Ten years ago the analysis of the situation on the labour market in Slovenia and in other countries notified the increasing flexibility of labour and employment and the need of flexicurity. Recent analyses suggest that changes in the last decade in many European countries, including Slovenia went in the opposite direction - fewer workers have the perspective of flexicurity, while for most, and especially the youth working lives are characterized by an increasing precariousness. This article has two purposes: to contribute to the current conceptual debate on the flexibility and precarity and to contribute to the understanding of the observed changes at the labour market in Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4017864
While after the World War II, paid care work in private households has almost disappeared because of the rising welfare systems, in last decades it is again in steep increase all over the Europe given the restructuring of the role of state in social reproduction which leads to individualization and reprivatisation of care work. This work is marked by multiple peculiarities such as: location in private sphere of households; fragmentation, flexibilisation and informalization; feminization and etnicization; social devaluation, and at the same time it has no clear status in modern labour legislation. The article analyzes selected transnational and national strategies, including the Slovenian one, which promote regulation of home based care work from the perspectives of quality of employments and care services.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4345445
Trade unions' strategic unadaptability is strongly determined by experiences connected to former (post-war) unions' successful strategies. In conditions marked by a fundamental transition from demand-side to supply-side economics, which was triggered in the early 1980s, unadaptability emerged as a relatively strong factor of the trade unions' decline. Due to this unadaptability, unions are exposed to a spontaneous slide towards 'economistic unionism' and the corresponding long-term trend of membership losses.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4017608