2011
27 January 2011
Dr. Jean Cushen (Queen’s University, Belfast)
'Critical Realism, Financialisation and the Knowledge Workplace'
3 February 2011
Aidan Regan (School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin)
‘Social Partnership and Economic Governance’
10 February 2011
Fionnuala Ni Bhrogain (Communication Workers’ Union)
‘Changes and Challenges for Women in the Workforce’
17t February 2011
Professor James Wickham (Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin)
‘Mass Immigration and Technological Regression’
24 February 2011
Dr. Roland Erne (School of Business, University College Dublin)
‘European unions after the crisis'
10 March 2011
John Hurley (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions)
‘Impacts of the Great Recession on employment structure in the EU’
24 March 2011
Dr. Melanie Simms (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick)
‘Evaluating Organising: Union Renewal Initiatives in the UK’
5 October 2011
James Wickham (Trinity College Dublin)
'Buy Not Make? Hidden employment choices during Ireland’s economic boom'
12 October 2011
Peter Mühlau (Trinity College Dublin)
'Job mobility and work attitudes of Polish migrants in the recession'
19 October 2011
Wenzel Matiaske (University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg)
'Financial employee participation'
2 November 2011
Justyna Salamonska (Trinity College Dublin)
'Migration and social welfare in post Celtic Tiger Ireland'
(with E. Moriarty, J. Wickham, T. Krings, A. Bobek)
2010
14 January 2010
Jimmy Donaghy (Queen's University Belfast)
Has Social Partnership Finally Died? Should We Care?
28 January 2010
Ivana Fellini (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Demand-Driven Labour Migration: A Discussion of Firm's Recruitment Strategies with Special Focus on the Construction Sector
11 February 2010
Kieran Walsh (NUI Galway)
The Role of Migrant Care Workers in Ageing Societies: Context and Experience in Ireland
25 February 2010
Breda Feehan (Trinity College Dublin)
Career Breaks and the Question of Gender
25 March 2010
Sam Scott (University of Liverpool)
Mixed-Nationality Relationships and Skilled Migrant Assimilation: Evidence from Britain and France
13 May 2010
Majella Giblin (NUI Galway)
Local Entrepreneurs in Global Clusters: The Significance of Spatial and Relational Propinquity in New Firm Formation
2009
12 January 2009
Gerard Hughes (Trinity College Dublin)
EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Effects of Migration to Ireland from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe
9 February 2009
Aileen O’ Carroll (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
What's wrong with academic work? Time and the academic work process
9 March 2009
Roland Erne (University College Dublin)
European Unions. Labour's quest for a Transnational democracy
23 March 2009
Jean Cushen (Trinity College Dublin)
The Marketeaucracy: Hierarchy and Financialisation of Knowledge Work
20 April 2009
Peter Fleming (University of London)
'Just be Yourself': Authenticity, Solidarity and Reification of the Individual
at Work
27 April 2009
Christiane Hellmanzik (Trinity College Dublin)
Location Matters: Estimating Cluster Premiums for Prominent Modern Artists
18 May 2009
Sabina Stan (Dublin City University)
Work, Post-Socialism and the Flexible Transmigrant
25 May 2009
Stuart Dawley (Newcastle University)
Poles to Newcastle: Grounding New Migrant Flows in Peripheral Regions
8 June 2009
Pierce Parker (University of Limerick)
Do Economic Experiences of Different Nationalities of New EU-10 Migrant Workers Differ in Ireland? Use of Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) in Survey of EU Migrant Workers in Ireland
8 October 2009
James Wickham (Trinity College Dublin)
Economic Recovery and/or Social Cohesion? Irish Labour Market Policy in the Crisis
22 October 2009
Nanette Schuppers (University College Dublin)
Indian Migration into Ireland. Invited, English-Speaking, and Well-Educated. A Recipe for Success?
5 November 2009
Maeve Houlihan (University College Dublin)
Contingent Work and its Contradictions: The Case of Irish Interim Managers
19 November 2009
Enda Murphy (University College Dublin)
Questions on the 'Creative Class': Human Creativity, Economic Growth and Future Urban Policy?
