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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Sven Jochem
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Sociology, Politics & Economics
Displayed in timetable as:
Work & Society
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
On the one hand, work is associated with hardship, on the other hand, work is basically the process, with which we can create lasting things. This discrepancy is analysed with the perspective on individuals (psychology, medicine) as well as in perspective on the society (sociology, economics). In the political realm, this discrepancy has its ultimate place, as it is the goal of (democratic) politics to decide (for a specific community) where the border is between work and leisure, between “good” work and “bad” work, i.e. between work and hardship. (Democratic) Politics define the terms of work (and employment), and these terms are contested under the dynamics of (capitalist) markets, ongoing individualisation, economic and political Entgrenzung as well as rapid digitalisation.
The goal of the seminar is introduce into the many facets of work and politics by applying international comparisons. In the first part, we discuss normative theories of work and the relationship with (capitalist) markets and (democratic) politics (for example Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim). In the second part, we analyse empirically different patterns of work and hardship. On the one hand, we focus crucial actors (employers’ organisations, trade unions, multinational firms). We focus on the other hand important policies (partially applying a gender perspective): employment, unemployment, the regulation of working-time, wage policies, dynamics of the service economy, the dualization of labour markets, precarization). In the third part of the seminar, we critically discuss crucial challenges: increasing inequality, migration, digitalisation and the contested concept of basic income.
Educational objective:
To recognize and reflect the basics and challenges of academic writing, to recognize and reflect the basics and challenges of academic presentations, to recognize and reflect the pros and cons of different empirical methods, to compile, develop and systematically discuss contemporary contributions to the politics of labour in a comparative perspective und the constraints of individualization, digitalization and Entgrenzung.
Further information about the exams:
Active discussion in the seminar, presentation (no grade), several exercises (no grades), outline of the Hausarbeit (no grade, via e-mail), active discussion in the final colloquium, Hausarbeit (15 pages, due until 15.07.2019, graded; please send it as pdf to sven.jochem@uni-konstanz.de).
Mandatory literature:
Böhle, Fritz/Voß, G. Günther/Wachtler, Günther (Hrsg) 2018: Handbuch Arbeitssoziologie, Band 1 „Arbeit, Strukturen und Prozesse“, Band 2 „Akteure und Institutionen“, 2. Auflage Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Clasen, Jochen, 2011: Regulating the Risk of Unemployment. National Adoptions to post-industrial Labour Markets in Europe, Oxford: Oxford UP.
Deeming, Christopher et al. (eds.) 2018: Reframing Global Social Policy: Social Investment for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, Bristol: Policy Press.
[reframing global social policy: social investment for sustainable and inclusive growth] Hancké, Bob, 2013: Unions, Central Banks, and EMU. Labour Market Institutions and Monetary Integration in Europe, Oxford: Oxford UP.
Jensen, Carsten/Kersbergen, Kees van 2017: The Politics of Inequality, London: Palgrave.
Keller, Berndt, 2008: Einführung in die Arbeitspolitik. Arbeitsbeziehungen und Arbeitsmarkt in sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive, 7., völlig überarbeitete Auflage, München: Oldenbourg.
Wren, Anne (ed.) 2013: The Political Economy of the Service Transition, Oxford: Oxford UP.
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