Dealing with austerity and migration in the northern European cleaning sector: Social partner strategies to strengthen wage floors

Sissel  Trygstad; Trine Pernille Larsen; Kristine Nergaard

doi:10.1177/0959680118790818

Dealing with austerity and migration in the northern European cleaning sector: Social partner strategies to strengthen wage floors

Sissel Trygstad, Trine Pernille Larsen, Kristine Nergaard

Employment Relations Research Centre

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Abstract

Industrial cleaning shares some common features across countries. Institutions for collective wage regulation are fragile, the market is highly price-sensitive and skewed competition has exerted pressure on wages and conditions. Increased cross-border mobility of labour and enterprises after EU enlargement brought new sources of competitive pressure, which was amplified by the subsequent economic crisis. We study changes in collective regulation in industrial cleaning in Denmark, Germany, Norway and the UK since the turn of the century, and find that the social partners have responded differently to the challenges. We discuss these responses in the light of national differences in industrial relations regimes and the regulatory tools available for the organized actors.

Original language	English
Journal	European Journal of Industrial Relations
Volume	24
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	373-389
ISSN	0959-6801
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680118790818
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2018

Keywords

Faculty of Social Sciences
Denmark
Germany
industrial cleaning
industrial relations,
Northern Europe
Norway
soft and hard regulations
UK
wage floor

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Dealing with austerity and migration in the northern European cleaning sector: Social partner strategies to strengthen wage floors. / Trygstad, Sissel ; Larsen, Trine Pernille; Nergaard, Kristine.
In: European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 24, No. 4, 01.12.2018, p. 373-389.

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