JUEVES  26  ABRIL

THURSDAY 26 APRIL

15h-17h:  SESION PLENARIA / PLENARY SESSION

EL GOBIERNO DEL EMPLEO Y DE LAS CONDICIONES DE EMPLEO EN EUROPA: ENTRE LO ECONOMICO Y LO SOCIAL

THE GOVERNANCE OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN EUROPE: SPANNING ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

Apertura de la Conferencia / Opening of the Conference:

Rosario Otegui (Decana de la Facultad de CC. Políticas y Sociología. UCM ) y Julio Fernández (Director de la Escuela de Relaciones Laborales. UCM)

Presentación de los ponentes / Introduction remarks by:  Joaquín Aparicio(Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

Ponentes / Speakers
Richard Hyman  (Industrial Relations Department, LSE. London):	“Flexible rigidities: a model for social Europe?”
Andrés Bilbao (Universidad Complutense de Madrid):	“The governance of employment: social and economic perspective”
Antonio Baylos (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha):	“Globalización y Derecho del trabajo en Europa”
Michel  Lallement  (GRIOT-CNAM, París):	“Globalisation: an overview”
17h-17h30: Pausa café / Coffee break
17h30-18h30: Reunión de IREC / IREC Business Meeting

 

VIERNES 27 ABRIL

FRIDAY 27 APRIL

9h30-13h:  GRUPOS DE TRABAJO 1, 2, 3  /  WORKSHOPS 1, 2, 3

10h45-11h15: Pausa café / Coffee Break

 

Grupo  de Trabajo 1 / Workshop 1:

GLOBALIZACION ECONOMICA, COMPETITIVIDAD Y EL GOBIERNO DEL EMPLEO Y DE LAS CONDICIONES DE EMPLEO: EL NIVEL EUROPEO

ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION, COMPETITIVENESS AND GOVERNANCE OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS: EUROPEAN LEVEL

Lugar / Location:  Aula  Escalonada / Room “Escalonada”

Presidente / Chair:  Udo  Rehfeldt (IRES. France)

Relator / Rapporteur:  Holm Detlev Köhler (Universidad de Oviedo)

Comunicaciones / Papers: Workshop 1 REPORT

Ponentes / Speakers
Isabel da Costa (Centre dÉtudes de lÉmploi Le Descartes I, Cedex, France)	“Economic globalisation and Industrial Relationsin Europe: Lesson from a comparison between France and Spain”
Colin Gill (University of Cambridge) & N.S. Ghosheh Jr (International Labour Office. Geneva)	“Transfer of Undertakings Directive: The history of an EU social policy directive”
Peter Kerckhofs(European Trade Union Institute):	“European Works Council Dynamics: A cornerstone for European Industrial Relations”
Guglielmo Meardi(Industrial Relations Research Unit, Univ. of  Warwick. U.K.)	“Did Stalin provide the Trojan horse for theAmericanisation of Europe? EU enlargement and industrial relations: The Polish case”
Kevin P. O’Kelly(European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin)	“Collective agreements on competitiveness andemployment in the European Union”
Miriam Quintana(Warwick Business School, Univ. of Warwick. U.K.)	“Transnational information and consultation in a rapidly internationalising banking sector: A critique of the europeanisation framework”
Rachel Silvera (University of Paris)	“The gender mainstreaming strategy into European countries: An analisys of the impact of this conceptand its effect on Industrial Relations”

 

Grupo  de Trabajo 2, 3 / Workshops 2, 3:

GLOBALIZACION ECONOMICA, COMPETITIVIDAD Y EL GOBIERNO DEL EMPLEO Y DE LAS CONDICIONES DE EMPLEO: EL NIVEL NACIONAL, REGIONAL Y LOCAL

ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION, COMPETITIVENESS AND GOVERNANCE OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS: NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL  LEVELS

 

Lugar / Location: Aula  3  / Room  3

Presidente / Chair:  Diane Gabrielle Tremblay (Université du Québec)

Relator / Rapporteur:  Luis Ortiz (Universidad de Salamanca)

Comunicaciones / Papers:

