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Regulating the world of work: Policies, institutions, and outcomes Dr Jan Drahokoupil (jan.drahokoupil@fsv.cuni.cz) Workload: 8 ECTS credits (240 hours), Master level Classes: the Zoom platform (Meeting ID: 917 7459 0473, Passcode: 607055), Thursdays, 9.30-10.50, starting on 25 February 2021
Description The aim of this course is to understand the institutions and policies that regulate the world of work, the reasons why these have emerged, and to assess their effects in terms of the labour market outcomes and broader economic performance. It considers both the institutions of collective self-regulation (collective bargaining in particular) and the institutions and policies of state regulation (including the employment protection legislation, minimum wage, and state-organized institutions of insurance). The course also addresses the changing role of these institutions and policies in the context of current institutional and structural transformations. It thus considers the impact of globalization, technological change and that of the European integration, the role of the EMU in particular. Throughout the course, the issues are considered in a comparative perspective with the emphasis on the European and EU contexts.
This is a course in applied interdisciplinary social science, drawing eclectically on research in labour sociology, industrial relations, political economy, and labour economics. It draws, to a considerable extent, on research conducted by international policy institutions such as the OECD and the IMF. This serves to consider the evolution of thinking on labour market policies in these institutions and thus their advice to policy makers.
Structure of the course 1. Introduction 2. The employment relationship, collective representation, trade unions 3. Collective bargaining systems, variation, evolution 4. Collective bargaining: effects 5. State regulation and insurance 6. Varieties of capitalism, growth regimes 7. EMU and labour market institutions 8. Globalization 9. Automation, new forms of work 10. & 11. Case studies (students’ presentations of their projects)
Organization of work Eight regular sessions (80 minutes each) follow the introductory housekeeping meeting. A regular session includes a lecture and seminar discussion on the given topic, giving students access to relevant theories, research, and data. Required reading is prescribed for each regular session and the familiarity with its content is a prerequisite for participation in the seminar discussion. Recommended reading is suggested for each topic for those interested in going in more depth on the topic, or writing a research paper in that area. Weekly entries into class journal record and facilitate the learning process in this core part of the course. For required readings, hyperlinks to open access documents are provided below. Readings that are not publicly available can be downloaded from SIS.
Sessions 10 and 11 are dedicated to presentation of draft version of students’ research papers. These are longer sessions (2*80 minutes). Students present drafts of their research paper. These are discussed by the group. In this way, students get feedback to support final revisions of the paper.
Two research weeks are inserted before the presentation of research papers. See detailed schedule in a separate document (available in SIS).
The course is run fully online this year. We will use Zoom that allows participatory learning, including breakout sessions. To make the experience more human and to facilitate student participation, it is required that the students keep their camera on and make themselves visible to the rest of the group throughout the class. Students who find themselves in an environment that they deem incompatible with this requirement need to seek permission to switch off their camera (for each class). Requirements · Participation in weekly sessions is mandatory. · It is essential to get closely familiar with the required reading before attending the respective lecture. This allows students to take part in the in-class activities. · In any case, the student cannot get away without reading the required texts as they need to demonstrate their familiarity with the text in the weekly entries to their course journal. · Students need to send the up to date journals to the lecturer on the second day after the respective class by email. · Students who had to miss a class still need to prepare and submit a journal entry for that week. · Research papers are due on 30 June 2021. There will be no grace period for late papers. (Resubmission 1: 30 July 2021, resubmission 2: 10 September 2021.)
