TY - JOUR
T1 - Employer strategies for undermining migrants’ power resources
T2 - Evidence from the Danish construction sector
AU - Overgård, Charlotte Hooper
AU - Høgedahl, Laust
PY - 2024/10
Y1 - 2024/10
N2 - In this article, the authors investigate how employer power is enacted and exercised in everyday processes at a time of non-conflict from the perspective of migrant workers. Relying on qualitative analysis of more than 120 migrants and professionals from the Danish construction sector, the authors demonstrate the various ways in which employers disrupt and deactivate worker power resources through gradual and consistent efforts to isolate migrant workers, create dependencies and wedges between them and hinder migrants’ opportunities to use their voice and gain knowledge, to the detriment of collectivism and unionism.
AB - In this article, the authors investigate how employer power is enacted and exercised in everyday processes at a time of non-conflict from the perspective of migrant workers. Relying on qualitative analysis of more than 120 migrants and professionals from the Danish construction sector, the authors demonstrate the various ways in which employers disrupt and deactivate worker power resources through gradual and consistent efforts to isolate migrant workers, create dependencies and wedges between them and hinder migrants’ opportunities to use their voice and gain knowledge, to the detriment of collectivism and unionism.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85207503833&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0143831X241287099
DO - 10.1177/0143831X241287099
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0143-831X
JO - Economic and Industrial Democracy
JF - Economic and Industrial Democracy
ER -