Research Handbook on Decent Work in a Post-COVID-19 World

Edited by Jason Heyes, Professor of Employment Relations, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, UK, Janine Leschke, Professor in Political Economy of Labour Markets, Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, Kirsty Newsome, Professor of Employment Relations, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, UK, Michael Reich, Professor of Economics and Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California at Berkeley, USA and Adrian Wilkinson, Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Management, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia

‘This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the world of work and the profound impacts of the COVID pandemic and other contemporary global shocks and challenges. Led by a stellar team of editors and with contributions from leading international experts, the book presents important insights on technological change, equality and inclusion and other key issues that have shaped, and will continue to shape, work across the globe post-COVID.’

• Contents1 Introduction: decent work in the post-COVID era 1 Jason Heyes, Janine Leschke, Kirsty Newsome, Michael Reich and Adrian Wilkinson 2 Work and employment transitions11 Jason Heyes, Mark Tomlinson, Bert Van Landeghem, Stefanie Williamson, Peter Wright and Edward Yates 3 Gender inequality: decent work and women’s economic empowerment in a global setting 34 Marian Baird and Daniel Dinale 4 Decent work for those with episodic disability: a long road to inclusion? 51 Pauline Dibben and Paul Latreille 5 How essential are essential migrant workers? Mobility and work regulations in the times of COVID-19 66 Sara Bojarczuk and Agnieszka Fihel 6 Automation, artificial intelligence and the future of work 84 Martin Krzywdzinski 7 Telework and the drive towards novel employment rights in the European Union 99 Tina Weber and Dragoș Adăscăliței8 ‘Trapped in reviews’: the role of ratings and response times in shaping work allocation and time manamgement among platform freelancers 113 Valeria Pulignano, Mathew Johnson and Stefania Marino 9 Unemployment protection in changing labour markets 130 Sonja Bekker, Trine Larsen and Janine Leschke 10 Low pay and the future of work: charting the risks and opportunities of digital technologies and climate change 155 Damian Grimshaw 11 Labour standards and global value chains1 177 Mark Anner 12 Work in the informal economy 194 Colin C. Williams 13 Developments in social dialogue and collective bargaining 211 Bernd Brandl14 The Global Unions as governance actors 224Michele Ford and Michael Gillan15 Employee voice and partnership at work 239Stewart Johnstone and Adrian Wilkinson16 The state and decent work in a context of social and economic trauma: the challenging nature of intervening, learning, and forgetting 256Miguel Martínez Lucio and Robert MacKenzie17 Jobs in a green(ing) economy 271Bela Galgóczi18 The finance-dominated accumulation regime and the future of work in the post-COVID world 291Giorgos Gouzoulis and Engelbert Stockhammer19 The future of international labour standards beyond the ILO framework: between trade and human rights 306Mauro Pucheta and June Namgoong