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Ian Greer

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ID262909
NAMEIan Greer
GIVEN NAMESIan
FAMILY NAMEGreer
SIGNATUREGREER I
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
ORCID0000-0002-4441-4999
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS218
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8
  • Union power and the green automotive transition: Comparing bargaining episodes in the US and Germany, 2023–2024

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Ian Richard Sanders Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Transfer European Review of…•2026

    This article contributes to the debate on union efforts to shape decarbonisation of their industries by examining collective bargaining that impacted the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) in the auto industry. We compare the 2023 bargaining round between the United Auto Workers and the Detroit Three car makers in the US with the 2024 negotiations between IG Metall and Volkswagen in Germany. Both unions launched strikes, but while the UAW secu…

  • Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition

    Open Access•Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Industrial Relations A Journal of…•2026

    Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV transition. Both unions emphasized a just transition and secured significant gains through the negotiations. …

  • A Just Transition for Auto Workers? Negotiating the Electric Vehicle Transition in Germany and North America

    Open Access•Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 40

    Reducing human-made greenhouse gas emissions is crucially important for life on earth, but it requires restructuring industries in ways that could disrupt millions of workers' lives globally. Whether this transition is "just" from the perspective of workers depends on the magnitude of job losses, the quality of new jobs, and the transitions workers experience from their current jobs to new ones. Using the example of the German automotive industry…

  • Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security

    Open Access•Genevieve Coderre-Lapalme, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 42

    When the welfare state is under attack from neoliberal reformers, how can trade unionists and other campaigners build solidarity to defend it? Based on 45 qualitative interviews, this article compares campaigns to defend British health services and social security benefits between 2007 and 2016. Building on the macro-insights of comparative welfare-state literature and the more micro-level insights of studies on mobilisation, community unionism a…

  • Shāh Walī Allāh in Defence of Ibn Taymiyyah: A Translation and Reading of Risālah fī Manāqib Ibn Taymiyyah wa ’l-Difā‘ ‘anhu

    Muzzammil Ahmad, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•ISLAMIC STUDIES•2022

    Until now, only a short excerpt from the eighteenth-century South Asian reformist Shāh Walī Allāh’s (d. 1176/1762) treatise in defence of the medieval Syrian theologian Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728/1328) has been published in English. In addition to providing a full translation of Risālah fī Manāqib Ibn Taymiyyah wa ’l-Difā‘ ‘anhu (Epistle on the Virtues of Ibn Taymiyyah and in His Defence), this article argues that Shāh Walī Allāh’s due attention for I…

  • Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Charles Umney•BOOK•Marketization•2022

    How do markets function? Who creates, shapes and organizes them? And what do they mean for the relationship between labor and capital? Marketization examines how the state and capital use markets to discipline the working class. Ian Greer and Charles Umney provide a comprehensive overview of the European political economy, from the European Commission to the workplace, to show how neoliberal principles translate into market mechanisms and reshape…

  • Why isn’t there an Uber for live music? The digitalisation of intermediaries and the limits of the platform economy

    Open Access•Dario Azzellini, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 31

    Online platforms have disrupted parts of the capitalist economy, but assessing the magnitude of this effect is difficult. Much is known about major platforms, but less about the conditions under which they take over—or fail to take over—a given market. Unlike explanations emphasising slow take‐up by entrepreneurs or worker resistance, we argue that historical and organisational characteristics of markets make them resistant to the platform model.…

  • Recentralizing Industrial Relations? Local Unions and the Politics of Insourcing in Three North American Automakers

    Open Access•Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 26

    Since the auto industry's 2008 crisis, the decades-long trend toward outsourcing by the Detroit Three automakers has stalled. During and after the crisis, original equipment manufacturers moved work inside their corporate boundaries, including the purchase of eight previously spun-off parts plants. Why has this happened? Drawing on 77 interviews in the United States and Canada and 27 insourcing cases, the authors explore how and why insourcing ha…

  • Organised by transitions: The self-organisation of next-generation welfare professionals in Slovenia

    Barbara Samaluk, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Work in the Global Economy•2021

