The Emergence of the Wage

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-127
Author(s):  
Zoe Adams
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Responses ◽  
Labour Market Regulation ◽  
Minimum Wage Legislation ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

The first section of this chapter begins the genealogy of the wage with an analysis of the emergence of wage labour in the years following the Norman conquest. The second section explores the development of the category of the wage through the statute of labourers and the early common law as it applied to ‘service’. The third section discusses the wage in the context of the poor law and the system of settlement of the seventeenth century. The fourth section in the chapter explores how changes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the emergence of a labour market, affected the legal conception of the wage, an analysis that is continued in the fifth section which explores some of the social problems that emerge in this context, and the early forms of labour market regulation that developed in ‘response’. The sixth section analyses early legal responses to the problem of ‘sweated labour’, the development of the first minimum wage legislation, and the Trade Board Act, before discussing early responses to the problem of casualism, particularly as it manifested in the context of the docks.

scholarly journals The digitalisation of service work – social partner responses in Denmark, Sweden and Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ilsøe
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Social Partner ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Job Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labour Market Regulation ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
The Face

The discussion on the digitalisation of work has intensified in recent years. The literature points to two main trends accelerated by digitalisation – work automation that eliminates or changes job functions, and the creation of work without jobs via digital platforms. This article addresses the question as to how social partners define digitalisation of work and their perception of its consequences, while also looking at their recent responses to it. Drawing on interviews with unions and employers' organisations in Denmark, Sweden and Germany, it examines social partner initiatives in the unilateral, tripartite and bipartite arenas on various forms of neo-corporatist labour market regulation. The focus is on service work in the private sector, an area of the economy currently under pressure from both automation and the trend towards work without jobs. Whereas the social partners seem to be very active in the unilateral arena in all three countries, responses differ in the tripartite and bipartite arenas. The article concludes by discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the responses in the face of current digitalisation trends and existing models of labour market regulation.

scholarly journals The fourth industrial revolution and labour market regulation in Singapore

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-363
Author(s):  
Peter Waring ◽  
Azad Bali ◽  
Chris Vas
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Labour Market Regulation ◽  
Social Safety Nets ◽  
Large Survey

The race to develop and implement autonomous systems and artificial intelligence has challenged the responsiveness of governments in many areas and none more so than in the domain of labour market policy. This article draws upon a large survey of Singaporean employees and managers (N = 332) conducted in 2019 to examine the extent and ways in which artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies have begun impacting workplaces in Singapore. Our conclusions reiterate the need for government intervention to facilitate broad-based participation in the productivity benefits of fourth industrial revolution technologies while also offering re-designed social safety nets and employment protections. JEL Codes: J88, K31, O38, M53

Economic Globalisation and Convergence in Labour Market Regulation: An Empirical Assessment

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Gahan ◽  
Richard James Mitchell ◽  
Sean Cooney ◽  
Andrew Stewart ◽  
Brian Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Labour Market Regulation ◽  
Economic Globalisation

scholarly journals Redistributing under fiscal constraint: partisanship, debt, inequality and labour market regulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasse Aaskoven
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
The Political ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Government Budget ◽  
Fiscal Constraint ◽  
Labour Market Regulation ◽  
High Government ◽  
Labour Regulation

AbstractLabour market regulation varies significantly, both within and between developed democracies. While there has been extensive research and debate in economics on the consequences of labour market regulation, the political causes for levels and changes in labour market regulation have received less scholarly attention. This article investigates a political economy explanation for differences in labour market regulation building on a theoretical argument that labour regulation can be used as a nonfiscal redistribution tool. Consequently, partisanship, the demand for redistribution and government budget constraint jointly determine whether labour market regulation will increase or decrease. Consistent with this argument, panel analyses from 33 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries reveal that labour market regulation increases under left-wing governments that face increased market inequality and high government debt.

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