Do trade unions and industrial relations effectively reduce inequality? with Lisa Dorigatti and Roberto Pedersini
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🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Inequality has been a growing concern in recent years. The internationalisation of production and markets, the rampant financialisation of the economy, the deregulation of labour markets, and the retrenchment of welfare systems are only some of the factors that have been feeding into increased inequality in terms of income, property, job security, and working and living conditions. The weakening of industrial relations institutions has also been regarded as part of this broad picture since trade unions and collective bargaining have usually been considered as vehicles of fairness and capable of reducing or at least containing inequality. This podcast episode revolves around Transfer's issue on Industrial relations and inequality and intends to contribute to this strand of research by investigating the analytical premises and the empirical evidence of such claims.
The issue can be viewed here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/trsa/27/1
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to ETIP podcast, Voices on the World of Work. |
| 0:05.8 | I am Bianca Luna Fabrice communication officer here at the Institute, and in this episode, we |
| 0:11.0 | will be focusing on the recent issue of transfer on inequalities and industrial relations. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm glad to welcome our two guests, the coordinators of the issue, Lisa Dorigati and Roberto |
| 0:22.7 | Piedersini, both working at the University of Milan and their expertise lie on trade unions, |
| 0:28.3 | industrial relations and the world of work. |
| 0:31.2 | So let's start from the very beginning. |
| 0:33.0 | Why did you decide to focus this issue on inequalities and industrial relations? |
| 0:37.4 | And maybe Lisa you would like to |
| 0:38.6 | jump in first yes thank you Bianca so actually the issue of inequality has been on the spotlight |
| 0:45.8 | and has raised significant attention in the public debate for quite some time now especially so after |
| 0:53.0 | the global financial crisis and the following movements, |
| 0:56.0 | like for example the Occupy Wall Street, which have contested the rise of income inequality. |
| 1:02.0 | And one of the key findings that the extent research has provided is that the labour market is one of the key areas in which inequalities are produced, as it is |
| 1:12.7 | where actually value is distributed both between capital and labor and between various types of wage earners. |
| 1:19.7 | And since industrial relations sectors and industrial relations processes are key in regulating the |
| 1:25.0 | labor market, they are also key factors in affecting inequality |
| 1:29.8 | patents. |
| 1:30.8 | That's why we decided to have a special issue on this issue. |
| 1:35.0 | Roberta, do you have anything to add, perhaps? |
| 1:37.8 | Yes, thank you, Bianca. |
| 1:40.4 | Well, trade unions and industrial relations are historically linked to the issue of fairness |
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