[Poscgrad] Fwd: Fw: PhD Class on the "Comparative Political Economy of Work" at Rutgers SMLR, Spring 2025

[Marissa Brookes]

Dear graduate students,

See below for an opportunity to participate in a CPE of Work course at
Rutgers.

MB
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From: Tobias Schulze-Cleven <tobias.schulzecleven at rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Subject: Fw: PhD Class on the "Comparative Political Economy of Work" at
Rutgers SMLR, Spring 2025
To: Marissa D Brookes <mbrookes at ucr.edu>

Dear Marissa,

I hope this email finds you well! I am teaching a doctoral seminar this
spring, and I am opening it up to "labor" students in a few selectied other
places (see below). In my mind, the seminar is a nice bridge between IR and
PoliSci. If you have a student who might benefit (or be interested), please
feel free to forward the announcement below. I see this as a contribution
of mine to building toward the type of disciplinarily-informed labor
scholarship you are also calling for.

Happy New Year!

Best wishes, Toby

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*From:* Tobias Schulze-Cleven <tobias.schulzecleven at rutgers.edu>
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 7, 2025 4:10 PM
*To:* kram at illinois.edu <kram at illinois.edu>; Tapia Y Van Maldeghem, Maite <
tapiam at msu.edu>; shahx007 at umn.edu <shahx007 at umn.edu>; ELKELLY at MIT.EDU <
ELKELLY at MIT.EDU>; vld7 at cornell.edu <vld7 at cornell.edu>
*Subject:* PhD Class on the "Comparative Political Economy of Work" at
Rutgers SMLR, Spring 2025

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to you as colleagues that I could identify on your school's
website as having some responsibility for its respective PhD programs in
the general realm of industrial relations and human resources.

For the spring semester 2025, I would like to continue the practice of*
allowing doctoral students* from Rutgers' US sister schools *to participate
in the seminar* on the "Comparative Political Economy of Work" that I will
be teaching *on Wednesday afternoons,* 3:00-5:40 pm (*EST*), *starting on
January 22nd.* I pan to offer the seminar in *hybrid* mode, combining
in-person and synchronous remote modalities. I taught this same course as a
hybrid course with students from several schools* in attendance virtually *in
2023, and it worked quite well. Please pass on this information to students
who might be potentially interested. They should contact me with potential
questions and expressions of interest.

While students would be considered auditors at the Rutgers end, *I would be
happy to support any potential arrangements at your institution to allow
students to receive credit *through a local advisor who would grade a
paper/exam (as has been done before at Rutgers for students that took Maite
Tapia's class at MSU).

Please find the course overview below.

Best wishes,
Tobias


*Course Overview:*
This *doctoral-level course* familiarizes students with *cutting-edge
research on the comparative political economy of work, labor, and education*.
Comparative political economy (CPE) is both a large subfield in
(comparative) political science and a rich interdisciplinary space offering
sophisticated concepts and tools for analyzing the political determinants
of economic affairs across countries. Research on the comparative political
economy of work is comprehensive, taking into account such topics as the
evolution of market structures and company strategies, the development of
welfare states, and the distribution of social risks. It has greatly
increased our understanding of national differences and common trends,
illuminating distributional conflicts and patterns of solidarity in the
labor market, at the workplace, and even within the family.

The course begins with a review of theories on the governance of work and
labor across advanced political economies. It then moves to cover
contemporary challenges to these governance arrangements and examine the
ongoing transformation of the institutions that societies rely on to manage
the tensions between the realities of capitalism and the principles of
democratic citizenship. Seeking to empower students to use CPE approaches
in their own research, class discussions will highlight how scholars have
conceptualized the drivers, processes, nature, and outcomes of
institutional changes. Topics such as the evolution of worker power,
policymakers’ embrace of social investment and education, the politics of
the platform economy, and the future of work(ers) will receive particular
attention.

Tobias Schulze-Cleven

Associate Professor | Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations

Director | Center for Global Work and Employment
School of Management and Labor Relations | Rutgers University

http://smlr.rutgers.edu/faculty-staff/tobias-schulze-cleven
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