Interest representation and industrial relations in the age of digitalization ‒ an outline

Interessenvertretung und Arbeitsbeziehungen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung - ein Überblick

Berndt Keller

Industrielle Beziehungen. Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management, 2020, vol. 27, issue 3, 255-285

Abstract: The article deals in an interdisciplinary perspective with the consequences of progressive digitalization processes which are controversially discussed in the current discourse for the dual system of employment relations. After initial comments, the first part deals with the changing contours of forms of interest representation in the existing economy, i. e. requirements and options for works councils and trade unions. The second part focuses explicitly on the platform economy and its emerging forms of corporate actors, trade unions and works councils as well as platform operators/employers. The third part concentrates on perspectives of employment relations for the established economy as well as for platform work. The fourth part elaborates on measures of regulation that should be taken at company and sectoral level. A short outlook concludes the article. Processes of digital transformation have the tendency to weaken the existing institutions of labor markets, in particular forms of employees' representation.

Keywords: Digitalization; employment relations; trade unions; interest representation; Digitalisierung; Arbeitsbeziehungen; Gewerkschaften; Interessenvertretung (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J51 J53 J58 J83 J88 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.3224/indbez.v27i3.02

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