Autres publications

Les « Autres publications » rassemblent les publications extérieures des chercheur·es (articles de revues, chapitres d’ouvrage, ouvrages), ainsi que des rapports de recherche co-édités par l’Ires.

Nous mettons également en ligne des « contributions » des chercheurs, qui sont la plupart du temps des présentations powerpoint ayant servi de support à leurs interventions lors de journées d’études, séminaires, colloques, congrès, auditions et autres événements publics.

Brexit’s practical implications for European Works Councils : Shared norms and social networks as a substitute for crumbling regulation?

Anna FRISONE, Marco HAUPTMEIER, Markus HERTWIG, Marcus KAHMANN, Louis LINES, Patrick WITZAK
Article publié dans Economic and Industrial Democracy. European Works Councils (EWCs) are legally, normatively and culturally embedded institutions of transnational employee representation. Brexit disrupted this configuration by generating legal ambiguity for U.K.-based and U.K.-operating firms. Building on organisational and historical institutionalism, we analyse how EWCs responded to this shock through three cases where U.K. delegates were (partly) excluded from the EWC. We show that normative...

Brexit’s impact on transnational employee representation : Regulatory changes and contested futures of European Works Councils

Patrick WITZAK , Markus HERTWIG, Anna FRISONE, Marco HAUPTMEIER, Marcus KAHMANN, Louis G. T. LINES
Publié dans European Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 32 Issue 2, June 2026 This study examines how Brexit reshaped the institutional foundations of European Works Councils (EWCs). Using historical institutionalism, the analysis conceptualises Brexit as a critical juncture that revealed and accelerated existing institutional dynamics. Drawing on 64 company cases, including 16 in-depth studies, it identifies five developmental outcomes – stability, limitation, exclusion, extinction...

Atypical working hours in a feminized profession : the weight of organizational choices - The example of cleaners in France

François-Xavier DEVETTER, Louis GALEY, Sophie PRUNIER-POULMAIRE, Julie VALENTIN
The working conditions of mainly female cleaners are particularly poor. This article proposes an original approach between ergonomics and economics to analyze the characteristics of the organization of cleaners' daily working time based on quantitative data from the 2019 French Working Conditions survey (n = 14,910), and qualitative data from semi structured interviews with trade unionists, employers and workers (n = 11). Cleaners are mainly women (80%), working in the private sector, sometimes immigrants...