E: Industrial Relations and the Political Economy

Thursday, 2 July 2015

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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
Share capitalism: how helpful is it in giving workers a voice, and in combating problems in the workplace?
Alex Bryson, NIESR
The Curse of Bigness Revisited: Private Power, Public Goods, and Democracy in the New Gilded Age
K. Sabeel Rahman, Brooklyn Law School
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
Bringing Institutions Back in: Non-Market Social Institutions in a Transnational Context
Darragh Golden, University College Dublin
Trade Union Responses to a Marketized Hospital Sector: A Comparison of Germany and England
Jennie Auffenberg, University of Bremen
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:
“Are You a Union Member?”. Determinants and Trends of Subjective Union Membership in Italian Society (1972 - 2013)
Lorenzo Frangi, UQAM; Mauro Barisione, University of Milan
Organizing Workers in ‘Hybrid Systems': Comparing Trade Union Strategies in Austria, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands
Guy Mundlak, Tel-Aviv University
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
Malleable Minds? Unraveling the Causal Effect of Union Membership on Job and Political Attitudes
Sinisa Hadziabdic, University of Geneva
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:
Trade Unions, Race and Migration in the UK and France: The Tensions Around Class and Identity Politics
Heather Connolly, De Montfort University
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:
Is There Hope for Social Solidarity and Income Equality in Liberal Market Economies? an Analysis of Labour Market Divergence in Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Colm McLaughlin, University College Dublin; Chris F. Wright, University of Sydney
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
The Right Not to Have Rights: Posted Worker Acquiescence and the European Union Labour Rights
Nathan Lillie, 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:
Retirement Income and Alternative Investment Funds: The Australian Conundrum
Mark Westcott, University of Sydney
Paternalism in Post-Industrial Family Businesses: The New Consensual Qualities of Total Involvement
Zografia Bika, University of East Anglia
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

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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
The Renaissance of National Corporatism : Unintended Side-Effect of European Economic and Monetary Union or Calculated Response to the Absence of European Social Policy?
Philippe Schmitter, European University Institute

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:
The Role of Innovative Entrepreneurship in Reducing Social Inequality
Revaz Gvelesiani, Presenting Author
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
Interests and Interest Representation of White Collar Workers in the Ger-Man Manufacturing Sector. Opportunity Structures, Framing and Resources
Thomas Haipeter, University of Duisburg-Essen
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
Professionalization As a Consequence of State Form: The Political Economy of Skill Development and Professionalization in the United States and English Ambulance Services
Heather Autumn Elliott, University of Michigan

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:
Cross-Border Trade Union Action in Europe in Times of the Euro-Crisis: The Case of the European Days of Action
Julia Hofmann, JKU
Coordinated Wage-Setting and the Social Partnership Under EMU: A New Framework for Analysis and Results from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands
Ivan Frederick Dumka, University of Victoria
Could Collective Bargaining Reverse Labour's Falling Income Share and the Increasing Compensation-Productivity Gap?
Paul Christopher Lewis, University of Birmingham

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:
The Effect of International Mobility on Wage and Employment of Highly Skilled Employees
Nana Wesley Hansen, University of Copenhagen
Minimum Wage Trends during the Crisis: Wage Contours and Falling Real Wages
Damian Grimshaw, Manchester Business School
"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
Changing Industrial Relations? the Impact of Negotiated Employee Involvement in the European Company (SE)
Sophie Rosenbohm, Bielefeld 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
Labor Regulation in Small Firms: Lessons for Reconsidering the Traditional Paradigm of Employment/Industrial Relations
Ida Regalia, University of Milan

Saturday, 4 July 2015

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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
Extreme Working Hours in Western Europe and North America: A New Aspect of Polarization
Anna Sara Burger, Central European University
A Pilot Study of the Experience of Modern Working Life in Two Contrasting Occupations: Productivity Increase or Unsustainable Intensification of Work?
Michael Paul Bittman, University of New England
Precariat or Proletariat: The Changing Structure of Labour in Turkey
Miris Meryem Kurtulmus, MARMARA UNIVERSITY

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:
Knowledge, Production, Skill: A Political Taxonomy
Natasha Iskander, NYU
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the New Knowledge Economy: A New Orthodoxy?
Michael Piore, MIT
Recomposing the Sources of Value and Cost: Changing Relations Between Design and Production in Global Manufacturing Industries
Gary Herrigel, University of Chicago
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:
Nonstandard Work As a Counterbalance to Employment Institutional Change – the Case of Taiwan
Chih-Chieh Wang, University of Duisburg-Essen
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
Promoting Engagement Among ‘Precarious' Front-Line Hospitality Employees: A Varieties of Capitalism Approach
Michael Moran, National University of Ireland, Galway
The (paradoxical) Erosion of Industrial Citizenship. the Case of Germany
Oliver Nachtwey, TU Darmstadt

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
When and Why Was There Wage Restraint? Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, 1950–2010
Erik Bengtsson, University of Gothenburg
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:
Support for Redistribution and Immigration in Advanced Industrialised Societies
Gerda Hooijer, University of Oxford
Ministerial Discretion and Redistribution in Parliamentary Democracies
Sabina Avdagic, University of Sussex; Lee Savage, King's College London
The Political Economy of Inequality in Late-Industrialized Countries: Trajectories from Industrialization to Inequality
Inyoung Cho, University of Oxford
Equal Pay By Gender and By Nationality -- a Comparative Analysis of Switzerland's Unequal Equal Pay Policy Regimes Across Time
Roland Erne, University College Dublin; Natalie Imboden, UNIA