This edited volume explores the old and new "collective dimensions" of employment relations. It examines specific challenges stemming from new forms of work of the digital and sharing economy, such as measurement, monitoring, assessment, and remuneration of work, the protection of work-life balance, the impact of new technologies on health and safety, the adaptation of occupational skills to new work processes, and the responses to the digital restructuring of undertakings. It addresses a series of questions such as how the representational action of unions and works councils can adapt to the challenges posed by new production systems and whether the legislative framework needs to be reformed to ensure that digital workers enjoy the right to collective representation. This important collection offers readers a renewed theoretical perspective and justification of the role that the dialogue between workers (representatives) and companies could play in an increasingly complex world of work.

PARTI:The Collective Dimensions of Employment: A Taxonomy

Chapter 2.Challenges for Workers' Participation
Chapter 3.Trade Unions, Employers' Associations and the Law
Chapter 4.Organization as Collective Rule-Making
Chapter 5.The Collective Dimensions of the Employment Relationship: Ways Beyond Traditional Views
PART II:The Collective Dimensions and Workplace Organisation
Chapter 6.Does Control Change Nature in Industrial Digital Work? A Secondary Analysis of the 1991-2015 European Working Conditions Surveys
Chapter 7.Neoliberal Conceptions of the Individual in Labour Law
Chapter 8.Is the Structure of Employee Representation Institutions in Europe Adapted to the Economic Transformations? Analysis and Proposals from the Spanish Case
PART III: Challenges and Perspectives for the Collective Dimensions of Employment: National Focuses
Chapter 9.The Right to Strike: The ILO and ECHR Legal Frameworks and the Potential non-Compliance with those Standards of the New Swedish Legislation
Chapter 10.Prova di Solidarietà': How Effectively are Unions and Emerging Collective Worker Representatives Responding to New Business Models in Australia and Italy?
Chapter 11.Explaining Failures of Social Dialogue Building in Eastern Europe
Chapter 12.New Challenges for the Collective Representation of Platform Workers in Russia and China
Chapter 13.Evidence from Monitoring on Tax Incentives on the Performance Related Pay in Italy.