...Barbara Bechter; Bernd Brandl Purpose Against the background that Labour Relations around the world is affected by politics and in particular by the trade policy of the Trump administration, this viewpoint paper aims to discuss the implications for international business. This paper will explain...

..., representing the start of international economic collaboration. Clause 5 of the charter states the desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field with the objective of securing, for all, improved labour standards, economic advancement and social security. The post-war...

...Christoph Dörrenbächer; Mike Geppert; Aline Hoffmann Purpose This paper addresses the so far hardly understood contemporary restructuring trends in European Multinational corporations (MNCs), their rationales and their labour-related implications. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based...

...Grazia Ietto-Gillies Purpose This paper aims to analyse the organizational and geographical (by nation-states) boundaries of the firm and their impact on labour and to develop a theoretical framework in which firms’ boundaries are analysed from the point of view of labour as a main stakeholder...

... in reproducing precarious and vulnerable labour, which helps in guaranteeing profits, then MNCs may contribute to the institutional environment, which reproduces caste-based marginal identities. Through our exploration of the experiences of Dalit crematorium workers, we hope to puncture the homogenous...

...Margaret Gieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Steve Walker Purpose The article aims to look at the development of the internet in terms of its implications for the labour movement and its international activities. Design/methodology/approach The paper brings...

...Margaret Grieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Margaret Grieco; Mhinder Bhopal Purpose This article aims to explore the use of new information communication technology by the Malaysian labour movement. New information communication technologies are undoubtedly globalising, but these same...

...Margaret Grieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Andreja Zivkovic; John Hogan Purpose This paper aims to examine the significance of information communication technology (ICT) for Balkan labour. Drawing on the heuristic of “distributed discourse”, this paper aims to explore virtual forms...

...Margaret Grieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Stephen Little; Stewart Clegg Purpose This paper investigates how the learning trajectory of corporations utilising information and communication technologies has been matched by the labour movement and social movements associated...