Volume 28 (2021), Edition 3

The article focuses on how the trade union ver.di succeeded in mobilizing and organizing workers in the private security sector since 2012. The result of a strategic reorientation of the union’s collective bargaining policy, the union has been...

The lack of formal qualification has a negative impact on employment opportunities, especially for women. While previous research has highlighted macro-level factors, this paper focuses on the meso-level and asks how the employment opportunities of...

The US-American philosopher Elizabeth Anderson claims that companies are dictatorships: the owners of capital rule over the employees. There is hardly any criticism of such relations. The reason for this is that economics is dominated by a...

We speak of path dependency when decisions made in the past influence or even restrict the ability to act today. Utilizing the Co-determination Index (MB-ix) developed at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), the article analyzes the configuration...