Alberti, GL orcid.org/0000-0001-5673-6568 and Però, D (2018) Migrating Industrial Relations: Migrant Workers' Initiative within and outside Trade Unions. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 56 (4). pp. 693-715. ISSN 0007-1080
Abstract
This article develops an embedded actor‐centred framework for studying the mobilization and bargaining practices of migrant workers. This framework is applied to examine two instances of labour organizing by low‐paid Latin American workers in London showing how migrant workers can develop innovative collective initiatives located at the junction of class and ethnicity that can be effective and rewarding in material and non‐material terms. In particular, the article shows that while there is a growing interest on the part of established unions to represent migrant workers, their bargaining and mobilization strategies appear inadequate to accommodate the bottom‐up initiatives of such workers who, as a result, have started to articulate them independently. On the basis of the findings obtained, we thus argue in favour of an actor‐centred framework to the study of migration and IR to better identify migrant workers’ interests, identities and practices as shaped by complex regulatory and social context.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Alberti, G. and Però, D. (2018), Migrating Industrial Relations: Migrant Workers’ Initiative Within and Outside Trade Unions. British Journal of Industrial Relations, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12308. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2018 09:32 |
Last Modified: | 10 Apr 2019 00:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/bjir.12308 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130611 |