Making part-time work a fully-fledged alternative: How the Dutch social partners responded to a dual labour market, 1966–1993

Groot, Timon de

doi:10.1080/0023656x.2021.1994533

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“…The potentially revealed and changeable nature of preferences constitutes a methodological challenge for this reconstruction, as actors are likely to change their positions in anticipation of the political challenges they face (Hacker and Pierson, 2002: 283). As a first strategy, this analysis exploits diachronic variation to map the strategic behavior of actors by examining the preferences of the social partners over a long period with changing strategic circumstances.…”

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Legitimacy versus incentives: Explaining the difference between early and late union responses to nonstandard employment in the Netherlands

van Veldhoven

2024

Journal of Industrial Relations

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With the spread of alternative work arrangements across European labor markets, union responses to nonstandard employment have increasingly received scholarly attention. Based on a process-tracing analysis of the Netherlands between 1971 and 1996, I propose an alternative framework for understanding the divergence between early and late union responses to nonstandard employment. Rather than a choice between cooperation with management or outsiders, this case study shows that trade unions initially faced a dilemma between a legitimacy-based and an incentive-based strategy when nonstandard employment took off. Whereas the first strategy is inherently exclusive, the latter allows for more inclusive union responses. Contrary to the incentive-based strategy, the attractiveness of the legitimacy-based strategy decreases with higher levels of nonstandard employment, explaining why inclusive union responses typically become more dominant over time.

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Legitimacy versus incentives: Explaining the difference between early and late union responses to nonstandard employment in the Netherlands

van Veldhoven

2024

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Part-Time Employment in the Breadwinner Era: Dutch Employers’ Initiatives to Control Female Labor Force Participation, 1945–1970

Groot¹

2022

Enterp. Soc.

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In the 1950s, part-time work gradually became an element of labor policy to activate women to participate in the labor market that could be transferred from one country to another. Support of part-time employment in the Dutch labor market, however, was initially not endorsed as a solution to the problem of low female labor force participation but was the outcome of a more complex set of deliberations, in which the moral economy of employers’ organizations conflicted with broader demands for increased productivity. The article contrasts the initial concerns of Dutch employers about increasing women’s labor force participation with the country’s later international role in advocating part-time work for married women on an international scale. The Netherlands thereby serves as a case study of how employers’ organizations instrumentalized part-time employment for their own moral economy based in the breadwinner ideology.

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Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands

Nijhuis,

Kiecker

2024

German Politics

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Making part-time work a fully-fledged alternative: How the Dutch social partners responded to a dual labour market, 1966–1993

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Legitimacy versus incentives: Explaining the difference between early and late union responses to nonstandard employment in the Netherlands

Legitimacy versus incentives: Explaining the difference between early and late union responses to nonstandard employment in the Netherlands

Part-Time Employment in the Breadwinner Era: Dutch Employers’ Initiatives to Control Female Labor Force Participation, 1945–1970

Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands

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