This article examines co-determination in the collective participation system in Denmark among semi-professional shop stewards and health and safety representatives in the private and the public sector. Union strategies for democratization of working life and economic democracy are no longer progressing as in the 1970s, and co-determination seems to be on the defensive, challenged by new forms of employer strategies, New Public Management principles and the neoliberal strategy for individualization. These developments call for a reappraisal of the capability of the system to secure influence and participation in decision-making. The main findings, based on comprehensive empirical investigations, are three-fold. First, a connection between new employer strategies and the level of influence and co-determination is recorded. Generally, the representatives find it harder to maintain co-determination in a change-intensive workplace context especially with regard to tactical and strategic decisions. Second, visions for democratization exist among the majority of the representatives, who wish to strengthen co-determination institutionally and at the strategic level. The obstacles call for new institutional rights of co-determination in the central cooperation agreement. Third, a broader upgrade of analytical skills is required to develop abilities to analyse and anticipate developments, to decode management strategies and see opportunities of change in the institution -a sort of politico-sociological imagination to make it possible to grasp the surrounding world's signals as well as the opportunities to approach agenda-setting more proactively.
Det var mere end kosmetik, da arbejdsmarkedspolitikken i 2001 tog navneforandring til 'beskæftigelsespolitik'. Man kan tale om, at politikområdet på såvel indholds- som organiseringssiden er blevet reformeret. Reformeringen har, ifølge medarbejderne, medført fundamentale skift i arbejdets indhold og organisering. Det indbefatter bla. et skift fra klientorienteret arbejde til administrativt arbejde, et skift i sammensætningen af medarbejdere samt i oplevelsen af autonomien i arbejdet og endelig et skift i udførelsen af arbejdet, der for visse medarbejdere har betydet dilemmaer af etisk og faglig karakter. Der er således tale om forandringer, der har haft stor betydning for den faglige praksis og kvalificeringsproblematikken i jobcentrene.
Prekarisering er blevet en fællesbetegnelse for forskellige nye former for usikkerheder og utrygheder, som lønmodtagere bliver sat i på arbejdsmarkederne. Der synes imidlertid at være flere slags diagnoser indbygget i de nyere teoretiseringsforsøg, og der argumenteres i artiklen for, at det er påkrævet at bryde prekarisering op i specifikke årsag-virkningssammenhænge, som kan underkastes historisk-empirisk analyse. Social dumping og indsats herimod er en sådan sammenhæng, der dog ikke er ny, men som har fået nye udtryk og stærkere udbredelse siden Østudvidelsen i 2004. En evaluering af Københavns Kommunes indsats mod social dumping danner den empiriske basis for refleksioner over, hvor væsentligt det er, at også kommuner bliver fast institutionel del af indsatsen mod social dumping, og hvordan kommunerne udvikler deres konkrete praksisser heroverfor. Evalueringen har været med til at resultere i, at Københavns Kommune omlægger deres indsats fra at have været eksternt organiseret til at blive en intern og styrket organisering med andre operationsmåder og nye tiltag indbygget for at finde, fange og forhindre social dumping.
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