2.1 Change of legislation in order to limit, prevent or even forbid certain forms of precarious employment; 2.2 Collective agreements to improve the conditions of precarious employment and to limit its use; 2.3 Organising workers in precarious employment and giving them practical help and assistance; 2.4 "Good work" as a trade union counter model against precarious employment; 3. Trade union strategies against precarious employment – four case studies; 3.1 Tackling low wages; 3.2 Temporary Agency work: Limiting and regulating; 3.3 Representing dependent self-employed workers; 3.4 Apprentices: More training capacities and takeovers; 4. Conclusion.

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• Extent: Seite(n): 63
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: WSI-Diskussionspapier (178)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Wirtschaft ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen ; Arbeitsmarktforschung ; Auszubildender ; Leiharbeit ; Selbständiger ; Beschäftigungsform ; Tarifvertrag ; Niedriglohn ; Flexibilität ; Gewerkschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bispinck, Reinhard ; Schulten, Thorsten
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
• (where): Deutschland, Düsseldorf
• (when): 2011

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-294534
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln