Book: Entgrenzung von Arbeitsverhältnissen - Arbeitsrechtliche und sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven
15 May 2019
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Hans Hanau and Wenzel Matiaske edited this collection of essays on the "dissolution of boundaries in industrial relations" that assembles perspectives from labour law and social sciences on the subject. It is the outcome of a conference organized by the consortium at the end of 2017.
For about a quarter of a century, social sciences have been a keen observer of the transformations of labor relations within organizations, which can readily subsumed under the term of ‘dissolution of boundaries’. This ongoing decentralization of the organization, spanning from outsourcing over strategic alliances to networks, has been accompanied by the flexibilization and subjectivization of work. What initially occurred in the periphery of large organizations, soon became the “new normal” for the core work force across the economy, for the core relationships of gainful employment. Organizational sciences, essentially belonging the most ardent promoters of the abovementioned developments, came to realize that some of their brainchildren, especially the “boundaryless organization”, might constitute an existential threat to the own discipline. Meanwhile, the dissolution of boundaries of working relations was not only eagerly discussed but also widely advocated in the subdiscipline of human resource management. As a result, key terms and notions of labor law (e.g. ‘firm‘, employee’ or ‘employer’) became blurred and now suffer from impaired relevance and effectiveness with regard to their legal protective functions and autonomy of bargaining. This edited volume aims to inspire and deepen a debate that moves beyond disciplinary boundaries. Some urgency is given, because at the end of the day, nothing else but the constitution of the social market economy is at stake.
Edited by Prof. Dr. Hans Hanau and Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske
With contributions by Hans Hanau and Wenzel Matiaske, Florian Schramm and Mandy Tietgen-Simonsen, Christine Gerber and Martin Krzywdzinski, Roland Schwarze, Markus Helfen, Jochen Mohr, Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen, Rüdiger Krause as well as Martin Franzen.
The collection of essays is the outcome of a conference on this theme in December 2017.
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