ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Campus Lugo
Areas: Labour Relations School
Center Labour Relations School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
The guidelines related to the plan of studies where it is placed the subject Social History and Labour Relations are assigned the function of basic knowledge of the society evolution and social movements from Industrial Revolution until nowadays. The formative character of the same issues its relation with the subjects of the plan both in the area of social (economy and sociology) and humanities and social sciences (law and psychology). The Social History and Labour Relations intends to show the genesis and evolution of the main social changes providing students with aptitude to explain the mutual relation among the political, social and economic context and each of the studied processes. The current labour relations, professional area of the future grades, are not but the result of a historical changeable context. It will be the social aspects of the historical evolution the ones who will prevail in the subject contents to achieve a better knowledge on the evolution of Labour Relations.
FORMATIVE MINIMAL CONTENTS OF THE SUBJECT:
Social, political and economic bases of the contemporary world
The regulatory agents of the labour markets through history
The liberal - capitalist system and its alternatives
Politician power. , culture, society and economy in the configuration of labour relations
Historical evolution of the ways of work, the production, the social conflict and social policies in the international and national area
PROGRAM OF THE SUBJECT
UNIT I. INEXISTANCE OF LEGAL REGULATION OF THE WORK (16th century to end of 18th century)
1.CRISIS OF THE ANCIEN RÉGIME: THE IDEOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND WORK CONTEXT
1.1. FEUDALISM
1.2. ABSOLUTISM AND ENLIGHTENED REFORMISM
1.3. STATES OF THE REALM
1.4. REGULATED ECONOMY AND THE OLD DEMOGRAPHIC MODEL
1.5. LABOR RELATIONS OF DEPENDENCY
UNIT II. LIBERALIZATION OF LABOR AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE REGULATION OF LABOR RELATIONS. THE “LONG” 19th CENTURY (end of 18th century – 1918)
1.LIBERAL IDEOLOGY AND PRAXIS
1.1. THE POLITICAL DIMENSION: LIBERAL AND LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC REGIMES
1.2. THE SOCIAL DIMENSION: BOURGOISIE, PROLETARIAT, SOCAL CLASSES, PAUPERISM
1.3. THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION: CAPITALISM
1.4. THE LABOR DIMENSION: ABOLITION OF GUILDISM, IMPERSONALIZATION OF WORK, THE WORK CONTRACT, WORKERS’ ASSOCIATIONS, INITIAL PUBLIC INIHIBITION WHEN FACED WITH THE SOCIO-LABOR AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
2.UTOPIC AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM
3.ANARQUISM
UNIT III. THE ORIGIN OF THE SYSTEMS OF WORK RELATIONS. THE PERIOD OF INTERWARDS (1918-1945)
1. THE BREACH WITH THE LIBERALISM AND THE DEMOCRACY: COMMUNISM AND FASCISM
2. THE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION FROM 1929
3. EMERGENCY OF THE TRIPARTISM AND RECOGNITION OF THE LAW OF COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATION
UNIT IV. CONSOLIDATION OF THE SYSTEMS OF WORK RELATIONS. THE KEYNESIAN PERIOD (1945-1980)
1. THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL RECONSTRUCTION: SOCIAL DEMOCRACY, CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY, WESTERN COMMUNISM AND PRESERVING LIBERALS
2. CAPITALISM AND STATE OF WELFARE, ECONOMIES OF CENTRAL PLANNING AND ECONOMIES OF THE THIRD WORLD
3. SOCIETY OF THE OPULENCE
4. NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: THE FIGHT FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS IN USA, FEMINISM, PACIFISM, ECOLOGY
5. THE PARADIGM OF THE STATE INTERVENTION IN THE WORK RELATIONS. CONSTITUTION OF STABLE PROCEDURES OF WORK REGULATION
UNIT V. DIVERSITY OF WORK RELATIONS SYSTEMS. CRISIS OF THE STATE OF WELFARE (1980-present)
1. NEOLIBERALISM AND THE NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMIC MODEL
2. CRISIS OF THE SOVIET MODEL
3. THE PROBLEMS OF THE EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION
4. NATIONALISM, PAN-ARABISM AND ISLAMISM IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
5. NEW TECHNOLOGIES, ECONOMY OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND GLOBALIZATION
6. DEREGULATION, MOBILITY AND FLEXIBILITY IN THE MARKETS OF WORK
a) Basic Bibliography:
AIZPURU, Mikel y RIVERA, Antonio: Manual de historia social del trabajo, Siglo XXI, Madrid, 1994.
