Mathieu Dupuis is Associate Professor of Labour Relations in the Department of Labour Relations at Laval University.

Ian Greer is Research Professor of Global Labor and Work and Director of the Ithaca Co-Lab at Cornell University.

Harry Katz is Director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution and Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at Cornell University.

Anja Kirsch is Professor of Gender, Governance and International Management at Free University Berlin.

Part I: Introduction

1. Workers and the Battery Electric Vehicle Transition - Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Harry Katz and Anja Kirsch

Part II: Bargaining over the Transition

2. Labor Movement Voices on Collective Bargaining – Angelo DiCaro, Thorsten Groeger, and Max Fazelli

3. Reinforcing the Status Quo or Sparking a New Industrial Order? The BEV Transition and Labor Market Dualism in Korea – Seongjae Cho and Dongwoo Park

4. Uneven and Unequal BEV Transitions: Cases From Benelux Car, Truck and Component Plants – Lynford Dor, Valeria Pulignano, Marco Hauptmeier and Yennef Vereycken

5. The Ecological Transition As ‘Green Restructuring’? Concession Bargaining in a French OEM 2013–2021 – Juan Sebastian Carbonell, Armanda Cetrulo and Angelo Moro

6. Transformation or Lock-In? How Automotive Suppliers and Trade Unions in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe Are Preparing for the Transformation to Electromobility – Martin Krzywdzinski, Patrik Gazo, Stefan Guga, Monika Martiskova and Tibor Mesz

7. The United States: Contradictions of an Unjust Transition – Evren Dincer, Ian Greer and Tobias Zimmermann

Part III: Workers, Skills, and Workplaces

8. Labor Movement Voices on Workplace Change – Bruno Dobrusin

9. Just Transition in Practice at an Automotive Supplier Plant in Germany – Jule Klink and Anja Kirsch

10. Green Transition and Chinese Investments: The Emergence of Hybrid Labor Regimes in the Hungarian Automotive Industry – Natasa Szabó

11. BEV Transition in the Making – Impacts on Workers and Engineers in the German Automotive Industry – Sabine Pfeiffer

12. The Transformation of the Auto Service Technicians in the Electric Vehicle Value Chain – Gregor Murray, Julie Hagan and Mathieu Dupuis

13. BEV Workforce Transitions: Skills Planning in a Context of Uncertainty in the Eastern Cape, South Africa – Heila Lotz Sisitka, Sam Van Heerdan, Presha Ramsarup and Wendy Poulton

Part IV: Industry Policy and Global Production Networks

14. Labor Movement Voices on Policy and Production – Will Tucker, Christian Christen and Georg Leutert

15. Power Resources and Union Strategies in the Transition to BEV: Evidence From Two Italian Suppliers – Laura Leonelli

16. Industrial Relations at the Lithium Mining in Chile – Lucas Cifuentes

17. Caught in the Low-End Ice Trap: Turkey’s Struggle for Direction in the Global Bev Transition – Evren Dincer

18. Government Policies Shaping Automotive Sector Restructuring in North America and the EU: A Labor-Centred Approach – Grzegorz Lechowski and Christian Pépin

19. Battery Production and Working Conditions in the Light of Competitive Europeanization and Global Production Networks – Stefanie Hürtgen

20. Just Transition? Regimes of Production and Skill Formation in the Chinese Electric Vehicle Industry – Boy Luethje and Siqi Luo

Part V: Conclusion

21. False Promises, Grim Realities – Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Harry Katz and Anja Kirsch