Description
The IWPLMS was founded in 1979 following a conference hosted by the Department of Applied Economics in Cambridge.The IWPLMS is dedicated to understanding the processes shaping inequality and segmentation in labour markets. It adopts a multi-disciplinary, dynamic and comparative institutional theoretical perspective in analysing change over time and differences across countries. It rejects the narrow economistic assumption that the market is a neutral force, with segmentation attributed to exogenous social factors. In contrast the IWPLMS is concerned with both the institutional historical development of productive systems by sector, supply chain and country and how these intersect with and are shaped by the specific forms of segmentation of the workforce- for example by gender, ethnicity, age, social class.
Its focus on the shaping role of institutions extends well beyond the standard industrial relations institutions of the state, employers’ associations and trade unions. It includes consideration of national and global political, financial and productive systems as well as the institutions shaping social reproduction, such as education and training, welfare and gender, family and household systems.
| Period | 2023 → … |
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| Held at | IWPLMS - International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, United Kingdom |
| Degree of Recognition | International |