 Class politics, collective labor rights, and worker-management conflict in comparative perspectivePablo Pérez Ahumada European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, vol. 29, issue 3, 197-219 Abstract: This article studies how perceptions of worker-management conflict are shaped by individual-level and macro-level variables. Drawing upon data from 33 countries from the 2015 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), it uses multilevel models to examine how individual perceptions of worker-management conflict are affected by social class, union membership status, and the country-level protection of collective labor rights. The evidence supports the hypothesis that workers and union members perceive more conflict than employers and non-union members. The results also show that, as hypothesized, perceived workplace conflict is lower in countries with stronger protection of workers’ collective rights. Finally, contrary to an initial hypothesis, cross-level interactions suggest that in countries where collective rights are more strongly protected, union members perceive more worker-management conflict than non-union members. Contributions to the literature on class and power resources as well as to the recent debate on the “neoliberal convergence†of industrial relations (IR) systems are discussed. Keywords: social class; trade unions; labor rights; worker-management conflict; power resources; multilevel models (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:eurjou:v:29:y:2023:i:3:p:197-219 DOI: 10.1177/09596801221133453 Access Statistics for this article More articles in European Journal of Industrial Relations |
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