Recent Conference Papers

Author(s)	Title	Details
Paul Marginson	The Changing Nature of Collective Employment Relations	Presentation at Manchester IR Society 50th Anniversary Conference, November 2014
Paul Marginson and [Christian Welz]	Between the Crisis and the EU’s economic governance regime: European wage-setting mechanisms under pressure	Paper presented at IREC, September 2014, Dublin
Paul Marginson	Coordinated bargaining in Europe: From incremental corrosion to frontal assault?	Paper presented at IREC, September 2013, Bucharest
Guglielmo Meardi and Paul Marginson	Global Labour Governance: Potential and Limits of an Emerging Perspective	Paper presented at WES, September 2013, Warwick
Dimitrinka Stoyanova and [Nick Butler]	The Working Lives of Comedy Performers	Paper presented at WES, September 2013, Warwick
Guglielmo Meardi	Unions between national politics and transnational migration: A comparison of Germany, UK and France	Paper presented at SASE, June 2013, Milan
Paul Marginson and Manuela Galetto	Engaging with flexibility and security: rediscovering the role of collective bargaining	Paper prepared for the Symposium ‘Collective bargaining and the flexibility-security agenda’, European ILERA Conference, June 2013, Amsterdam,
Linda Dickens	The Role of Conciliation in the Employment Tribunal system	Paper presented at the University of Bristol, November 2012 as part of the seminar ‘Access to Justice in the Employment Tribunal’. Papers from the seminar are being published by Institute of Employment Rights.
Orestis Papadopoulos	Greek and Irish trade unions responses to youth unemployment	Paper presented at IREC, September 2012, Lisbon
Guglielmo Meardi and [Antonio Martín Artiles, Oscar Molina Remo and Axel van den Berg]	Migration and Labour Market Uncertainty in the Light of the Crisis Segregation and Social Sustainability in Three European Countries and Two Sectors	Paper presented at ILERA (IIRA) World Congress, July 2012, Philadelphia
Manuela Galetto, Paul Marginson and [Catherine Spieser]	Collective bargaining and the changing governance of hospitals:A comparison between United Kingdom, Italy and FranceA comparison between United Kingdom, Italy and France	Paper presented at the SASE Conference, June 2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Guglielmo Meardi	Peripheral convergence in the crisis? Southern and Eastern European labour markets and industrial relations	Paper presented at the SASE Conference, June 2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Paul Marginson	(Re)assessing the shifting contours of Britain’s collective industrial relations	Paper presented at Industrial Relations Conference in Honour of Professor William Brown, June 2012, University of Cambridge
[Tony Edwards], Paul Marginson and [Anthony Ferner]	Multinational Companies in Cross-National Context: Integration, Differentiation and the Interactions between MNCs and Nation States	Paper presented at International conference on 'Methods and methodologies in social science', April 2012, Louvain-la-Neuve / Leuven
Guglielmo Meardi	Employment relations under external pressure: Italian and Spanish reforms in 2010-12	Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference, March 2012, Stockholm
Orestis Papadopoulos	Debates about the European Employment Strategy and the Greek and Irish employment policies	Paper presented at European Doctoral Workshop in Industrial Relations, September 2011, London
Manuela Galetto, Paul Marginson and [Catherine Spieser]	Collective bargaining and the changing governance of hospitals: A comparison between United Kingdom, Italy and France A comparison between United Kingdom, Italy and France	Paper presented at IREC conference, September 2011, Barcelona
Guglielmo Meardi	Flexicurity & State Traditions: The Europeanisation of Employment Policies before and after the Economic Crisis	Paper presented at European Sociological Association Conference, September 2011, Geneva
Guglielmo Meardi, [Mariona Lozano Riera and Antonio Artiles Martín]	International Migration of Health Workers: Can Spain Follow the British Steps?	Paper presented at IREC conference, September 2011, Barcelona
Juan López-Cotarelo	HR Discretion: Understanding Line Managers’ Role in Human Resource Management Resource Management	Paper presented at Academy of Management, August 2011, San Antonio
Heather Connolly, [Stefania Marino and Miguel Martinez Lucio]	Justice for Janitors goes Dutch: The Possibilities and Limitations of an Organising Approach in the Netherlands for a Sustained Union Renewal	Paper presented at BUIRA conference, July 2011, Greenwich
Heather Connolly, [Miguel Martínez Lucio and Stefania Marino]	Comparing and Contrasting Trade Union Responses to Questions of Migration: A Comparison of Union Strategies for Decent Work in the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom	Paper presented to the 2nd Regulating Decent Work Conference, ILO, July 2011, Geneva
