From kin to contract: labour, work and the production of authority in rural Mongolia

A study on pastoral labour, which is common in Mongolia but largely governed by local customs rather than labour law. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2014.974569?scroll=top&needAccess=true

An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber’s Driver-Partners in the United States

This paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of Uber’s driver-partners, based on both survey data and anonymized, aggregated administrative data. Uber has grown at an exponential rate over the last …

Trade Union Responses to Labour Immigrants: Selective Solidarity

This article is related to the migrant workers’ situation in Finland. This qualitative case study analyses the outcomes of the union’s strategies in questions related to immigration. The outcomes affect …

Dialogic Labor Regulation in the Global Supply Chain

This journal article in the Michigan Journal of International Law has a focus on transnational private labor regulation along with regulatory interactions in the space of Supply Chains.

Sexual orientation–based wage gaps in Australia: The potential role of discrimination and personality

This article describes the wage-gaps between workers engaged in same-sex relationships.  Particularly, this article identifies a negative wage-gap between gay men, indicating discrimination based on sexual orientation. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1035304615570806  

Trade Unions, immigration and immigrants in Europe revisited: Unions’ attitudes and actions under new conditions

This paper is a follow-up report of the authors’ comparative approach used in their book “Trade Unions, Immigration and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993. New York: Berghahn Books.”  The report examines trade …

Mongolia: Survey on Implementation Status of the Collective Agreements and Collective Bargaining

This is the first extensive research on collective agreements and collective bargaining implementation in Mongolia. The research examined the implementation of laws and practice of collective bargaining and collective agreements. …

PAKISTAN: INTERACTION OF LABOR LAW AND ECONOMIC GROWTH – CASE STUDY OF SHEIKHUPURA

This case study focuses on the nexus between federal/provincial labor laws and the welfare and productivity of laborers in the context of the Pakistani city of Sheikhupura. The study notes …

Article from the Editor: “Embarrassment: The New Union-Organizing Tool”

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mare.30011 From the author: “In recent years, unions and other third parties have heavily used public embarrassment as a means of organizing employees. The key to conventional union organizing is …

Wages, Collective Bargaining and Economic Development in Germany (Towards a more expansive and solidaristic development?)

Trade union role in determination of wage through collective bargaining has decreased significantly in the last decade in Germany. However, with the introduction of minimum wage at the national level …