Analysis of the relations between capital, labor and state in European countries and in Europe. The historical-sociological approach offers theoretical and methodological tools for the study of labor regulation and the role of collective actors. Involving students in empirical research on national and international databases, updates knowledge of countries “adopted” by students (countries they
are interested in) and compares countries with different models of labor regulation
Colin Crouch (1996) Relazioni industriali nella storia politica europea, Roma: Ediesse; ed. or. Colin Crouch (1993) Industrial Relations and European State Traditions, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Lucio Baccaro and Chris Howell (2017) Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation. European Industrial Relations Since the 1970s, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Learning Objectives
The course offers theoretical and methodological tools for the comparative analysis
of the main models of labor regulation present within different European countries and at a supra national level, in particular at the European level.
From the theoretical and historical-sociological perspective, the course sets the models of labor regulation within the long-standing tradition of the institutional assets of different countries, and promote a good knowledge of the main interpretative approaches offered by the international literature in the field of Economic Sociology and Sociology of Labor. This knowledge refers in particular to the role played by the social collective actors representing capital, labor and the state, who are involved in labor regulation; to rational choice and game theory; to the characters of socio-economic and productive systems in which labor regulation is embedded. The competencies that students will acquire are related to the ability to find and use databases and documents offered by the main national and international institutions, to the comparative analysis, to the production of oral and written presentations.
Prerequisites
Previous knowledge in the field of Sociology of Labor is recommended
Teaching Methods
Lectures, individual research, presentations of individual research in the classroom and collective discussions
Type of Assessment
Students attending the Course are required to present an individual paper (about 20 pages) For non attending students: oral discussion on the texts proposed.