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The end of “happy globalisation”
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
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Pages 2 to 3| Front matter
Pages 4 to 32| Trade war, rearmament and the energy transition in retreat: states
and trade unions faced with a world in crisis
| Catherine Sauviat, Claude Serfati
Pages 33 to 54| Trade unions faced with protectionism, defence spending and the
halting of the energy transition
| Catherine Sauviat
Pages 55 to 73| Sino-American rivalry and the refocussing of global production
networks on South-East Asia
| Clément Séhier, Aymeric Mariette, Muriel Périsse
Pages 75 to 94| New challenges for trade unions: the environment, security/defence
and trade war
| Philippe Pochet, Odile Chagny
Pages 95 to 116| An economic model under strain, destabilised trade unions
| Marcus Kahmann
Pages 117 to 133| An energy transition at the expense of economic opportunities
| Juliana Carvalho Miranda Teixeira
Pages 134 to 151| Escaping trade reliance on the United States
| Axel Magnan
Pages 152 to 168| Trade unions faced with the challenges of trade war and the race to
rearm
| Cristina Nizzoli
Pages 169 to 191| Trade-offs between military spending and social spending at the
centre of decision-making
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 192 to 208| Large spending increases and budget stimulus: an atypical choice
| Annie Jolivet
Pages 209 to 211| Back matter
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2025/3 N° 191)
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Pages 1 to 2| Front matter
Pages 3 to 19| Switzerland. Volunteering projects for welfare recipients: a
delicate balance between fulfilment, recognition and institutional
expectations
| Jérôme Heim, Patrick Ischer, Mathias Rota
Pages 21 to 35| Greece. Towards decent working conditions in the entertainment and
audiovisual sectors?
| Christina Karakioulafis, Chara Kokkinou
Pages 37 to 55| European Union. A second amendment of the European Works Council
directive: A path strewn with obstacles
| Udo Rehfeldt
Pages 57 to 76| India. The declining bargaining power of trade unions
| Kingshuk Sarkar
Pages 77 to 80| Back matter
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2025/2 N° 190)
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Pages 3 to 26| European Union. The European Artificial Intelligence Act: what role
can social dialogue and trade unions play?
| Odile Chagny
Pages 27 to 48| Dividends from war... but for whom?
| Claude Serfati
Pages 49 to 64| The dismantling of the federal public service and the main
administrations
| Catherine Sauviat
Pages 65 to 78| The traditional model of the housewife versus women’s aspirations
of jobs and equality of opportunity
| Hiromasa Suzuki
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2025/1 n° 189)
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Pages 3 to 19| United Kingdom. Six months of Labour government: between political
priorities and financial constraints
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 21 to 35| Belgium (French-speaking). Looking back at the social dynamics of
conflictuality in the health sector (2019-2024)
| Maria Cecilia Trionfetti, Natalia Hirtz
Pages 37 to 49| Germany. Volkswagen’s social model preserved by a new agreement on
jobs
| Udo Rehfeldt
Pages 51 to 64| United States. Boeing facing a 53-day strike, against a backdrop of
industrial and financial setbacks
| Catherine Sauviat
Pages 65 to 79| United States. Health insurance companies, at the heart of public
resentment and frustration with the healthcare system
| Catherine Sauviat
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Temporary labour migration
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2024/4 No 188)
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Pages 1 to 2| Front matter
Pages 3 to 24| Organised temporary labour migration regimes vs. social norms
| Axel Magnan, Antoine Math
Pages 25 to 43| International migration, public action and the grey zones of work
| Sid Ahmed Soussi
Pages 45 to 63| The rise of temporary labour immigration, poor working conditions
and barely mobilised unions
| Catherine Sauviat
Pages 65 to 85| Employment of temporary migrant workers: decent work or modern
slavery?
| Blandine Emilien, Patrice Jalette
Pages 87 to 107| Targeted, segmented schemes
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 109 to 128| Migrant workers and regional integration schemes: towards
institutionalised precarity?
