Globalisation and the Role of Labour in Asia - CANCELLED

Faculty
Professor Frederic C. Deyo, Professor Teri Caraway, Associate Professor Daniel Fleming, Professor Laurids S. Lauridsen, Associate Professor Peter Lund-Thomsen, Project Researcher Lone Riisgaard, Associate Professor Peter Wad, Professor Edward Webster

Course Coordinator
Associate Professor Daniel Fleming (ISG/RUC) and Associate Professor Peter Wad (CBDS/CBS)

In preparation of the course the participants are requested to justify, in synopsis form, how the problem area of globalization and (Asian) labour is relevant for their PhD project. The synopsis must be at max. 1 normal page and are used as each participant’s introduction to the course. Furthermore each PhD Student must write a paper (max 10 normal pages) based on the PhD Project and related one way or the other to the key issues of the course.

Deadline for submissions: The synopsis must be submitted electronically no later than 11 August 2010 together with a short abstract (max 100 words) of the paper to be presented. The final paper deadline is 10 September 2010.

Beneath the industrial revolution in Asia lies the social issue of labour, but what is this issue about? How important is it for the domestic regional and global economy? How do international business and other agencies deal with it? And is it in fact dealt with in a proper way which will enable labour to be an integrated part of Asian societies in the future? For long Asian labour was seen as peripheral to Western labour and industrialization. Theories of the new international division of labour gave more impetus to labour but mainly as part of transnational corporations or capitalism in the West. Now, when Asian labour and working life with globalisation have a more important and defining role for development not only in Asia but the whole world, concepts and analyses of Asian labour should be more central in international business and development research. The 2008 global financial crisis underlines this research agenda.

The PhD course aims to address these issues and thereby questioning, validating and contextualising theories of international organisation and management on the one hand and theories of international development on the other hand in an era of globalisation.

The purpose of the PhD course is to bring speakers from different disciplines and analyses of Asian labour together to get an understanding of ongoing research in different fields: sociology, anthropology, labour history, industrial relations, human resource development, cross-cultural organisation, gender relations, corporate social responsibility etc. The focus will be on interdisciplinary research, differences in theories and methods analysing Asian labour.

The issues to be addressed are the following questions:

The PhD course is structured into five modules in order to address these questions and include inputs by participants’ workshop papers on Asian labour and employment issues (with tentative sub-questions and sub-issues).

The workshop aims training PhD students in identifying, analysing, explaining, coping with and rectifying labour issues which are part of the interaction between international business, national development policy and industrialisation processes in Asia. The workshop will address theoretical perspectives as well as empirical methods related to this field of inquiry and discuss their epistemological, ontological and methodological foundations.

Lecture plan

Time/period	Faculty	Title
11 Oct. 2010 09.30-11.00	Edward Webster	Key Note: Role of Labour in Global Economy – Theoretical Perspectives
11 Oct. 2010 11.15-12.30	Laurids S Lauridsen, Lone Riisgård and Peter Wad	Panel: Labour in particular Streams of theoretical Literature
11 Oct. 2010 13.30-15.00	Frederic C. Deyo	Key Note: Governing Asian Labour? Changing Labour Regimes in East Asia.
11 Oct. 2010 15.30-17.00	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	Theoretical issues of Research (Panel: PhD students)
11 Oct. 2010 Evening		Film
12 Oct. 2010 09.00-11.00	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	PhD projects: Presentations & Discussion
12 Oct. 2010 11.15-12.30	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	PhD projects: Presentations & Discussion
12 Oct. 2010 13.30-15.00	Peter Lund-Thomsen	Key Note: The Football Industry in Pakistan, India and China.
12 Oct. 2010 15.30-17.00	Daniel Fleming	International HRM and CSR in Asia
12 Oct. 2010 20.00-22.00	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	Labour regulation in practice (Panel: DA, LO,OECD NCP)
13 Oct. 2010 09.00-11.00	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	PhD projects: Presentations & Discussion
13 Oct. 2010 11.15-12.30	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	PhD projects: Presentations & Discussion
13 Oct. 2010 13.30-15.00	Peter Lund-Thomsen	Key Note: Researching Labour impact of Labour Standards
13 Oct. 2010 15.30-16.30	Peter Wad	Key Note: Researching Labour Agency
13 Oct. 2010 16.30-17.30	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	PhD Students on Research (Panel)
13 Oct. 2010 Evening		Social Gathering
14 Oct. 2010 09.00-11.00	Teri Caraway	Key Note: Emerging Systems of Labour Governance in Asia: Implications and impact?
14 Oct. 2010 11.15-12.30	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	PhD projects: Presentations & Discussion
14 Oct. 2010 13.30-15.00	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	Key Note Summary: Researching Asian Labour in Global Economy
14 Oct. 2010 15.30-17.00	Daniel Fleming and Peter Wad	Evaluation of PhD Course

Each PhD-student must present a paper based on the PhD project and related one way or the other to the key issues of the PhD workshop.

The role of the keynote speakers and other faculty is partly to present core ongoing research (theory, empirical studies, methodological reflections) and partly to facilitate discussions and counselling of PhD-students

Please send your application to Course Secretary Maja Dueholm ( md.ikl@cbs.dk) before 11 August 2010

Please note that the course is a residential course and will take place at Danhostel Copenhagen Amager