3 December 2009
Barbara Wilczek (Bournemouth University)
Choice and Constraint in Migrant Worker Acculturation: Towards a New Approach
2008
28 January 2008
Holger Kolb (University of Osnabrueck, Germany)
Employment strategies and migrant labour
10 March 2008
Jean Cushen (TCD)
Ethnography at work
07 April 2008
Torben Krings (DCU)
Trade unions, EU enlargement and the free movement of
labour
14 April 2008
Jean Cushen (TCD)
Doing a Workplace Ethnography: One researchers experience
28 April 2008
Justyna Salamonska (TCD)
‘Middling migration’ in a globalising city: a case study of Polish migrants in Dublin
6 October 2008
James Wickham (Trinity College Dublin)
The New European Public Transport Model: Bad Jobs and Good Service
20 October 2008
Peter Muehlau (Trinity College Dublin)
Respondent-Driven Sampling of Hard to Reach Populations
3 November 2008
Camilla Devitt (European University Institute, Italy)
The Institutional Determinants of Labour Migration
17 November 2008
Martha Doyle (Trinity College Dublin)
The Different Faces of Care Work: Understanding the Experiences of the Multi-Cultural Care Workforce
24 November 2008
Fidel Taguinod (Dublin Institute of Technology)
‘Surrogate Nursing’: Who Benefits?
1 December 2008
Hanna Janta (Bournemouth University, UK)
‘I came 3 years ago for 3 months’ – Polish Migrant Workers in the UK Hospitality Industry
2007
15 January 2007
Peter Muhlau (Trinity College Dublin)
Commitment and influence: What governs the timing of reorganisation announcements?
5 February 2007
Aurora Trif (University College Dublin)
Industrial Relations in Romania
26 February 2007
Jackie Sinclair (University College Dublin)
Conflict, cooperation and changing workplace practices: a comparison of
management-trade union relations in multi and single union workplaces
2 April 2007
Emma Quinn & Frances McGinnity (Economic & Social Research Institute)
Migrants' Experience of Racism and Discrimination in Ireland
30 April 2007
Soitria Theodoropolou (Trinity College Dublin)
Fighting Western European Unemployment without Labour Market
Deregulation
8 May 2007 NB TUESDAY
Arts Block Room 5052
Kees van Veen (Faculty of Management Science, University of Groningen)
Corporate Governance and Nationality Diversity in Corporate Boards. A
comparative study of Germany, The Netherlands and The United Kingdom
21 May 2007 *NB change of date*
Ilona Hunek (University College Dublin)
Employment practices in multinational banks in Poland
10 December 2007
Tony Royle (NUI Galway)
Dominance effects and multinational corporations: An analysis of Carrefour's
employment practices in Spain
2006
9 January 2006
Michael Doherty (Dublin City University)
Participation Boutique or Talking Shop? Workplace Partnership in the Public Sector.
27 February 2006
Lee Komito (University College Dublin)
Virtual Community: A Contradiction in Terms?
13 March 2006
Grainne Collins and Alessandra Vecchi (Employment Research Centre, TCD)
Proximity and Co-operation.
3 April 2006
Colin O'Connor (School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology)
Towards Sustainability and Competitiveness within the Irish Hotel Sector.
24 April 2006
Charlie Dannreuther (University of Leeds, UK)
Rights and the regulation of accumulation - explaining the shift from national social rights to global economic rights.
8 May 2006
Heiko Fritz (Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham, UK)
How to clone the Celtic Tiger? Reflecting on Economic Policies in the new EU Member States.
9 May 2006
NB Location: Room 2, College Green
John Cultiaux (Université catholique de Louvain)
Low-qualified workers and the "modernisation" of public sector organisations in Belgium.
22 May 2006
Gerry Boucher (Queen's University Belfast)
Managerial Partnership in the Irish Health Services.
4 December 2006
Patrick Flood (University of Limerick)
High Performance Work Systems and Firm Performance: Irish and international evidence
2005
28 February 2005
Ian Bruff (Trinity College Dublin)
The relative economic success of small European states: the role of national culture
8 March 2005
Prof Frederic S Lee (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
Economics and the Theory of Market Governance
14 March 2005
Dr Virpi Timonen (Trinity College Dublin)
Two worlds of "Active Ageing": A Comparison of Policies and Outcomes in Sweden and Ireland
21 March 2005
Colin Lindsay (Napier University, UK)
Social capital, job seeking and the experience of long term unemployment: evidence from research with job seekers in Scotland
4 April 2005
Dr Sebastian Schief (Institut fur Arbeit und Technik, Gelsenkirchen, Germany)
Industrial Relations in the new EU Member States
18 April 2005
Antony Meehan (Open University, UK) & Michael Grimsely (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Trust in the Community: Some results from two large-scale surveys in the South Yorkshire Coalfield
25 April 2005
Alessandra Verri (Universita della Calabria, Italy)
The Participation of Chinese workers in the Italian and Canadian Labour Market : Garment workshops, shopping malls and their impact on the urben environment
9 May 2005
Denise Skinner (Oxford Brookes University, UK)Trust and the Employment Relationship
17 May 2005
Eskil Ekstedt (National Institute of Working Life, Sweden)
Employment Contracts and the New Division of Labour
(summer break)
10 October 2005
Mara Yerkes (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands)
To Work or Not to Work? Women's Employment Preferences and Work-Family Balance Policies in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.
