Globalisation and Models of State: Debates and Evidence from Ireland

Kirby, Peadar; Murphy, Mary

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“…This set of rules must be examined at a detailed level in order to understand the development of the normal working day. This article examines how the normal working day evolves during the last three decades by examining the development in legislation and in collective agreements in banking in three countries - Ireland, Norway andSweden -between 1980 and Ireland is traditionally seen as a liberal market economy (Hall and Soskice, 2001;Kirby and Murphy, 2011). After the introduction of social pacts in the 1990s, however, it was argued that Ireland should be classified as a more 'hybrid' type of country because of the new corporatist features (Vårheim, 2005;Wallace et al, 2004).…”

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The end of the normal working day? A study of change in Irish, Norwegian and Swedish banking

Nicolaisen

2013

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Since 1980 debates about the regulation of working time have been characterized by demands for flexibility and deregulation. This article looks at how the regulation of the normal working day has changed during the last 30 years and examines how these regulative changes interplay with new work practices. Based on theories on institutional change the article compares the development in working time regulations in the banking sector in three countries, Norway, Ireland and Sweden. Although the majority of the regulations remain intact, they have become considerably more flexible in all three countries. The normal working day is most weakened in Ireland, but it is also undermined in the two Nordic countries. New rules, practices and ideas result in more unsocial hours working, which increasingly remains uncompensated. These similarities across the countries are uncovered because of a research design that allows for examination of institutional change at a detailed level over a long period of time.

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The end of the normal working day? A study of change in Irish, Norwegian and Swedish banking

Nicolaisen

2013

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…The shift away from more established policy settings has been variously labelled as the rise of neoliberalism (Duggan, 2012; Harvey, 2005) and the emergence of a ‘workfare’ state (Peck, 2001; Peck and Jones, 1995). A reliance on new policy settings has been widely reported, with neoliberal policies employed in Europe (Kirby and Murphy, 2011), Australia (Argent, 2005), South Africa (Bond, 2000) and many other nations (Dingleday, 2007). The critique of neoliberalism has been challenged in a number of regions, with Ong (2006) arguing that in south-East Asia, neoliberalism is a ‘malleable’ technology of governance that has been adopted by different governments in different ways, assisting them to compete in global markets.…”

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Neoliberalism, economic restructuring and policy change: Precarious housing and precarious employment in Australia

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Housing, employment and economic conditions in many nations have changed greatly over the past decades. This paper explores the ways in which changing housing markets, economic conditions and government policies have affected vulnerable individuals and households, using Australia as a case study. The paper finds a substantial number and proportion of low income Australians have been affected by housing and employment that is insecure with profound implications for vulnerability. Importantly, the paper suggests that in Australia the economic gains achieved as a consequence of mining-related growth in the early 2000s were translated as greater employment security for some on low incomes, but not all. Enhanced access to employment in this period was differentiated by gender, with women largely missing out on the growth in jobs. For the population as a whole, employment gains were offset by increased housing insecurity as accommodation costs rose. The paper finds low income lone parents were especially vulnerable because they were unable to benefit from a buoyant labour market over the decade 2000–2010. They were also adversely affected by national policy changes intended to encourage engagement with paid work. The outcomes identified for Australia are likely to have been mirrored in other nations, especially those that have embraced, or been forced to adopt, more restrictive welfare and income support regimes.

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“…It is acknowledged that the state in Ireland is similar to those in other jurisdictions in that it is a fluid, dynamic formation whose components shift over time. Furthermore, the discussion will not seek to supplant or disrupt some of the other models of the state which have evolved in recent years: for example, the notion that the state in Ireland can be viewed as a 'competition state' (Kirkby and Murphy, 2011). It is understood that the state in the Republic is a neoliberal state and its core function is to furnish an 'apparatus whose fundamental mission [is to] facilitate conditions for profitable capital accumulation on the part of both domestic and foreign capital' (Harvey, 2005: see also Allen, 2007).…”

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Adjusting ‘our notions of the nature of the State’: A political reading of Ireland’s child protection crisis

Garrett

2012

Capital & Class

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The Republic of Ireland was the first country in the eurozone to adopt a neoliberal infused ‘austerity budget’, and the ill-judged state bailing out of a number of reckless banks and associated financial institutions is costing billions of euros. In late 2010, as the crisis deepened, the International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank provided a ‘bailout’ package that resulted in further punitive public spending cuts and the eradication of national sovereignty. This paper maintains that the present crisis is more than a mere economic crisis, but can be viewed as a series of interlinked ‘conjunctures’. Tracing the connection between the historical and the contemporary, the first part of the discussion will explore six thematic components relating to the structuring of the Irish state. These are identified as: a ‘class rule state’; an ‘authoritarian state’; a ‘confining state’; a ‘censoring state’; a ‘discriminatory state’; and a ‘state within the state’. These six dimensions provide a contextual underpinning for the second part of the paper, which focuses on the crisis in child welfare and child protection services and dwells on the shambolic performance of the Health Service Executive (HSE), deficits in the ‘care’ system and the HSE failure to furnish reliable data on the deaths of children in contact with social workers.

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Globalisation and Models of State: Debates and Evidence from Ireland

Cited by 18 publications

References 28 publications

The end of the normal working day? A study of change in Irish, Norwegian and Swedish banking

The end of the normal working day? A study of change in Irish, Norwegian and Swedish banking

Neoliberalism, economic restructuring and policy change: Precarious housing and precarious employment in Australia

Adjusting ‘our notions of the nature of the State’: A political reading of Ireland’s child protection crisis

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