Susan Milner
Biographic Data
| ID | 281942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Milner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Milner |
| SIGNATURE | MILNER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7251-1817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe: Lessons for the Twenty-first Century
Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues to thrive in Western Europe despite the impact of liberalizing trends that were expected to lead to its demise. This volume brings together a team of 23 experts with the aim to undertake paired historical and political studies of policy concertation in ten West European countries, which were then subje…
Bargaining for work–family benefits in the UK
Using data from the Labour Research Department's Payline bank of collective agreements, and drawing on case studies of the (male-dominated) rail transport and (female-dominated) food retail sectors, this article analyses agreement on enhanced work–family benefits, focusing on maternity and paternity leave and pay, and Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and pay. The opportunity structure for bargaining, consisting of internal and external factors encoura…
Plaider pour l’égalité au nom de la performance ou de la justice sociale ? Conflits de ‘savoirs sur le genre’ syndicaux et managériaux dans de grandes entreprises françaises
Au niveau international puis national, des grandes entreprises ont justifié d’investir sur la « gestion de la diversité » au nom de ses bénéfices pour la performance économique, discours repris par l’Union européenne. Ce programme décliné sur l’égalité ou la « mixité » (au sens de représentation équilibrée dans les postes à responsabilités) peut être qualifié d’étroit ou de modéré quand on le compare à un programme syndical large ou redistributif…
Time for a change: Women, work, and gender equality in TV production
This article uses Acker’s concept of inequality regimes to analyze qualitative research findings on work-life balance and gender equality for women in British television production. Female survey respondents, focus group participants, and interviewees spoke of their subjective experience of gendered work practices which disadvantage women as women. These findings build on existing research showing gender disadvantage in the industry, leading to l…
Gender pay gap reporting regulations: Advancing gender equality policy in tough economic times
Challenging gender pay gaps: Organizational and regulatory strategies
Dossier comprenant une introduction et 8 articles. - MILNER Susan, POCHIC Sophie, SCHEELE Alexandra and WILLIAMSON Sue : "Editorial : Challenging gender pay gaps: Organizational and regulatory strategies"- PARKEN Alison, ASHWORTH Rachel : "From evidence to action: Applying gender mainstreaming to pay gaps in the Welsh public sector"- CGREGOR Judy, DAVIES Sharyn Graham : "Achieving pay equity: Strategic mobilization for substantive equality in Aot…
Bargained Equality: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Workplace Gender Equality Agreements and Plans in France
‘Bargained equality’ reflects wider characteristics of French employment relations whereby state‐driven collective bargaining is a major mode of regulation but is based on weak workplace bargaining cultures outside the largest firms. This article focuses on duties on French employers to bargain on gender equality. It presents findings of a project evaluating workplace agreements and plans on gender equality, based on a sample of 186 agreements su…
The Problem of Productivity: Inflation and Collective Bargaining after World War II
Unwilling to wait decades for the political decline of New Deal liberalism, the core industries of post–World War II America repurposed collective bargaining as a means to reduce the costs of organized labor. New industrial relation strategies known as “wage-price policies” linked labor compensation with productivity in order to stabilize unit labor costs and prices. After reviewing the emergence and diffusion of wage-price policy within the mana…
Assuming Direct Control: The Beguiling Allure of Incomes Policies in Postwar America
Histories of American economic policymaking after World War II often describe a "Fiscal Revolution," in which Keynesian macroeconomic tools replaced the microeconomic regulations and reforms of the New Deal. This article challenges that narrative by demonstrating how the Keynesian economists responsible for the Fiscal Revolution relied upon incomes policies to ensure that inflation would not sabotage efforts to achieve full employment. In the 196…
Reflexivity and visual technology in research: Young Children's Perspectives of Paternal Engagement in the Home Environment
Although existing notions of reflexivity address the positionality of researchers, they rarely consider the processes through which methods and methodologies can come about. This study builds children's reflexivity into the research design. Drawing on footage from a pilot visual ethnography of paternal engagement in home environments, we show first, that at one level, building children's reflexivity into data collection and analysis, allows us to…
Unequal Europe: Social divisions and social cohesion in an old continent
In today’s troubled times, it is no longer possible to pretend that the amplified trickle-down logic of globalisation is enough to spread prosperity and thereby ensure social cohesion. The backlash
Employment and labour market policy during the Hollande presidency: A tragedy in three acts
