Jens Arnholtz
jensarnholtz.bsky.social
Jens Arnholtz
@jensarnholtz.bsky.social
Associate professor with focus on employment relations, power resources, labour migration and European integration
Very interesting article in @bjireditor.bsky.social by @omanky.bsky.social and Micaela Reynoso on the spatial and temporal aspects of power resources in the collective action of workers in Peru.
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Communities of Struggle: Spatializing Power Resources in Peru's Agrarian Strike
This article analyses a striking case of collective action under extreme precarity: Peru's 2020 agrarian strike, which successfully repealed a law that had undermined labour rights for two decades. D...
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September 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New article! Formal labour clauses in public procurement is only a first step towards decent work. We identify a number of tensions in their implementation and enforcement
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June 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In this new article Bjarke Refslund and I discuss how work and workers (still) influence politics:
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How work and workers influence politics – Analysing the nexus through power resource theory | Journal of Political Sociology
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June 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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June 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🎥 @afscharian.bsky.social discusses his forthcoming title, Ideas of Social Europe, Enhancing or Eroding European Integration?: youtu.be/sSLOGBWpSF8?...

Pre-order your copy on our website, www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

#SocialEurope #SocialConstructivism #SocialPolicy #PoliticalScience
Dominic Afscharian discusses his new book, Ideas of Social Europe
YouTube video by Edward Elgar Publishing
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April 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New article showing the revision of the Posting of Workers Directive had limited effect no national labour law in supportive countries (open access).
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Promoting Social Europe by reversing liberalisation? Implementation of the revised Posting of Workers Directive in EU member states
The revision of the Posting of Workers Directive (PWD) was welcomed as an important step towards a more Social Europe. In this article, we examine how EU member states (MS) implemented the revised ...
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April 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Less than a week left to apply to our upcoming conference, "Reclaiming power: Bridging Social Movements and Industrial Relations in Labour Mobilisation" at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, on May 26 and 27.
All info here: cosmos.sns.it/news/call-fo...
April 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is such an important and topical article. Beyond the general theoretical argument, which is itself important, it gives a deep sense of the everyday tensions and control arrangement that underly the current overt conflict in Israel/Palestine. Well done @jonathanpreminger.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New issue of @ilrreview.bsky.social out - this one including a super book forum on 'Workers, Power and Society' edited by Bjarke and I.
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ILR Review - Volume 78, Number 2, Mar 01, 2025
Table of contents for ILR Review, 78, 2, Mar 01, 2025
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February 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This is such a great article! The combination of power resource theory and sociology of professions is highly innovative, and the substantive issue of how in-house economists affects trade union strategies is very important
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New (open access) paper with @assafbondy.bsky.social in NPE explores a puzzling phenomenon: How do mainstream economists become key players in trade unions? We examine the case of Israel's Histadrut, where economists gained pivotal positions in collective bargaining. 🧵
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An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions
The doubtful tendencies of neoclassical economics towards labour market intervention put it at odds with trade unions, whose raison d’etre is worker protection through de-linking compensation from ...
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February 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I had a blast discussing the political economy of labour migration in Europe with this wonderful group of people today. It is a subject that deserves much more attention.
February 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We're hiring: Fully funded 3-year PhD position in Sociology, here in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark! Come work with us!

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PhD scholarship at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
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January 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I am very happy to see this book forum on our edited volume out. Thanks to the discussants and ILR review for engaging with the book. Looking forward to countiued dialouge about power resources.
Here is an exciting way to kick off the new year. Explore our book review forum where critical discussants review 'Workers, Power and Society' edited by @jensarnholtz.bsky.social & Bjarke Refslund, that brings power back into IR discussion.
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December 31, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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Here is an exciting way to kick off the new year. Explore our book review forum where critical discussants review 'Workers, Power and Society' edited by @jensarnholtz.bsky.social & Bjarke Refslund, that brings power back into IR discussion.
doi.org/10.1177/0019...
December 31, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Interesting article by @aritassinari.bsky.social and colleagues show that labor unions can be incorporated into the dominant coalitions even in peripheral, export led growth model. Contradicts the the assumption that labor is irrelevant in contemporary economies.
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Putting wage growth back on the table: Labour incorporation, political exchange, and wage-boosting policies in advanced peripheral economies - Assaf Shlomo Bondy, Erez Maggor, Arianna Tassinari, 2024
Growth model scholarship posits that wage-led growth has become increasingly difficult to achieve in advanced capitalist economies since the demise of Fordism. ...
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December 14, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Today Christian Ibsen and I presented some preliminary research on free riders on the Danish labour market at FAOS' yearly meeting with the social partners. Well functioning social dialouge relies on a solid foundation of knowledge, and we are happy to contribute. @faos-dk.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 6:50 PM