Chris Warhurst is co-organising the mini-conference The impact of global shifts on job quality. He is Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. His most recent co-edited work, the Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training, will be published in 2013. New co-authored books include Aesthetic Labour (Sage, 2012) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Work and Employment (Sage, 2013). His current research interest focuses on job quality. He is also co-editor, with Patricia Findlay, of Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? (Palgrave, 2012), with whom he co-organized the ESRC-funded seminar series ‘Making bad Jobs Better’ from which a public interest report will be launched. He has provided advisory work on employment to government in the UK, Scotland, Australia and Hungary as well as the OECD.

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Jérôme Blanc is an Associate Professor of Economics at Université Lumière Lyon 2. His works deal with money, mainly analyzed through socioeconomic viewpoint and history of ideas.

Interested in monetary plurality, he published Les monnaies parallèles. Unité et diversité du fait monétaire (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2000). He focuses especially on a particular dimension of monetary plurality, that is, complementary, community or local currencies. On this subject, he co-authored Une économie sans argent : les systèmes d’échange local (SEL) (Paris : Seuil, 1999, directed by J.-M. Servet) and edited Monnaies sociales : Exclusion et liens financiers, rapport 2005-06 (Paris : Economica, 2006). He organized the first international academic conference on this topic in February 2011 (see http://conferences.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/index.php/cc-conf/2011 ). Drawing on the case of community currencies, his works also deal with social and solidarity economy. Regarding the history of ideas, he is editing with Ludovic Desmedt the collective book Idées et pratiques monétaires en Europe, 1517-1776 (forthcoming).

On social economy, he co-edited the collective book Les contributions des coopératives à une économie plurielle (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2012, with Denis Colongo). He collaborates with the Chaire d’entrepreneuriat en économie sociale et solidaire (Chair of entrepreneurship in social and solidarity economy) of the Université Lumière Lyon 2, is a member of the Francophone inter-university network of social and solidarity economy (RIUESS) and a member of the Editorial board of the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR) and of the RECMA (Revue internationale de l’économie sociale). Since 2010, he is in the board of the Veblen Institute for economic reforms.

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Dorothee Bohle holds a chair in social and political change at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute, Florence. Her research is at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy with a special focus on East Central Europe. She is the author of Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery (Cornell University Press 2012, together with Béla Greskovits), and of Europe’s New Periphery: Poland’s Transformation and Transnational Integration (in German, Münster 2002). Her publications have also appeared in Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, West European Politics, Journal of Democracy, European Journal of Sociology, and Review of International Political Economy, among others. Her current work looks at the responses to the Great Recession in East and West European peripheral countries. She is especially interested in how private and public indebtedness has shaped policy and political responses. She has been involved in SASE activities for a number of years. She regularly presents her work in the networks E (Political Economy of Industrial Relations and Welfare States), and N (Finance and Society). She has been an Executive Council member since 2016.

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Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California. He has made research contributions to the fields of economic sociology, organizational theory, political sociology and social stratification. He is the author of eight books including The Transformation of Corporate Control  (Harvard University Press, 1993), The Architecture of Markets(Princeton University Press 2001), Euroclash (Oxford University Press, 2008), A Theory of Fields (with Doug McAdam, Oxford University Press, 2012), and The Banks Did It (Harvard University Press, 2021). He is currently working on a project trying to understand corporate and governmental responses to climate change.

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Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière is Maître de Conférences of Economic Sciences at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and Associate Researcher at the Centre d’Études de l’Emploi. In 2011, she defended a doctoral thesis on the quality of employment in Europe. Her current research examines the evolution of the quality of employment during the financial crisis as well as the role of public policies on the quality of employment for different social groups such as the effects of childcare policies on the quality of women’s employment and the role of training policies on dynamics of transitions in the labor market. She regularly participates in projects for international institutions such as the European Commission, the OECD, and the World Bank.

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Angela Knox is an Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. Her research interests focus on job quality, precarious work and employment regulation and she has a particular interest in the tourism/hospitality industry. She has published widely including within the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Work, Employment and Society, Gender, Work and Organisation and Journal of Industrial Relations. With Professor Warhurst, she co-founded the Job Quality Research Group at the University of Sydney Business School and co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations on job quality. Angela seeks to improve the quality of jobs in Australia through policy and research.

