Connecting the Dots: Coordination in Decentralised Trade Union Organising

Bondy, Assaf; Mundlak, Guy

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“…Despite these allegations, repeated by workers, activists and the media, the Histadrut saw major success in organising tens of thousands of new workers in the years 2010–2017 (Zvi-Cohen, 2017), signing dozens of initial collective agreements in greenfield sites (Bondy and Mundlak, 2019). Cellular and insurance workers and journalists are not the precarious workers that P2W began organising in 2007; however, their being perceived as the Israeli middle class contributed to the reformation of the Histadrut’s associational as well as symbolic power (Plotkin, 2017).…”

Section: Class Representation In Israelmentioning

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Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations

Bondy

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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Liberalisation of industrial relations entails the weakening of unions and a respective rise of alternative, ‘new labour actors’, altering traditional class representation by introducing new strategies. Research on this phenomenon has focused on decentralised contexts, where new actors are seen to pursue both independent strategies as well as cooperation with unions to contest rising employers’ discretion. Drawing on multiple qualitative methodologies, this article analyses the roles and contributions of new actors in the context of corporatist industrial relations, to find rising conflicts between them and unions. Combining social movement theories of strategic change with industrial relations theories of power and theories of institutional complementarity, reveals conflictual forms of complementarity between new actors and corporatist unions. Through interacting with new labour actors, corporatist union strategies are seen to change in a ‘spin-off’ form, reforming unions’ traditional power and dominance to (partially) counter previous liberalisation of industrial relations.

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Section: Class Representation In Israelmentioning

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Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations

Bondy

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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“…Israel serves as an ideal laboratory for this analysis, given its corporatist traditions, characterized by highly exclusive nature, especially toward women and ethnic or national minorities (e.g. Bondy, 2018;Mundlak, 2003), and the (partial) exhaustion of the corporatist structure since the 1980s (Grinberg, 1991;Mundlak, 2007) in favor of bottom-up strategies of workers' representation (Bondy and Mundlak, 2019;Preminger, 2018). Focusing on representation of precarious workers, traditionally excluded and marginalized by the monopolist union, the article will claim that the Israeli corporatism makes conflicts between labor actors a prominent means for the transformation of both union legitimacy and precarious workers' representation.…”

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New Labor Actors Under Corporatism: Complementarity and the Renewal of Class Representation for Precarious Workers

Bondy

2020

Critical Sociology

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Labor scholars identify increased roles of “new labor actors,” such as civil society organizations, in workers’ representation. Previous work found their increasing tendency to cooperate with unions, opening these up to inclusion of precarious workers. Praising these cooperative relations, research has understated other interactions that might develop between labor actors and their contributions to workers. Focusing on the relations among new labor actors and unions in the context of Israeli corporatism, this article analyzes conflictual interactions among labor actors and their implications of these for union legitimacy as well as for workers’ representation. Comparing two cases—of noncitizen Palestinian construction workers, and of subcontracted cleaning and security workers—the article argues that “conflictual complementarity” persists in the relations between labor actors in corporatist contexts. Conflictual complementarity is identified as based on sectoral traditions, contributing to transformations in union representation of precarious workers.

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Connecting the Dots: Coordination in Decentralised Trade Union Organising

Cited by 2 publications

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Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations

Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations

New Labor Actors Under Corporatism: Complementarity and the Renewal of Class Representation for Precarious Workers

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