Karen Shire
Biographic Data
| ID | 259620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Shire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Shire |
| SIGNATURE | SHIRE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gerhard Mercator University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Who are the fittest? The question of skills in national employment systems in an age of global labour mobility
Faced with demographic as well as economic changes, Germany and Japan have liberalised immigration controls for skilled migrants, set targets for foreign student enrolments in university, and introduced visa categories to enable foreign graduates to enter their labour markets. Yet a relatively modest share of foreign graduates actually receives jobs appropriate to their skill-level and remain in these labour markets. In this article, we focus on …
Fighting (for) the margins: Trade union responses to the emergence of cross-border temporary agency work in the European Union
Recent research suggests that trade unions in the European Union have become more receptive towards temporary and migrant workers and recognise their distinct interests. This article investigates to what extent this shift in attitude informs union responses to cross-border temporary agency work, an important variant of migrant non-standard work in the European Union. This employment form entails several potential lines of intra-labour conflicts o…
The social order of transnational migration markets
The 'infrastructural turn' in labour migration studies has shifted attention away from the experiences of migrants to the role of public authorities and private actors in facilitating migrant mobilities. As part of a broader turn towards studying transnational mobilities rather than immigration and settlement, this research shows that the formalization of transnational labour migration has made mobility both freer and more difficult. In this arti…
Re-organising Service Work: Call Centres in Germany and Britain: Call Centres in Germany and Britain
Nouvelles formes d’organisation du travail et de systèmes de rémunération: Le cas de General Motors en Allemagne et en Autriche
Dans cet article, l’auteur défend l’idée selon laquelle le changement dans l’organisation du travail est un processus essentiellement politique de négociations entre les travailleurs et le management, changement qui prend des formes différentes en fonction des contextes nationaux de relations industrielles. De même, les effets rétroactifs de ces changements sur les contextes seront eux aussi différenciés. La stratégie de recherche allie aussi bie…
The Temporary Staffing Industry in Protected Employment Economies: Germany, Japan and the Netherlands
Japan: Wirtschaft - Gesellschaft - Politik
Class and Gender in the Industrial Borderland: Lee's Feminist Theory of Production Politics
Service Work in Consumer Capitalism: Customers, Control and Contradictions
There is an important literature suggesting that the consumer has become a key focus of identity and figure of authority in contemporary society. Within this literature, however, there is little consideration of the role that the identification with the customer could play in management control within production, nor of the ensuing potential contradictions. This paper examines these issues in front line call centre work. Control in this setting i…
Beyond bureaucracy? Work organization in call centres
Call centres are a rapidly growing, IT-based channel for service and sales delivery, particularly in the financial services and telecom industries. Although little research has been undertaken on the human resource aspects of call centres, two contrasting images are emerging. The first emphasizes the bureaucratic, constraining nature of these work settings, while the second image points towards worker empowerment characteristic of knowledge-inten…
Re-Constituting Work: Trends Towards Knowledge Work and Info-Normative Control
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle among Japan, Europe, and America
The Non-Effects of Class on the Gender Division of Labor in the Home: A Comparative Study of Sweden and the United States
This article explores the relationship between class and the gendered domestic division of labor by examining how the contribution by husbands to housework in dual-career families varies across the class system. The article uses data from the United States and Sweden. The findings indicate that location in the class structure is not a powerful or systematic determinant of variations in the division of labor across households
Re-Constituting Work: Trends Towards Knowledge Work and Info-Normative Control
Service Work in Consumer Capitalism: Customers, Control and Contradictions
There is an important literature suggesting that the consumer has become a key focus of identity and figure of authority in contemporary society. Within this literature, however, there is little consideration of the role that the identification with the customer could play in management control within production, nor of the ensuing potential contradictions. This paper examines these issues in front line call centre work. Control in this setting i…
Who are the fittest? The question of skills in national employment systems in an age of global labour mobility
Faced with demographic as well as economic changes, Germany and Japan have liberalised immigration controls for skilled migrants, set targets for foreign student enrolments in university, and introduced visa categories to enable foreign graduates to enter their labour markets. Yet a relatively modest share of foreign graduates actually receives jobs appropriate to their skill-level and remain in these labour markets. In this article, we focus on …
