Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
מחקרי רגולציה. ראשון לציון
Angaben zur Quelle:
ה (תשפב) 177-209
Keywords:
Industrial relations
;
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Economic aspects
;
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Social aspects
Abstract:
The effects of socioeconomic crises on the political economy and its institutionalinfrastructure have received considerable attention in the literature. Such crises areconsidered to play a key role in labor relations, triggering or opening up long-lastingprocesses of change. In like manner, the COVID-19 crisis that began in early 2020 hasthe potential to drive significant transformations. Nonetheless, this article will suggestthat the effects of the COVID-19 crisis were not transformative in nature, but ratheraccelerated processes already taking place, while revealing deeper trends of thesimultaneous erosion and revitalization of the power resources of organized workersand employers. Similarly, the analysis of labor relations in the age of COVID-19reveals that their liberalization reflects the political power organized labor andemployers‘ associations gained at the expense of other power sources. Whereasorganized interests relied on multiple power sources during the golden age of collectivebargaining, liberalization reveals the temporary nature of those sources and thatorganized labor remains dependent on politics to pursue its goals. While political powerserved organized labor during previous crises, reinforcing its position in policy makingprocesses; this source of power saw significant decline since 2018, marginalizing tradeunions from policy making and feeding into the accelerated liberalization of laborrelations during the COVID-19 crisis.
Note:
With an English abstract.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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