HRMT20029: International Employment Relations
Compare and contrast the role that the state plays in the system of employment relations in France with the role that the state plays in the system of employment relations in Denmark. (40 marks)
Word Length: 2500-3000 words
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Reference List:
Employment relations in France
Bryson, A, Forth, J & Laroche, P 2011, ‘Evolution or revolution? The impact of unions on workplace performance in Britain and France’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 171–187.
Damesin, R & Denis, J 2005, ‘SUD trade unions: the new organisations trying to conquer the French trade union scene’, Capital & Class, 86, pp. 17–37.
Gumbrell-McCormick, R & Hyman, R 2006, ‘Embedded collectivism? Workplace representation in France and Germany’, Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 473-491.
Laroche, P 2016, ‘Employment relations in France’, in GJ Bamber, RD Lansbury, N Wailes & CF Wright (eds), International and comparative employment relations: National regulation, global changes, 6th edn, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest.
Mehaut, P 2005, ‘Reforming the training system in France’, Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 303–317.
Milner, S 2012, ‘Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 219-234.
Milner, S & Mathers, A 2013, ‘Membership, influence and voice: a discussion of trade union renewal in the French context’, Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 122-138.
Rose, M & Pineau, E 2016, ‘Protests force French labour reform retreat’, Australian Financial Review, 16 March, p. 9.
Rose, M & Melander, I 2016, ‘French leaders ram through labour reform’, Australian Financial Review, 12 May, p. 12.
Rosemain, M & Viscusi, G 2015, ‘Daimler tries to kill French 35-hour law’, Australian Financial Review, 14 August, p. 30.
Tapia, M & Turner, L 2013, ‘Union campaigns as countermovements: mobilizing immigrant workers in France and the United Kingdom’ British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 601-622.
Thomas, A 2016, “The transnational circulation of the ‘organizing model’ and its reception in Germany and France”, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 317-333.
Watson, G 2017, ‘Can labour law reform be made popular?’, Australian Financial Review, 29 June, p. 43.
Employment relations in Denmark
Auer, P 2010, ‘What’s in a name?: The rise (and fall?) of flexicurity’, Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 371-386.
Burroni, L & Keune, M 2011, ‘Flexicurity: A conceptual critique’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 75–91.
Due, J, & Madsen, JS 2008, ‘The Danish model of industrial relations: Erosion or renewal?’, Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 513-529.
Gooderham, PN, Navrbjerg, SE, Olsen, KM & Steen, CR 2015, ‘The labor market regimes of Denmark and Norway – one Nordic model?’, Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 166-186.
Hansen, NW & Mailand, M 2013, ‘Public service employment relations in an era of austerity: The case of Denmark’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 375–389.
Hassel, A 2009, ‘Policies and politics in social pacts in Europe’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 7-26.
Ibsen, CL 2016, ‘The role of mediation institutions in Sweden and Denmark after centralized bargaining’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 285-310.
Ibsen, CL 2016, ‘Making sense of employer collectivism – The case of Danish wage bargaining under recession’, Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 669–687.
Ibsen, F, Høgedahl, L & Scheuer, S 2013, ‘Free riders: the rise of alternative unionism in Denmark’, Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 44, no. 5-6, pp. 444-461.
Ilsoe, A 2012, ‘The flip side of organized decentralization: company-level bargaining in Denmark’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 760-781.
Ilsoe, A 2016, ‘From living wage to living hours – the Nordic version of the working poor’, Labour and Industry, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 40-57.
Madsen, JS, Due, J & Andersen, SK 2016, ‘Employment relations in Denmark’, in GJ Bamber, RD Lansbury, N Wailes & CF Wright (eds), International and comparative employment relations: National regulation, global changes, 6th edn, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest.
Mailand, M 2010, ‘The common European flexicurity principles: How a fragile consensus was reached’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 241-257.
Trampusch, C 2010, ‘Co-evolution of skills and welfare in coordinated market economies?: A comparative historical analysis of Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 197-220.
Wagner, I & Refslund, B 2016, ‘Understanding the diverging trajectories of slaughterhouse work in Denmark and Germany: A power resource approach’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 335-351.