Thursday 7 February 2013

Work and Employment Relations in a Globalized World: The Emerging Texture of Transnational Labour Regulation

an article by Ludger Pries (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) and Martin Seeliger (Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany) published in Global Labour Journal Volume 4 Issue 1 (2013)

Abstract

While globalizstion has led to what can – with reference to Karl Polanyi – be referred to as a dis-embedding of the labour market from its nationally segmented settings, recent decades bring about a development identifiable as a ‘countermovement’.

As the text shows, drawing on the example of European Works Councils and International Framework Agreements, this process of ‘re-embedding’ takes place through a network of different measures of labour regulation.

It is for this reason that establishing a relational perspective on cross-border phenomena in the field of labour relations can count as a central future aim in this strand of research.

Full text (PDF 24pp)


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