Digital and Ecological Transformations in the Regulatory Environment of Labour Relations

拟议的研究项目探讨了数字和生态转型的相似性和差异-这通常也被称为“双重”或“孪生”转型-在核心工业部门的工作和工作条件的转变。特别注意的是，劳动关系的行为者解释这些变化的劳动政策方面的方式，并试图联合收割机与新形式的劳动法规。通过这种方式，劳动关系参与者塑造了数字和生态转型的监管环境，并为数字和生态技术应用中的工作和工作条件变化创造了合法性框架。因此，该研究项目追求三个中心研究目标。首先是调查数字和生态可持续技术如何在公司中实施，以及它们在多大程度上渗透到工作和工作条件中。这些变革如何影响劳动力，它们之间有哪些相互依存关系和矛盾？其次，将分析劳动关系中的行为者如何解释劳动政策方面可能的变化，以及他们如何在劳动政策话语中将其主题化。这涉及审查哪些劳动政策问题-如自动化和就业，监督，家庭办公室或敏捷工作-处于前台，如何进行讨论，是否会产生冲突，以及可能在此框架内谈判哪些劳动法规。最后，第三个研究目标侧重于行为者的行为能力问题。一方面，这种行动能力是以行为者可以支配的能力和资源为基础的，另一方面，它也与多层次劳资关系系统行动领域中的问题和难题的位置有关。在方法上，分析是基于公司和工作场所的案例研究，辅之以行业相关的游说和集体谈判过程的分析。这样，公司内外的行动领域都可以得到解决。在汽车行业、化工行业和钢铁行业中，选择了三个行业，其中数字化和生态化是重要的发展和挑战。分析的基础是专家访谈、小组访谈、实地访问和文件分析。

The proposed research project examines the similarities and differences of the digital and ecological transformations – which are often also referred to as "double" or "twin" transformations – in core industrial sectors as transformations of work and working conditions. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which labour relations actors interpret these changes in terms of labour policy and attempt to combine them with new forms of labour regulation. In this way, labour relations actors shape the regulatory environment for the digital and ecological transformation and create a legitimacy framework for changes in work and working conditions in the application of digital and ecological technologies. The research project thus pursues three central research goals. The first is to investigate how digital and ecologically sustainable technologies are implemented in companies and to what extent they permeate work and working conditions. How transformative do the transformations affect labour, and what interdependencies and contradictions can be identified between them? Secondly, it will be analysed how the actors in labour relations interpret possible changes in terms of labour policy, and how they thematise them in labour policy discourses. This involves examining which labour policy issues – like automation and employment, surveillance, home office or agile work – are in the foreground, how discourses on them are conducted, whether conflicts arise from them and which labour regulations are possibly negotiated within this framework. Finally, the third research objective focuses on the question of the actors' capacity to act. On the one hand, this ability to act is based on competences and resources the actors can dispose of, on the other hand it is also linked to the location of issues and problems in the fields of action of the multi-level system of industrial relations. Methodologically, the analysis is based on case studies in companies and workplaces, supplemented by analyses of industry-related processes of lobbying and collective bargaining. In this way, both the fields of action within and beyond the companies can be addressed. With the automotive industry, the chemical industry and the steel industry, three sectors were selected in which digitalisation and ecologisation are important developments and challenges. The analysis is based on a combination of expert interviews, group interviews, site visits and document analyses.