    Much is known about innovative union strategies to organise young workers, but little is known about how and why they self-organise outside of unions. Based on field research in Slovenia, we examine ‘next-generation welfare professionals’, a diverse group of students, unemployed graduates and precarious workers attempting to enter state-regulated, and relatively well unionised education and social protection professions. We argue that their self-…

  • Creaming and parking in marketized employment services: An Anglo-German comparison

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Lisa A Schulte et al.•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2018•Cited by: 24•References: 38

    The delivery of public services by nonprofit and for-profit providers alters the nature of services and jobs, often in unintended and undesired ways. We argue that these effects depend on the degree to which the service is ‘marketized’, that is, subjected by the funder to price-based competition. Using case studies of British and German employment services, this article scrutinizes the link between funding practices and service quality. Of partic…

  • The state and class discipline: European labour market policy after the financial crisis

    Open Access•Charles Umney, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Capital & Class•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 70

    This article looks at two related labour market policies that have persisted and even proliferated across Europe both before and after the financial crisis: wage restraint and punitive workfare programmes. It asks why these policies, despite their weak empirical records, have been so durable. Moving beyond comparative-institutionalist explanations which emphasise institutional stickiness, it draws on Marxist and Kaleckian ideas around the concept…

  • Marketization, inequality, and institutional change: Toward a new framework for comparative employment relations

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Virginia Doellgast•ARTICLE•Journal of Industrial Relations•2017

    This article develops a framework for analyzing the social effects of marketization, defined as the imposition or intensification of price-based competition. The conceptual background is debates in comparative employment relations over the liberalization of markets and its consequences across Europe. Our central proposition is that marketization in its diverse forms leads to increased economic and social inequality via its effects on non-market i…

  • The Marketization of Employment Services: The Dilemmas of Europe's Work-first Welfare State

    Ian Greer, Karen N Breidahl et al.•BOOK•The Marketization of Employment…•2017

    This book examines the marketization of employment services and its consequences in Denmark, Great Britain, and Germany. What concretely does marketization mean in practice? What are its effects on the services and their governance? How does marketization and its effects map against the main ‘regime types’ found in comparative social science? These questions are answered using more than 100 qualitative interviews with policymakers, managers, and …

  • Insertion as an alternative to workfare: Active labour-market schemes in the Parisian suburbs

    Open Access•Lisa A Schulte, Lisa Schulte et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2017•Cited by: 13•References: 10

    Many governments have tightened the link between welfare and work by attaching conditionality to out-of-work benefits, extending these requirements to new client groups and imposing market competition and greater managerial control in service delivery – principles typically characterized as ‘workfare’. Based on field research in Seine-Saint-Denis, we examine French ‘ insertion’ schemes aimed at disadvantaged but potentially job-ready clients, cha…

  • Management Whipsawing: The Staging of Labor Competition Under Globalization

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Marco Hauptmeier•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2016•Cited by: 16•References: 32

    The authors examine management whipsawing practices in the European auto industry based on more than 200 interviews and a comparison of three automakers. They identify four distinct ways in which managers stage competition between plants to extract labor concessions: informal, hegemonic, coercive, and rule-based whipsawing. Practices at the three auto firms differed from one another and changed over time because of two factors: structural whipsaw…

  • Welfare reform, precarity and the re-commodification of labour

    Open Access•Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2016•Cited by: 75•References: 29

    While welfare reform matters for workers and workplaces, it is peripheral in English-language sociology of work and industrial relations research. This article's core proposition is that active labour market policies (ALMPs) are altering the institutional constitution of the labour market by intensifying market discipline within the workforce. This re-commodification effect is specified drawing on Marxism, comparative institutionalism, German-lan…

  • When does marketisation lead to privatisation? Profit-making in English health services after the 2012 Health and Social Care Act

    Open Access•Nick Krachler, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2015•Cited by: 26•References: 39

  • Determinantes industriais da solidariedade transnacional: Política Intersindical Global Em Três Setores

    Open Access•Mark Anner, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Estudos Avançados•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    Este artigo compara formas de transnacionalismo do trabalho em três setores: indústria automotiva; transporte marítimo; vestuário e indústria têxtil. Em cada caso, os sindicatos se envolvem em atividades transnacionais muito diferentes para reassumir o controle sobre o mercado de trabalho e a concorrência. Conforme as instituições de cooperação transnacional se tornam mais complexas, os sindicatos continuam a lutar com as tensões competitivas (tr…

  • Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions und New Labour, edited by Gary Daniels and John McIlroy

    Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Labor History•2011

    Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions und New Labour, edited by Gary Daniels and John McIlroy, London and New York, Routledge, 2009, xix+ 380 pp., US$150.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780415

  • Organised industrial relations in the information economy: The German automotive sector as a test case

    Open Access•Ian Greer•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2008•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    This paper explores changes in industrial relations in the German automotive sector. Historically, this sector has generated important insights about national ‘models’ and the political economy of work. It is argued that vertical disintegration has created new market‐mediated boundaries that have undermined existing patterns of organised industrial relations

  • Vertical Disintegration and the Disorganization of German Industrial Relations 1

    Open Access•Virginia Doellgast, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•British Journal of Industrial…•2007

    Drawing on case studies from the telecommunications and auto industries, the authors argue that the vertical disintegration of major German employers is contributing to the disorganization of Germany’s dual system of in‐plant and sectoral negotiations. Subcontractors, subsidiaries and temporary agencies often have no collective bargaining institutions or are covered by different firm‐level and sectoral agreements. As core employers move jobs to t…

  • Industrial Relations, Migration, and Neoliberal Politics: The Case of the European Construction Sector

    Open Access•Nathan Lillie, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Politics & Society•2007•Cited by: 30•References: 15

    Transnational politics and labor markets are undermining national industrial relations systems in Europe. This article examines the construction industry, where the internationalization of the labor market has gone especially far. To test hypotheses about di ferences between “national systems,” the authors examine the United Kingdom, Finland, and Germany, alongside European-level policy making. Regardless of overall national institutional framewo…

  • Business union vs. business union? Understanding the split in the US labour movement

    Open Access•Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Capital & Class•2006

    In summer 2005, the US trade union movement formalised its split into two rival confederations. The split was precipitated by the 2001 disaffiliation of the carpenters' union, the Republican electoral victory of 2004, and the decline in union membership. Seven unions, accounting for forty per cent of the membership of the Afl-CIO, formed Change to Win as a response to that federation's ineffectiveness. This article concludes that the split may le…

  • Preterm Labour: Managing Risk in Clinical Practice

    Open Access•Jane Norman, Ian Greer•BOOK•Preterm Labour•2005

    This volume summarizes advances in the optimal clinical management of preterm labour, using the best available evidence of the time. The contributors (mostly practising clinicians) are all actively involved in research into the mechanisms, aetiology, treatment and associated outcomes of preterm labour. The chapters are based on common clinical scenarios and each provides a comprehensive literature review followed by evidence-based recommendations…

  • The Future of the American Labor Movement

    Ian Greer, Hoyt N Wheeler et al.•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2004

    Coming at a time of profound change in the global conditions under which American organized labor exists, The Future of the American Labor Movement, first published in 2002, describes and analyzes labor's strategic alternatives. The analysis is broadly cast, taking into account ideas that range from the current European Social Dialogue to the methods of the nineteenth-century American Knights of Labor. There are a number of intriguing strategies …

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  • Welfare reform, precarity and the re-commodification of labour

    Open Access•Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2016•Cited by: 75•References: 29

    While welfare reform matters for workers and workplaces, it is peripheral in English-language sociology of work and industrial relations research. This article's core proposition is that active labour market policies (ALMPs) are altering the institutional constitution of the labour market by intensifying market discipline within the workforce. This re-commodification effect is specified drawing on Marxism, comparative institutionalism, German-lan…

  • Industrial Relations, Migration, and Neoliberal Politics: The Case of the European Construction Sector

    Open Access•Nathan Lillie, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Politics & Society•2007•Cited by: 30•References: 15

    Transnational politics and labor markets are undermining national industrial relations systems in Europe. This article examines the construction industry, where the internationalization of the labor market has gone especially far. To test hypotheses about di ferences between “national systems,” the authors examine the United Kingdom, Finland, and Germany, alongside European-level policy making. Regardless of overall national institutional framewo…