| Virginia Mellado
Pages 129 to 148| Regulatory exemption schemes in a polarised labour market
| Marcus Kahmann
Pages 149 to 169| West of the equator, the overexploitation of circular workers
| Kevin Guillas-Cavan
Pages 171 to 192| Cheap, temporary labour, now indispensable in some sectors
| François-Xavier Devetter
Pages 193 to 210| Temporary migrants on the labour market: between restrictions and
precarity
| Christèle Meilland
Pages 211 to 228| Institutionalised job insecurity for migrants to meet the needs of
the labour market
| Catherine Vincent
Pages 229 to 243| An immigration policy in favour of the most qualified workers, a
reflection of its economic model
| Noélie Delahaie
Pages 245 to 262| Exploitation of seasonal migrants: xenophobic policies and criminal
networks
| Anna Frisone
Pages 263 to 268| Back matter
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
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Pages 3 to 20| Election after election: the avoidable rise of the far right in the
union movement
| Kevin Guillas-Cavan
Pages 21 to 36| Contested reforms to hospital financing
| Kalle Kunkel
Pages 37 to 48| The new deal 2024-2026 in the public sector: a lacklustre union
victory
| Noélie Delahaie
Pages 49 to 64| Outcry in the South: the UAW’s new management look to reap the
rewards of its 2023 contractual victory
| Catherine Sauviat
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
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Pages 3 to 16| The haves and have-nots of “social dialogue”
| Sidy Cissokho
Pages 17 to 32| The ambivalent promotion of collective bargaining in the food
delivery platform sector
| Xingrong Xu, Arnaud Mias
Pages 33 to 45| Facing a skilled labour shortage: what can social dialogue
contribute?
| Vassil Kirov, Joyce Gazale
Pages 47 to 57| Employment law, a key issue in the forthcoming general election
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 59 to 76| Ryanair or the painstaking construction of a grassroots European
trade union movement (2017-2023)
| Jean Vandewattyne, Bruno Bauraind
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2024/1 No 185)
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Pages 3 to 14| Europe. Worker perceptions of unions: political and social mindsets
or national mindsets?
| Tristan Haute
Pages 15 to 33| Germany. Revitalising social partnership in the “transformation”
process
| Gerhard Bosch
Pages 35 to 46| Switzerland. Revitalising social partnership in the
“transformation” process
| Jacqueline Kalbermatter
Pages 47 to 61| United Kingdom. Employment income: a series of shocks
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 63 to 79| United States. New collective bargaining agreements at the big
three car manufacturers: an historic union victory
| Catherine Sauviat
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Unions facing environmental challenges
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2023/4 No 184)
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Pages 3 to 21| From denial to environmental justice: a variety of union strategies
| Thomas Coutrot, Cristina Nizzoli
Pages 23 to 42| Europe. The European Trade Union Confederation and the just
transition
| Bianca Luna Fabris, Philippe Pochet
Pages 43 to 65| Germany. The unions as partners of the ecological transition
| Marcus Kahmann
Pages 67 to 84| Belgium. Unions torn between defending environment and employment
| Douglas Sepulchre
Pages 85 to 106| Sweden. Broad union support for climate policy, much less so for
environmental policy
| Annie Jolivet
Pages 107 to 122| Argentina. Productive development against the environment?
| Arnaud Trenta
Pages 123 to 136| Australia. Lacklustre adjustments and transition
| Stéphane Le Queux
Pages 137 to 159| Canada. Partnerships, sustainable jobs and carbon neutrality: trade
unions and the just transition
| Axel Magnan
Pages 161 to 186| United States. Unions focussed on defending jobs and divided in the
face of the energy transition
| Catherine Sauviat
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2023/3 No 183)
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Pages 3 to 15| United States. The mobilisation of a category of precarious workers
in universities: the plight of gradworkers
| Marie A. Ménard
Pages 17 to 31| Greece. The law of 2021: union rights under pressure and reactions
from the unions
| Christina Karakioulafis
Pages 33 to 50| Austria. The 20th Austrian Trade Union Federation congress and
climate change: towards a unionism for social change?
