Naslov
Trust of the Young People in Croatia in the Trade Unions: Some Empirical Insights

Autori
Jeknić, Ranka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, prošireni sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts ; 3rd International Scientific Conference „Legal Tradition and New Legal Challenges“ / Drakić, Gordana ; Jovanov, Ilija ; Arsenijević, Danijela - Novi Sad : Faculty of Law, Publishing Centre 2021 (Novi Sad, Futura) ;, 2021, 27-28

ISBN
978-86-7774-244-7

Skup
3rd International Scientific Conference Legal Tradition and New Legal Challenges

Mjesto i datum
Novi Sad, Srbija, 28.09.2021. - 29.09.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
trust, trade unions, youth in Croatia, legal literacy, political literacy.

Sažetak
The topic of the trust that citizens express in the institutions and organizations of that society occupies an important place in sociological theories and research during the last few decades. Whether these theories analyze trust as an important dimension of civic culture (Almond and Verba), as an essential dimension of social and cultural capital (Putnam), as a characteristic of late modernity (Giddens), as a characteristic of the "cultures of trust, or cultures of distrust" (Sztompka) etc., what they all have in common is emphasizing and analyzing the phenomenon of trust as important for the functioning and development of society and democratic systems, for participation in the political processes of representative democracies, development of civic culture (political and legal culture), solidarity, cooperation, tolerance, etc. In this regard, this paper focuses on the analysis of the degree of trust that Croatian citizens express in trade unions as collective worker's organizations and civil society organizations, but with special emphasis on young people in Croatia. Namely, starting from the review and analysis of the results on the level of trust of young people in trade unions collected within some of the scientific research about youth in Croatia, the aim of this paper is to analyze and emphasize the results of three recent research about legal and political literacy of youth, from which we will emphasize data on the trust that young people express towards trade unions, on the knowledge of collective labour rights as well as on the knowledge of trade unions and their activities. The first research is a survey on the perception of the students in Croatia about trade unions conducted during 2012 on a convenience sample of 620 final year students at 13 different faculties of the University of Zagreb (Vidović and Rimac, 2013). The collected data indicate a low level of knowledge of trade unions and their activities among university students who participated in the survey, as well as a low level of knowledge of how unions are organized, and what is their purpose (Vidović and Rimac, 2013). Besides, the results emphasize the existence of relatively negative perceptions of students about the role that trade unions play in Croatia, as well as relatively positive perceptions of students about the usefulness of trade unions (Vidović and Rimac, 2013). The second research is a survey about the knowledge of selected labour rights among vocational school graduates in Croatia (Jeknić and Čop, 2021). The survey was conducted during 2019 on a convenience sample of 1102 graduates from 54 vocational schools in Croatia, as a part of the EU - project “With Knowledge to Law” (UP.04.2.1.03.0013). The collected data indicate a low level of knowledge of selected collective labour rights among research participants, as well as a low level of knowledge of trade union activities (Jeknić and Čop, 2021). Besides, 62.9% of the research participants express low level of trust in trade unions in Croatia (37.5% of graduates have little trust in trade unions, while 25.4% have no trust at all) ; while 10.8% of the research participants express high level of trust in trade unions in Croatia (8.5% of graduates have a lot of trust in trade unions, while only 2.3% of them have very high trust in trade unions). The third research is a survey about political literacy, conducted during 2021 on a representative sample of 1122 high school graduates from 59 high schools in Croatia (Baketa, Bovan and Matić Bojić, 2021). Participants of this research are mostly unsure and undecided about their trust in trade unions (47.5% of graduates), while 19.6% do not trust trade unions at all, 19.7% mostly do not trust, 12.3% mostly trust, and only 1.0% fully trust trade unions (Baketa et al., 2021). Presented results are not comparable but analyzing them in the context of legal and political literacy of young people as an integral part of their civic competencies, and contemporary European debates on youth attitudes towards trade unions and the promotion of social interaction between trade unions and young people (Hodder and Vandaele, 2019), results of these studies may have application value in the development of curricula for civic education at different educational levels, as well as for the development and planning of trade union activities in Croatia, especially regarding the recruitment of new members. Given the decline in trade union density (from about 38% in 2000 to about 25% in 2016), and decline in collective bargaining coverage (from around 65% in 2000 to around 53% in 2016) (Bagić, 2019), recruitment of new members is one of the key challenges for the trade unions in Croatia.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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