Volume 32 (2025), Issue 3-4

This paper is based on a mixed-methods research design and examines how unionized public transport workers in East Germany interpret the socio-ecological transformation in the context of their everyday, work-related, and political experiences, which...

This article develops a sociological framework for analyzing employer power, addressing a gap in the power resources approach, which hitherto has focused primarily on analyzing workers’ power. Similar to the literature on workers’ power, it...

Precarious working conditions, excessive overtime, and limited worker representation characterise the German video game industry, despite the country’s strong co-determination framework. The article examines how the trade union ver.di responds to...

An increasing number of German employers is hindering the work of elected works councils. This has negative consequences not only for the affected employee representatives, workers, and trade unionists, but also puts the democratic institutions of...

Does the use of social media and the internet, by comparison with more traditional media, influence attitudes towards trade unions? We conducted online surveys with 3,235 employees in Germany and Australia in 2019-20. To measure attitudes towards...

To secure employment, make personnel capacities flexible and match personnel requirements to organisational needs, both human resource management and workplace co-determination, as well as collective agreements, play a central role. In the context...