Essays about: "collective bargaining"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words 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. Job Quality in the Gig Economy: How do the workers perceive it? : An exploratory study on the perceived job quality for gig workers in the geographically tethered gig economy

    University essay from

    Author : Oskar Hedvall; Oskar Gustavsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Gig Job; Job quality; Gig economy; Geographically tethered; Fair Work Convention; Sweden; Collective bargaining agreement;

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  5. 4. Allbolagen Revisited: a Tenants' Union in a Changing (de)political Landscape : A Neoliberal Delusion or a Democratic Imaginary?

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Lisa Kolarby; [2022]
    Keywords : Housing policy; public housing; neoliberalism; economisation; tenants; democracy;

    Abstract : The context of the rental housing market in Sweden has changed substantially in recent decades as neoliberal housing policies have been introduced. One prominent example is the 2011 “Allbolagen” reform that reframed the conditions of the public housing sector whilst destabilising the collective bargaining system for rent-setting. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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