Artikel

How Personal Relations Work: Individual Market Adaptation and Collective Action in Flexible Labour Markets

In the context of a growing detachment of workers from organizations and from traditional forms of interest representation, social networks are considered as an important means of individual risk-coping and for union strategies to improve working conditions and organize workers’ interests. To contribute to a better understanding of industrial relations in flexible labour markets, this paper studies the forms and functions of personal networks in the German film and television industry. The findings of this qualitative study provide insights into the institutional and organizational conditions under which networks facilitate individual strategies, the collective organization or fragmentation of the workforce. Particularly important here are not only the strength of ties, but also vertical versus horizontal relations, and interactions between individual and collective strategies of using personal networks.

Alternative title
Wie persönliche Netzwerke funktionieren: Individuelle Marktanpassung und kollektives Handeln in flexiblen Arbeitsmärkten
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Industrielle Beziehungen ; ISSN: 1862-0035 ; Volume: 20 ; Year: 2013 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 116-141 ; Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag

Classification
Wirtschaft
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Labor Standards: Working Conditions
Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks
Entertainment; Media
Subject
networks
projects
flexible labour markets
individual risk-coping
union strategies

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Apitzsch, Birgit
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Rainer Hampp Verlag
(where)
Mering
(when)
2013

DOI
doi:10.1688/1862-0035_IndB_2013_02_Apitzsch
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  • Apitzsch, Birgit
  • Rainer Hampp Verlag

Time of origin

  • 2013

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