 Fissured Employment and Network Bargaining: Emerging Employment Relations Dynamics in a Contingent World of WorkMark Anner, Matthew Fischer-Daly and Michael Maffie ILR Review, 2021, vol. 74, issue 3, 689-714 Abstract: For decades, direct employment relationships have been increasingly displaced by indirect employment relationships through networks of firms and layers of managerial control. The firm strategies driving these changes are organizational, geographic, and technological in nature and are facilitated by state policies. The resulting weakening of traditional forms of collective bargaining and worker power have led workers to counter by organizing broader alliances and complementing structural and associational power with symbolic power and state-oriented strategies through what the authors term “network bargaining.†These dynamics point to the limitations of dominant theories and frameworks for understanding employment relations and suggest a new approach that focuses on a range of direct and indirect work relationships, evolving forms of worker power, and networked patterns of worker–employer interactions. Keywords: collective bargaining; digital technology; industrial relations theory; informal labor; international comparisons; multinational corporations; outsourcing; subcontracting; fissuring; network bargaining (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:74:y:2021:i:3:p:689-714 Access Statistics for this article More articles in ILR Review from Cornell University, ILR School |
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