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Müller-Jentsch, Walther

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0659-1_11

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“…The State regulation includes the laws defining the collective bargaining model and other IR aspects, such as union leader training and guarantees for fulfilling their role. Although the concept of the IR system is still under dispute and may consider other relevant forms of regulation affecting the relationship between the State, workers and employers, this article prioritizes the State's regulations because they play the key role of “medium and midwife in institution-building processes, particularly between parties with diverging interests (…)” (Müller-Jentsch, 2004: 28).…”

Section: From the Individual To The Ir System: The Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Becoming a union leader in an unfavorable industrial relations system

Gutiérrez Crocco,

Jordana

2023

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Union leaders dedicate a significant amount of their time to unions, and in some cases, their entire life. Scholarly literature has made great progress in identifying the individual and mesolevel variables that explain how this type of union participation begins and continues. Yet it has paid little attention to the role played by the national industrial relations system in these processes. Drawing on the concept of “union career,” this article shows that the national regulations and the union power shape the characteristics and development of union leaders’ participation. Based on an in-depth interview program, a survey and a review of the press in Chile, it examines how neoliberal reforms implemented since 1979 changed the resources and opportunities available to workers to assume, manage, and maintain union positions.

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Section: From the Individual To The Ir System: The Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is “dual” in nature (Giddens, 1984): it restricts these decisions, yet also gives them certain resources. The IR system may be understood to create “corridors” that give agents limited, yet varied, behavior options (Müller-Jentsch, 2004: 12).…”

Section: From the Individual To The Ir System: The Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%