Goal of the investigation is to gain deep knowledge on the role of industrial relations in promoting and protecting employment and the quality of job in a changing labor markets due to the digitalization of work. The project starts from the assumption that industrial relations institutions are crucial to shape an inclusive transition toward good and fair digital work, based on good working condition and regulation. The purpose of InDIGIT project is to capture differences in treatment regarding working conditions and job quality as the effect of digitalization of work, in order to define a road map to a fair digitalization.
The aim is to draw on the one hand a general analysis of the phenomenon and on the other to provide tools for implement, improve and launch industrial relations practices, after analyzing the capacity of existing institutions in dealing with digitalization processes.
The innovative value of the InDIGIT project relies on its mix of high-level research and action, It will monitor the most recent changes in one of the key policy of the new European governance.
It will study the industrial relation content not only from a strict juridical point of view, as here and there it has been done, but also looking at the real practices of their impact/implementation.
Through a multi-disciplinary approach, the study will be oriented to search the co-relation between a collective bargaining machinery and some key micro-economic factors like productivity, competitiveness, quality.
The comparative report will evaluate the degree of the convergences and/or divergences among the analysed case studies.
InDIGIT will contribute to arise a higher level of awareness and expertise on the new perspectives of the Europeanization of the industrial relations. Through the workshops and conference, the action will generate a precious exchange of competences and cultures of industrial relations among social partners with different sectors background.
Last but not least, we assume that the great experience and knowledge of all the partners on the project subject, either as single institutes of research and as individual experts, can be a guarantee about the seriousness and competence of work we intend to realize.