State Regulation of Employment Relations - Key Insights
The state's role in industrial relations, this content delves into Britain's transition from laissez-faire to reconfigured state intervention, the impact on employment rights, and the EU's influence on labor policies.
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STATE REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS Richard Hyman London School of Economics
OVERVIEW (how) is the state an industrial relations actor ? Britain : the eclipse of collective laissez-faire the strange death of the social market economy the EU and the deconstruction of employment rights what is to be done ?
(HOW) IS THE STATE AN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACTOR ? state government a complex of institutions, of political-economic functions, or an arena of contest... regulation : control by rule versus governance contradictory functions : accumulation, pacification, legitimation paradox of deregulation based on strong state reconfiguring the role of the state in industrial relations
BRITAIN : THE ECLIPSE OF COLLECTIVE LAISSEZ-FAIRE collective laissez-faire : always a myth ? consolidating state capacity for deregulation : abolishing MoL / DE and politicising the state apparatus from bias towards collectivism to individualisation and coercive pacification supply-side economics the rediscovery of managerial prerogative from decommodification to recommodification but : state intervention reconfigured, not abolished
THE STRANGE DEATH OF THE SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY stakeholder capitalism and the (partial) decommodification of labour where do employment rights come from ? contingent historical balance of forces : rights achieved as negotiated accommodation, and/or concession to dampen protest institutionalisation of rights : but meaning constantly reconstructed and renegotiated re-forming capitalism : supranational challenges to national regulatory systems, incremental recommodification of labour : (re)inventing the liberal market economy crisis, austerity and the erosion of social partnership
THE EU : DECONSTRUCTING EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS the dominant common market project : constructing Eurocapitalism initially moderated by a social dimension the growing hegemony of the market mindset competitiveness, entrepreneurship, flexibility social and employment policy as subsidiary element of neoliberal economic policy 4 freedoms and ECJ enforced negative integration new economic governance and the Troika attacks on employment protection and collective regulation
WHAT IS TO BE DONE ? need for both material and ideational responses in and against the state international solidarity
