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10.06.2025
Institutskolloquium IfP (25.06.25) – Politicising Commodification (Cambridge UP 2024) and its critics
Speaker: Roland Erne (University College Dublin)
Wednesday, June 25th 2025, 16:00 c.t. / Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft or online via Zoom
About the lecture:
Politicising Commodification. European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency examines the new economic governance (NEG) regime that the EU adopted after 2008. Its novel research design captures the supranational formulation of NEG prescriptions and their uneven deployment across countries (Germany, Italy, Ireland, Romania), policy areas (employment relations, public services), and sectors (transport, water, healthcare). NEG led to a much more vertical mode of EU integration, and its commodification agenda unleashed a plethora of union and social-movement protests, including transnationally. The book presents findings that are crucial for the prospects of European democracy, as labour politics is essential in framing the struggles about the direction of NEG along a commodification–decommodification axis rather than a national–EU axis. To shed light on corresponding processes at EU level, it upscales insights on the historical role that labour movements have played in the development of democracy and welfare states.
Roland Erne (PhD EUI; Dipl. Pol. FU Berlin/IEP Paris) is Professor of European Integration & Employment Relations and PI of ERC Project "Labour Politics and the EU’s New Economic Governance Regime” at University College Dublin, https://www.erc-europeanunions.eu
The lecture will be held in English
