{"title":"Communities of Struggle: Spatializing Power Resources in Peru's Agrarian Strike","authors":"Omar Manky, Micaela Reynoso","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article analyses a striking case of collective action under extreme precarity: Peru's 2020 agrarian strike, which successfully repealed a law that had undermined labour rights for two decades. Drawing on an ethnographic case study in Barrio Chino (Ica) and surveys, we examine how mobilization emerged in such an adverse context for collective action. The article makes two theoretical contributions. First, it spatializes the power resources approach (PRA), demonstrating that territory actively reconfigures the power resources available to workers. Second, it adapts the concept of ‘community of struggle’ to explain how shared experiences of life and work can structure effective organizing practices without formal affiliation. The analysis reveals a key tension: The organizational fluidity that enabled rapid and effective mobilization also hindered the consolidation of permanent structures. This finding challenges linear narratives about union power construction and illuminates the contradictions inherent in organizing under extreme precarity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"76-90"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146148112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disentangling Job Satisfaction: The Roles of Monetary and Non-Monetary Factors Across Job Types and Income Levels","authors":"Cristina Bernini, Alessandro Tampieri","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We examine how specific components of job satisfaction influence overall job satisfaction and how these vary by job type and income. We use the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which includes measures of satisfaction with total pay, job security, type of work and hours worked. Our results show significant variation in the composition of job satisfaction across job types and income levels. First, we find that pay satisfaction is less important in explaining overall satisfaction than other non-monetary aspects. However, individuals in some job types systematically rate the monetary aspects of their job more highly than others. In addition, job satisfaction of individuals with different income levels is explained differently by job satisfaction domains. Our results are robust when we narrow down the sample by considering factors such as gender (males or females), employment type (full- or part-time) and further job satisfaction components.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"52-75"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146139715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working From Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes?","authors":"Uwe Jirjahn, Cinzia Rienzo","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Working from home (WFH) reduces real-time visibility of employees within the physical space of the workplace. This makes it difficult to monitor employees’ work behaviour. Employers may instead monitor employees’ outputs and provide incentives through performance pay. The crucial question is what type of performance pay employers provide to incentivize employees who work from home. Using British panel data, we find that WFH decreases the likelihood of solely receiving individual performance pay. It increases the likelihood of receiving collective performance pay—with or without individual performance pay. This pattern also holds in instrumental variable estimations accounting for endogeneity. Our findings fit theoretical considerations. WFH means that employees have less opportunities to socialize at work entailing the tendency that they focus on personal achievement and neglect collaboration. Solely rewarding individual performance may reinforce this tendency. By contrast, employers reward collective performance as it counteracts the adverse effects of WFH by providing incentives for collaboration, helping on the job and information sharing.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"39-51"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146193429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI","authors":"Hao-Ren Liu","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"37-38"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146139155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Forth, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Carl Singleton, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard
{"title":"The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and Its Implications for UK Wage Policy","authors":"John Forth, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Carl Singleton, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on an annual 1% sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK's official earnings statistics. These statistics are produced using official weights designed to make the achieved sample in each year representative of the population of employee jobs in Britain by gender, age, occupation and region. However, we show that jobs in small, young, private-sector organisations remain significantly under-represented after applying these weights. To address this issue, we develop new weights and demonstrate their importance through policy-relevant examples. Our new estimates suggest that the bite of the National Living Wage is greater than previously reported, and the gender pay gap is wider. We conclude that a new official review of the methodology for ASHE is merited to improve the accuracy and reliability of data informing earnings analysis and research in the United Kingdom.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"21-36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146140091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy","authors":"Michael David Maffie, Hector Hurtado","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates the mechanisms by which gig platforms degrade labour conditions over time, building on the concept of platform decay, or ‘enshittification’, initially developed in the context of social media platforms. In this article, we draw on 30 interviews with long-term gig workers in the ride-hail and grocery delivery sectors, offering insights into how these companies shift from offering attractive working conditions to exploiting labour as these services develop market power via network effects. We identify three mechanisms through which gig companies claw back value from workers over time: <i>burden shifting</i> (transferring operational costs to workers), <i>feature addition and alteration</i> (increasing the demands on workers), and <i>market manipulation</i> (reducing worker bargaining power). We then explore how workers respond to platform decay, finding that workers adopt three responses: <i>effort recalibration</i>, <i>multi-homing</i> and navigating the changing conditions through what we term <i>toxic resilience</i>. This study contributes to the gig work literature by developing a framework to explain how working conditions in the gig economy improve or degrade over time. In doing so, this article provides a framework for organizing the growing constellation of labour research on gig workers.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"5-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146139513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City, Space and Trade Unionism: The Spatiality of Labour in the Metal Industry","authors":"Belén Martínez Caparrós","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"64 1","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146139845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Forth, Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard
{"title":"The Impact of a Rising Wage Floor on Labour Mobility Across Firms","authors":"John Forth, Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Lucy Stokes, Damian Whittard","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In April 2016, the National Living Wage (NLW) raised the statutory wage floor for employees in the United Kingdom aged 25 and above by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost double any in the previous decade and expanded the share of jobs covered by the wage floor by around 50%. Using a difference-in-differences approach with linked employer–employee data from the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we examine how the introduction and uprating of the NLW affected the likelihood of minimum-wage employees changing firms. We find some evidence that the NLW reduced the rate of job-to-job transitions among such workers, consistent with predictions that an increase in the wage floor discourages job search. However, we find no evidence that the NLW affected differences in job mobility between minimum wage workers and their co-workers in the same firm. Together, these findings suggest that the increased wage floor made quits less attractive to minimum-wage workers in firms with limited opportunities for progression.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"63 4","pages":"746-757"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145436092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Appraisals, Works Councils and Employees’ Presenteeism Behaviour","authors":"Christian Grund, Anna Nießen","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Presenteeism behaviour, that is, working despite illness, is a common phenomenon worldwide and can have severe consequences for employees and firms alike. In this study, we investigate the relationship between the use of company performance appraisals and employees’ presenteeism behaviour. We use linked-employer–employee data (the German Linked Personnel Panel) and apply pooled Poisson as well as linear fixed effects panel estimations. We show that the use of performance appraisals is associated with significantly lower annual presenteeism days in the amount of half a day, which corresponds to a 10% difference from the base rate. The results are driven by performance appraisals that are linked to performance-related pay, in particular. In addition, the significantly negative relationships between performance appraisals or performance pay and presenteeism only emerge when a works council is present at the workplace. Our study contributes to the understanding of employment relation-specific behavioural consequences of management practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"63 4","pages":"718-745"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145435993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solidarity Betrayed. How Unions Enable Sexual Harassment—And How They Can Do Better","authors":"Cécile Guillaume","doi":"10.1111/bjir.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"63 4","pages":"716-717"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145436303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}