SBUS40070 Work and Employment in the Global Economy

Academic Year 2018/2019

In this module you will analyse employment relations in the context of the global economy of the 21st century. You will examine international and national employment relations systems; multinational management and trade union strategies and the role of consent and dissent in shaping the modern European workplace. You will study these areas in the context of the regulation of the contentious relationship between capital and labour at global, European, national and company-level. You will also analyse the concepts of globalisation, Europeanisation, and their interconnections in the context of changing employment relations. Finally you will compare the ongoing changes in work and employment in several European countries with the developments in the North America and Asia. This comparison will show you that all actors that are involved in employment relations - namely capital, labour and the state - face a variety of options and choices.