ASOK15407U Globalisation, international crisis and employment relations in Europe
MA Theory and Themes (MSc Curriculum 2015)
Course package (MSc Curriculum 2015):Welfare, inequality and mobility and Knowledge, organisation and politics
MA thematic course (MSc Curriculum 2005)
Specialiseringslinje: Organisation, ledelse og arbejdsmarked.
BA-Undergraduates from foreign countries (exchange students) can sign up for this course.
The 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged period of extreme economic turmoil that has created multiple challenges to national systems in the areas of labour, employment, social protection and industrial relations. Were these challenges already present and resulting from the process of globalization or were they triggered by the global crisis? How the changes observed have been challenging institutions and policies in Europe? What were the national responses and the European policy response and what shifts have been observed? How trade unions and the emergent social movements have responded and what new challenges are they facing? The course focuses on globalisation and challenges in relation to labour markets and employment relations. The changes introduced by information technology, multinational companies, and world trade rules and new migrations are examined as crucial factors of globalisation, which might impact in labour relations and labour rights and challenge the traditional national- centred practices and strategies of social actors (namely employers organisations and trade unions), The course examines the impact of financial and economic crisis and austerity policies in European countries from a comparative perspective with focus on: labour law reforms and labour market flexibility; wage and working time flexibility arrangements, collective bargaining decentralization and employees participation; employment protection and ‘flexicurity’; and active labour market policies.
The course will examine supra national European policies and trends in relation to austerity and labour market reforms and their impact in member states labour market regulations. The course focus on how those trends are challenging previous patterns of employment relations in European countries taking into consideration the different varieties of capitalism and of employment regimes as well as the variety of industrial relations systems and welfare models. The course focus also on the strategies and responses of labour market actors, and bargaining processes, in European countries, at the local, sector national and supranational level, and to the role played by European supranational institutions in relation to those processes. In addition, the course addresses the emergence of social movements in Europe and their connection with trade unionism and their role in relation to labour and social rights.
TENTATIVE OUTLINE
The course consists of the following fourteen units.
Unit 1 – Overview of the course
Unit 2 – Defining Employment Relations
Unit 3 – Industrial Relations approaches
Unit 4 – Globalization and changing employment relations
Unit 5 – Employment relations: convergence or divergence
Unit 6 – Globalization and financial crisis
Unit 7 – International crisis and challenges to labour, welfare and
employment relations
Unit 8 – International crisis, polarization and divergence in EU
Unit 9 – EU responses to international crisis: welfare, labour
market and employment relations policies
Unit 10 –Reconfiguration of Employment regimes in Europe Unit
Unit 11- Trends in Nordic employment relations and social models
Unit 12- Strategic orientations of trade unionism and renewal
Unit 13- Trade unions and new challenges at the national and
supranational level
Unit 14- The emergence and the challenges of social movements
in Europe
The course aims to provide each student with knowledge of: scientific debates on globalization and international crisis and on their impact on employment relations in Europe; theories and research related with convergence and divergence of labour markets and employment relations systems; theories and research on trade unionism and social movements’ agendas and strategies. The course aims at provide each student with research skills in relation to the above mentioned topics and to enhance analytical competences At the end of the course the student should be able to:
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Curriculum is 800 pages (10 ECTS) and app. 700 pages (7,5 ECTS).
Requirement readings/syllabus will be distributed during the first session. The course readings related to each class will be available in Absalon.
Literatur (Reading and further reading)
Beck, U. 2000. The brave new World of Work, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Dabscheck B (1983) “Of Mountains and Routes Over Them: A
Survey of Theories of Industrial Relations”. Journal of Industrial
Relations, 25. Sage Publications.
Castells, M. 1996. “The informational economy and globalisation”
in Castells, Manuel: The rise of network society, Vol I. Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers: 93-115.
Castells, M. 1996. “The transformation of work and employment:
networkers, jobless and flextimers” in Castells, Manuel: The rise
of network society, Vol I, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers: 202-231.
Crouch, C. 2011. The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism. Polity
Press, Cambridge.
Daly, M. 2012 “Paradigms in EU social policy: a critical account of
Europe 2020” Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research,
19/01:273-284.
Donatella della Porta and M. Diani (2006), Social Movements: An
Introduction. Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
Dølvik J. D. 2008. "The Negotiated Nordic Labour Markets: From
Bust to Boom". Center for European Studies Working Paper Series
#162. 1- 44.
European Commission. 2013. Industrial Relations in Europe 2012.
Fadda, S. and Tridico, P. 2013. Financial Crises, Labour Markets
and Institutions, Routledge.
Gallie, Duncan.2013. Economic crisis, Quality of Work, and Social
Integration: the European experience. Oxford University Press.
Gumbrell-McCormick R and Hyman R. (2013) Trade unions in
Western Europe: Hard times, hard choices. Oxford University
Press
Hall, P. and Thelen K. 2009. Institutional change in varieties of
capitalism, Socio-Economic Review, 7 (1): 7-34.
Harvey, D . 2010.The Enigma of capital and the crisis of
capitalism. Oxford University Press.
