Industrielle Beziehungen

This article looks at the formation of structures of collective organizing among Lagos’ metal scrap dealers since the early 2010s. While the development of their activities from the 1990s has been premised on the commodification of labor and...

Discussions of Sudan’s role in red sea geopolitics often focuses on its strategic location and the larger regional politics that shape power within the region. The Kella movement, the dockworkers, are key actors in shaping not just the city of...

Starting from the idea that African industrial relation systems has been always organized around permanent and indefinite-term employment, this paper investigates the ability of unions to include or exclude the “new” informal workers in their...

This article reviews quantitative research on unions and collective bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the consequences of unions for wages, inequality, economic performance and employer-employee relations. The article also highlights...

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...

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...

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...