Essays about: "CASE STUDY OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words CASE STUDY OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

1. 1. The Ulleråker Hospitalum : A Case Study in the Wage Development of the Medical Sector 1890-1920

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Daniel W Christensen; [2023]
   Keywords : Economic History; History of Medicine; Medical Sector; Asylum History; Ulleråker; Ulleråker Hospitalum;

   Abstract : This essay presents a case study about the development of income levels in the medical sector during Sweden´s period of modernization, 1890-1920, focusing specifically on the five wage groups which comprised the medical staff at Uppsala´s Ulleråker hospitalum (=mental asylum). This institution, though different in it´s stated mission from hospitals and the like, was similarily organized, and staffed with employees belonging to the same categories as regular hospital staff - they shared similar social backgrounds, education levels, work tasks and conditions. READ MORE

3. 2. Destruction or Protection? A discursive institutionalist study of the ideas behind the different responses to the Minimum wage directive in Sweden and Finland

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Niklas Hjelm; [2023]
   Keywords : Sweden; Finland; Minimum wage directive; Discursive institutionalism; ideas; discourse; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This study seeks to understand and explain why Sweden and Finland voted differently in the Council of the European Union on the proposal of a minimum wage directive. The two countries share a labor market system, based in collective bargaining and important roles for trade unions and employer organizations, without a legally set minimum wage. READ MORE

4. 3. RAISING A NEW COLLECTIVE VOICE THROUGH GREENFIELD UNION ORGANISING : The mobilisation and unionisation of workers and the establishment of a collective agreement at Foodora in Sweden

   University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd

   Author : Sophie Banasiak; [2021]
   Keywords : workforce fragmentation; food-delivery platforms; greenfield organising; unions; collective agreement; agency; structures; interactions; resources mobilisation; learning; strategy; institutional change; fragmentation du travail; plateformes de livraison de repas; implantation syndicale; syndicats; accord collectif; agence; structures; interactions; mobilisation des ressources; apprentissage; stratégie; changement institutionnel; fragmentering av arbetsstyrka; matleveransplattformar; greenfield-organisering; fackföreningar; kollektivavtal; mänskligt agentskap; strukturer; interaktioner; mobilisering av resurser; lärande; strategiskt handlande; institutionell förändring;

   Abstract : Following an actor-centred approach to institutional change, the aim of the study was to explore the process of ‘greenfield organising’ through which unions and collective bargaining structures are established in workplaces where there are none initially. A qualitative theory-oriented single case study, using some principles of the grounded theory, analysed the organising process and negotiations at Foodora in Sweden that resulted in a collective agreement. READ MORE

5. 4. Worker Ant or Your Own Boss? : A Labour Process Analysis of Foodora Riders' Experiences of Algorithmic Management

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Author : Simon Karlernäs; [2021]
   Keywords : Algorithmic Management; Foodora; Gig Economy; Labour Process; Workplace Control; Individualism;

   Abstract : Introduction: This qualitative case study extends the research of algorithmic management by examining the experiences of food-delivery workers working for the gig company Foodora. As Foodora promotes the job as flexible and autonomous, the utilisation of labour process theory (LPT) in this study helps to uncover if these sentiments hold true in practice by examining what Foodora’s labour process looks like, and how control, autonomy, and individualism take shape in the workplace. READ MORE

6. 5. A Global Governance Shift in Development : A study on how transnational corporation´s CSR initiative can address Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining and how that can facilitate development

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Sophie Runesson; [2016]
   Keywords : transnational corporations; freedom of association; collective bargaining; global governance; development; poverty; transnationella företag; föreningsfrihet; kollektivavtal; global styrning; utveckling; fattigdom;

   Abstract : Through globalization non-state actors including transnational corporations (TNC), have taken on a more important global governance role from the nation state, where they through their CSR initiatives, impact social issues surrounding development. There are however conflicting views whether CSR could contribute to development in the society. READ MORE