Volume 31 (2024), Edition 2

Staff councils represent employees and civil servants in the German public sector and are key actors in co-determination. Nevertheless, so far, they have received only little attention in both public discourses and industrial relations research....

In this article, I propose to expand and reformulate existing power resource approaches by incorporating emotional power into their domain. Emotions have so far received no systematic attention by trade union research. While some promising...

The article discusses a number of proposals for the reform of regulations governing the still widespread use of atypical employment forms. We distinguish between mini-jobs, midi-jobs, fixed-term contracts, temporary agency work and also include solo...