Restructuring processes and the social regulation of work

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Restructuring processes and the social regulation
of work

• Peter Totterdill
• UK Work Organisation Network

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Europes advantage?
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High Road or Low Road?

• competitiveness
• work organisation
• working life

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High Road or Low Road?

• a tool for analysis
• focusing the roles of policy makers, social
  partners and other actors

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More and better jobs?

• tensions in the European policy arena
• first more then better?

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More and better jobs?

• promoting innovation through talent
• the ageing workforce
• healthy working
• disaffection
• employability

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Restructuring in the European automotive industry

• setting regions and unions against each other?
• a threat to the European Social Model?
• what role for European Works Councils?
• locking New Member States into the Low Road?
• sustainability?

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Is there a High Road?

• overcapacity
• experience of other sectors

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Is there a High Road?

• sustaining the knowledge base
• building innovative capacity and diversification
  in supply chains
• skills for employability

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Towards a Strategy?

• defining the High Road
• deepening social dialogue
• change management
• work organisation
• regional economic development
• Early Warning System
• regional development coalitions
• new policy approaches