Heyes, J. 2013. “Flexicurity in crisis: European labour market
policies in a time of austerity” European Journal of Industrial
Relations: 1-16.
Huiskamp, R. 1995: “Regulating the employment relationship: an
analytical framework”, in Ruysseveldt, J.V., Huiskamp, R. and
Hoof, J.V. (eds.): Comparative Industrial and Employment
Relations. London: Sage Publications: 16-36.
Hyman, Richard. 2002. Understanding European Trade Unionism:
Between Market, Class & Society, Sage, London.
Jensen, Carsten Strøby, 2008. “Theories of Industrial Relations -
Existing Paradigms and New Developments”. IREC Conference
2008. London.
Jesper D and Jørgen S M, 2008. "The Danish Model of Industrial
Relations: Erosion or Renewal?" Journal of Industrial Relations
50(3): 513-529.
Lallement, M. 2011." Europe and the economic crisis: forms of
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labour market adjustment and varieties of capitalism", Work
Employment Society, 25(4), Sage Publications: 627-641.
Lapavitsas, C. 2011. "Theorizing financialization", Work
Employment Society, 25(4), Sage Publications: 611–626.
Murray, G. (2010) “Framing Globalization and Work: A Research
Agenda”, Journal of Industrial Relations, February 2010, 52: 11-
25.
Natali, David and Vanhercke, Bart (2013) Social developments in
the European Union 2012, European Trade Union Institute
(ETUI)/European Social Observatory (OSE).
Pochet, P. and Degryse, C. (2013) “Monetary Union and the
stakes for democracy and social policy”, Transfer: European
Review of Labour and Research, 19/01:103-116.
Schäfer, A. and Streeck, W. 2013. Politics in the age of austerity.
Polity Press.
Schömann, I. 2014. Labour law reforms in Europe: adjusting
employment protection legislation for the worse?Working Paper
2014.02, ETUI (European Trade Union Institute), Brussels.
Svalund J et al (2013) “Stress testing the Nordic models:
Manufacturing labour adjustments during crisis”, European
Journal of Industrial Relations, September 2013 19: 183-200.
Traxler, F. 2003. “Bargaining, State regulation and the trajectories
of Industrial Relations”, European Journal of Industrial Relations,
Volume 9, Number 2, July. London: Sage Publications: 141-161.
Visser, J. 1996. “Traditions and transitions in industrial relations.
A European view”, in Ruysseveldt, J. V. and Visser, J.: Industrial
Relations in Europe - Traditions and Transitions. London: Sage
Publications: 1-41.
INDICATIVE WORKLOAD
The number of lecture hours are the same for both 7,5 and 10 ECTS courses
Lectures: 28
Course preparation: 60
Exercises: 46
Project work: 22
Exam Preparation: 50
Total: 206
10 ECTS:
Lectures: 28
Course preparation: 80
Exercises: 56
Project work: 45
Exam Preparation: 66
Total: 275
BA-Undergraduates from foreign countries (exchange students) can sign up for this course.
- Category
- Hours
- Course Preparation
- 60
- Exam Preparation
- 50
- Exercises
- 46
- Lectures
- 28
- Project work
- 22
- Total
- 206
Registration deadline for courses is June 1 for Autumn semester
and November 1 for Spring semester. Registration deadline for
Summer school is June 1.
When registered you will be signed up for exam. International
exchange students must sign up by filling in an application
form:
course registration. Meritstuderende:
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentIndividual/group. Free written take-home essays are assignments for which students define and formulate a problem within the parameters of the course and based on an individual exam syllabus. The free written take-home essay must be no longer than 15 pages. For group assignments, an extra 7,5 pages is added per additional student. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet.
- Exam registration requirements
Sociology students must be enrolled under MSc Curriculum 2015 to take this exam.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Internal examiners.
- Exam period
Submission dates and time will be available at KUnet, www.kunet.dk. Exchange students and danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology; http://www.soc.ku.dk/english/education/exams/ and http://www.soc.ku.dk/uddannelser/meritstuderende/eksamen/
Criteria for exam assesment
See couse learning outcome
- Credit
- 10 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentIndividual/group. Free written take-home essays are assignments for which students define and formulate a problem within the parameters of the course and based on an individual exam syllabus. The free written take-home essay must be no longer than 15 pages. For group assignments, an extra 7,5 pages is added per additional student. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet.
- Exam registration requirements
Sociology students must be enrolled under MSc Curriculum 2005 to take this exam.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Internal examiners.
- Exam period
Submission dates and time will be available at KUnet, www.kunet.dk. Exchange students and danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology; http://www.soc.ku.dk/english/education/exams/ and http://www.soc.ku.dk/uddannelser/meritstuderende/eksamen/
Criteria for exam assesment
See course learning outcome
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- ASOK15407U
- Credit
- See exam description
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- See timetable
- Continuing and further education
- Price
- Study board
- Department of Sociology, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Sociology
Course responsibles
- Tine Skou Sørensen (3-7c7b73487b69756e36737d366c73)