| Bemerkung |
Globalization is often seen as undermining labour regulations and standards. Nation-states in many cases are still viewed as the most effective mechanisms for maintaining and advancing labour standards and employment protections. Yet the rise of global labour markets, changes in transnational migration and the globalization of production through global value chains re-composes national labour markets and re-structures labour relations across borders. The aim of this course is to focus on how the transnational governance of labour is possible and to review what we know about how it is practiced. In doing so, we will underline the interactions between nation-states, international organizations, private actors and civil society in building transnational regulatory institutions. These aims place the topic of this course at the cutting edge of the transformation of sociological research and theories, from a discipline centered on specific national societies and their comparison, to a “sociology beyond societies” (Urry 1999). |
