Labour law and social policies: an agenda for transnational research. WP CSDLE “Massimo D’Antona”.INT – 128/2016

Treu, Tiziano (2016) Labour law and social policies: an agenda for transnational research. WP CSDLE “Massimo D’Antona”.INT – 128/2016. [Working Paper]

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Abstract

The great economic and social transformations driven by two main factors, globalization and technological innovations, have altered the very basis on which the labor law and welfare systems created in the past decades have been built. The national States are losing power in the global markets, the fordist large companies are changing structure, industrial unions and centralized collective agreements are weakened, stable subordinate employment, which was the central object of labour law, has given way to a variety of non- standards work arrangements, often informal and in many cases economically dependent even though formally autonomous. General factors, or mega trends, are altering the context in which we operate and our daily life develops: aging of population, climate changes, scarcity of resources. The turbulence of our times has increased the uncertainty of once stable societies. The responses of policy makers and also of experts and scholars to the challenges posed by these transformations are by and large inadequate. It is our responsibility not only as professionals but as citizens concerned, to intensify the efforts to understand the new questions and to look for solutions. The seriousness of the economic crisis and its dramatic consequences on the world of work are so evident that they do not leave room for hesitation or inertia.

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