5. September 2019, 17:30–18:45
Venue: Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf Building 23.01, Lecture Hall 3D

Presentations

Functional equivalence of employment regimes under market pressure

Out-sourcing of public services in Italy and Denmark

Anna Mori is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social and Political Science, University of Milan. Fields of study: comparative employment relations, particularly within the public sector, and trade union strategies.

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Beyond ideology

Comparing confrontational union responses to restructuring in France
    

Ruth Reaney is an LSE Fellow in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Fields of study:  employment relations, trade unions, identity, institutional change.

Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme is a lecturer in employment relations at the Birmingham Business School

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Collectivity besides the company

Workers’ representation in the German film and television sector

Lisa Basten is a PhD candidate at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). Fields of study: Project based work, creative industries, workers’ participation

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Chair

Martin Behrens, Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Hans Böckler Foundation

6 September 2019, 13:30–14:30
Venue: Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf Building 23.01, Lecture Hall 3D

Presentations

Work, organisational shifts and ‘Uberisation’

Stefan Kirchner is professor for the Sociology of the Working Worlds’ Digitalization at the School VI Planning Building Environment, TU Berlin and the Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin. Fields of study: work, economy, digitalization.

Online digital platforms as Labour Market Intermediaries (LMIs)

Hans J. Pongratz is adjunct professor at the Department of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.  Fields of study: work and organization, self-employment, labour market intermediaries.

Chair

Marta Kahancová, Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI)

5 September 2019, 11:45–13:00
Venue: Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf Building 23.01, Lecture Hall 3D

Participants

Vertical and horizontal integration

A distinction that helps us understanding of the EU‘s new economic governance regime and transnational collective action

Roland Erne is professor of European Integration and Employment Relations at the University College Dublin

Maria Jepsen is director of the Research Department at the ETUI and chargé de cours at ULB. Fields of study : Gender, European Social Dimension

Chair

Daniel Seikel, Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Hans Böckler Foundation

Industrial relations in Germany from employers’ and trade unions’ perspective

Saturday, 7 September 2019, 11:00–12:30
Venue: Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf Building 23.01, Lecture Hall 3D

Participants

Christiane Benner, Vice President of the German Metalworkers’ Union IG Metall (Picture: IG Metall)

Christiane Benner has been the Vice President of the German Metalworkers’ Union IG Metall since 2015. In 2011 she was elected as a member of the Executive Committee. Her first work experience, after her vocational training, she gained at the mechanical engineering company Schenck. She then studied sociology at the University of Marburg, at the University in North Manchester (Indiana), at the Urban Life Center at the University of Chicago, and the University of Frankfurt/Main. Since 1997 she has been working in various capacities for the IG Metall. She is now responsible for the organizational development and HR as well as for the activities of the IG Metall in the ICT industry and in research and development, for gender issues and the IG Metall Youth. Her main focus is on the digitization of work. Christiane Benner has published on the topic of digitization, for example the book "Crowdworking - back to the future. Perspectives of Digital Work" in 2014.

Peter Clever, Member of the Executive Board of the Association of German Employers’ Confederations (BDA)  (Picture: BDA)

Peter Clever has been one of the three members of the Executive Board of the Association of German Employers’ Confederations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände, BDA) since November 2003, where he is responsible for Labour Market Policy, International Relations, European social policy and Education/Vocational Training. He studied economics, politics and sociology at the University of Cologne, and since 1979 became personal assistant of the former Minister of Labour Norbert Blüm. Between 1985 and 1998 he headed different departments in Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS). In the years 1994-1996 he was special adviser in the European Commission in Brussels. From 1998 to 2003 he was head of corporate communication for the Fundus Group Cologne/Berlin. After becoming a BDA board member from December 2003 to July 2019 he also was the speaker in the employer panel on the Federal Employment Agency’s Self-Government Board and its alternate Chairman. He is also a Member of the European Union’s Economic and Social Committee where he is Vice-President of the Employers’ Group.

Chair

• Hagen Lesch, German Economic Institute (IW)
• Thorsten Schulten, Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Hans Böckler Foundation