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STATE REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT
RELATIONS
Richard HymanLondon School of Economics
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OVERVIEW
• (how) is the state an industrial relations ‘actor’ ?
• Britain : the eclipse of ‘collective laissez-faire’
• the strange death of the ‘social market economy’
• the EU and the deconstruction of employment rights
• what is to be done ?
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(HOW) IS THE STATE AN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
‘ACTOR’ ?• state ≠ government
a complex of institutions, of political-economic functions, or an arena of contest...
• regulation : ‘control by rule’ versus ‘governance’
• contradictory functions : accumulation, pacification, legitimation
• paradox of ‘deregulation’ based on strong state reconfiguring the role of the state in
industrial relations
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BRITAIN : THE ECLIPSE OF ‘COLLECTIVE LAISSEZ-
FAIRE’• ‘collective laissez-faire’ : always a
myth ?• consolidating state capacity for
‘deregulation’ :abolishing MoL / DE and politicising the
state apparatus
• from bias towards collectivism to individualisation and coercive pacification• supply-side economics
the rediscovery of managerial prerogative
from decommodification to recommodification
• but : state intervention reconfigured, not abolished
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THE STRANGE DEATH OF THE ‘SOCIAL MARKET
ECONOMY’• ‘stakeholder’ capitalism and the (partial)
decommodification of labour• where do employment rights come
from ?contingent historical balance of forces :
rights achieved as negotiated accommodation, and/or concession to dampen protest
• institutionalisation of rights : but meaning constantly reconstructed and renegotiated
• ‘re-forming capitalism’ : supranational challenges to national regulatory systems, incremental recommodification of labour : (re)inventing the liberal market economy
• crisis, austerity and the erosion of ‘social partnership’
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THE EU : DECONSTRUCTING EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS
• the dominant ‘common market’ project : constructing Eurocapitalism initially moderated by a ‘social dimension’
• the growing hegemony of the ‘market mindset’ competitiveness, entrepreneurship, flexibilitysocial and employment policy as subsidiary
element of neoliberal economic policy• 4 freedoms and ECJ
enforced negative integration• ‘new economic governance’ and the Troika
attacks on employment protection and collective regulation
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE ?
• need for both material and ideational responses
• in and against the state• international solidarity