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The Department of General Sociology, Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław, the Sociology of Work Section of the Polish Sociological Association, and the Wroclaw Department of the Polish Sociological Association are pleased to invite you to an open lecture of Professor Virginia Doellgast (ILR School at Cornell University, USA), a specialist in comparative employment relations. Professor Doellgast specializes in the study of the impact of industrial relations on work organization, human resource management practices and job quality, as well as the study of workers' organisations and their impact on management practices.
The lecture of Professor Virginia Doellgast will take place on 30 November 2021 at 11:30-13:00 and are open to the general public. However, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/3VbCqnGZZr to receive the link to MS Teams
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30.11.2021
11:30 - 13:00: “Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in US and European Telecommunications Firms” – open lecture (online, link provided upon registration)
Abstract: Work is becoming more precarious across the ‘global North’ – often driven by the restructuring and ‘fissuring’ strategies of firms in liberalizing markets. In the (forthcoming) book, I ask how and why similar firms take different approaches to restructuring, and what the implications are for workers. I argue that worker representatives are most successful in building the necessary power to contest market-oriented restructuring where they can draw on three sets of ‘ideal type’ conditions: constraints on employer exit, support for collective worker voice, and strategies of inclusive labor solidarity. These are critical resources for asserting the legitimacy of social values and outcomes within workplaces, firms, industries, and the broader economy and society. Findings are based on case studies of ten incumbent telecom firms in the USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