| Kevin Guillas-Cavan
Pages 51 to 66| Germany. New government measures to bolster women’s participation
in the labour market: an impossible challenge?
| Jeanne Fagnani
Pages 67 to 73| Germany. The collective bargaining strategies of IG Metall: all
quiet on the Eastern front?
| Michael Whittall, Ingrid Artus, Andreas Fischer, Judith Holland
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2023/2 No 182)
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Pages 3 to 17| United Kingdom. Government moves to restrict strikes in response to
historic industrial conflict in the UK
| Heather Connolly
Pages 19 to 31| Ireland. The healthcare system under pression despite an ambitious
programme of reform
| Noélie Delahaie
Pages 33 to 41| Spain. Pension reform arising from social dialogue
| Catherine Vincent
Pages 43 to 55| Europe. Early childhood care and types of care: revising the
Barcelona Targets for 2030
| Catherine Collombet, Antoine Math
Pages 57 to 74| Europe. Barcelona Targets and early childhood care: growing
disparities between countries
| Catherine Collombet, Antoine Math
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2023/1 No 181)
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Pages 3 to 16| Quebec. Labour relations during a labour shortage
| Patrice Jalette
Pages 17 to 33| United Kingdom. Immigration: a matter of politics or economics?
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 35 to 44| United States. Collective bargaining constrained in rail
freight sector
| Catherine Sauviat
Pages 45 to 53| Introduction. The effects on union activity of labour relations
increasingly unfavourable to employees in Switzerland
| Aris Martinelli
Pages 55 to 69| Switzerland. Implications of the trend toward greater working
time flexibility in the mechanical, electrical and metal industry
| Aris Martinelli
Pages 71 to 80| Switzerland. The ability to waive the recording of working time:
the implementation of health protection measures
| Nicola Cianferoni
Pages 81 to 91| Switzerland. The struggle of precarious workers in logistics: the
‟DPD system”
| Nicolas Pons-Vignon, Enrico Borelli
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Wages and the inflation trap: public measures and renewed demands
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2022/4 No 180)
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Pages 3 to 36| Inflation and wages: the responses of governments and the demands
of workers
| Antoine Math
Pages 37 to 55| United States. Rising disputes, unionization and worker demands in
a time of economic uncertainty
| Catherine Sauviat
Pages 57 to 77| United Kingdom. Chaotic management of the unforeseen and an
explosion of conflictuality
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 79 to 99| Germany. Inflation outstripping wage negotiations
| Marcus Kahmann
Pages 101 to 122| Austria. No reason to hold back in wage negotiations?
| Kevin Guillas-Cavan
Pages 123 to 138| Belgium. Rising nominal wages, ad hoc assistance and loss of
purchasing power
| Bernard Conter, Jean Faniel
Pages 139 to 153| Spain. A government grappling with inflation but limited wage
disputes so far
| Catherine Vincent
Pages 155 to 174| Ireland. In the face of falling purchasing power, temporary public
measures and insufficient wage increases
| Noélie Delahaie
Pages 175 to 187| Italy. A policy of tax bonuses and an absence of wage demands under
the Draghi government
| Cristina Nizzoli
Pages 189 to 209| Sweden. Mainly budgetary measures to offset rising energy prices
and the historic decline of real wages
| Annie Jolivet
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
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Pages 3 to 13| The new “taxi plan” in Brussels: Towards the uberisation of the
sector?
| Anne Dufresne, Bruno Bauraind
Pages 14 to 25| After the shock of the health crisis, rising tensions in the labour
market
| Noélie Delahaie
Pages 26 to 37| Retirement homes: the home of contradictions
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 38 to 47| New directive on adequate minimum wage
| Antoine Math
Pages 48 to 63| The economy: A continuation of the war by other means
| Claude Serfati
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
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Pages 3 to 13| The right to childcare places in six European countries: what
lessons for France?