Michel Goyer and [Dong Kwan Jung]	Diversity of Institutional Investors and Foreign Blockholdings in France: The Evolution of an Institutionally Hybrid Economy	Paper presented at SASE Annual Meeting, June 2011, Madrid
Guglielmo Meardi, [Antonio Martín Artiles and Axel Van den Berg]	Labour Market Uncertainty and Migration Policy: Canadian, German and Spanish experiences compared Canadian, German and Spanish experiences compared	Paper presented at SASE Annual Meeting, June 2011, Madrid
Paul Marginson and [Maarten Keune]	European social dialogue as multi-level governance: towards more autonomy and new dependencies	Paper presented at the 18^th Council of European Studies conference, June 2011, Barcelona
Melanie Simms	Young workers in crisis: social partner responses around the European Union	Paper presented to the International Labour Process Conference, April 2011, Leeds
Juan López-Cotarelo	HR discretion: understanding line managers’ role in Human Resource Management	Paper presented at European Doctoral Workshop in Industrial Relations, September 2010, Aix-en-Provence
Emma Stringfellow	The responses of German trade unions to ‘Diversity Management’ strategies: A strategy strengthened by Co-determination or a strategy to undermine it?	Paper presented at European Doctoral Workshop in Industrial Relations, September 2010, Aix-en-Provence
[Vera Glassner, Maarten Keune] and Paul Marginson	Collective Bargaining in a Time of Crisis	Paper presented at Governance of Uncertainty and Sustainability (GUSTO) Project Annual Meeting, September 2010, Paris
[Tony Edwards] and Paul Marginson	Multinational Companies in Cross-National Context	Paper presented at the Conference on employment practice in multinational companies, September 2010, ILR School, Cornell University
[J. Ryan Lamare, Patrick Gunnigle], Paul Marginson and [Gregor Murray]	Employee Representation, Multinational Companies and Institutional Context: Union Recognition in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom	Paper presented at the Conference on employment practice in multinational companies, September 2010, ILR School, Cornell University
Paul Marginson, [Jonathan Lavelle, Javier Quintanilla, Rocío Sanchez Mangas], Duncan Adam	Variations in Transnational Employee Voice: social dialogue through European Works Councils	Paper presented at the Conference on employment practice in multinational companies, September 2010, ILR School, Cornell University
Melanie Simms	Union identities in post‐industrial society: evidence from the UK industrial society: evidence from the UK	Paper presented at the 25th Employment Research Unit (ERU) annual conference, September 2010, Cardiff
Deborah Dean	Acting Up? What the election of the first woman General Secretary of Equity can tell us about gendered disadvantage in the trade union movement	Presentation at Leverhulme Trust UK-US International Network on Gender, Unions and Leadership, September 2010, Queen Mary, University of London
Paul Edwards	Illicit Practices and ‘Fiddles’ in the Contemporary World of Work: Mars-ism Revisited	Paper presented at the Work, Employment & Society Conference, September 2010, Brighton
Melanie Simms and [Jane Holgate]	Organising under New Labour: Evaluating Union Renewal Initiatives since 1997	Paper presented at the BUIRA conference, July 2010, Manchester
Christina Niforou	Multi-level dynamics and compliance in global labour governance: the case of International Framework Agreements	Paper presented at the IIRA European Congress, June 2010, Copenhagen
Linda Dickens	Legal Regulation and HR Practice	Presentation to Symposium on Equality and Diversity Issues in the Workplace, June 2010, organised by Oxford Brookes University. Worcester College, Oxford
Mark Hall , John Purcell, Michael Terry, [Sue Hutchinson and Jane Parker]	Assessing the impact of the UK’s new regulatory framework for employee consultation	Paper presented at the Annual CIRA Meeting / International CRIMT Conference, June 2010, Quebec
Melanie Simms	Workplace representatives in service sector organising campaigns: roles and tensions	Paper presented at the Annual CIRA Meeting / International CRIMT Conference, June 2010, Quebec
[Simon Deakin] and Aristea Koukiadaki	Systemic Deliberation, Social Dialogue and Contractual Learning: The Case of Terminal 5	Paper presented at Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest (REFGOV) & Democratic Governance and Collective Action (DEMOGOV) conference, May 2010, Brussels
Deborah Dean	Contingent power in contingent work: must the show go on?	Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference, March 2010, Rutgers University, New York
Anne-marie Greene and [Gill Kirton]	The value of investigating stakeholder involvement in diversity management	Paper presented at ESSEC Diversity and Performance Chair Academic Conference, April 2010, Paris
