Dr. Assaf Bondy (University of Bristol) is a Labour Sociologist, who studies the political-economy of employment relations in advanced economies. Bondy’s work has been so far dedicated to the study of changing conditions for collective actions and its changing forms and effects – on workers’ rights, on inequality, on the structure of employment relations and on the political economy. Focusing on developed economies, Bondy’s recent work analyse the changing roles of trade unions (and the labour movement in general) in the design of macroeconomic growth. 

As a senior research fellow at Haifa University, Bondy is currently leading (co-PI, alongside Professor Tali Kristal) a large research project titled “opening the black box of union coverage”, analyzing the transformation in the structure and content of collective agreements in Israel between 1957 and 2020) (ISF Grant 128/21, 598,000 NIS).