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Seminar
SoSe 17: Economic crisis and European employment systems: North European blueprints, Southern and Eastern realities
Mihai Varga
Comments
Aim of this course is to cast sociological light on Europe’s economic crisis and familiarize students with the employment problems brought by the crisis and the approaches to address them. Theoretical insights come from work and economic sociology and comparative and international political economy. We explore together how various organizations – from the OECD to the EU and the World Bank – devised a range of plans and blueprints to tackle unemployment problems based on the experience of Northern countries; and then how these blueprints perform in the context of South and East European member countries of the European Union to address unemployment in general, but also labor market discrimination on gender grounds and youth unemployment.
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Suggested reading
Basisliteratur:
Lehndorff, S. (2012). A triumph of failed ideas. European Models of Capitalism in the Crisis. Brussels: ETUI.
Weishaupt, J. T. (2011). From the manpower revolution to the activation paradigm: explaining institutional continuity and change in an integrating Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Keune, M., & Serrano, A. (2014). Deconstructing flexicurity and developing alternative approaches: towards new concepts and approaches for employment and social policy London and New York: Routledge.
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14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2017-04-19 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-04-26 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-05-03 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-05-10 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-05-17 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-05-24 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-05-31 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-06-07 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-06-14 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-06-21 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-06-28 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-07-05 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-07-12 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2017-07-19 12:00 - 14:00