Journal The course journal includes a weekly reflection on the learning experience, relating the lecture material and the seminar discussion to the required reading. Each entry is expected to be a half page to one page long (single space, with some variation allowed). The students should reflect on what they have learned in the class and on the extent to which the information and claims in the lecture and in the in-class discussion complements or contradicts the information or claims in the required readings. The entry should conclude with a statement that summarizes a point of view of the student on the subject matter, or any of its aspects. Research paper/essay: A case study (about 2,000 words) The research paper applies insights learned in this course in a case study. The latter can focus on one country, or a sector in a country, or even one company. Some examples of topics: The evolution of the system of industrial relations in Romania: what type of industrial relations?; What was the role of the EU in shaping the workplace regulation and industrial relations in Slovakia?; What shaped the industrial relations in the automotive industry in Czechia? What explains the low gender pay gap in Belgium? Should we expect robots to kill jobs in Hungary? What are the effects of the fragmented employment protection system in Poland? The evolution of OECD thinking on collective bargaining, What regulation should apply to platform work? What are the challenges of worker organizing in Amazon?
There is no obligation to make a research in the field, or generate new data. The research paper can be based only on review of the literature. In any case, the students are strongly advised to consult their topics (must include a research question) with the lecturer well in advance.
The following criteria are applied when evaluating the papers. 1. Is there a clear research question and focus? (Please note that the use of question mark tends to be a good indicator.)
Evaluation · Journal 50% · Research paper (case study) 50% 1. Introduction This is a short housekeeping session. It is not expected that the students will have read the required reading before the class (but they are expected to catch up after the class). The journal entry should be merged with Week 2; the reading is complementary. Required reading Burawoy, Michael. Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism. Chicago London: The University of Chicago Press, 1982, Chapter 4 (Thirty years of making out).
Casse, Christelle (2019). Working at Amazon.com: from honeymoon to divorce. HesaMag #19, spring-summer 2019, pp. 49-51.
Grégoire, Denis (2017). Delivering for FoodTech: at your own risk. HesaMag #16, autumn-winter 2017, pp. 17-21. Recommended Burawoy, Michael. The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes under Capitalism and Socialism. London: Verso, 1985.
Vanhuysse, Pieter (2007):”Workers without Power: Agency, Legacies, and labour Decline in East European Varieties of Capitalism: Czech Sociological Review, vol. 43, No. 3: 305-337. 2. The employment relationship, collective representation, trade unions Required reading Burawoy, Michael, and János Lukács. The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary’s Road to Capitalism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992, Chapter 2.
Schmalz, S., Ludwig, C., & Webster, E. (2018). The Power Resources Approach: Developments and Challenges. Global Labour Journal, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v9i2.3569
Recommended *Bowles, Samuel, Richard Edwards, and Frank Roosevelt. Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, Chapter 12 (Wages and work).
MOOC: Trade Unions in Transformation: https://iversity.org/en/courses/trade-unions-in-transformation
Hyman, R. (2001). Understanding European trade unionism: Between market, class and society. Sage, Chapter 1.
Avdagic, Sabina (2005): „State-Labor Relations in East Central Europe: Explaining Variations in Union Effectiveness.“ Socio-Economic Review, 3 (1), 25-53. 3. Collective bargaining systems, variation, evolution Required reading Eurofound (2020), Industrial relations: Developments 2015–2019, Challenges and prospects in the EU series, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, Ch 3.
Müller, Torsten, Kurt Vandaele, & Jeremy Waddington (2019). Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame. Brussels: ETUI, Chs 1 & 30 (Introduction and Conclusion). Recommended *OECD (2019). Negotiating Our Way Up: Collective Bargaining in a Changing World of Work. Paris: OECD, Chapter 2.
Maier, Charles S. (1984): Preconditions for Corporatism. In: John H. Goldthorpe (ed.): Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism. Studies in the Political Economy of Western European Nations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 39-60. (FSS MU only)
Streeck, Wolfgang and Lane Kenworthy (2005): Theories and Practice of Neocorporatism. In Thomas Janoski et. al (eds.): The Handbook of Political Sociology. States, Civil Societies, and Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Baccaro L. and Howell C. (2017) Trajectories of neoliberal transformations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Torben Iversen (1996). Power, Flexibility and the Breakdown of Centralized Wage Bargaining. Denmark and Sweden in Comparative Perspective, Comparative Politics, 28 (4), pp. 399-436.
