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Beyond informality: effectiveness of a new actor for representing call centre workers in T urkey
Author(s) -
Tartanoğlu Şafak
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/irj.12108
Subject(s) - call centre , representation (politics) , context (archaeology) , dynamics (music) , trade union , business , public relations , political science , sociology , labour economics , economics , law , politics , paleontology , pedagogy , biology
Abstract This article explores the organisational dynamics of the ‘Association of Call Centre Workers’ and aims to discover the effectiveness and sustainability of it as a new actor for representing the interests of call centre workers in T urkey. While traditional trade unions have fundamental problems such as efficacy and representation of various worker groups in changing workplaces, in the T urkish context, they have additional difficulties based on structural and legal constraints. Call centre workers seldom utilise the formal representation channels because of these and some other individual reasons such as a lack of information about their rights and labour movements. Moving from the importance of analysing the informal worker organisational dynamics in the case of a new trade union for call centre workers, the emphasis of the research is on the ability of the Association to develop a form of resistance and representation for the previously unrepresented.