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The following paper is a comparative study of labour market policies and strategies of two welfare states, Germany and the United Kingdom (the UK), aiming to smooth the transition of the labour force to the industry 4.0. The fourth industrial revolution arises number of challenges for the labour market, therefore one should be seeing certain changes in production and employment regimes of the given countries. This study tries to find an evidence of changes in employment and production regimes, described by Duncan Gallie (2007) in “Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work”. The study answers the guiding research questions:
-Can any changes in production and employment regimes be seen?
-What kind of solutions do welfare states, belonging to different types types of employment and production regimes offer for addressing the various challenges that has emerged in the current revolution? (The challenges will be identified in the chapter 3.)
The following hypothesis is tested: under conditions of such rapid technological advancement, the production and employment regimes in Germany and the United kingdom are becoming more and more similar.
The study analyzed Gallie’s Employment and Production regimes (2007), identified main characteristics of each regime and recreated some of the statistical tables of the theoretical framework by using renewed statistical data. The study concludes that changes in production
regimes are indeed happening, and based on new statistical data both countries have strong initial and weak continual educational schemes, whilst there is no significant change in terms of employment regimes.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF WORK: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POLITICAL APPROACHES IN FINLAND AND GERMANY
(2019)
The EU Work-Life Balance Directive and its contribution to active paternity in the European Union
(2020)
In recent years, social media platforms are revolutionizing in a way that users are able to communicate by increasing the exposure to highly stigmatized issues in society. Sexual abuse, as for example, is one such topic that recently took all over social media by simply using the hashtag #MeToo. The aim of it was to empower and motivate women to share posts and stories related to previous sexual abuses that they had experienced. Individuals with different backgrounds and ethnicities began sharing their unfortunate personal experiences with the wide public. Hence, this thesis analyzes how the #MeToo movement escalated from an online trending hashtag to a social movement with the assistance of social media and media coverage.
Considering the purpose of the #MeToo movement, I will mostly focus on the sexual harassment and cyber-violence towards women. Both factors, can profoundly impact women’s psychological, social, and spiritual health. Hence this has a further impact on women’s participation in society. To testify this, I will further analyze the EU drafts and policies that have been undertaken in order to minimize, thus eliminate any sexual violence towards women. Of course, sexual and cyber violence can refer to a range of sexual violations as for instance, the child sexual abuse, but in this paper, the focus will mainly be on the #MeToo movement which does not claim to be a movement for all forms of sexual or gender violence. Hence, the children are not the main audience of the movement and I will therefore not focus on them in this dissertation.
The data collected in this research will further demonstrate through my dissertation the impact that social media has on the 4th wave of feminism, by getting into the roots of the #MeToo movement. Furthermore, with this dissertation, I would like to examine the connection between social media and feminism on its own, and lastly going beyond the #MeToo movement.