This article provides a critical overview of labour and employment policy during the Hollande presidency, evaluating the extent of continuity and change between 2012 and 2017. Although the term of office may be divided into three broad phases, with a shift towards more liberalising, business-friendly policies over time, it is argued that the period as a whole shows a high degree of continuity, with liberalising measures already evident from 2012.…
Trade unions, equality and diversity: An Inconsistent Record of Transformative Action
The European social model in crisis – is Europe losing its soul
The European social model in crisis – is Europe losing its soul?." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24(2), pp. 317–318
Fathers, care and family policy in France: An unfinished revolution
This article reviews policy debates and output on employment rights for fathers in France, focusing on paternity leave and the debates leading to reform of leave in 2014. Since the extension of paternity leave to 10 days in 2002, take-up has increased but a minority of fathers, particularly those in managerial positions, find it difficult to access. The new law on parental leave enjoys public support but has been politically controversial. Policy…
The politics of unemployment policy in an age of austerity: France in comparative perspective
Work‐life balance in times of economic crisis and austerity
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview of the wider debates concerning the evolution of work‐life balance practice and policy since the onset of the “Great Recession” of 2008 and to draw out some comparisons of the issues raised by the papers in the special issue by focusing particularly on the example of the UK. Design/methodology/approach The editorial analyses how the direction and pace of changes in work‐life balance …
Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain
The flexicurity approach to labour market policy may offer advantages for trade unions but also poses challenges, given their weak situation in policy formulation at EU level and in many member states. This article explores unions’ capacity to mobilize around flexicurity issues and to influence policy debates and outcomes in two member states. In the UK, flexicurity has low political salience and unions have little capacity for mobilization or in…
Fixing France's broken social model? An assessment of employment and labour market policy under the Sarkozy presidency
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, by Andrew Ross
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, by Andrew Ross, New York and London, New York University Press, 2009, viii + 264 pp., $27.95 (cloth), ISBN: 9780814776292 Andrew Ros
Fathers and work‐life balance in France and the UK: Policy and practice
Purpose This paper seeks to focus on the role of organizations in mediating the impact of national work‐life balance (WLB) policy on employees, in particular fathers. Design/methodology/approach It presents existing research about WLB policy implementation in organizations as well as the findings of empirical work in insurance and social work in France and the UK (questionnaire survey, case study analysis, interviews with national and sector‐leve…
What is 'New' about Fatherhood: The Social Construction of Fatherhood in France and the UK
This article reviews the way that fatherhood is constructed in the public discourse and more broadly in the public sphere in the UK and France by examining (1) the fatherhood regime and its influence on the construction of fatherhood in the two countries; (2) gender attitudes and parenting roles; and (3) popular images of fatherhood, particularly as represented in women's and men's magazines in France and in the UK. The authors explore to what ex…
Fatherhood regimes and father involvement in France and the UK
This paper contrasts and compares the institutional framework for fatherhood and father involvement and the survey evidence relating to fathers’ contribution to childcare and domestic work in the two countries. It shows that while men’s contribution to such activities appears to be increasing in both France and the UK, change is slow and father involvement does not necessarily seem to correlate directly either with patterns of female labour force…
Paths to Retirement: The French Life-Course Regime and the Regulation of Older Workers’ Employment
Integrated impact assessment in the UK—use, efficacy and future development
What is 'New' about Fatherhood: The Social Construction of Fatherhood in France and the UK
This article reviews the way that fatherhood is constructed in the public discourse and more broadly in the public sphere in the UK and France by examining (1) the fatherhood regime and its influence on the construction of fatherhood in the two countries; (2) gender attitudes and parenting roles; and (3) popular images of fatherhood, particularly as represented in women's and men's magazines in France and in the UK. The authors explore to what ex…
Fatherhood regimes and father involvement in France and the UK
This paper contrasts and compares the institutional framework for fatherhood and father involvement and the survey evidence relating to fathers’ contribution to childcare and domestic work in the two countries. It shows that while men’s contribution to such activities appears to be increasing in both France and the UK, change is slow and father involvement does not necessarily seem to correlate directly either with patterns of female labour force…
The Consequences of Official Labels: An Examination of the Rights Lost by the Mentally Ill and Mentally Incompetent Ten Years Later
Introduction: A healthy scepticism