Iverson, Torben, Jonas Pontuson and David Soskice, Eds, (2000). Unions, Employers, and Central Banks: Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 4. Collective bargaining: effects Required reading Aidt, T. S., & Tzannatos, Z. (2008). Trade unions, collective bargaining and macroeconomic performance: a review. Industrial Relations Journal, 39(4), 258–295.
Baccaro L. and Howell C. (2017) Trajectories of neoliberal transformations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 10. Recommended *OECD (2019). Negotiating Our Way Up: Collective Bargaining in a Changing World of Work. Paris: OECD, Chapters 3 & 4.
*Boeri, Tito & J. C. van Ours (2013) Unions and collective bargaining. In The economics of imperfect labor markets. Second edition.
Secular stagnation and CB: https://on.ft.com/31HQ5X9; https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/07/25/the-covid-19-pandemic-is-forcing-a-rethink-in-macroeconomics 5. State regulation and insurance Discussion of the employment protection legislation, minimum wages, short-time work schemes. Required reading Rubery, Jill & Agnieszka Piasna (2017.) Labour market segmentation and deregulation of employment protection in the EU. In Piasna, Agnieszka, Martin Myant (2017). Myths of employment deregulation: how it neither creates jobs nor reduces labour market segmentation. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute.
Harasztosi, Peter, and Attila Lindner. “Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?” American Economic Review 109, no. 8 (August 2019): 2693–2727. Recommended *Piasna, Agnieszka, Martin Myant (2017). Myths of employment deregulation: how it neither creates jobs nor reduces labour market segmentation. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute.
*Heimberger, Philipp. “Does Employment Protection Affect Unemployment? A Meta-Analysis.” Oxford Economic Papers, November 28, 2020, gpaa037. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa037.
Avdagic, Sabina (2015). Does Deregulation Work? Reassessing the Unemployment Effects of Employment Protection. British Journal of Industrial Relations 53 (1): 6–26.
Drahokoupil, Jan (2016). “What Role Can Minimum Wages Play in Overcoming the Low-Wage Model in Central and Eastern Europe?” Working Paper. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute.
IMF (2016) Cross-country report on minimum wages. IMF Country Report, Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.
Autor, David H., Alan Manning, and Christopher L. Smith. “The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 58–99.
Doucouliagos, Hristos, and T. D. Stanley. “Publication Selection Bias in Minimum-Wage Research? A Meta-Regression Analysis.” British Journal of Industrial Relations 47, no. 2 (2009): 406–28.
Albinowski, Maciej & Piotr Lewandowski (2020). The heterogenous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland, IBS Working Paper. Warsaw: Institute of Structural Research.
6. Varieties of capitalism, growth regimes Required reading Anke Hassel, Bruno Palier, and Sonja Avlijaš. “The Pursuit of Growth. Growth Regimes, Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms in Advanced Capitalist Economies.” Stato e Mercato, no. 1 (2020): 41–77.
Nölke, Andreas, and Arjan Vliegenthart. “Enlarging the Varieties of Capitalism: The Emergence of Dependent Market Economies in East Central Europe.” World Politics 61 (2009): 670–702.
Recommended *Hall, Peter and Soskice, Torben (2001): Varieties of Capitalism. The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantages. Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-70
*Hassel, Anke, and Bruno Palier, eds. Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Iversen, Torben (2005): Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare. Chapter 2: A Brief Analytical History of Modern Welfare Production Regimes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-75.
Labor History Symposium on Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare, with contributions by Craig Phelan, Cathy Jo Martin, Herbert Kitschelt, John D. Stephens, David Soskice and a response by Torben Iversen. Labor History, Vol. 47, No. 3, August 2006, pp. 397–449 7. EMU and labour market institutions Required reading Rathgeb, Philip, and Arianna Tassinari. “How the Eurozone Disempowers Trade Unions: The Political Economy of Competitive Internal Devaluation.” Socio-Economic Review, no. mwaa021 (June 30, 2020).