24 October 2005
Roland Erne (University College Dublin)
Organised Labour - An Agent of EU Democracy? Trade Union Strategies Relating to the Formation of a European Polity.
7 November 2005
Alex Lascaux (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia)
Linking Trust to Risk: On the Limits of Coleman’s Conceptualization of Trusting Relationships.
21 November 2005
Ian Bruff (Trinity College Dublin)
Importing Skilled Labour to High Tech Ireland: The Social Production of Skills Shortages in the Irish Software Industry.
5 December 2005
Virpi Timonen (Trinity College Dublin)
Eldercare Work in Ireland: Public, Private and Informal Carers in the Community.
2003
27th January 2003
Sarah Ingle (Dublin City University Business School)
Multinational corporations in Ireland: Their location, growth and survival, an automotive component sub-sector examined
10th February 2003
Lidya Greco (Employment Research Centre)
The market and the institutions: A comparative analysis of industrial change
24th February 2003
Kevin Doogan (University of Bristol)
Work in an Age of Insecurity
31st March 2003
Almar Barry (Department of Geography, TCD)
The Indigenous High-Tech Sector in the Republic of Ireland: Barriers and Stimulants to the Development of Industry-Academic Links
14th April 2003
James Wickham (Employment Research Centre)
Wealth and class structure
28th April 2003
Thomas Haipter (Institute for Work and Technology, Germany)
Working Time: the automotive industry in Germany
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2002
January 28th 2002
Richard Layte (ESRI)
Unemployed Benefits and the Financial Incentive to Work
February 11th 2002
Matthieu de Nanteuil-Miribel (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Work recognition: philosophical and sociological perspectives
February 18th 2002
Gerry Boucher (ERC)
Attached and Detached Universities: Towards Regional Development Systems in the Shannon and Dublin Regions
February 25th 2002
Michael Doherty (ERC)
Trade Union Renewal in Europe-Challenges and Strategies
March 4th 2002
Angela Canny (Institute for Employment Research, Warwick)
Starting a career or just a job? Young workers in banks and shops
March 13th 2002
John Howells (Arhus Business School, Denmark)
Outsourcing and technological expertise
March 25th 2002
Paul Tigue (QUB)
Employment Relations in Euroland
October 28th 2002
Grainne Collins and James Wickham (ERC)
The call center, a nursery for new forms of work organisation
November 11th 2002
Donald Storrie (This seminar will start at 4pm)
Temporary Agency Work in the European Union
November 25th 2002
Anne Marie McGauran
Cross-national variations in the character of retail selling in Dublin and Paris
December 14th 2002
Sean O Siochru, Jon Ihle and Paul Butler
Dublin and Cork as ICT Clusters - policy directions
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2001
January 8th 2001
Grainne Collins (ERC)
Why Mergers are Gendered
January 15th 2001
Emer O'Hagan (DCU)
Industrial Relations in the Periphery of Europe: the Unfolding Story of the European Social Model’
January 22nd 2001
Ned Lorenz (Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi Noisy-le-Grand)
Organisational Change, Governance Structure and Innovative Capacity in British and French Industry
February 5th 2001
Jacqueline O'Reilly (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
Challenging the Gender Contract: Conceptual Reflections of the Basis and Sustainability of European Employment Systems
February 12th 2001
Barbara Poggio (Trento University)
Narrating gender in organizations. How gender is produced and reproduced in Organizational narratives
February 19th 2001
John Geary (UCD)
Industrial Relations and Human Resource Practices of Multinational Companies in Ireland: the Enduring Influence of Country-of-origin
February 20th 2001
Juliet Webster (ERC)
Using The Opportunity Of Organisational Change To Advance Gender Equality: Lessons From European Research
March 12th 2001
Piergiulio Poli (ERC)
Graduates' careers, Employers and Academia: Some results from the ERC research
April 10th 2001
Francesco Botto (University of Trento)
Actor Network Theory, a pragmatic view
April 23rd 2001
Lee Komito (UCD)
Distributed work, knowledge and culture: limitations of place in the Information Society
April 30th 2001
Anne Good (Trinity College Dublin)
Renegotiating the European Gender Contract: the case of job training 1971-97
October 15th 2001
James Wickham (ERC) Arts Students careers from an elite University-some evidence from TCD
October 22nd 2001
Kathy Monks (DCU)
Designing and Aligning Human Resource Systems: A Multidivisional Approach
November 5th 2001
Rachel Halliards (DCU)
An Analysis of Industry Response to Challenges of Environmental Regulation: An Organisational Capabilities Approach
November 13th 2001
Richard Layte (ESRI)
Unemployed Benefits and the Financial Incentive to Work
November 19th 2001
Juliet Webster (ERC)
'Servemploi' Roundtable:Getting into Good Work: What opportunities does the Information Society offer to women?
