EU posted work and transnational action in the German meat industry

Ines Wagner
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Ines Wagner: University of Duisburg-Essen

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2015, vol. 21, issue 2, 201-213

Abstract: This article traces the course of a transnational action in the German meat industry involving an alliance of transnational posted workers, a local civil society organization and the trade union NGG (Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten). As labour’s channels of influence have broken down and posting of low-wage workers has intensified, trade unionists have responded by building coalitions with societal actors. The case illustrates a complementary approach to studying how resistance unfolds in transnational workplaces under conditions in which traditional avenues for protest are blocked or marginalized.

Keywords: Transnational action; posted work; German labour market; institutional change; social movement unionism; labour migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/1024258915573187

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