Ponentes / Speakers
Ignasi Brunet & Inma Pastor  (Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona. Spain)	“Employability and the European Union. The local dimension: The Case of Reus”
Maria da Paz Campos  (Dinâmia/Iscte. Portugal)	“The concertation issues in Portugal and the dynamics of social pacts in Europe”
Maria Caprile (Fundació Cirem. Centre d’Iniciatives i Recerques. Europees a la Mediterrània. Barcelona. Spain)	“Will there be a governance for the quality of work and working life in Spain? Ambiguities from applied research”
Wilfried Kruse (Fundació Cirem. Social Research Centre Dortmund. Barcelona. Spain)	“Compact social structure of obstacles to worker’s participation: Indications from Germany to the European debate”
Jens Lind  (Aalborg University. Denmark)	“How flexible is the Danish labour market?”
Andreu Lope, Frances Gibert & Daniel Ortiz de Villacian  (Grup d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana  i el Treball. Departament de Sociología. Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Spain)	“From the local regulation of the new forms of employment and work to the workplace: a difficult path in Catalonia”
Chris Rees  (School of HRM Kingston University) & Guy Vernon  (SKOPE. Oxford University)	“Transnational capital and the end of national social settlements?: Recent developments in Sweden”
Michael Wortmann (FAST e. V. Berlin.)	”External Growth and limited Globalisation of MNCS – Implications for national competitiveness and labour”

13h30-14h30      COMIDA / LUNCH

Lugar/Location:  HOTEL EMPERADOR.  c/  Gran Vía, 53. MADRID

Sala/Room:        Compostela II

 

Una presentación práctica del Observatorio Europeo  se llevará a cabo en la Escuela de Relaciones Laborales por representantes  de la Fundación para la mejora de las condiciones de Vida y Trabajo.

A practical presentation of the European Observatory will be provided in Escuela  Relaciones Laborales  by representatives of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

 

15h-18.30h:  GRUPOS DE TRABAJO 4, 5, 6  /  WORKSHOPS 4, 5, 6

16h30-17h: Pausa café / Coffee Break

 

Grupo  de Trabajo 4 / Workshop 4:

GLOBALIZACION ECONOMICA, COMPETITIVIDAD Y EL GOBIERNO DEL EMPLEO Y DE LAS CONDICIONES DE EMPLEO: EL NIVEL SECTORIAL

ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION, COMPETITIVENESS AND GOVERNANCE OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS: SECTORIAL LEVEL

Lugar / Location: Aula  7  / Room  7

Presidente / Chair:  Kevin P. O´Kelly (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin)

Relator / Rapporteur: Rachel Silvera (ISERES. París.)

Comunicaciones / Papers: Workshop 4 REPORT

Ponentes / Speakers
Angel Belzunegui & Virginia Jones (Area de Sociología. Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona. Spain)	“Teleoperators: The new slavery of information society”
Andy Danford, Martin Upchurch & Mike Richardson  (Employment Studies Research Unit. Bristol Business School. University of the West of England. Bristol)	“Organisational restructuring and the fracturing of collectivism in the UK aerospace industry: The prospects for trade union renewal”
David Jacobs  (Kogod School of Business American University. Washington, D.C.)	“Internet Unionism”
Sokratis M. Koniordos(Department of Political Science Aristotelian. University of Thessaloniki. Greece):	“Informal Power Structures in Labour Relations: Employer-control strategies in Greek small enterprises”
Raúl Lorente Campos(Departament de Sociología y Unitat d’Investigació ECOLAB: Economía i Política Laboral. Universitat de Valencia. Spain)	“Working conditions and job characteristics on two growing activities: Telemarketing and fast-food sector”
Martín Upchurch, Andy Danford & Mike Richardson (Employment Studies Research Unit. Bristol Business School. University of the West of England. Bristol, U.K.)	“Corporate turbulence and union resilience: Workplace examples from the UK manufacturing sector”

 

 

Grupo  de Trabajo 5 / Workshop 5:

GLOBALIZACION ECONOMICA, COMPETITIVIDAD Y EL GOBIERNO DEL EMPLEO Y DE LAS CONDICIONES DE EMPLEO: EL NIVEL DE LA EMPRESA

ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION, COMPETITIVENESS AND GOVERNANCE OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS: COMPANY LEVEL

Lugar / Location: Aula  2   / Room  2

Presidente / Chair:  Wilfried Kruse (Fundació Cirem. Barcelona)

Relator / Rapporteur: Albert Recio (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)

Comunicaciones / Papers:

