Discourse on equality in organizations. A case study of the chemical industry in Tarragona

This paper presents a proposal for analyzing discourses on gender equality in organizations. The research is carried out as a case study, focusing on the chemical industry in Tarragona. To the question: why there are still so many differences between women and men in labour market, despite having multiple tools to avoid inequalities? we propose to focus on discourses of equality to find an answer. The viewpoint that companies have on gender is crucial in enabling policies for equality. To ensure that policies are truly aimed at promoting equality, it is needed a gender approach that nowadays is not widespread in organizations. From these considerations, we present a fourfold typology of discourses on equality in organizations.

Respuestas sindicales ante el desaf��o de la empresa-red: sector petroqu��mico y nuclear

El modelo de empresa-red constituye un desaf��o para los sistemas de relaciones laborales. Dicho modelo cuestiona el papel de las instituciones colectivas de trabajo, concebidas hist��ricamente en el marco de una organizaci��n integrada verticalmente seg��n el modelo fordista. En efecto, la empresa dispersa o el recurso a la subcontrataci��n son contextos cada vez m��s habituales, en los cuales la organizaci��n del trabajo se encuentra disociada de la empresa en sentido jur��dico y patrimonial, y donde se establecen relaciones de trabajo triangulares de facto entre empresa principal, empresa de servicios y trabajadores. La b��squeda de respuestas a esta problem��tica apunta a la reconstrucci��n de solidaridades entre los trabajadores, pasando por la acci��n de los representantes de los trabajadores. A partir de un estudio de casos llevado a cabo en dos industrias de flujo, la industria nuclear y la petroqu��mica, este art��culo se propone analizar los efectos de la triangulaci��n de la relaci��n salarial a nivel de planta, y dos procesos experimentales de organizaci��n sindical y de negociaci��n colectiva territorial que buscan dar respuesta a la problem��tica de la subcontrataci��n. El art��culo analiza los resultados y l��mites de dichas experiencias para reconstruir una ���comunidad de trabajo��� inclusiva de los trabajadores subcontratistas.

Market reforms and privatisation in the English National Health Service

The article examines developments in the marketisation and privatisation of the English National Health Service, primarily since 1997. It explores the use of competition and contracting out in ancillary services and the levering into public services of private finance for capital developments through the Private Finance Initiative. A substantial part of the article examines the repeated restructuring of the health service as a market in clinical services, initially as an internal market but subsequently as a market increasing opened up to private sector involvement. Some of the implications of market processes for NHS staff and for increased privatisation are discussed. The article examines one episode of popular resistance to these developments, namely the movement of opposition to the 2011 health and social care legislative proposals. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of these system reforms for the founding principles of the NHS and the sustainability of the service.