Ethical power: a supplement to the trade union’s power resources approach

IF 1.5 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Mohammad Jalal Uddin
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Abstract Is the current Power Resources Approach (PRA) of trade unions capable enough to cope with the global socio-economic and geopolitical structural transformation resulting from automation, pandemic-induced economic fallout, and the Russia-Ukraine war? If so, then why are millions of workers living in extreme poverty, and why do we have a double-digit rate of global job gaps? To survive in this challenging period of the global labour market, trade unions have to trigger the fifth power’s resources, denoted as ‘ethical power’. This new dimension of PRA might facilitate the trade unions’ efforts to secure decent industrial relations and social justice in the workplace. Historically, gaining ‘institutional power’ and ‘societal power’ was subject to ethical confrontation, which is rightly omitted while defining the PRA. Therefore, this study coined the term ‘ethical power’ as a supplement to existing power resources theory and found that the application of ethics to the attainment and exercise of PRA is not something new but rather unrecognised.
伦理权力:对工会权力资源途径的补充
当前工会的权力资源方法(PRA)是否足以应对由自动化、大流行引发的经济后果和俄乌战争导致的全球社会经济和地缘政治结构转型?如果是这样,那么为什么还有数百万工人生活在极端贫困之中,为什么我们的全球就业差距达到了两位数?为了在这个充满挑战的全球劳动力市场中生存下来,工会必须激发第五大力量的资源,即“道德力量”。PRA的这一新层面可能有助于工会努力确保体面的劳资关系和工作场所的社会正义。从历史上看,获得“制度权力”和“社会权力”受制于伦理冲突,这在定义PRA时被正确地忽略了。因此,本研究创造了“道德权力”这一术语,作为现有权力资源理论的补充,并发现将道德应用于PRA的实现和行使并不是什么新鲜事,而是没有得到认可。
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期刊介绍: The Economic & Labour Relations Review is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal that aims to bring together research in economics and labour relations in a multi-disciplinary approach to policy questions. The journal encourages articles that critically assess dominant orthodoxies, as well as alternative models, thereby facilitating informed debate. The journal particularly encourages articles that adopt a post-Keynesian (heterodox) approach to economics, or that explore rights-, equality- or justice-based approaches to labour relations and social policy.
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