E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Thursday, 2 July 2015

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


E-01
Inequality, Democracy and the Firm
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Isabelle Ferreras, University of Louvain/FNRS; Sanjay Pinto, Cornell Worker Institute

Participants:
Employee ownership in Britain
Andrew Pendleton, University of Durham; Andrew Robinson, University of Leeds
Comparing Worker Ownership and Control Across Countries
Isabelle Ferreras, University of Louvain/FNRS; Sanjay Pinto, Cornell Worker Institute

E-02
Strategies for Trade Union Renewal and Union Democracy
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
The Workers United? Preference Formation of European-Level Trade Union Organizations on the Freedom of Services
Martin Seeliger, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Ines Wagner, University of Duisburg-Essen
Conglomerate Unions and Union Democracy
Adrien Thomas, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


E-03
Labour Migration within the European Union - Freedom of Labour or Economic Outsourcing?
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Bettina Wagner, Humboldt University; Anke Hassel, Hertie School of Governance

Participants:
Instituting Cheap Labour in High Cost Countries - the Case of the German Meat Industry
Bettina Wagner, Humboldt University; Anke Hassel, Hertie School of Governance
From Labour Migration to Labour Mobility? the Spectre of the Multinational Worker in Europe
Rutvica Andrijasevic, University of Bristol; Devi Sacchetto, Università degli Studi di Padova
The Europeanisation of Labour Markets in Germany and the Netherlands
Ines Wagner, University of Duisburg-Essen; Lisa Berntsen, University of Tilburg
Social Upgrading Trajectories of Apparel Workers in Romania: Europeanization, Fast-Fashion and the Crisis
Cornelia Staritz, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE); Leonhard Plank, Vienna University of Technology, Department of Spatial Planning, Centre of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy

E-04
Determinants and Effects of Union Membership
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Centralization of Decision-Making and Local Democratic Representation: Case Study Evidence
Saraï Sapulete, Tilburg University School of Economics and Management; Wolfram Brehmer, WSI Hans Böckler Stiftung; Adelheid Hege, IRES; Marcus Kahmann, IRES; Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Tilburg University School of Economics and Management
Union Politics in the Segmented Workplace
Hyunji Kwon, Seoul National University; Byung-hoon Lee, Chung-Ang University; Sukbum Hong, Chung-ang University

E-05
Labour Migration and Union Responses
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Collective Bargaining in the Shadow of Labour Migration – the Case of Danish Construction
Søren Kaj Andersen, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen; Jens Arnholtz, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
Labour Market Integration of Eastern and Central European Migrants
Jonas Felbo-Kolding, University of Copenhagen

2:15 PM-3:45 PM


E-06
Neoliberalism, Institutional Change, and the Fate of Egalitarian Capitalism
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Organized Decentralisation. Institutional Fragmentation in Australian Industrial Relations 1983-2012.
Richard Cooney, Monash University; Russell Lansbury, University of Sydney
Social Democracy and Alternatives to Capitalism in Sweden and Britain, 1969-83
Shannon Ikebe, University of California, Berkeley
The Nordic Labour Markets – Still on the High-Road to Egalitarian Capitalism?
Bjarke Refslund, Aalborg Univeristy; Ole H. Sorensen, Aalborg University; Stine Rasmussen, Aalborg University

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


E-07
Labour Mobility and Industrial Citizenship in Europe: Results from Migrant Centered Research Projects
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Discussant: Miguel Martinez Lucio, N/A
Session Organizer: Nathan Lillie, University of Jyväskylä

Participants:
Labour market dynamics and migrants as “good citizens” in Finland
Laura Mankki, University of Jyväskylä; Markku Sippola, University of Jyväskylä
Being the Good Worker: What It Means for Albanian Labour Migrants to be Successful in the Italian Host Society
Erka Caro, University of Jyväskylä; Sonila Danaj, University of Jyväskylä

E-08
Worker Involvement, Workplace Partnerships and Superannuation
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Searching for Rigour in Workplace Case Studies: Trends, Practices and Gender Differences
Patrick McGovern, London School of Economics & Political Science; Diego Alburez Gutierrez, London School of Economics & Political Science
What Makes Labor-Management Cooperation Work? a Comparative Analysis of Workplace Partnership in Germany, the Netherlands, and France
Martin Behrens, WSI Hans Böckler Stiftung; Saraï Sapulete, Tilburg University School of Economics and Management; Marcus Kahmann, IRES; Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Tilburg University School of Economics and Management; Adelheid Hege, IRES; Wolfram Brehmer, WSI Hans Böckler Stiftung