This article seeks to provide a framework for the following articles in this issue which analyze national case studies of Euroscepticism (in Britain, France, Germany and the Nordic region). It draws on existing analysis of European public opinion surveys in order to identify trends and suggest some explanations for fluctuations in support for European integration in the 1990s. It links these trends with debates about the relationship between elit…
Reflexivity and visual technology in research: Young Children's Perspectives of Paternal Engagement in the Home Environment
Although existing notions of reflexivity address the positionality of researchers, they rarely consider the processes through which methods and methodologies can come about. This study builds children's reflexivity into the research design. Drawing on footage from a pilot visual ethnography of paternal engagement in home environments, we show first, that at one level, building children's reflexivity into data collection and analysis, allows us to…
Work‐life balance in times of economic crisis and austerity
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview of the wider debates concerning the evolution of work‐life balance practice and policy since the onset of the “Great Recession” of 2008 and to draw out some comparisons of the issues raised by the papers in the special issue by focusing particularly on the example of the UK. Design/methodology/approach The editorial analyses how the direction and pace of changes in work‐life balance …
Fathers and work‐life balance in France and the UK: Policy and practice
Purpose This paper seeks to focus on the role of organizations in mediating the impact of national work‐life balance (WLB) policy on employees, in particular fathers. Design/methodology/approach It presents existing research about WLB policy implementation in organizations as well as the findings of empirical work in insurance and social work in France and the UK (questionnaire survey, case study analysis, interviews with national and sector‐leve…
Euroscepticism in France and changing state‐society relations
This article seeks to explain the marked downturn in French public support for the European Union in the early 1990s. Although public support has increased since 1997, voting for Eurosceptic parties has remained important although such parties continue to be marginalized in national elections. The article discusses party‐based Euroscepticism in the context of the domestic party system and political institutions. It further analyses French policy …
Feminising the market: Women's pay and employment in the European community
Employment and labour market policy during the Hollande presidency: A tragedy in three acts
This article provides a critical overview of labour and employment policy during the Hollande presidency, evaluating the extent of continuity and change between 2012 and 2017. Although the term of office may be divided into three broad phases, with a shift towards more liberalising, business-friendly policies over time, it is argued that the period as a whole shows a high degree of continuity, with liberalising measures already evident from 2012.…
The International Labour Movement and the Limits of Internationalism: The International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres, 1901–1913
Despite an abundance of literature on the Second International relatively little is known about the work of the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres (ISNTUC). Foundect in 1901 by the German and Scandinavian labour leaders, this exclusively trade union International (the forerunner of the post-war International Federation of Trade Unions) included representatives of most of the major labour movements of Europe and the USA. Und…
Time for a change: Women, work, and gender equality in TV production
This article uses Acker’s concept of inequality regimes to analyze qualitative research findings on work-life balance and gender equality for women in British television production. Female survey respondents, focus group participants, and interviewees spoke of their subjective experience of gendered work practices which disadvantage women as women. These findings build on existing research showing gender disadvantage in the industry, leading to l…
Gender pay gap reporting regulations: Advancing gender equality policy in tough economic times
Integrated impact assessment in the UK—use, efficacy and future development
Globalisation and employment in France: Between flexibility and protection
This article examines the extent to which employment, particularly manufacturing employment, has been 'hollowed out' as a result of internationalisation strategies of leading French multinationals. It finds evidence of a shift to overseas employment, but notes the complexity of globalising trends which make it difficult to interpret them solely in terms of competition for lower labour costs. However, globalisation has shifted power decisively tow…
Assuming Direct Control: The Beguiling Allure of Incomes Policies in Postwar America
Histories of American economic policymaking after World War II often describe a "Fiscal Revolution," in which Keynesian macroeconomic tools replaced the microeconomic regulations and reforms of the New Deal. This article challenges that narrative by demonstrating how the Keynesian economists responsible for the Fiscal Revolution relied upon incomes policies to ensure that inflation would not sabotage efforts to achieve full employment. In the 196…
Unequal Europe: Social divisions and social cohesion in an old continent
In today’s troubled times, it is no longer possible to pretend that the amplified trickle-down logic of globalisation is enough to spread prosperity and thereby ensure social cohesion. The backlash