  • When does marketisation lead to privatisation? Profit-making in English health services after the 2012 Health and Social Care Act

    Open Access•Nick Krachler, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2015•Cited by: 26•References: 39

  • Creaming and parking in marketized employment services: An Anglo-German comparison

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Lisa A Schulte et al.•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2018•Cited by: 24•References: 38

    The delivery of public services by nonprofit and for-profit providers alters the nature of services and jobs, often in unintended and undesired ways. We argue that these effects depend on the degree to which the service is ‘marketized’, that is, subjected by the funder to price-based competition. Using case studies of British and German employment services, this article scrutinizes the link between funding practices and service quality. Of partic…

  • Management Whipsawing: The Staging of Labor Competition Under Globalization

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Marco Hauptmeier•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2016•Cited by: 16•References: 32

    The authors examine management whipsawing practices in the European auto industry based on more than 200 interviews and a comparison of three automakers. They identify four distinct ways in which managers stage competition between plants to extract labor concessions: informal, hegemonic, coercive, and rule-based whipsawing. Practices at the three auto firms differed from one another and changed over time because of two factors: structural whipsaw…

  • Insertion as an alternative to workfare: Active labour-market schemes in the Parisian suburbs

    Open Access•Lisa A Schulte, Lisa Schulte et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2017•Cited by: 13•References: 10

    Many governments have tightened the link between welfare and work by attaching conditionality to out-of-work benefits, extending these requirements to new client groups and imposing market competition and greater managerial control in service delivery – principles typically characterized as ‘workfare’. Based on field research in Seine-Saint-Denis, we examine French ‘ insertion’ schemes aimed at disadvantaged but potentially job-ready clients, cha…

  • The state and class discipline: European labour market policy after the financial crisis

    Open Access•Charles Umney, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Capital & Class•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 70

    This article looks at two related labour market policies that have persisted and even proliferated across Europe both before and after the financial crisis: wage restraint and punitive workfare programmes. It asks why these policies, despite their weak empirical records, have been so durable. Moving beyond comparative-institutionalist explanations which emphasise institutional stickiness, it draws on Marxist and Kaleckian ideas around the concept…

  • Organised industrial relations in the information economy: The German automotive sector as a test case

    Open Access•Ian Greer•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2008•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    This paper explores changes in industrial relations in the German automotive sector. Historically, this sector has generated important insights about national ‘models’ and the political economy of work. It is argued that vertical disintegration has created new market‐mediated boundaries that have undermined existing patterns of organised industrial relations

  • Why isn’t there an Uber for live music? The digitalisation of intermediaries and the limits of the platform economy

    Open Access•Dario Azzellini, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 31

    Online platforms have disrupted parts of the capitalist economy, but assessing the magnitude of this effect is difficult. Much is known about major platforms, but less about the conditions under which they take over—or fail to take over—a given market. Unlike explanations emphasising slow take‐up by entrepreneurs or worker resistance, we argue that historical and organisational characteristics of markets make them resistant to the platform model.…

  • A Just Transition for Auto Workers? Negotiating the Electric Vehicle Transition in Germany and North America

    Open Access•Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 40

    Reducing human-made greenhouse gas emissions is crucially important for life on earth, but it requires restructuring industries in ways that could disrupt millions of workers' lives globally. Whether this transition is "just" from the perspective of workers depends on the magnitude of job losses, the quality of new jobs, and the transitions workers experience from their current jobs to new ones. Using the example of the German automotive industry…

  • Determinantes industriais da solidariedade transnacional: Política Intersindical Global Em Três Setores

    Open Access•Mark Anner, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Estudos Avançados•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    Este artigo compara formas de transnacionalismo do trabalho em três setores: indústria automotiva; transporte marítimo; vestuário e indústria têxtil. Em cada caso, os sindicatos se envolvem em atividades transnacionais muito diferentes para reassumir o controle sobre o mercado de trabalho e a concorrência. Conforme as instituições de cooperação transnacional se tornam mais complexas, os sindicatos continuam a lutar com as tensões competitivas (tr…

  • Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security

    Open Access•Genevieve Coderre-Lapalme, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 42

    When the welfare state is under attack from neoliberal reformers, how can trade unionists and other campaigners build solidarity to defend it? Based on 45 qualitative interviews, this article compares campaigns to defend British health services and social security benefits between 2007 and 2016. Building on the macro-insights of comparative welfare-state literature and the more micro-level insights of studies on mobilisation, community unionism a…

  • Recentralizing Industrial Relations? Local Unions and the Politics of Insourcing in Three North American Automakers

    Open Access•Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 26

    Since the auto industry's 2008 crisis, the decades-long trend toward outsourcing by the Detroit Three automakers has stalled. During and after the crisis, original equipment manufacturers moved work inside their corporate boundaries, including the purchase of eight previously spun-off parts plants. Why has this happened? Drawing on 77 interviews in the United States and Canada and 27 insourcing cases, the authors explore how and why insourcing ha…

  • Unions in a Globalized Environment: Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries, and Social Roles

    Ian Greer, Bruce Nissen•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2003

    1. The Labor Movement in a New Globalized Environment: An Introduction, Bruce Nissen Part I: Cross-Border Organizing and Solidarity 2. Free Trade and Worker Solidarity in the North American Auto Industry, Steve Babson 3. Four Models of Cross-Border Maquila Organizing, Henry Frundt 4. Union Global Alliances at Multinational Corporations: A Case Study of the Ameritech Alliance, Jeff Rechenbach and Larry Cohen Part II: Responding to Immigration 5. N…

  • The Last Good Job in America: Work and Education in the New Global Technoculture

    Ian Greer, Stanley Aronowitz•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2003

  • The Future of the American Labor Movement

    Ian Greer, Hoyt N Wheeler et al.•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2004

    Coming at a time of profound change in the global conditions under which American organized labor exists, The Future of the American Labor Movement, first published in 2002, describes and analyzes labor's strategic alternatives. The analysis is broadly cast, taking into account ideas that range from the current European Social Dialogue to the methods of the nineteenth-century American Knights of Labor. There are a number of intriguing strategies …

  • Preterm Labour: Managing Risk in Clinical Practice

    Open Access•Jane Norman, Ian Greer•BOOK•Preterm Labour•2005

    This volume summarizes advances in the optimal clinical management of preterm labour, using the best available evidence of the time. The contributors (mostly practising clinicians) are all actively involved in research into the mechanisms, aetiology, treatment and associated outcomes of preterm labour. The chapters are based on common clinical scenarios and each provides a comprehensive literature review followed by evidence-based recommendations…

  • Business union vs. business union? Understanding the split in the US labour movement

    Open Access•Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Capital & Class•2006

    In summer 2005, the US trade union movement formalised its split into two rival confederations. The split was precipitated by the 2001 disaffiliation of the carpenters' union, the Republican electoral victory of 2004, and the decline in union membership. Seven unions, accounting for forty per cent of the membership of the Afl-CIO, formed Change to Win as a response to that federation's ineffectiveness. This article concludes that the split may le…

  • Vertical Disintegration and the Disorganization of German Industrial Relations 1

    Open Access•Virginia Doellgast, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•British Journal of Industrial…•2007

    Drawing on case studies from the telecommunications and auto industries, the authors argue that the vertical disintegration of major German employers is contributing to the disorganization of Germany’s dual system of in‐plant and sectoral negotiations. Subcontractors, subsidiaries and temporary agencies often have no collective bargaining institutions or are covered by different firm‐level and sectoral agreements. As core employers move jobs to t…

  • Industrial Relations, Migration, and Neoliberal Politics: The Case of the European Construction Sector

    Open Access•Nathan Lillie, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Politics & Society•2007•Cited by: 30•References: 15

    Transnational politics and labor markets are undermining national industrial relations systems in Europe. This article examines the construction industry, where the internationalization of the labor market has gone especially far. To test hypotheses about di ferences between “national systems,” the authors examine the United Kingdom, Finland, and Germany, alongside European-level policy making. Regardless of overall national institutional framewo…

  • Organised industrial relations in the information economy: The German automotive sector as a test case