November 26th 2001
Eric Shea and Raj Chari (TCD)
Joint-Market Dominance and Nestle/Perrier: Lessons for EU Policy-Making
December 3rd 2001
Anthony Cunningham (Maynooth)
How Can You Listen to the Bastards? Researching Elites: When Theory and Method Collide in Research
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2000
January 24th 2000
Raj Chari (TCD)
Explaining Labour Market Reform in Spain in the 1990s
January 31st 2000
James Wickham and Sinead Ni Aoileain
Only Real Men Catch Robbers? Changing Gender Roles in An Garda Siochana
February 7th 2000
Paddy Gunnigle (Univ Limerick)
Partnership in Ireland
February 14th 2000
Richard Phillips (Sussex University)
Disclosing the nature of power and inequality in the learning economy: Social complexity, the dynamics of nestedness, and how organisation means business
February 21th 2000
Juliet Webster (Employment Research Centre)
Smiling Down the Phone: Non-communication in call centres
February 28th 2000
Monica Barnes, Rosin Collender (SIPTU) Medb Ruane (Irish Times) Evelyn Mahon (TCD), Lic McManus (TD)
Roundtable discussion: Blacklash: women, work, and the budget
March 6th 2000
Aileen O'Carroll (TCD)
Time to work, time to play: Working time in the Irish software industry
April 3rd 2000
Grainne Collins and James Wickham (ERC)
Experiencing Mergers: Women's Perspectives on Restructuring
October 9th 2000
James Wickham (Employment Research Centre)
The Transport Rich and the Transport poor: Car Dependency and Social Classes in Four European Cities.
October 16th 2000
Gerry Boucher (ERC)
Regional Growth and Regional Institutions: Dublin and Shannon Compared
October 23th 2000
Proinnsias Breathnach (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Spatial Divisions of Labour in the Post-Fordist Informational Economy: The Growth of the Call Centre Sector in Dublin
November 6th 2000
David Jacobson (School of Business-DCU)
Partnership, National and Plant Level
November 13th 2000
Juliet Webster (ERC)
The Value of Women and Men: Gendering Knowledge and Skills in the Information Society
November 20th 2000
Piergiulio Poli (ERC)
Call Centres: Beyond the Electronic Sweatshop
November 27th 2000
Cheryl Conway (CURDS University of Newcastle)
Regional Development and the Graduate Labour Market: the UK and Ireland
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1999
November 1st 1999
Grainne Collins (TCD)
Exploitation or Inclusion?The Expansion of Women's Employment in the Irish Service Sector
November 8st 1999
Helen Russell (ESRI) and Philip O'Connell (UCD)
Getting a Job in Europe: the Transition from Unemployment to Work among Young People in 9 EU Countries
November 19th 1999
Richard Layte (ESRI)
Are They Working in Time? A Dynamic Analysis of the Effectiveness of Active Labour Market Programmes in Ireland
November 29th 1999
James Wickham (TCD)
Good Jobs for All? Innovation, Participation, and the Quality of Jobs in European Workplaces
December 6th 1999
Gerry Boucher (TCD)
Irish Higher Education and the Celtic Tiger
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