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Introduction: employee representation and voice in small and medium-sized enterprises - the SMALL project

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  • Stephen Bouquin

    (Senior lecturer at the Université de Picardie (Amiens) and Senior researcher at CNRS and Laboratoire G. Friedmann (Université Paris I))

  • Salvo Leonardi

    (Senior Research Fellow, IRES, Rome)

  • Sian Moore

    (Principal Research Fellow, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University)

Abstract

This article introduces the SMALL project, its key research questions and methodology. It places SMEs within the context of the wider European economy. It sets out the data on union membership in SMEs which suggest that across Europe union membership is lower than in larger organisations. It then looks at rights to representation in SMEs and how thresholds based upon the number of employees reduce the potential for representation. The article explores collective bargaining coverage in SMEs. It considers the relationship between centralised collective bargaining systems and union membership in SMEs and the extent to which such systems can protect the terms and conditions of workers, drawing upon the case study evidence to suggest that such systems do not always ensure collective representation and organisation at workplace level. The article concludes by considering the steps that unions may need to take to address this.

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  • Stephen Bouquin & Salvo Leonardi & Sian Moore, 2007. "Introduction: employee representation and voice in small and medium-sized enterprises - the SMALL project," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 13(1), pages 13-26, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:13:y:2007:i:1:p:13-26
    DOI: 10.1177/102425890701300105
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    1. Anders Kjellberg, 2006. "The Swedish unemployment insurance - will the Ghent system survive?," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 12(1), pages 87-98, February.
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