Trade Unions in Segmented Labor Markets: Evidence from the German Metal and Chemical Sectors
基于德国金属和化工行业的案例研究，探讨工会如何应对雇主通过外包分割劳动力市场的策略，发现工会并非总是优先保护核心成员利益，其行动受工会身份、成员利益和组织利益共同影响。
Drawing on case studies in the German metal and chemical sectors, this article addresses trade unions’ behavior toward employers’ labor market segmentation strategies and, in particular, their use of outsourcing. Findings illustrate that, contrary to the expectations of the dualization literature, trade unions do not always give priority to their core constituency over the interests of temporary or peripheral workers. Union actions are not solely determined by the aim of defending the interests of their current members but depend instead on the interrelationship between unions’ identity and their members’ and organizational interests.