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DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12055
Published date01 December 2017
Date01 December 2017
International
Labour
Review
2017 3–4 > Volume 156/3–4 December
Contents
Special feature i: New directions in industrial relations?
309 An emerging transnational industrial relations?
Exploring the prospects for cross-border labour bargaining
Urs LUTERBACHER, Andrew PROSSER and Konstantinos PAPADAKIS
Global union federations (GUFs) and multinational enterprises (MNEs) have been
concluding “international framework agreements” (IFAs) to protect their interests
amidst the globalizing economic landscape. By modelling the underlying bargain-
ing processes, the authors show that IFAs can be expected when both sides exhibit
risk aversion, although the agreement will favour the less risk-averse side. Since glo-
balization has created fewer vulnerabilities for MNEs than for GUFs, IFAs have so
far typically delivered only minimal benets for labour. But this should change in
the future if strengthened transnational union capacities and abilities to threaten
MNEs with reputational costs bring greater equalization of attitudes towards risk.
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 ,   .
345 Positive class compromise in globalized production? The Freedom
of Association Protocol in the Indonesian sportswear industry
Karin Astrid SIEGMANN, Jeroen MERK and Peter KNORRINGA
This article investigates the role of voluntary initiatives (VIs) as non-governmental
systems of labour regulation in global value chains (GVCs). To identify the condi-
tions conducive to a more active role for labour in VIs, the authors apply Wright’s
(2000) theory of the factors enabling positive class compromise to a VI imple-
mented in the Indonesian sportswear industry and extend it to the more complex

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