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Glenn Morgan is Professor of Management in the School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, UK. He has previously worked at Manchester Business School, Warwick Business School and Cardiff Business School. He has been a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School and a number of other institutions in Europe and North America. He was President of SASE in 2014-15. His research interests lie in the areas of globalisation, financialization, institutions, multinationals, regulation and elites. As well as studies in Europe, he has written on East Asian and Latin American forms of capitalism. He has published in a wide range of journals including Organisation Studies, Human Relations, Economy and Society, Socio-Economic Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of European Public Policy. He was editor of the Journal Organization from 2005-2008 and serves on a number of editorial boards. Recent jointly edited collections Research in the Sociology of Organizations Vol.43 Elites on Trial (Emerald Publishing 2015), The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organisation Studies (Oxford UP 2014), New Spirits of Capitalism? Crises, Justifications and Dynamics (Oxford UP 2013) and Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford UP 2012).

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Roberto Pedersini is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology and Director of the interdepartmental research centre “WTW – Work, Training and Welfare” at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His main research interests concern labour market regulation and policies and industrial and employment relations. He has both participated and coordinated several research projects in these fields since the early 1990s at both national and international level. He has collaborated with the International Labour Office and collaborated as an expert with the European Commission and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in several occasions. His recent publications include Economic crisis and the politics of public service employment relations in Italy and France (with Lorenzo Bordogna, in European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 19, no. 4, 2013), Coping with the crisis in Italy: Employment relations and social dialogue amidst the recession (with Marino Regini, ILO, 2013) and contributions to Sociology of Work. An Encyclopedia (V. Smith, ed., Sage Publications, 2013).

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Valérie Revest is Maître de Conférences in Economic Sciences at the Université Lumière Lyon-2. She is a member  of the association SSFA-AESF (Social Studies of Finance Association – Association d’Etudes Sociales de la Finance) and Associate Researcher at the CEPN.

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Akos Rona-Tas is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego where he is also founding faculty of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute. For many years, he was a senior research associate at INRA, Paris, and he was the President of SASE in 2018-2019.

He has written two books on market creation. Great Surprise of the Small Transformation: Demise of Communism and Rise of the Private Sector in Hungary, was published by Michigan University Press, the second one, co-authored with Alya Guseva, Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries, by Stanford University Press.

He has published articles on the post-communist transition, on small entrepreneurs, consumer credit, and payment card markets in journals including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Socio-Economic Review, Social Science Research, Research on Sociology of Organizations, Journal of Comparative Economics, Research in the Sociology of Work, as well as various chapters in edited volumes. He is currently working on the problem of rationality and uncertainty in two different contexts: credit assessment and the use of science in risk management.

Akos Rona-Tas has been a member of SASE since 2005. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of the Finance and Society Network, served on the Executive Council between 2012 and 2015, as Treasurer between 2015 and 2018, and as SASE President in 2018/19.

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A: Communitarian Ideals and Civil Society

Marc Schneiberg, the John C. Pock Professor of Sociology at Reed College, is an economic and organizational sociologist who research focuses mainly on the rise, contemporary fates, and economic consequences of organizational diversity and alternatives to giant, shareholder corporations within American capitalism. He has studied the evolution of cooperative and other alternative enterprise systems in the US, including electrical and agricultural cooperatives, insurance mutuals, community banks, and credit unions. He has also addressed how such systems can help reshape markets, subject corporations to countervailing forces, and foster both resilience and shared prosperities in local economies. With National Science Foundation support, he is currently studying organizational variety within American banking and how it combined with state policy to channel flows of loans away from—and in to—small business in poor and minority communities during the pandemic. Schneiberg also has long standing interests in institutions and their relationships with social movements, and in economic governance, including association, regulation and self-regulation in American manufacturing and finance. He has been honored to serve in various capacities in the American Sociological Association, the NSF and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. His work can be accessed on his webpage.

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