Volume 31 (2024), Edition 3-4

Beyond framing analysis and power resource approach, the public sphere hardly plays any role in industrial relations research. A more recent strand of literature, however, calls for a closer examination of the interaction between the world of work...

Trade unions in Germany are experiencing a resurgence. Recent disputes in the public sector demonstrate that building organizational power requires linking employees’ immediate interests with the common good. In this article, we argue that in...

This article explores the significance and dynamics of labor political publics through the example of a conflict over industrial transformation. To capture the specific nature of labor mobilizations and conflicts, the concept of workplace publics is...

This article applies the concept of the workplace public sphere to worker-led cooperatives and explores how industrial relations are practiced within a cooperative public sphere. To address this question, a normative theoretical framework is first...

Over the past two decades, care work has become an important topic in public discourse, which have largely revolved around diagnoses of crisis and the modernization potential of care. In this article we focus on how care workers in different sectors...