[Franz Traxler†, Sonja Strohmer] and Guglielmo Meardi	The barriers to effective EWCs in Central Eastern Europe: An analysis of sector effects in the Czech Republic An analysis of sector effects in the Czech Republic	Paper for the Conference: ‘Perspectives for industrial relations in Europe’, April 2010, Parma
Guglielmo Meardi	Labour mobility, union immobility? Trade unions & migration in the EU	Paper presented at Sociological Workshop: Social Inequalities and Migration in Post-Communist Societies, September 2009, Poznań, Poland
[J. Ryan Lamare, Patrick Gunnigle], Paul Marginson and [Gregor Murray]	Multinationals’ union avoidance practices at new sites: Transatlantic variations	Paper for MNCs Symposium at the IIRA World Congress, August 2009, Sydney
Paul Marginson, [Jonathan Lavelle, Javier Quintanilla and Rocío Sanchez Mangas]	Transnational Employee Voice in Multinational Companies: variable dialogue in European Works Councils	Paper for MNCs Symposium at the IIRA World Congress, August 2009, Sydney
Mike Terry, John Purcell, Mark Hall, [Sue Hutchinson and Jane Parker]	Towards a ‘legislatively-prompted voluntarism’?: the impact of the UK Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations.	Paper presented at the IIRA World Congress, August 2009, Sydney
Linda Dickens	Delivering fairer workplaces through statutory rights? Enforcing employment rights in Britain.	Paper presented at the IIRA World Congress, August 2009, Sydney
[Tony Edwards], Paul Marginson, Paul Edwards, [Anthony Ferner and Olga Tregaskis]	A Transnational Logic in the Management of Labour in Multinational Companies? Understanding Variation by Nationality and International Integration	Paper prepared for the SASE conference, July 2009, Paris
Paul Marginson and Guglielmo Meardi	Big players, different rules? Multinationals and collective bargaining in Europe	Paper prepared for the SASE conference, July 2009, Paris
Melanie Simms	Appropriating the brand: union organising in frontline service work	Paper presented at the 27th International Labour Process Conference, April 2009, Edinburgh
Linda Dickens	The point of industrial relations. Rising to the Challenges	A shorter version of this paper was presented at a BUIRA one-day conference ‘In Defence of Critical Social Science: The continuing value of Industrial Relations’ December 2008, Manchester
Guglielmo Meardi, [Sonja Strohmer and Franz Traxler]	Lights and shadows of direct participation in foreign companies in the Czech Republic	Paper presented at the 3rd European Congress of the Work and Labour Network, European Workplace Participation Forum, September 2008, Rome
Guglielmo Meardi	Capital mobility, labour mobility, union immobility? Trade unions facing multinationals and migration in the EU	Paper presented at the 1^st Forum of the International Sociological Association, September 2008, Barcelona
Linda Dickens	Regulating for equality in employment – is Britain on the right road with the Single Equality Bill?	Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, July 2008, Prato, Italy
[Juliusz Gardawski] and Guglielmo Meardi	Explaining failures and chances of Polish 'social pacts'	Paper prepared for the SASE conference, July 2008, Costa Rica
Anne-marie Greene and [Gill Kirton]	Diversity management needs downsizing: The case of a government department	Paper presented at the BUIRA conference, June 2008, Bristol
Melanie Simms and [Jane Holgate]	Is there an organising ‘model’? An empirical critique	Paper presented at the BUIRA conference, June 2008, Bristol
[Tony Edwards], Paul Edwards, [Anthony Ferner], Paul Marginson and [Olga Tregaskis]	Multinational Companies and the Diffusion of Employment Practices from Outside the Country of Origin: Explaining Variation across Firms	Paper presented at the IREC (Industrial Relations in Europe) conference, June 2008, Greenwich
Emma Stringfellow	Egalité, liberté, fraternité… et diversité ? The views of French trade unions	Paper presented at the IREC (Industrial Relations in Europe) conference, June 2008, Greenwich
Mark Hall	EU regulation and the UK employee consultation framework	Paper presented at LSE workshop on economic democracy, May 2008
Paul Edwards, [Sukanya Sengupta and Chin-Ju Tsai]	Reproducing but Potentially Challenging the Low-skills Equilibrium: A Study of Small Food Manufacturing Firms in the UK	Paper presented at the International Labour Process Conference, Dublin, March 2008
Paul Edwards	Workplace Regimes and the Governance of the Employment Relationship: Re-establishing the Connections in Liberal Market Economies	Paper presented at the International Labour Process Conference, Dublin, March 2008
Jane Parker	The TUC and civil alliance building: towards social movement unionism?	Paper presented at the AIRAANZ (Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand) conference, Melbourne, February 2008
Paul Marginson	The transnational dimension to collective bargaining in a European context	Paper presented at an ETUI/GURN/ILO Workshop on 'Collective Bargaining in Global Context', January 2008, Brussels

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