Restructuring processes and the social regulation of work Peter Totterdill UK Work Organisation...

Restructuring processes and the social regulation of work

Peter Totterdill

UK Work Organisation Network

Europe’s advantage?

High Road or Low Road?

• competitiveness

• work organisation

• working life

High Road or Low Road?

• a tool for analysis

• focusing the roles of policy makers, social partners and other actors

More and better jobs?

• tensions in the European policy arena

• first more then better?

More and better jobs?

• promoting innovation through talent

• the ageing workforce

• healthy working

• disaffection

• employability

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?

Is there a High Road?

• overcapacity

• experience of other sectors

Is there a High Road?

• sustaining the knowledge base

• building innovative capacity and diversification in supply chains

• skills for employability

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