Ponentes / Speakers
Jan Druker & Cecilia Stanworth   (University of Greenwich Business School. London)	“Representing agency Temps? Attitudes to work-based problems and interest representation amongst agency temps in the UK”
Miguel Angel García Calavia  (Departament de Sociología i Antropología Social. Univesitat de València. Spain)	"The practices of flexible employment in the subsection of trade in United Kingdom and Spain”
Isaac Jauli  (ERL, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) yEnrique Reig (Universidad de las Américas. Puebla. México)	"Global behaviour as an order conception inside working groups”
Aline Hoffmann, Mark Hall, Paul Marginson & Torsten Müller (Industrial Relations Research Unit. University of Warwick, U.K.)	“The interaction between European works councils and industrial relations at national level: A case study comparison of US-and UK-Based Multinationals”
John Stirling  (Division of Government & Politics. Univ. of Northumbria. U.K.)  & Ian Fitzgerald  (Northern Economic Research Unit. Univ. of Northumbria. U.K.)	“European works councils on the periphery? A case  study of a Global Economic Outpost”
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, David Rolland & Eduardo Davel (Telé université, Université du Quebec)	"Team-based work organization and the devolution of responsability to employees: results of a survey conducted in quebec"

 

Grupo  de Trabajo 6 / Workshop 6: 

GLOBALIZACION ECONOMICA, COMPETITIVIDAD Y EL GOBIERNO DEL EMPLEO Y DE LAS CONDICIONES DE EMPLEO: NEGOCIACION COLECTIVA

ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION, COMPETITIVENESS AND GOVERNANCE OF EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS: COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Lugar / Location: Aula  3   / Room 3

Presidente / Chair: Antonio Martín Artiles (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona)

Relator / Rapporteur: Sofía Perez de Guzmán Padrón (Universidad de Cádiz)

Comunicaciones / Papers: Workshop 6 REPORT

Ponentes / Speakers
Alex Bryson  (Principal Research Fellow. Policy Studies Institute. London)	“Union effects on managerial and employee perceptions of employee relations in Britain”
Jon Erik Dolvik  (Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research. Oslo)	“Globalisation, regionalisation and national labour market institutions”
Holm-Detlev Köhler (Dep. of Sociology. University of Oviedo. Spain)	“Collective Bargaining in International FirmNetworks: Trends and challenges in the carindustry”
Paulo Marques, Luís Poças & Leonor Pires  (Dinâmia/Iscte. Portugal)	“The regulation of working time in Portugal: Between state regulation, Collective bargaining and entrepreneurial unilateralism”
Luis Ortiz Gervasi  (Dpto. de Sociología y Comunicación. Facultad de CC. Sociales. Univ. de Salamanca.Spain)	The development of a the automobile sector in the Autonomous Region of Madrid: The birth and evolution of a modern system of IndustrialRelations”
Pierre Walthéry  (Institut des Sciences du Travail. Univ. Catholique de Louvain. Belgique):	Employment-Related collective bargaining: Extension or dilution of Industrial Relations”
David Wilkinson  (Policy Studies Institute. London. U.K.)	“Collective bargaining and workplace financial performance in Britain”

 

SABADO 28  ABRIL

SATURDAY 28 APRIL

9h30-13h: SESION PLENARIA / PLENARY SESSION

GOBIERNO DEL EMPLEO, COMPETITIVIDAD Y COHESION SOCIAL: POLITICAS DEL PRESENTE, POLITICAS DEL FUTURO

GOVERNANCE OF EMPLOYMENT, COMPETITIVENESS AND SOCIAL COHESION: POLICIES OF THE PRESENT, POLICIES OF THE FUTURE  

 PRESIDENTE / CHAIR: Richard Hyman (LSE. London. U.K.)

9h30-10h45:     INFORME DE LOS GRUPOS DE TRABAJO / REPORTS FROM  WORKSHOPS

10h45-11h15:  Pausa café / Coffee break

11h  15-13h:      MESA REDONDA / ROUND TABLE
PRESIDENTE / CHAIR:	Richard Hyman  (L.S.E. London. U.K.)
Mateo Alaluf (Institut du Travail. Université Libre de Bruxelles):	“Employment against social cohesión”
Faustino Miguélez(Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) y Carlos Prieto(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)	“Employment crisis and social cohesion”
Marino Regini (University of Milan):	“Which priorities for European labour market and social policies facing globalisation?”
Stavroula Demetriades (European Foundation for the Improvement of Livingand Working Conditions Representative)
Emmanuel Julien (UNICE Representative)
Emmanuel Mermet (ETUC Representative)