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Transnational Economic Competition and Labour's Multiple Social Fragmentation in (Eastern) Europe

Transnational Economic Competition and Labour's Multiple Social Fragmentation in (Eastern) Europe. Where to find Common Ground?. Agenda:. Integration in Global Economy and Social Fragmentation Social Effects of that Economic Integration Theoretical Approaches Common Ground?.

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Transnational Economic Competition and Labour's Multiple Social Fragmentation in (Eastern) Europe

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  1. Transnational Economic Competition and Labour's Multiple Social Fragmentation in (Eastern) Europe Where to find Common Ground?

  2. Agenda: • Integration in Global Economy and Social Fragmentation • Social Effects of that Economic Integration • Theoretical Approaches • Common Ground?

  3. Integration in Global Economy and Social Fragmentation

  4. 1. Integration in Global Economy and Social Fragmentation Rising Foreign Investment

  5. 1. Integration in Global Economy and Social Fragmentation Systematic Integration in International Division of Labour • Global Value Chains • High end in the West - Low End in the East? • Economic Upgrading • CEE as experimental field, technological pioneer • Systematic Instability: Permanent Restructuring on transnational Scale

  6. 2. Social Effects of Integration in Global Economy and Social Fragmentation Social Effects: 1. "Cathedrals in the Desert" • 1989: Hope to modernise the country via FDI • but instead • no "clusterbuilding" into region/country („cathedrals in the desert"-phenomenon) • very low regional / national suppliers (Electronis 3-5%) • very low taxes (national & regional competition) • Jan Puhl: Der Kater nach der Party (2009, Spiegel online).

  7. 2. Social Effects of Integration in Global Economy and Social Fragmentation Social Effects: 2. Combination: High-tech & (very) low wage regimes

  8. (Very) Modern technology high productivity often > "old" production sites in the West highest flexibility multi-level-"Customer-Orientation" short-termed "market-response" Integration in Modern World-wide Logistics (Just-In-Time) (Very) Low wages often < regional average! extreme flexibility of employment Agency work (30-50%) huge numer of working-time models (highly individualized) high portions of "variable" wage-components (Boni) 5-20% Discipline, Result, Illness-Rate... "zero-fault" Politics, individual control

  9. . 2. Social Effects of Integration in Global Economy and Social Fragmentation • Competitive architecture: comparing national, regional, local.... differences Tcew: 500 € 3.200 € 900 €

  10. Integration in Global Economy = Integration in Transnational Competition • Modern Production (technological upgrading) - without "Social Upgradig" • Instead: Fragmenation • Socially • Inter-nationally, regionally, locally= Transnationally

  11. Theoretical Appraoches

  12. 3. Theoretical Approaches • 1. Cathedrals in the Desert + • 2. High Tech + (very) Low Wage = "Structural Heterogeneity" (Development-Theory) • Dependence-Theory (A. Gunder Frank) • Radical Feminism (Maria Mies) ...

  13. 3. Theoretical Approaches • Critical Geography • Rescaling • Each Socio-Spatial Scale exist / develops in a competetive relation to (all) others of iits kind • permanent Splitting / Fragmentation (inner peripheries, dual cities, fragmentation ... )

  14. How to find Common Ground?

  15. 4. How to find Common Ground? • Fragmenation is subjectively Reproduced • often: along the "performance-capacity" • Questioning Competetive Architecture • = The Whole "model of Development" • Theoretical and Political Rediscovering the „Human Being“ at Work and in Society?

  16. Thank you!

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