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    Project titleThe wage-labour nexus in a plan­e­tary bound­aries-fit econ­o­myn (DC9)
    Super­vi­sorsLoui­son Cahen-Fourot (RUC), Dany Lang (USPN)
    Work pack­ageWP5 — Devel­op­ment, sus­tain­able devel­op­ment and the socioe­co­log­i­cal transitions
    Objec­tivesThe objec­tive is to recon­sid­er the wage-labour nexus in an econ­o­my oper­at­ing with finite resources, and flow and dif­fuse ener­gy. The com­po­si­tion of sup­ply and demand, their syn­chro­niza­tion at the nation­al and glob­al lev­els and the orga­ni­za­tion of labour are like­ly to expe­ri­ence deep evo­lu­tions. In the light of the ongo­ing social-eco­log­i­cal trans­for­ma­tions, the project aims to under­stand evo­lu­tions of the wage-labour nexus that was his­tor­i­cal­ly based on abun­dant and cheap resources, and on stock and con­cen­trat­ed ener­gy, which allowed high pro­duc­tiv­i­ty gains and the syn­chro­niza­tion between mass pro­duc­tion and mass con­sump­tion, and enabled social com­pro­mis­es sup­port­ing wel­fare states in some high-income west­ern countries.
    Expect­ed resultsThe research PhD will con­tribute (i) to deep­en the under­stand­ing of how direct and indi­rect envi­ron­men­tal inputs and out­puts (ener­gy, mate­r­i­al flows, GHG emis­sions, bio­di­ver­si­ty, etc) are instru­men­tal in the orga­ni­za­tion of labour, in the com­po­si­tion of social demand and sup­ply and in pow­er strug­gles about the dis­tri­b­u­tion of aggre­gate income between labour and capi­ta; (ii) to analyse the ongo­ing evo­lu­tions of the pro­duc­tive struc­ture of select­ed economies and the con­comi­tant evo­lu­tions of the prin­ci­ples and prac­tices gov­ern­ing the orga­ni­za­tion of pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of income. In par­tic­u­lar, the research will (a) quan­ti­fy the impacts of ecol­o­gy-led trans­for­ma­tions in the wage-labour nexus on key socio-eco­nom­ic vari­ables, (b) analyse the key causal mech­a­nisms and inter­nal coherence/contradictions of economies oper­at­ing with­in plan­e­tary bound­aries, © derive pol­i­cy recommendations.
    Planned mobil­i­ty / secondment(s)Dura­tion of the PhD: 36 months (M6-M42)
    Main insti­tu­tion: RUC
    Vis­it­ing and secondment(s): ETUI (M18 to M24) and USPN (M30-M36)
    Degree award­ing institutionRUC
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