Reconfiguring Work and Welfare in the New Economy:
A Transatlantic Dialogue

A conference organized by the European Union Center
of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 10-12, 2001
All sessions to be held in 206 Ingraham Hall

Thursday May 10

8:30-9:15         Registration and Coffee

9:15-10:00       Welcome and Introduction

                        Jonathan Zeitlin (EU Center Co-Director)

I.               Experimenting with the Work-Welfare Nexus: The European Union

10:00-12:00     EU Governance, Employment Policy, and the European Social Model
David Trubek (EU Center Co-Director) and Jim Mosher (European University Institute/Ohio University)

The European Employment Strategy:
A Mode of Governance between Coordination and Decentralization
Janine Goetschy (Institute of European Studies, Free University of Brussels/ CNRS-University of Nanterre)

12:00-2:00       Lunch

2:00-3:00         Social Pacts, “Competitive Corporatism”, and Welfare Reform in Europe
Martin Rhodes (European University Institute)

3:00-3:15         Break

3:15-5:15         Decentralizing Employment Protection in Europe: Territorial Pacts and Beyond
Ida Regalia (IRES Lombardy/University of Milan)

Local Labor Market Policies and Social Integration in Europe:
Potentials and Pitfalls of an Integrated Partnership Approach
Adalbert Evers (Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt/Justus Liebig University, Giessen)

7:00                 Dinner at the Wilson St. Grill, 217 S. Hamilton St., 251-3500

Friday May 11

8:30-9:00         Coffee

II.             Experimenting with the Work-Welfare Nexus: The United States

9:00-10:00       Employee Organization and Employment Law in the Changing US Labor Market:
America Moves Toward Shorter Jobs
Alan Hyde (Rutgers University Law School)

10:00-12:00     Local Labor Market Strategies and Regional Economic Development in the US
Laura Dresser and Joel Rogers (Center on Wisconsin Strategy/UW-Madison)

Organizing the US Labor Market: National Problems, Community Strategies
Paul Osterman (Sloan School of Management, MIT)

12:00-1:30       Lunch

1:30-2:30         Welfare Reform: Something Old, Something New
Joel Handler (UCLA Law School)

2:30-2:45         Break

2:45-3:45         Health Care and Low-Wage Work: Linking Local Action
Louise Trubek (UW Law School)

Evening           Dinner in small groups in local restaurants or trip to Milwaukee Brewers baseball game.

Saturday May 12

III.           Reconfiguring Work and Welfare in the New Economy

8:30-9:00         Coffee

9:00-10:00       Recalibrating Europe’s Welfare Regimes
Maurizio Ferrera (Bocconi University/University of Pavia)/
Anton Hemerijck (University of Leiden)

10:00-11:00     In Search of Worlds of Work and Welfare:
Towards a Reappraisal in Terms of Capability
Robert Salais (IDHE/École Normale Supérieure de Cachan)

11:00-11:15     Break

11:15-12:15     The Death-Defying Welfare State: Why and How It Survives
Joel Rogers (UW-Madison/Center on Wisconsin Strategy)/Richard Freeman (Harvard/LSE)

12:15-2:00       Lunch

2:00-3:00         Sovereignty and Solidarity in the European Union
Charles Sabel (Columbia Law School)/Joshua Cohen (MIT)

7:00                 Buffet dinner at Jonathan Zeitlin’s house, 1810 Jefferson St., 255-4564