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