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Rule Enactment in a Pan-European Labour Market: Transnational Posted Work in the German Construction Sector
Ines WagnerInes Wagnersubject
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Managementbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectInstitutional changePublic relationsPublic administrationGeneral Business Management and Accountinglanguage.human_languagePower (social and political)GermanNegotiationPan europeanWork (electrical)Order (exchange)Management of Technology and InnovationlanguageSociologybusinessIndustrial relationsmedia_commondescription
This article analyses the micro-level rule enactment of the posting of workers framework in the German construction sector. I examine how actors draw on different power resources in order to influence policies without formal negotiation within transnational workspaces and thereby initiate institutional change. Drawing on interviews with posted workers, managers, unionists, works councillors and labour inspectors I show how transnational subcontracting allows the emergence of different regulatory spaces at national and workplace level. The article concludes that the informal renegotiation of employment relations in transnational workspaces is likely to destabilize the posting framework negotiated at policy level.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-07 | British Journal of Industrial Relations |