    Open Access•Ian Greer•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2008•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    This paper explores changes in industrial relations in the German automotive sector. Historically, this sector has generated important insights about national ‘models’ and the political economy of work. It is argued that vertical disintegration has created new market‐mediated boundaries that have undermined existing patterns of organised industrial relations

  • Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions und New Labour, edited by Gary Daniels and John McIlroy

    Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Labor History•2011

    Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions und New Labour, edited by Gary Daniels and John McIlroy, London and New York, Routledge, 2009, xix+ 380 pp., US$150.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780415

  • Determinantes industriais da solidariedade transnacional: Política Intersindical Global Em Três Setores

    Open Access•Mark Anner, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Estudos Avançados•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    Este artigo compara formas de transnacionalismo do trabalho em três setores: indústria automotiva; transporte marítimo; vestuário e indústria têxtil. Em cada caso, os sindicatos se envolvem em atividades transnacionais muito diferentes para reassumir o controle sobre o mercado de trabalho e a concorrência. Conforme as instituições de cooperação transnacional se tornam mais complexas, os sindicatos continuam a lutar com as tensões competitivas (tr…

  • When does marketisation lead to privatisation? Profit-making in English health services after the 2012 Health and Social Care Act

    Open Access•Nick Krachler, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2015•Cited by: 26•References: 39

  • Management Whipsawing: The Staging of Labor Competition Under Globalization

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Marco Hauptmeier•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2016•Cited by: 16•References: 32

    The authors examine management whipsawing practices in the European auto industry based on more than 200 interviews and a comparison of three automakers. They identify four distinct ways in which managers stage competition between plants to extract labor concessions: informal, hegemonic, coercive, and rule-based whipsawing. Practices at the three auto firms differed from one another and changed over time because of two factors: structural whipsaw…

  • Welfare reform, precarity and the re-commodification of labour

    Open Access•Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2016•Cited by: 75•References: 29

    While welfare reform matters for workers and workplaces, it is peripheral in English-language sociology of work and industrial relations research. This article's core proposition is that active labour market policies (ALMPs) are altering the institutional constitution of the labour market by intensifying market discipline within the workforce. This re-commodification effect is specified drawing on Marxism, comparative institutionalism, German-lan…

  • Marketization, inequality, and institutional change: Toward a new framework for comparative employment relations

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Virginia Doellgast•ARTICLE•Journal of Industrial Relations•2017

    This article develops a framework for analyzing the social effects of marketization, defined as the imposition or intensification of price-based competition. The conceptual background is debates in comparative employment relations over the liberalization of markets and its consequences across Europe. Our central proposition is that marketization in its diverse forms leads to increased economic and social inequality via its effects on non-market i…

  • The Marketization of Employment Services: The Dilemmas of Europe's Work-first Welfare State

    Ian Greer, Karen N Breidahl et al.•BOOK•The Marketization of Employment…•2017

    This book examines the marketization of employment services and its consequences in Denmark, Great Britain, and Germany. What concretely does marketization mean in practice? What are its effects on the services and their governance? How does marketization and its effects map against the main ‘regime types’ found in comparative social science? These questions are answered using more than 100 qualitative interviews with policymakers, managers, and …

  • Insertion as an alternative to workfare: Active labour-market schemes in the Parisian suburbs

    Open Access•Lisa A Schulte, Lisa Schulte et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2017•Cited by: 13•References: 10

    Many governments have tightened the link between welfare and work by attaching conditionality to out-of-work benefits, extending these requirements to new client groups and imposing market competition and greater managerial control in service delivery – principles typically characterized as ‘workfare’. Based on field research in Seine-Saint-Denis, we examine French ‘ insertion’ schemes aimed at disadvantaged but potentially job-ready clients, cha…

  • Creaming and parking in marketized employment services: An Anglo-German comparison

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Lisa A Schulte et al.•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2018•Cited by: 24•References: 38

    The delivery of public services by nonprofit and for-profit providers alters the nature of services and jobs, often in unintended and undesired ways. We argue that these effects depend on the degree to which the service is ‘marketized’, that is, subjected by the funder to price-based competition. Using case studies of British and German employment services, this article scrutinizes the link between funding practices and service quality. Of partic…

