It embraces a broad definition of industrial relations and includes articles which relate to any aspect of work and employment. It publishes rigorous and innovative work on and from all European countries, from the Atlantic to the Urals. All social science disciplines are relevant to its remit, and interdisciplinary approaches are particulary encouraged. A major objective is to foster cross-national comparative analysis; and in this context, work which relates European developments to broader global experience is welcome.

The European Journal of Industrial Relations embraces a broad definition of industrial relations, including articles related to all aspects of work and employment. It publishes rigorous and innovative research from all European countries, spanning from the Atlantic to the Urals. All social science disciplines are relevant to its remit, and interdisciplinary approaches are particularly encouraged. A major objective is to foster cross-national comparative analysis; in this context, work that relates European developments to broader global experiences is also welcome.

《European Journal of Industrial Relations》涵盖了工业关系的广泛定义，包含与工作和就业的各个方面相关的文章。该期刊发表来自所有欧洲国家的严谨和创新的研究，范围从大西洋到乌拉尔山脉。所有社会科学学科均与其宗旨相关，特别鼓励跨学科的方法。其主要目标是促进跨国比较分析；在此背景下，涉及将欧洲发展与更广泛的全球经验联系起来的研究也受到欢迎。

European Journal of Industrial Relations

The article examines the reach, protective effects and limitations of the recently adopted European Union (EU) Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions. After explaining the need for a new instrument, the article analyses the Directive’s protective provisions. Cases of the European Court of Justice are presented to provide the wider context and explain how the EU social acquis impacts upon the implementation of the Directive. Finally, new developments in the EU labour and social field are discussed, making recommendations of possible avenues for providing protection to a larger category of workers.

Despoina Georgiou

The new EU Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions in the context of new forms of employment

新就业形式背景下欧盟关于透明和可预测工作条件的新指令

This paper examines how Chinese multinational companies manage labour mobility, with a focus on the sourcing and circulation of labour. Drawing on secondary sources, this study argues that labour mobility is a central issue in employment relations in China and for the Chinese MNCs operating abroad. It presents three employment archetypes that illustrate the varied strategies Chinese firms use to manage labour mobility within China’s societal constraints. Adaptive diffusion of these employment archetypes is not evident among Chinese MNCs in Europe. Instead, Chinese MNCs strategize to secure continued supplies of workers, replace migrant sources that become undesirable or inaccessible, and mitigate disruptions caused by voluntary labour turnover. Several mechanisms enable Chinese MNCs to manage their overseas workforces to maintain the employer dependency like that of migrant workers in China. These mechanisms include internal firm transfer arrangements administered directly by the employer; bilateral labour agreements negotiated through government interventions; and international and local worker deployment mediated through employment agencies. By highlighting the conflicts and negotiations underlying the management of labour mobility among leading Chinese MNCs in Europe, the paper provides an analytical framework for understanding the diversity of Chinese MNCs in structuring employment relations in an increasingly interconnected global labour market.

Yu Zheng

Chris Smith

Mobility power and society: Managing migrant workers among Chinese multinational companies in Europe

移动能力与社会：管理欧洲中国跨国公司中的农民工

This article aims to identify contradictions between visions of just transition and their realisation in practice, particularly the extent to which labour and nature are respected, with examples of forestry in Sweden and the beet sugar industry in Denmark. The case studies provide insight into the formation and local implementations of the just transition vision promoted by the ITUC and ILO, representing a call for the ecological modernisation of the economy. The cases illustrate its Northern European roots and limitations. Although a multi-scalar perspective positions union agency as embedded in interwoven spatial scales, particular power relations remain prevalent. Despite being formally represented through social dialogue structures at the national and European levels, Swedish and Danish unions appear to have limited involvement at the local level, with environmental and social justice effectively defined by corporate social responsibility policies. The apparent consensus hides a series of challenges: employment rights and protections in the transition, including for a significant number of migrant workers, meaningful union involvement on the ground, and a light-touch approach to environmental concerns so as not to disrupt production objectives. Ultimately, nature and labour remain positioned against each other, and unions are caught between environmentalists and employers.

Linda Clarke

Melahat Sahin-Dikmen

Looking for a ‘just transition’: Sustainable forestry in Sweden and biodiverse beet sugar production in Denmark

寻找“公正转型”：瑞典的可持续林业与丹麦的生物多样性甜菜糖生产

This special issue looks at the contributions of social dialogue and collective bargaining to creating, maintaining or reducing the risks associated with employment contracts of few hours, such as marginal part-time work, temporary agency work and zero-hour contracts. It additionally considers changes in welfare institutions with regard to the protection of these groups of workers. In this paper, we introduce the arguments on why and how working in marginal part-time jobs involves vulnerability, and on the differential roles collective bargaining and social protection may have on these jobs, depending in particular on which status (employees, workers or self-employed) they are associated to.

