What is it about?
We analyze whether new social risk (NSR) groups, who are newly emerging in post-industrial welfare states, are less likely to join trade unions by industrial relations regimes in Europe. In this research, NSR groups are divided into two groups; family policy-related NSR groups and precarious workers. Family policy-related NSR groups consist of single parents, female employees with children and female caregivers, and precarious workers mean low-skilled service employees, temporary employees and part-timers.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that the likelihoods of NRS groups' union membership depend on the risk type and industrial relations regime they belong to. Family policy-related NSR groups are more – not less – unionized than the average worker. On the other hand, precarious workers are, indeed, less unionized than average but this result concerns mostly the liberal and transitional industrial relations regimes.
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It is meaningful that we try to explore the union membership of NSR groups who are frequently mentioned and dealt with in recent comparative social policy research, and also investigate determinants of union membership by industrial relations regimes.
Young-Kyu Shin
University of Helsinki
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This page is a summary of: New social risk groups, industrial relations regimes and union membership, Journal of European Social Policy, December 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0958928717735054.
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