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The effects of union mergers and internal restructuring: a bottom-up perspective by Danish shop stewards

How does recent union mergers and restructuring affect union’s service provision, interest…

The European flexicurity concept and the Dutch and Danish flexicurity models: How have they managed the Great Recession?

In the mid‐2000s, the flexicurity concept was developed into a key EU policy concept. It drew its…

Research in violence and threats against prison guards and fare conductors can contribute to a better work environment

A new research project carried out by the Department of Sociology will contribute with knowledge,…

A division of labour? Labour market segmentation by region of origin

In a new article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Jonas Felbo-Kolding, Janine Leschke and…

Dealing with austerity and migration in the northern European cleaning sector

In a new article Trine P. Larsen, Sissel Trygstad and Kristine Nergaard compares the employers’ rol…

Collective wage bargaining under strain in northern European construction

In a new article Jens Arnholtz, Guglielmo Meardi and Johannes Oldervoll shows how…

Honorary Doctor

Sociologist Deborah Lupton to be awarded honorary doctor

Professor Deborah Lupton will be awarded with an honorary doctorate at the University of Copenhagen…

Voluntarist regulation of the digital economy

In this article lecturer Anna Ilsøe argues that digital development in the labor market can lead to…

Big-data study leads to prize from American Sociological Association

Merlin Schaeffer, Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology, receives 'Outstanding…

Immigrant labour market integration

Labour market integration is one of the major challenges facing Western European states today, not…

Tackling Precarious Work in Public Supply Chains

Through a cross-national comparative study of local government ‘best practice cases’ of socially…

Extra‐Institutional Changes under Pressure from Posting

The posting of workers has become a key topic in debates about how national labour relations respon…

Pay, working conditions and industrial relations institutions in the creative industry

The report ‘Strategic, but vulnerable: Industrial Relations and Creative Workers (IR-CREA) -…

Social benefits for atypical employees

The report ‘Hybrid work – social protection of atypical work in Denmark’ looks at cash-related…

Lifting wages of atypical employees — the role of social partners

This article focuses on the interplay between IR‐institutions – sectoral bargaining and other…