Trine Pernille Larsen

Anna Ilsøe

Workers with few hours – who secures their social rights? – The role of social dialogue and collective bargaining

工时少的工人——谁来保障他们的社会权利？——社会对话与集体谈判的作用

The article studies the approach Chinese investors apply to industrial relations at the company level in Central and Eastern Europe. The takeover of a home appliances producer in Slovenia by a Chinese state-owned enterprise and the trajectory of company-level industrial relations are analysed. Adopting a political economy approach, we examine the role played by market-related factors (especially FDI motivation), institutional context, trade union power resources and the Chinese state as an investor. The study contributes in two ways. First, it shows the inadequacy of market-based explanations as host institutions and actors modify transfer outcomes, blurring the ideal types, such as the ‘latecomer’ model and its apparent CEE counterpart. Second, the strategic interests of Chinese SOEs may unwillingly empower local actors struggling to influence transfer outcomes.

Branko Bembič

Chinese investment in Central and Eastern Europe: Studying the evolution of industrial relations after the takeover of a Slovenian company

中国在欧洲中部和东部的投资：研究收购斯洛文尼亚公司后产业关系的演变

This paper offers a comparative perspective on the wage and working conditions of marginal part-time workers (less than 15 hours per week) in the Danish, Irish and Norwegian hotel and restaurant sector. Each of the three countries belongs to distinct industrial relations models with different sectoral traditions of multi-employer bargaining, political intervention and union strength. We focus on social partner initiatives, over time, covering trade unions, employers and national governments’ unilateral, bipartite or tripartite measures to secure ‘living hours’ for workers with contracts of few hours. Analytically, we seek inspiration from the work on industrial relations regimes by Visser (2009) and combine it with the concept of living hours. We find that social partners have introduced a series of initiatives to secure living hours, notably to protect and increase hourly wages and secure guaranteed weekly working hours. However, while securing minimum wages and income through either bipartite, tripartite or unilateral measures seem relatively successful in all three countries, the attempts to guarantee minimum weekly working hours and thus secure living hours prove more difficult and mainly has had an impact in Denmark.

Sissel Trygstad

Lorraine Ryan

Kristine Nergaard

Juliette McMahon

Permanently marginalized? Securing living hours among part-time workers in hotels and restaurants in Northern Europe

永久边缘化？北欧酒店和餐饮业兼职员工的工时保障

This paper examines the determinants of the income share of wage earners in the non-financial, private sectors of Greece since its introduction to the Eurozone in 1999. The main outcome of the integration of Greece into the Eurozone has been the financialisation of its economy, which has been particularly influential for households since it led to the rapid rise of household indebtedness. Building on recent research which shows that financialisation shape wage bargaining outcomes, we use quarterly data from the Eurostat and demonstrate that the relative size of the FIRE sectors and the increase in household debt have been negative drivers of the wage share in Greece over the last 22 years. Our findings also suggest that the employment-tied social benefits system and tertiary education provision have also been important determinants of workers’ income share.

Abbreviation	Eur. J. Ind. Relat.
Journal Impact	2.80
Quartiles(Global)	INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR(Q2)

ISSN	0959-6801, 1461-7129
h-index	49

Publication Information	Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1995，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:15.40%， Gold OA Rate: 39.39%

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The new EU Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions in the context of new forms of employment

Mobility power and society: Managing migrant workers among Chinese multinational companies in Europe

Looking for a ‘just transition’: Sustainable forestry in Sweden and biodiverse beet sugar production in Denmark

Workers with few hours – who secures their social rights? – The role of social dialogue and collective bargaining

Chinese investment in Central and Eastern Europe: Studying the evolution of industrial relations after the takeover of a Slovenian company

Mobility power and society: Managing migrant workers among Chinese multinational companies in Europe

Looking for a ‘just transition’: Sustainable forestry in Sweden and biodiverse beet sugar production in Denmark

Workers with few hours – who secures their social rights? – The role of social dialogue and collective bargaining

Permanently marginalized? Securing living hours among part-time workers in hotels and restaurants in Northern Europe

EU-induced financialisation and its impact on the Greek wage share, 1999–2021