Industrielle Beziehungen

The rise of the “platform economy” poses manifold challenges to the German system of labour relations. Uber, which has established itself in the German mobility sector, is representative of a model in which the services of self-employed persons...

A functional division of labor that involves close cooperation between works councils and trade unions is important for the stability of the overall system of German industrial relations. However, although works councils and trade unions often work...

For more than 40 years, the “dual system” has been a key term for characterizing the German system of industrial relations. Reflecting on debates about processes of decentralization, substitution and erosion/dualization of industrial relations,...

The paper focuses on gender wage inequalities between technical and administrative employees (non-scientific staff) in academia. Higher education institutions in the public sector are covered by collective agreements and should therefore leave no...

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...

Digitization and technological innovations challenge the willingness and capability of companies to change. If one understands technology implementation as a change process, then an understanding of the leadership and organizational culture is...

This article investigates the collective bargaining disputes involving Lufthansa, VC (cockpit), UFO (cabin crews) and ver.di (ground staff) between 2000 and 2019. Before progressing to document the complex history of conflict between Lufthansa and...