Health and Safety Implications of Posted Work : The Example of British Engineering Construction

A Comparative Analysis of Union Responses to Posted Work in Four European Countries

Intra-EU Mobility: The Employment and Welfare Experience of Temporary EU Workers in the United Kingdom

This article explores the mobility pathways of temporary EU workers and the implications that transnational temporary mobility has on their labor market outcomes and access to social rights and benefits. The experiences of temporary EU migrants working in the UK show that despite the narrative of the borderlessness of the common European labor market, access to host countries’ labor market and welfare is shaped by their employment status and welfare eligibility criteria that produce worker precariousness. Temporary EU workers’ experiences are characterized by employment insecurity and unequal access to labor and social rights, effects which might increase since the UK has left the EU.

They will save us, or shouldn’t they? An analysis of the role of the international community in the Albanian print media after the January 21st 2011 demonstrations

This article investigates the political controversies related to the role the international community plays and should play in contemporary Albanian politics through an analysis of the media accounts of the January 21, 2011 demonstration. We analyse opinion articles in the mainstream media and find that there are two representations of the political reality that compete for legitimacy: one in favour of the government and the other against it. The picture that emerges from the media accounts is that events, political action and political personalities are subject to the perceived judgement of external actors, whose confirmation or support is taken as the legitimizing factor. Thus, the accept…

Asiakas palvelun asiantuntijana – Ajankohtaisia tutkimuksia asiakkaan roolista palveluiden tuotannossa (Dunkel, W. & Kleemann, F. (2013) Customers at Work. New Perspectives on Interactive Service Work)

Kirja-arvostelu: Dunkel, W. & Kleemann, F. (2013) Customers at Work. New Perspectives on Interactive Service Work. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 257s. nonPeerReviewed

Beware of the “poverty migrant”: media discourses on EU labour migration and the welfare state in Germany and the UK

Abstract This article examines the role of the media in the EU freedom of movement debate through the lens of high-circulation German and UK newspapers during the first half of 2014. It explores how the media problematised migration from Eastern European member states and its influence on national host country labour markets and welfare systems. It also analyses how different media outlets positioned themselves in relation to relevant policies or policy proposals. The findings show that most articles in our sample present low-skill, low-wage working European Union (EU) migrant class referred to as “poverty migrants” as a problem to be addressed at the policy level in contrast with the econo…

Mobilizing against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism, edited by Lee H.Adler, MaiteTapia and LowellTurner. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2014, 232 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 7933 5, $21.95, paperback.

Posting and agency work in British construction and hospitality: the role of regulation in differentiating the experiences of migrants

This article engages with IHRM debates on the transnational regulation of labour, exploring how migration policy and work fragmentation affect employment dynamics in multi-employer settings. It dra...