  • The state and class discipline: European labour market policy after the financial crisis

    Open Access•Charles Umney, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Capital & Class•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 70

    This article looks at two related labour market policies that have persisted and even proliferated across Europe both before and after the financial crisis: wage restraint and punitive workfare programmes. It asks why these policies, despite their weak empirical records, have been so durable. Moving beyond comparative-institutionalist explanations which emphasise institutional stickiness, it draws on Marxist and Kaleckian ideas around the concept…

  • Organised by transitions: The self-organisation of next-generation welfare professionals in Slovenia

    Barbara Samaluk, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Work in the Global Economy•2021

    Much is known about innovative union strategies to organise young workers, but little is known about how and why they self-organise outside of unions. Based on field research in Slovenia, we examine ‘next-generation welfare professionals’, a diverse group of students, unemployed graduates and precarious workers attempting to enter state-regulated, and relatively well unionised education and social protection professions. We argue that their self-…

  • Shāh Walī Allāh in Defence of Ibn Taymiyyah: A Translation and Reading of Risālah fī Manāqib Ibn Taymiyyah wa ’l-Difā‘ ‘anhu

    Muzzammil Ahmad, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•ISLAMIC STUDIES•2022

    Until now, only a short excerpt from the eighteenth-century South Asian reformist Shāh Walī Allāh’s (d. 1176/1762) treatise in defence of the medieval Syrian theologian Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728/1328) has been published in English. In addition to providing a full translation of Risālah fī Manāqib Ibn Taymiyyah wa ’l-Difā‘ ‘anhu (Epistle on the Virtues of Ibn Taymiyyah and in His Defence), this article argues that Shāh Walī Allāh’s due attention for I…

  • Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy

    Open Access•Ian Greer, Charles Umney•BOOK•Marketization•2022

    How do markets function? Who creates, shapes and organizes them? And what do they mean for the relationship between labor and capital? Marketization examines how the state and capital use markets to discipline the working class. Ian Greer and Charles Umney provide a comprehensive overview of the European political economy, from the European Commission to the workplace, to show how neoliberal principles translate into market mechanisms and reshape…

  • Why isn’t there an Uber for live music? The digitalisation of intermediaries and the limits of the platform economy

    Open Access•Dario Azzellini, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 31

    Online platforms have disrupted parts of the capitalist economy, but assessing the magnitude of this effect is difficult. Much is known about major platforms, but less about the conditions under which they take over—or fail to take over—a given market. Unlike explanations emphasising slow take‐up by entrepreneurs or worker resistance, we argue that historical and organisational characteristics of markets make them resistant to the platform model.…

  • Recentralizing Industrial Relations? Local Unions and the Politics of Insourcing in Three North American Automakers

    Open Access•Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 26

    Since the auto industry's 2008 crisis, the decades-long trend toward outsourcing by the Detroit Three automakers has stalled. During and after the crisis, original equipment manufacturers moved work inside their corporate boundaries, including the purchase of eight previously spun-off parts plants. Why has this happened? Drawing on 77 interviews in the United States and Canada and 27 insourcing cases, the authors explore how and why insourcing ha…

  • Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security

    Open Access•Genevieve Coderre-Lapalme, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 42

    When the welfare state is under attack from neoliberal reformers, how can trade unionists and other campaigners build solidarity to defend it? Based on 45 qualitative interviews, this article compares campaigns to defend British health services and social security benefits between 2007 and 2016. Building on the macro-insights of comparative welfare-state literature and the more micro-level insights of studies on mobilisation, community unionism a…

  • A Just Transition for Auto Workers? Negotiating the Electric Vehicle Transition in Germany and North America

    Open Access•Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer et al.•ARTICLE•Industrial and Labor Relations…•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 40

    Reducing human-made greenhouse gas emissions is crucially important for life on earth, but it requires restructuring industries in ways that could disrupt millions of workers' lives globally. Whether this transition is "just" from the perspective of workers depends on the magnitude of job losses, the quality of new jobs, and the transitions workers experience from their current jobs to new ones. Using the example of the German automotive industry…

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