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The Regulation of Cross-Border Labor Mobility

Thursday, 14 July 2016: 10:45-12:15
Location: Hörsaal II (Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG))
RC02 Economy and Society (host committee)

Language: English

The European Union is a case of the purposive construction of a transnational labor market in a macro-regional context. Yet many of the new patterns of labor mobility, such as posting workers, cross-border recruitment and temporary agency placements are evident in other macro-regions of the world. Moreover, even in in the most advanced economies and the well-regulated European context, existing regulations have done little to address trafficking and forced labor migration. 
This session will focus on regulatory questions, such as the application of home and destination country labor standards, curbing the demand for forced labor, the equal treatment of cross-border labor in wages, social protections and work regulations. Given the strongly national character of trade unions and industrial relations institutions, the regulation of cross-border work often either remains unaddressed, or is posed primarily in terms of protecting domestic workers from unfair competition by foreign nationals.
In this session, the focus is on how nationally-based collective representatives develop the capacities for engaging in transnational regulation of labor conditions, and how transnational actors develop new regulatory mechanisms beyond the nation-state. A central question, building on insights gained from the literature on social movement collective representation of labor concerns how to move beyond the limits of traditional forms of regulating work to guarantee decent working standards and prohibit abusive working and living conditions for cross-border labor.
Session Organizer:
Karen SHIRE, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Posters:
37.1
Transnationalisation of Labour Mobility - Trends and Challenges for Its Regulation Ludger Pries
Ludger PRIES, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
37.2
Europeanisation By Under-Regulation? the Role of Brokering Agencies in the (Informal) Care Market Between Germany and Poland
Verena ROSSOW, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Germany; Simone LEIBER, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Germany
37.3
Transnationally Distributed Software-Engineering: Do Technological Standardization and Professional Homogenization Make Cultural Barriers Disappear?
Ingo SCHULZ-SCHAEFFER, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Matthias BOTTEL, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
37.4
Cross-Border Labour Commuting in the Central European Region: Emerging Patterns and Implications
Laura WIESBOCK, University of Vienna, Austria
37.5
Different Forms of Regulation and the Formalization of the Prostitution Sector
Birgit APITZSCH, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
37.6
Economic Crisis, Financialization and Debt Financing in South Korea
Kwang-Yeong SHIN, Department of sociology, Chung-Ang University, South Korea; Ju KONG, Department of Sociology, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
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