Pierre-Edouard Weill & Pierre-Guillaume Prigent: The Journalistic Coverage of Posted Workers. From Diplomatic Affairs to Daily Local News. [Abstract]

The posting of workers is a labour mobility practice at the heart of public debates on the Europeanisation of labour markets and social security systems. Our paper questions the media representation of these issues, focusing on the transformations of posted workers’ journalistic coverage in France since the early 1990s. The mix-method research design combines qualitative and quantitative data analysis in order to understand how and why the media framing of posted workers fluctuates between international diplomacy, national politics, and local economic issues. In addition to examining the characteristics of the press outlet, we also consider the politicisation cycles of this multi-level government issue. We finally discuss these findings implications for future research on journalistic coverage of EU construction and policy feedback resulting from variations in media framing, or for the analysis of large press corpus.

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