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The aim of this course is to advance students’ knowledge of labour markets through the study of theories, debates and advances in sociological (including social historical) research on industrial labour markets, and their contemporary post-industrial transformation. Labour markets are approached sociologically as historical constructions for coordinating the commodification and competitive exchange of labour power, and for organizing control over the transformation of labour power into labour effort within an organization of work. While drawing insights from the sociology of markets, labour markets differ from other markets in three main ways – in relation to systemic asymmetries between sellers and buyers of labour power, in the fictional character of the commodification of labour, and in the spatial and temporal differentiation of the exchange and transformation of labour. In the Winter Semester 2020/2021 the course is organized as a virtual seminar, with asynchronous and synchronous activities, using the UDE moodle platform and virtual meeting tools. All readings will be made available on moodle. Students who register for the course will be registered to the moodle course room. All participants will join in presenting readings throughout the semester, and will be required to submit short reaction papers prior to the seminar meetings. MA students will receive credit as part of their MA module requirements. PhD students will be required to write a research paper on a selected topic (15-20 pages, engaging with the state of recent research in the topic field). |
