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2020/2021

Globalisation and the European Social Model

Code: 44033 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
4313228 Social Policy, Employment and Welfare OB 0 1
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Oscar Molina Romo
Email:
Oscar.Molina@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)

Other comments on languages

The classes will be in Spanish

Teachers

Antonio Martín Artiles
Pau Miret Gamundi

Prerequisites

Studies in Social Science

Objectives and Contextualisation

Comparative Sutdies on Welfare and Industrial Relations

Competences

  • Aplicar l'enfocament de gčnere a l'anŕlisi de la relació entre mercat laboral, cures i desigualtats socials.
  • Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously
  • Design, implement and evaluate social and labour policies affecting the relationship between work, employment and welfare.
  • Design, implement and evaluate social policies and processes for resource redistribution and improvement of citizens' welfare, in different contexts and from a European perspective.
  • Recognise the main economic, political, social and cultural transformations of complex societies in order to analyse the fundamental challenges they pose to equality and welfare.
  • Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  • Use and manage bibliography and IT resources in the field of study.
  • Work individually and in multidisciplinary, international teams.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse labour reform and reforms to the European welfare system.
  2. Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
  3. Design social policies to respond to inequality risk in the different welfare regimes.
  4. Formulate and evaluate social and labour policies from a European perspective.
  5. Identify and analyse European systems of welfare and labour relations and their transformations.
  6. Identify the gender inequalities seen in the different labour relations models in Europe.
  7. Identify the gender inequalities seen in the various welfare régimes in Europe.
  8. Identify the main economic, social and work-related elements of the European Social Model and their transformations.
  9. Suggest new lines of work to add to existing knowledge on the question.
  10. Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  11. Use and manage bibliography and IT resources in the field of study.
  12. Work individually and in multidisciplinary, international teams.

Content

The objective of the module is to study and analyze the changes registered in the European social model. Study the construction process of the European Union. Study the relationships between systems of labor relations and welfare systems.

Organization of the course: The module consists of two parts:

a) European Social Model: Reforms of labor relations systems and welfare systems.

b) Family and Welfare State.

 

Part A. European Social Model: Corporatist Systems and Welfare Statutes
 
Session 1. Concept European social model
Session 2. MSE and process of economic and political integration.
Session 3. Model of Comparative Welfare and Labor Relations.
Session 4. Active Social Status: Principles and reforms
Session 5. Crisis and social model of low cost in the South of Europe.
Session 6. Crisis and labor reforms: social pacts and collective bargaining.
Session 7. Welfare sustainability. The role of immigration
Session 8. Job mobility and free movement of workers.
 
 Part B. Family and Status of Welfare
 
Session 1: Family changes: the new role of women, parental styles and the use of time.
Session 2: Families and economic welfare: evolution and sociodemographic profiles of child poverty. Their individual consequences and social costs.
Session 3: Family and subjective well-being (I). Intergenerational transmission of inequality, children's health and educational success
Session 4: Family and subjective well-being (II). Health and care.
Session 5. The protection of families in welfare regiments: the specificity of the Spanish case
Session 6. Family protection policies (I). the resources and economic benefits.
Session 7: Family protection policies (II). Time resources
Session 8. Family protection policies (III). Services.

Methodology

See spanish version

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Role playing 20 0.8
Scientific article 80 3.2

Assessment

See Spanish version

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Role playing 20% 50 2 1, 3, 4, 8, 5, 6, 7, 9, 2, 10, 12, 11

Bibliography

See Spanish version

During the course we will provide specific information on bibliography