ARENAS POSADAS Carlos: Historia Económica del Trabajo : (Siglos XIX y XX). Madrid. Tecnos. 2003.
AROSTEGUI, Julio, BUCHRUCKER, Cristian y SABORIDO, Jorge: El mundo contemporáneo. Historia y problemas, Crítica, Barcelona, 2002.
ARTOLA, Miguel y PÉREZ LEDESMA, Manuel: Contemporánea. La historia desde 1776, Alianza, Madrid, 2005.
GALÁN GARCÍA, Agustín; GÓMEZ URDÁÑEZ, Gracia; MORENO FERNÁNDEZ, José Ramón Materiales para la Historia de las Relaciones Laborales Madrid, Tecnos 2003.
GALLEGO ABAROA, Elena, Historia breve del mercado de trabajo: de los orígenes a J.M. Keynes, Ecobook, Madrid, 2009.
ZAMAGNI, V. Historia Económica de la Europa Contemporánea. Barcelona. Crítica. 2002.
b) Complementary Bibliography:
ADELANTADO, J. (coord): Cambios en el Estado del bienestar. Madrid. Icaria. 2001
ALDCROFT, D.H.: Historia económica europea, 1914-1980. Barcelona. Crítica. 1989
BERG, M.: La era de las manufacturas, 1700-1820. Una nueva historia de la revolución industrial británica. Crítica. Barcelona. 1987
BORDERIAS, C. et al.: Las mujeres y el trabajo. Rupturas conceptuales, Icaria, Barcelona. 1994
BRIGSS, Asa (dir.): Historia de las civilizaciones. El siglo XIX, Alianza/Labor, Madrid, 1989.
CORIAT, B.: El taller y el cronómetro. Ensayo sobre el taylorismo, el fordismo y la producción en masa. Madrid. Siglo XXI. 1991
DORE, Ronald Philip: Fábrica británica, fábrica japonesa : los orígenes de la diversidad nacional de relaciones laborales Madrid : Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, 1989
DUBY, George: Atlas histórico mundial, Debate, Barcelona, 1992.
DUNLOP, J. y GALESON, W.: El trabajo del siglo XX. Ministerio de Trabajo y SS. Madrid. 1985
FUJII, G., y RUESGA, SANTOS M. (coords.): El trabajo en un mundo globalizado, Madrid, Pirámide, 2004.
GORDON, DAVID M., EDWARDS, R. y REICH, M.: Trabajo segmentado, trabajadores divididos : la transformación histórica del trabajo en Estados Unidos. Ministerio de Trabajo y de SS. Madrid. 1986
HOBSBAWM, E. J.: El mundo del trabajo, Crítica, Barcelona. 1987
HOBSBAWN, Eric: En torno a los orígenes de la revolución industrial, Siglo XXI, Madrid, 1979.
KINDER, H. e HILGEMMANN, W.: Atlas histórico mundial, Istmo, Madrid, v.a., 2006 (21 ed.), 2º vol.
MARTÍN, B.: Los problemas de la modernización: movimiento obrero e industrialización en España. Ministerio de Trabajo y SS. Madrid. 1992
MOULIER-BOUTANG, YANN: De la esclavitud al trabajo asalariado. Akal. Madrid. 2007
PÁEZ CAMINO, Feliciano y LLORENTE, Pilar: Los movimientos sociales (hasta 1914), Akal, Madrid, 1984.
PIORE, M. y SABEL, CH. F.: La segunda ruptura industrial. Madrid. Alianza, 1990.
PRATT, A: Los salvadores del niño o la invención de la delincuencia. Siglo XXI, 1983.
