TY  - JOUR
A1  - Simms, Melanie
A1  - Eversberg, Dennis
A1  - Dupuy, Camille
A1  - Hipp, Lena
T1  - Organizing young workers under precarious conditions
BT  - what hinders or facilitates union success
JF  - Work and occupations
N2  - Under what conditions do young precarious workers join unions? Based on case studies from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the authors identify targeted campaigns, coalition building, membership activism, and training activities as innovative organizing approaches. In addition to traditional issues such as wages and training quality, these approaches also featured issues specific to precarious workers, including skills training, demands for minimum working hours, and specific support in insecure employment situations. Organizing success is influenced by bargaining structures, occupational identity, labor market conditions, and support by union leaders and members. Innovative organizing tends to happen when unions combine new approaches with existing structures.
KW  - unions
KW  - organizing strategies
KW  - precarious work
KW  - young workers
KW  - qualitative case studies
KW  - Europe
KW  - United States
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888418785947
SN  - 0730-8884
SN  - 1552-8464
VL  - 45
IS  - 4
SP  - 420
EP  - 450
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -