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- Title
Solidarität in der europäischen betrieblichen Mitbestimmung als theoretische Herausforderung – ein kultursoziologischer Lösungsvorschlag.
- Authors
Klemm, Matthias; Kraetsch, Clemens; Weyand, Jan
- Abstract
Both threat posed by transnational management strategies and the newly existing European level of workplace interest representation call for employee representatives to cooperate across cultures and national institutional systems. Intercultural communication and action in industrial relations raises new obstacles for actors but also new questions for research on this topic. In this paper we argue that research should broaden its focus towards cultural aspects within industrial relations. Therefore, a cultural sociological approach is applied in order to investigate communication and action regarding transnational solidarity in European workplace representation. The concept of solidarity focuses on the similarity of the social situation as well as on the competition among workers and underlines the need for mutual support in the struggle for better working and living conditions. Our main thesis is that failures of calls for solidarity stem not only from existing differences of interest and power asymmetries but also from different meanings applied to solidarity. Both the meaning of solidarity and strategies to achieve solidarity are connected with specific cultural "realms of experience" provided by different systems of industrial relations across Europe. The thesis will be developed from empirical data from Western Germany and Central Eastern Europe.
- Publication
Industrielle Beziehungen, 2011, Vol 2011, Issue 4, p292
- ISSN
0943-2779
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1688/1862-0035-IndB-2011-04-Klemm