Workers, Power and Society: Power Resource Theory in Contemporary Capitalism

The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capitalism. It provides a theoretical framework for studying, understanding, and explaining changes in the world of work and how that leads to changes in contemporary capitalist societies.

Jens Arnholtz is an Associate Professor at the Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS), Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. His research interests are in the field of employment relations, with a special focus on cross-border labour mobility, posting of workers, Europeanization of national labour markets and power resource theory.

Bjarke Refslund is associate professor in Sociology at Aalborg University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Aalborg University. His main research areas include industrial relations, labour migration and labour market sociology and he has been working on collectivism and unions, organising migrant workers, precarious employment, public regulation and Europeanisation of labour markets amongst others.