The Non-Effects of Class on the Gender Division of Labor in the Home: A Comparative Study of Sweden and the United States
This article explores the relationship between class and the gendered domestic division of labor by examining how the contribution by husbands to housework in dual-career families varies across the class system. The article uses data from the United States and Sweden. The findings indicate that location in the class structure is not a powerful or systematic determinant of variations in the division of labor across households
The social order of transnational migration markets
The 'infrastructural turn' in labour migration studies has shifted attention away from the experiences of migrants to the role of public authorities and private actors in facilitating migrant mobilities. As part of a broader turn towards studying transnational mobilities rather than immigration and settlement, this research shows that the formalization of transnational labour migration has made mobility both freer and more difficult. In this arti…
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle among Japan, Europe, and America
The Non-Effects of Class on the Gender Division of Labor in the Home: A Comparative Study of Sweden and the United States
This article explores the relationship between class and the gendered domestic division of labor by examining how the contribution by husbands to housework in dual-career families varies across the class system. The article uses data from the United States and Sweden. The findings indicate that location in the class structure is not a powerful or systematic determinant of variations in the division of labor across households
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle among Japan, Europe, and America
Re-Constituting Work: Trends Towards Knowledge Work and Info-Normative Control
Beyond bureaucracy? Work organization in call centres
Call centres are a rapidly growing, IT-based channel for service and sales delivery, particularly in the financial services and telecom industries. Although little research has been undertaken on the human resource aspects of call centres, two contrasting images are emerging. The first emphasizes the bureaucratic, constraining nature of these work settings, while the second image points towards worker empowerment characteristic of knowledge-inten…
Service Work in Consumer Capitalism: Customers, Control and Contradictions
There is an important literature suggesting that the consumer has become a key focus of identity and figure of authority in contemporary society. Within this literature, however, there is little consideration of the role that the identification with the customer could play in management control within production, nor of the ensuing potential contradictions. This paper examines these issues in front line call centre work. Control in this setting i…
Class and Gender in the Industrial Borderland: Lee's Feminist Theory of Production Politics
Japan: Wirtschaft - Gesellschaft - Politik
The Temporary Staffing Industry in Protected Employment Economies: Germany, Japan and the Netherlands
Nouvelles formes d’organisation du travail et de systèmes de rémunération: Le cas de General Motors en Allemagne et en Autriche
Dans cet article, l’auteur défend l’idée selon laquelle le changement dans l’organisation du travail est un processus essentiellement politique de négociations entre les travailleurs et le management, changement qui prend des formes différentes en fonction des contextes nationaux de relations industrielles. De même, les effets rétroactifs de ces changements sur les contextes seront eux aussi différenciés. La stratégie de recherche allie aussi bie…
Re-organising Service Work: Call Centres in Germany and Britain: Call Centres in Germany and Britain
Fighting (for) the margins: Trade union responses to the emergence of cross-border temporary agency work in the European Union
Recent research suggests that trade unions in the European Union have become more receptive towards temporary and migrant workers and recognise their distinct interests. This article investigates to what extent this shift in attitude informs union responses to cross-border temporary agency work, an important variant of migrant non-standard work in the European Union. This employment form entails several potential lines of intra-labour conflicts o…
The social order of transnational migration markets
The 'infrastructural turn' in labour migration studies has shifted attention away from the experiences of migrants to the role of public authorities and private actors in facilitating migrant mobilities. As part of a broader turn towards studying transnational mobilities rather than immigration and settlement, this research shows that the formalization of transnational labour migration has made mobility both freer and more difficult. In this arti…
Who are the fittest? The question of skills in national employment systems in an age of global labour mobility
Faced with demographic as well as economic changes, Germany and Japan have liberalised immigration controls for skilled migrants, set targets for foreign student enrolments in university, and introduced visa categories to enable foreign graduates to enter their labour markets. Yet a relatively modest share of foreign graduates actually receives jobs appropriate to their skill-level and remain in these labour markets. In this article, we focus on …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works)