Friday, 3 July 2015

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


E-09
Trade Unions and Inequality: Taking Stock of Two Decades of Analyses and Reflections. a Seminar for Twenty Years of Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Discussants: Roland Erne, University College Dublin; Maarten Keune, University of Amsterdam; Roberto Pedersini, Università degli Studi di Milano
Session Organizers: Maria Jepsen, European Trade Union Institute; Roberto Pedersini, Università degli Studi di Milano

Participants:
The Challenges of Modernisation: Towards a New Paradigm for Trade Unions in Europe
Ulrich Mückenberger, Hamburg University; Cornelia Stroh, Bremen University; Rainer Zoll, Bremen University
Trade Unions and Interest Representation in the Context of Globalisation
Richard Hyman, The London School of Economics and Political Science

E-10
Author Meets Critics: "Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us" by John Hills (Policy Press 2015)
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Critics: Colin Crouch, University of Warwick; Jonathan Hopkin, London School of Economics; Stewart Lansley, University of Bristol
Book Author: John Hills, London School of Economics
Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


E-11
Political Economy of Inequality
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Labor Market Reform and Wage Inequality in South Korea
Hyeon-Kyeong Kim, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs; Peter Skott, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Inequality: An Industrial Relations Perspective
Isabel da Costa, CNRS-IDHES, ENS de Cachan

E-12
Author Meets Critics: "Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe" by Colin Crouch (Edward Elgar Pub 2015)
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Critics: Dorothee Bohle, Central European University; Vivien Schmidt, Boston University; Roland Erne, University College Dublin
Book Author: Colin Crouch, University of Warwick
Session Organizers: Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex; Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva

2:15 PM-3:45 PM


E-13
Organizing Work and Workers
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Manufacturing in Europe, 1995-2010: Reconfiguring Interests and Institutions
Amy Erbe Healy, NUI Maynooth; Sean O Riain, Maynooth University
The Spatial Politics of Work
Victoria Hattam, New School for Social Research

E-14
State Intervention and Public Policy
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Contemporary Industrial Policy in North America – Navigating Economic Transition
Dan Herman, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Fiscal Policy, Wealth and Income Distribution
Nora Claudia Ampudia, Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara
Innovation Contests and the Role of Public Agencies in the USA
Isabelle Liotard, CEPN university of Paris 13; Valerie Revest, TRIANGLE

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


E-15
The Crisis and Employment Relations
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:

E-16
Labor Market Institutions, Wages and Employment
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
"Sixty Five Years of National Minimum Wage: Assessing the French Experience"
Jerome Gautie, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Does Labour Law Increase Youth and Total Unemployment? Analysis of a New Dataset for 31 Countries
Prabirjit Sarkar, Jadavpur University; Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge

E-17
Employee Involvement, Employee Downsizing, and Employment in Small Firms
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Equal amongst Unequals: Comparing the Employee share ownership experience in the UK and Korea
Sukanya Sen Gupta, University of London; Yeong Joon Yoon, Cornell University
Corporate Restructuring in Hard Times: Institutions and Interests in the Implementation of Employee Downsizing Measures in Germany (2008-2013)
Michel Goyer, University of Birmingham; Shabneez Bhankaraully, University of Birmingham; Ian Clark, university of Leicester

Saturday, 4 July 2015

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


E-18
Precarious Employment and Work Intensification
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Lives in Suspense – the Realities and Hopes of Posted Workers in the
Jens Arnholtz, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen; Astrid Stampe Knippel, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

E-19
Rethinking Production, Labor, and Innovation
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Experimental Institution Building: The Transnational Multi-Actor Governance Response to the Rana Plaza Disaster
Jimmy Donaghey, University of Warwick; Juliane Reinecke, University of Warwick

E-20
Atypical Work and Precarity
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Lifting the Floor Rights of Atypical Workers – the Role of Social Partners and Sectoral Bargaining
Trine Pernille Larsen, University of Copenhagen; Mikkel Mailand, University of Copenhagen

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


E-22
Wage Restraint: Virtue or Vice?
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Why Do Discredited Destabilizing Policies Persist? the Twin Follies of Wage Restraint and Punitive Welfare Reform
Charles Umney, University of Leeds; Ian Greer, Cornell University; Ozlem Onaran, University of Greenwich; Graham Symon, University of Greenwich
Why Has the Social Dialogue Broken Down in Poland?
Jan Czarzasty, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH); Juliusz Gardawski, Warsaw School of Economics
Rising Debt or Inequality As Drivers of Aggregate Demand?
Engelbert Stockhammer, Kingston University London; Rafael Wildauer, Kingston University London

E-23
Political Economy of Redistribution
E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Session Organizers: Lucio Baccaro, University of Geneva; Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex

Participants:
Ministerial Discretion and Redistribution in Parliamentary Democracies
Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex; Lee Savage, King's College London