Legal Sociology of Labour and Social Policy

The educational goals of the course is to develop sound knowledge relating to:
a. labour and social policies in the globalised society
b. the relationships between the processes of the social construction of work and their normative definition
c. the functions of social control of welfare and labour institutions
d. institutional responses to the problems of work and social integration
e. the historical evolution and current legislation of labour law and the welfare state
f. to current labour and social policy legislation

At the end of the course the student should know the historical evolution
a. of the processes and relations of the social construction of work and their normative definition
b. of welfare institutions and their normative definition
c. the functions of social control exercised by legal and political institutions
d. institutional responses to the problems of workers and citizens