RECIO, A , Trabajo, personas, mercados. Manual de economía laboral, Icaria-Fuhem, Barcelona 1997
RODRIGUEZ LABANDEIRA, M.: El trabajo rural en España: 1876-1936, Anthropos, Barcelona. 1991
RULE, J.: Clase obrera e industrialización. Historia social de la revolución industrial británica, 1750-1850. Barcelona. Crítica. 1990
a) COMPETENCES OF THE GRADE TO WHICH THE SUBJECT CONTRIBUTES:
-Aptitude to work individually and in teams
-To locate, to analyze, to systematize and to manage different sources and types of information
-To apply the critical reasoning in the study and analysis of a specific subject or topic
-To exhibit and to defend, orally and / or written, a subject or topic of general characteristics or related to its speciality
-To learn in an autonomous way
-To plan, to organize and to take decisions in the development of activities and different processes
-To adapt to new situations
-To work and have relation with others, respecting the basic rules of coexistence, the basic rights and the democratic values.
-To locate, interpret, summarize and represent data and socio-economic indicators
-To relate the processes of social change, from a sociological and historical perspective, with the innovations in relation to organization of work and evolution of systems of labour relations.
b) SPECIFIC COMPETENCES OF THE SUBJECT:
-To assimilate reflectively the specific presented contents
- Ability to make oral and written informs about aspects referred to the temporary analysis of work, labour relations and functioning of job markets
- Ability to provide a context, to compare and analyze critically the phenomena, events and processes that take place in the historical evolution of society and labour relations
-Ability to interrelate the social components, politics, cultural and economical in the evolution of labour relations
-To be proactive implementing the analysis of the past events for the solution and beforehand of present problems.
c) TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES:
-Critical Reasoning
-Autonomous learning
-Ethical compromise with the social environment
-Oral and written communication in the native language
-Ability to analyze and synthesize
-Ability to manage information
-Motivation for the quality and effort
-Working in teams
This subject is structured in two one-hour theoretical sessions per week for the entire group (maximum group size of 80 students) and one and a half hours of practical sessions (interactive classes). Over the term, each student will also have three hours of tutorials in small groups of a maximum of 20 students, as well as the opportunity to attend individual tutorials (six hours per week) over the entire academic year.
In the theoretical sessions, the teacher will make use of appropriate resources to present the basic information needed in each of the sections of the program, and will propose practical exercises based on these. The objective is for students to gain the preliminary knowledge necessary for their active and recorded participation in the interactive sessions.
The practical (interactive) sessions, to which attendance is compulsory, include the presentation, comment and evaluation of work prepared in subgroups of 5 to 6 students which will be randomly selected. The preparatory tasks for these classes (following the guidance of the teacher, to whom the written version of the piece of work will be submitted at least 24 hours before) are compulsory for all members of the designated subgroup. The participation of other students in the discussions will also be evaluated. The practical part of the course may also include the possibility of other guided activities such as attending talks, conferences, presentations and so on.
In the small group tutorials, proactive queries from students will be addressed, on any questions related to the subject.
February
A theoretical and a practical review, which consists in the realization of three questions of theory and a text comment. In this review is assigned a weight of 70% in the final note of the matter. The evaluation is carried out continuously on the basis of the assistance, participation in the classroom, the presentation of the practices, the development of an individual work and the use of classes and tutoring sessions. This evaluation represents the 30% of the final grade. The realization with use of the practices, as well as the completion of the course work is essential for overcoming the matter.
Repetition July
There is a review of theoretical practice, which is resolution of three questions of theory and development practice of a text comment. In this review it is assigned a value of 70% in the final note of the matter.
Attendance of theoretical sessions: 30
Attendance of practical sessions: 18
Attendance of tutorials: 3
Preparation course work: 15
Preparation work for interactive classrooms: 30
Study and periodic review of the contents: 30
Exam preparation: 22
Exam: 2
Total number of hours for students’ work: 150
Study and classes preparation:
To be able to follow the development of the subject, every student must dedicate two hours a week to the study of the subject that is seen at classroom. It also must be concerned with the political, social and economic actuality through regular reading of newspapers.
All the students have to join the Virtual classroom. For this they must have an USC e-mail account (they can get information at classroom of computer science by the person responsible for the same one). The virtual classroom will be in use by the teacher as means to provide materials and information to students, so these will have to consult it often.
María Mercedes Cobo Carrasco
Coordinador/a- Department
- Campus Lugo
- Area
- Labour Relations School
- mercedes.cobo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Not Applicable
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| 17:30-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 2 |
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| 17:30-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 2 |
| 12.16.2024 16:30-18:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | 7 |
| 06.19.2025 16:30-18:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | 7 |