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The Politics of Market Making and
Industrial Relations in Europe
June 30 - July 11 2003
Course directors:
Laszlo Bruszt, Central European University
Andras Toth, Centre of Comparative European Employment Studies
Resource persons:
Marino Regini, University of Milano
Otto Jacoby, Laboratorium Europe
Laszlo Neumann, Institute for Labor Research, Budapest
Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt
Sabina Avdagic, Max
Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany
Short biographies
Laszlo Bruszt
Associate Professor, Department of Political Sciences, Central European
University. A PhD in Sociology, his more recent studies focus on the interplay
between state building, institutional development and economic change.
His recent book, Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property
in Eastern Europe, with David Stark, Cambridge University Press, is a
comparative study of the opportunities and dilemmas posed by the simultaneous
extension of property rights and citizenship
rights. He has taught in the United States at the Notre Dame University,
at the New School for Social
Research and at Cornell University. He has been a research fellow at the
European University Institute (Florence) and a visiting fellow at the
Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, at the Budapest Collegium and at the Center
for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Andras Toth
Director of the Centre of Comparative European Employment Studies at the
Institute of Political Sciences, Budapest. Between 1996 and 1998 he worked
at the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels as senior research fellow.
His PH.D discussed the role of trade unions in strengthening the civil
society in the Hungarian context. He has written extensively on the impact
of foreign investment, use of modern management techniques and European
intergration on workers and trade unions in the Central and Eastern European
context. His latest publications include artciles in Jeremy Waddington
(ed)Globalisation and Patterns of Labour Resistance, Mansell, 1999 and
Reiner Hoffmann and Jeremy Waddington (eds)Trade Unions in Europe, Facing
Challanges and Searching for Solutions, ETUI, Brussels, 2000.
Otto Jacoby
Head of Laboratorium Europa, Independent research Institute for Industrial
Relations in Europe, has written extensively on transnational trade union
cooperation at European level and on the impact of EMU on national industrial
relations systems in the European Union. His recent publications include
German Industrial Relations under the Impact of Structural Change, Unification
and European Integration. HBS: Düsseldorf., 1995 (together with Hoffmann,
R.-Keller, B. and Weiss, M. (eds); A Common Currency Area - A Fragmented
Area for Wages? Graue Reihe Hans Bockler Stiftung 1996 together with Philippe
Pochet (eds); "Contours of a European Collective bargaining system
under EMU", Transfer, Vol.4 No. 2., Summer 1998 and „Transnational
trade union cooperation at global and European level" Transfer, Vol.
6. No. 1. Spring 2000
Wolfgang Streeck
Director of the Max-Planck-Institut Fur Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne,
since 1995, Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the Universitat zu Koln
since 1999 and Professor of Sociology and Industrial Relations at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988-95, member of the Berlin-Brandenburg
Academy of Sciences (since 1998); President of the Society for the Advancement
of Socio-Economics SASE (1998-1999). Author and editor of numerous books
including "Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence
and Diversity" (together with C. Crouch); Work Councils:
Consultation,
Representation and Cooperation in Industrial Relations" (together
with Joel Rogers); Governance in the European Union" (together with
G.Marks, F.W.Scharpf and Ph.C. Schmitter); Social Institutions and Economic
Performance: Studies of Industrial Relations in Advanced Capitalist Economies".
Sabina Avdagic
Currently, she is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. She obtained her PhD from
Central European University, Budapest in 2003. Her PhD "Shaping the Paths
to Labor Weakness: The Interplay of Political Strategies and Institutional
Structures in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe" discussed the
impact of distinct modes of state-labor relations on the evolution of national
tripartite institutions and the strength of organized labor in CEE. Her main
research interests are comparative industrial relations and labor politics,
dynamics and causes of institutional change, the politics of social pacting, and
comparative political economy of organized capitalism. Previously, she has been
a visiting fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, and
an International Policy Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies and Open Society
Institute.
Course objectives
The nineties were the decade of market making both in the Eastern and
the Western parts of Europe. Market making, both at the national level
and at the supra-national levels went hand in hand with a dramatic reshaping
of the political and social relations among key economic actors in both
parts of the continent and the consolidation of supranational (European)
actors. The aim of the course is to offer analytical tools to the study
of the nature of interlinkages between market making and industrial relations.
The course will identify the patterns and underlying causes of success
and failure in market making and its interlinkages to industrial relations.
Economic transformations undertaken in Eastern and Central Europe mostly
under the banner of 'Europeanization' have largely disregarded the role
industrial relations have played in the economic development and the evolution
of supra-national market integration in Western Europe. Better understanding
of the logic of the evolution of industrial relations in that part of
the continent might contribute to the better understanding of the social
and political regulations of markets and the specificity and the developmental
potentials of the European model of institutionalized or social capitalism.
Target audience
The course is primarily intended to assist young university lecturers,
assistant professors, advanced postgraduate students and other scholars
who are teaching or planning to teach such subjects at their home universities
and institutes. It seeks to engage faculty in the fields of political
science and sociology to develop courses on the politics of market making
and industrial relations and researchers of the political economy of market
making and economic transformation. It will equip the participants with
the analytical tools drawn from the fields of political economy and sociology
needed for the critical appraisal of the co-evolution of markets and industrial
relations.
Course level
The course will be offered at a good upper-intermediate level. Previous
exposure of the candidates to the political economy of economic transformations
and/or the general literature on industrial relations will be a distinct
advantage. In its core, the course is planned to be intelligible for all
participants with basic knowledge of political sociology and/or intermediate
political economics.
Course content
The course starts with a general introduction to the
relationship between economic development and the evolution of industrial
relations in Western Europe with a special focus on the divergent responses
of European economies to globalization and the building of the European
Single Market.
The first large segment of the course will deal
in more detail with the development of specific European national models
ranging from deregulation to social pacts with a specific focus on the
factors of divergence. It will discuss the two diametrically opposing
responses to globalization and supra-national market making: the further
decentralization of the British model and the transformation of the Italian
system of industrial relations towards multi-level bargaining and social
pacting. It will contrast the evolution of the German and the Swedish
model, the challenges to and the persistence of the major elements of
the German 'organized capitalism', and the demise of the Swedish social-democractic
model. Finally, it will discuss the political economy of social pacting,
drawing lessons from such widely differing cases as the transformation
of industrial relations in Netherlands and in Ireland.
The second segment of the course will be devoted
to the political economy of the supra-national development of industrial
relations in the EU. The evolution of the institutions of European social
dialogue, the Europeanisation of trade unions and business associations,
the creation of the European Work Councils and the emergence of sectoral
social dialog and the possibility towards cross-border collective bargaining
will be discussed in this block. Special attention will be given to the
political economy of the relationship between the European Monetary Union
and the characteristics of collective bargaining.
The third segment will discuss the relationship
between market making and the development of industrial relations in the
postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe. This bloc will offer a general
overview of the coevolution of markets and industrial relations in the
region, the major features of the developments at the level of firms,
sectors and nation states, and the role played by collective agreements
and social dialogue in these countries.
The closing segment of the course will summarize
the theoretical and political implications of the study of the co-evolution
of markets and industrial relations in Europe. This part of the course
will focus on the specific characteristics of European market making and
its impact both on the sustainability of different national models and
the prospects and problems of the internationalisation of industrial relations.
The course will end with a round-table discussion of these issues participated
by representatives of the European trade union movement and the European
Commission.
Non-discrimination policy: Central
European University does not discriminate on the basis of - including,
but not limited to - race, color, nation and ethnic origin, religion,
gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational policies,
scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered
programs.
