标题：Labour relations at the transition from Fordism to Postfordism, or : why are an increasing number of "foreign foreigners" employed in the Swiss hotel and catering industry today?
摘要：In the present paper, we discuss a key factor in the
entrepreneurial and regional capacity of innovation
and competitiveness. By basing our arguments on regulation theory, we consider changes in domestic and foreign wage relations and their regulation as an expression and a reflection of flexible accumulation. In doing
so, the dominant discussion of a labour market orientated
towards innovation and competitiveness is given
a critical dimension that focuses on the winners of the
modernisation process as well as on possible losers of
the flexibilisation.
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We analyse the trend by using the hotel and catering
industry as an example of an industry which assumes
a pioneering role as far as the flexibilisation of the
labour market is concerned. The Swiss example represents
a national «development path», which is greatly
challenged by the new conditions of competitiveness,
giving rise to a strong call for a reduction in barriers
that stand in the way of flexibilisation.
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The empirical discussion is the result of qualitative
interviews. It shows that the changes are characterised
firstly by an increasing diversity of labour relations
and secondly by an accenluated lower ethnic stratification of the labour market. Thirdly, the increasing
diversity and the ethnic stratification are projected on
the regulative level. Fourthly, the analysis leads to an
expanded notion of regulation, which not only focuses
on the conflict line between capital and labour, but
also on the conflict line between ethnicities or nationalities (the dual regulation System). Finally, as a coexistence
of Fordist and Postfordist labour relations is
apparent, the impact of regulation theory is erilieally
examined.