Sandbu, Martin E. Europe’s Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015, Chapters 8, 11. Recommended Bob Hancke and Martin Rhodes (2005): “EMU and Labor Market Institutions in Europe: The Rise and Fall of National Social Pacts.” Work and Occupation 32:2, May 2005, pp. 196-228.
Rhodes, Martin and Maarten Keune: EMU and Welfare State adjustment in Central and Eastern Europe, in: Dyson, Kenneth (2006): Enlarging the Euro Area. External Empowerment and Domestic Transformation in East Central Europe.
Peter A. Hall and Robert J. Franzese: Mixed Signals: Central Bank Independence, Coordinated Wage Bargaining and European Monetary Union. International Organization, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp.
Rhodes, Martin (2001): The Political Economy of Social Pacts: Competitive Corporatism and European Welfare Reform. In: Pierson, Paul (ed.): The New Politics of the Welfare State. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 165-195.
Drahokoupil, Jan, and Martin Myant. “Labour’s Legal Resources after 2004: The Role of the European Union.” Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 21, no. 3 (2015). 8. Globalization Required reading Autor, David H., David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson. “The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade.” Annual Review of Economics 8, no. 1 (October 31, 2016): 205–40.
Du, Yang, Wojciech Hardy, Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, & Saier Wu (2019). Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data. IBS Working Paper. Warsaw: Institute of Structural Research. Recommended *OECD. OECD Employment Outlook 2017. OECD Employment Outlook. OECD, 2017, Chapter 3.
International Labor and Working Class History No 47, Spring 1995: Scholarly Controversy: Global Flows of Labor and Capital. Contributions by Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, Aristide Zolberg, Eric Hobsbawm, and Lourdes Beneria. Pp. 1-56
Silver, Beverly (2003): Forces of Labor. Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., pp. 1-122.
Freeman, Richard B (1995): Are your wages set in Beijing? The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 15-32.
Regini, Mario (2000): Between Deregulation and Social Pacts: The Responses of European Economies to Globalization. In: Politics and Society, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 5-33 9. Automation, new forms of work Required reading Dauth, Wolfgang, Sebastian Findeisen, Jens Südekum, and Nicole Wößner (2021). ‘The Adjustment of Labor Markets to Robots’. Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.
Schäfers, Kathrin, and Jochen Schroth. “Shaping Industry 4.0 on Workers’ Terms: IG Metall’s ‘Work+Innovation’ Project.” Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2020.
Recommended Autor, David H. “Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 29, no. 3 (August 2015): 3–30.
Acemoğlu, Daron, and Pascual Restrepo. “Robots and Jobs: Evidence from the US.” VoxEU.Org (blog), April 10, 2017. https://voxeu.org/article/robots-and-jobs-evidence-us.
Stanford, Jim. “The Resurgence of Gig Work: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives.” The Economic and Labour Relations Review 28, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 382–401.
Aloisi, Antonio, and Valerio De Stefano. “Regulation and the Future of Work: The Employment Relationship as an Innovation Facilitator.” International Labour Review 159, no. 1 (2020): 47–69.
Prassl, Jeremias. Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Prassl, Jeremias. “Collective Voice in the Platform Economy.” Brussels: European Trade Union Confederation, 2018.
Drahokoupil, Jan, ed. The Challenge of Digital Transformation in the Automotive Industry: Jobs, Upgrading and the Prospects for Development. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute, 2020.
Niebler, Valentin, and Annemarie Kern. “Organising YouTube: A Novel Case of Platform Worker Organising.” Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2020. 10. & 11. Case studies (students’ presentations of their projects) These are longer session (2*80 minutes each). Students present drafts of their research paper. These are discussed by the group. Students get feedback to support final revisions of the paper.
Recommended resources http://www.worker-participation.eu/ https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/
Poslední úprava: Drahokoupil Jan (25.02.2021)
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