Collection: Organisation Studies Collection
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Organisation Studies Collection
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This chapter outlines and discusses the emergence of ‘new actors’ within industrial relations. Such actors include civil society organizations, law firms, employment agencies, employer forums and other bodies outside a traditional focus on employers, workers and unions, and the state. The chapter contextualizes these actors with the traditional actors involved in the management of the employment relationship. The label ‘new’ can be applied to such actors (which can be individuals, organizations, institutions or movements), which either did not used to have much of a role within traditional industrial relations or did have one but were neglected. Therefore, the chapter argues that these ‘new actors’ play an increasingly significant role in the employment relationship.
This chapter starts by emphasizing the importance of work and employment before outlining a conceptual approach based on Colin Hay’s (1999) distinction between ‘failure’ and ‘crisis’. The chapter explains how the current crisis of work has been produced by three crises which are at work – intensified neoliberalization and its consequences, the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and the escalating climate emergency. While capitalism is structurally prone to periodic crises, the current crisis of work concerns the antagonism that has arisen between the degradation, in the sense of a process of worsening, of work and employment under conditions of intensified neoliberal capitalism – in the context of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the escalating climate emergency – and workers’ aspirations for decent work and to have their labour valued.