| Catherine Collombet
Pages 14 to 23| National minimum income: a tool to combat poverty, with mixed
results
| Catherine Vincent
Pages 24 to 35| A labour shortage and highly selective immigration
| Christèle Meilland
Pages 36 to 46| Fire and rehire
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 47 to 60| Two historic union victories at Starbucks and Amazon. What comes
next?
| Catherine Sauviat
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2022/1 No 177)
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Pages 3 to 17| The struggle of GKN workers in Florence, between worker
self-organising and social mobilisation
| Lorenzo Cini, Francesca Gabbriellini, Giacomo Gabbuti, Angelo Moro, Benedetta Rizzo, Arianna Tassinari
Pages 18 to 26| The 2019 Labour Law: independent workers’ representative
organisations
| Anne Ngoc Cox, Stéphane Le Queux
Pages 27 to 35| Exiting the pandemic with no change to wage suppression
| Bernard Conter, Jean Faniel
Pages 36 to 53| The wage negotiations of Autumn 2021, between union offensive and a
weakening of coordination between sectors
| Kevin Guillas-Cavan
Pages 54 to 68| Unions and the challenges of the “green revolution”
| Jacques Freyssinet
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Unprecedented measures in response to the Covid-19 crisis: the
great return of the state
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2021/4 No 176)
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Pages 3 to 7| Introduction
| Odile Chagny, Frédéric Lerais
Pages 8 to 31| Whatever the price. Incomparable measures to address the
economic consequences of the pandemic?
| Antoine Math
Pages 32 to 49| The effects of the crisis alleviated thanks to the recovery plan
and to collective bargaining
| Udo Rehfeldt
Pages 50 to 67| Unprecedented federal policies to protect jobs and limit poverty
| Arnaud Trenta, Virginia Mellado
Pages 68 to 80| An unprecedented use of flexicurity to protect the employment
market
| Christèle Meilland
Pages 81 to 94| Limited but coordinated economic and social measures
| Catherine Vincent
Pages 95 to 113| An unprecedented crisis and fiscal stimulus, a labour market under
pressure, and re-emerging disputes
| Catherine Sauviat
Pages 114 to 125| A firing freeze as part of the European recovery plan
| Cristina Nizzoli
Pages 126 to 145| The resurgence of the state
| Jacques Freyssinet
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2021/3 No 175)
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Pages 3 to 15| Germany. The decline of works council elections: the legislator to
the rescue?
| Marcus Kahmann
Pages 16 to 27| Greece. The Covid-19 pandemic and union mobilisation of art
workers: the Support Art Workers initiative
| Christina Karakioulafis
Pages 28 to 37| Japan. The legal line between employees and freelancers: current
debates
| Hiromasa Suzuki
Pages 38 to 49| International. The interaction between early years childcare
options and parental leave: a factor in childcare inequality
| Catherine Collombet
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
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Pages 3 to 17| Ireland. An illusion of growth in the face of the pandemic
| Noélie Delahaie
Pages 18 to 33| United Kingdom. Covid-19 and labour market inequality
| Jacques Freyssinet
Pages 34 to 45| Germany. Bolstering family benefit schemes during the health
crisis: objectives, consequences and issues
| Jeanne Fagnani
Pages 46 to 66| International. The stagnation of transnational company agreements
and regression of European agreements
| Udo Rehfeldt
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Varia
| Chronique Internationale de l'IRES
(2021/1 No 173)
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Pages 3 to 16| Switzerland. The challenges surrounding the vote on the
“Responsible Business Initiative”
| Aris Martinelli
Pages 17 to 32| Austria. Social housing in Vienna: an original model at a
crossroads
| Kevin Guillas-Cavan
Pages 33 to 48| Germany. Industry 4.0: towards a concerted digitalization of the
manufacturing industry?
| Marcus Kahmann
Pages 49 to 62| United States. Donald Trump’s record on employment: what are the
challenges faced by union organisations?
| Donna Kesselman
Pages 63 to 74| Italy. The role of self-organized collectives in the representation
of bicycle delivery riders
| Cristina Nizzoli