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Agenda List of Participants Opening speech by Ms. Guigou Speech by Mr. Somavia Background Document Annecy Conference Papers ILO Press Release

Thursday 18 January 2001

9.30-10.30

Conference Opening by Elisabeth Guigou, Minister of Employment and Solidarity of France

Presentation of Conference: Peter Auer and Christine Daniel (for the organization committee)

10.30-12.30

Panel 1: Transformation of work and employment and new insecurities

Diagnosis I:

• Overview of main transformations: What kind of new insecurities ?

• Factors determining changes both on the supply and the demand side of the labour market

• Demography, globalization, technology and changes in work organization and strategies of firms, changing life styles, changing family structures?

Chair : Patricia O'Donovan

Speaker : Eileen Appelbaum

Comments : Robert Castel

Jean Gadrey

Jill Rubery

Synthesis: Bruno Trentin

12.30-14 Lunch

Luncheon Speaker : Richard Freeman

14.00-15.45

Panel 2: Impact of changes on work and society

Diagnosis II:

• Social impact of the transformation of work and new insecurities.

• Who is affected and how?

• Growing inequalities between individuals and also between firms: The included and the excluded

• What challenges for democracy ?

Chair : Tiziano Treu

Speaker : Raymond-Pierre Bodin

Comments : Toshio Suzuki

Sandro Scocco

Philippe Lemoine

Synthesis : Sabine Erbès-Seguin

(Coffee)

16.00-17.45

Panel 3: The political response to the new challenges: raising the issues

Remedy I:

• Towards a renewed primacy of politics over economics ?

• The active welfare state: pros and cons.

• Striking a balance between flexibility and security: a need for new forms of social protection to serve individuals' aspirations and the requirement of firms?

• How to arrive at decent work

Chair: Odile Quintin

Speaker: Fritz Scharpf

Comments: Gosta Esping-Andersen

Bernard Gazier

Christian Baudelot

Synthesis:Renate Hornung-Draus

19.30 Conference Dinner

Dinner Speakers : Bill Jordan

Andreas Schleef

Friday 19 January

09.00-10.45

Panel 4: Methods, actors and levels of political actions:

Remedy II

• The state, the social partners, companies and individuals: who should do what?

• Private or Public, the market or the state ?

• Can the civil society help ?

• The rise of intermediaries

• What type of policies: Incentives, Sanctions, Regulation and Organisation

• Regional, national and international: which arenas for regulations ?

Chair : Claude Evin

Speaker : Alain Supiot

Comments : Hans Borstlap

Danielle Kaisergruber

Amy Dean

Synthesis : Alan Larsson

(Coffee)

11.00-12.00 Presentation of the synthesis of each of the four panels:

(Bruno Trentin, Sabine Erbès-Seguin, Renate Hornung Draus, Allan Larsson)

12.00-12.45 Closing session

Juan Somavia

12.45 Lunch

15.00 (approx.) End of conference.