Workshop Faculty
Chris Warhurst
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Chris Warhurst
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.
Jérôme Blanc
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Jérôme Blanc
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.
Dorothee Bohle
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Dorothee Bohle
Dorothee Bohle is Professor of Political Science at Central European University, Budapest. Before joining CEU, she was a research fellow at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin. She also held visiting positions at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, the European University Institute, where she was a Fernand Braudel Fellow, and the University of Florida. She obtained her PhD from Free University of Berlin in 2001. Her research focusses on the political economy of Eastern Europe. Her recent book, Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery (Cornell University Press 2012), which she co-authored with Bela Greskovits, is the winner of the 2013 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. She is also the author of Europas Neue Peripherie: Polens Transformation und Transnationale Integration (Münster, Westfälisches Dampfboot (2002) and has published numerous book chapters and articles in Studies in Comparative International Development, West European Politics, Journal of Democracy, European Journal of Sociology, and Review of International Political Economy.
Neil Fligstein
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Neil Fligstein
Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California and the Director of the Center for Culture, Organization, and Politics at the Institute of Industrial Relations. His main research interests lie in the fi elds of economic sociology, organizational theory, and institutional theory. He recently completed a book entitled Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the future of Europe (Oxford University Press, 2008) and is currently working with Doug McAdam on a book analyzing how institutions are formed. He recently began a project to analyze the causes of the current financial crisis in the U.S.
Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière
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Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière
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.
Angela Knox
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Angela Knox
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.
Glenn Morgan
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Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan is Professor of Management at the University of Bristol. He was previously Professor at Cardiff Business School (2010-2015) and at Warwick Business School (1998-2010: Professor from 2004). In 2014, he was Velux Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School. In 2014-15, he was President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics(SASE). He was editor of the journal Organization from 2004-2008 and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Professions and Organisations and Critical Perspectives on International Business.
Roberto Pedersini
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Roberto Pedersini
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).
Valérie Revest
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Valérie Revest
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.
Akos Rona-Tas
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Akos Rona-Tas
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He is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego and a research associate at INRA, Paris. 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. He has been a member of SASE since 2005.
Marc Schneiberg
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Marc Schneiberg
Marc Schneiberg is John C. Pock Professor of Sociology at Reed College. He is an economic and organizational sociologist who researches the rise, contemporary fates, and economic consequences of organizational diversity and alternatives to giant, shareholder corporations in American capitalism. This work addresses both the evolution of cooperative and other alternative enterprise systems in the US, including electrical and agricultural cooperatives, insurance mutuals, community banks, and credit unions, and how the emergence of such enterprises can help upgrade markets, regulate corporations, and foster more decentralized and small stakeholder trajectories of capitalist development.
Schneiberg also studies association, regulation and self-regulation in American manufacturing and finance. He is Editor of Socio-Economic Review, and Consulting Editor of Sociological Science, has served on the executive councils of the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, and has twice received National Science Foundation support for his research. He teaches courses in economic and organizational sociology (Economic Sociology, Institutional Analysis, American Capitalism, Sociology of Finance, Regulation) but also Race and Ethnicity and Race, Economic Sociology, and Organizations. His papers and course syllabi can be found on his webpage.