Digital and Ecological Transformations in the Regulatory Environment of Labour Relations

拟议的研究项目考察了数字和生态转型的异同——这通常也被称为“双重”或“孪生”转型——在核心工业部门作为工作和工作条件的转型。特别注意劳工关系行为者如何解释劳工政策方面的这些变化，并试图将它们与新形式的劳工条例结合起来。通过这种方式，劳资关系行为体塑造了数字和生态转型的监管环境，并为应用数字和生态技术时工作和工作条件的变化创造了一个合法性框架。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。这些变革对劳动力的影响有多大？它们之间可以识别出哪些相互依赖和矛盾？其次，将分析劳动关系中的行为者如何解释劳动政策方面的可能变化，以及他们如何在劳动政策话语中将其主题化。这包括检查哪些劳工政策问题——如自动化和就业、监视、家庭办公室或敏捷工作——是最重要的，如何进行有关这些问题的讨论，是否由此产生冲突，以及哪些劳工法规可能在这个框架内进行谈判。最后，第三个研究目标关注行为人的行为能力问题。这种行动能力一方面是以行动者所能支配的能力和资源为基础的，另一方面也与工业关系多层次系统的行动领域中的问题和问题的位置有关。在方法上，该分析以公司和工作场所的案例研究为基础，辅以对与行业相关的游说和集体谈判过程的分析。通过这种方式，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，数字化和生态化是三个行业的重要发展和挑战。分析的基础是专家访谈、小组访谈、实地考察和文件分析。

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.