Trade unions, equality and diversity: An Inconsistent Record of Transformative Action
The European social model in crisis – is Europe losing its soul
The European social model in crisis – is Europe losing its soul?." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24(2), pp. 317–318
Fathers, care and family policy in France: An unfinished revolution
This article reviews policy debates and output on employment rights for fathers in France, focusing on paternity leave and the debates leading to reform of leave in 2014. Since the extension of paternity leave to 10 days in 2002, take-up has increased but a minority of fathers, particularly those in managerial positions, find it difficult to access. The new law on parental leave enjoys public support but has been politically controversial. Policy…
The politics of unemployment policy in an age of austerity: France in comparative perspective
Fixing France's broken social model? An assessment of employment and labour market policy under the Sarkozy presidency
Paths to Retirement: The French Life-Course Regime and the Regulation of Older Workers’ Employment
An ambiguous reform: The Jospin government and the 35-hour-week laws
This article, in reviewing of one the major policies of the Jospin government, lays emphasis on the relative ambiguities of the reforms and legislation put forward to reduce working time in France to a 35-hour week. The article examines the effects of the policy on the range of actors involved, including the unions and the employers, as well as situating it in the context of unemployment, one of the major issues to preoccupy the Frencch over the …
Change and resistance to change: The political management of europeanisation in France
European integration poses dilemmas of governance for EU member‐state governments. Specifically, how are national leaders to manage the interface between ‘Europe’ as cause of change, catalyst for reform, and scapegoat for dissent? Some answers can be found in France, where Lionel Jospin's government has embarked on a radical process of reconstructing French European policy and discourse with a view to incorporating ‘Europe’ into a broader politic…
The International Labour Movement and the Limits of Internationalism: The International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres, 1901–1913
Despite an abundance of literature on the Second International relatively little is known about the work of the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres (ISNTUC). Foundect in 1901 by the German and Scandinavian labour leaders, this exclusively trade union International (the forerunner of the post-war International Federation of Trade Unions) included representatives of most of the major labour movements of Europe and the USA. Und…
Feminising the market: Women's pay and employment in the European community
Report on the ASMCF Annual Conference. France: From the Cold War to the New World Order
The Dilemmas of Internationalism: French Syndicalism and the International Labour Movement 1900-1914
Local Identities and Territorial Politics in Italy and France
This article compares two areas, Sesto San Giovanni near Milan and V6nissieux near Lyon, which until recently were characterized by a working-class culture and a communist identity, which in turn stemmed from a concentration of large-scale heavy industry and the presence of powerful trade unions. Both areas have gone through a process of severe de-in-dustrialization and deep social change, accompanied by significant political developments. The ar…
Industrial Relations in France: Towards a New Social Pact?
Industrial relations reform is not conspicuously one of the great successes of the Mitterrand era, and it did not take long after the arrival of the first Socialist government for the strained relations between state, employers and trade to become evident. It could even be argued that the French industrial relations system has been destabilized by the policies and economic trends of the Mitterrand era, with no alternative structures to replace it…
Change and resistance to change: The political management of europeanisation in France
European integration poses dilemmas of governance for EU member‐state governments. Specifically, how are national leaders to manage the interface between ‘Europe’ as cause of change, catalyst for reform, and scapegoat for dissent? Some answers can be found in France, where Lionel Jospin's government has embarked on a radical process of reconstructing French European policy and discourse with a view to incorporating ‘Europe’ into a broader politic…
Euroscepticism in France and changing state‐society relations
This article seeks to explain the marked downturn in French public support for the European Union in the early 1990s. Although public support has increased since 1997, voting for Eurosceptic parties has remained important although such parties continue to be marginalized in national elections. The article discusses party‐based Euroscepticism in the context of the domestic party system and political institutions. It further analyses French policy …
Introduction: A healthy scepticism
This article seeks to provide a framework for the following articles in this issue which analyze national case studies of Euroscepticism (in Britain, France, Germany and the Nordic region). It draws on existing analysis of European public opinion surveys in order to identify trends and suggest some explanations for fluctuations in support for European integration in the 1990s. It links these trends with debates about the relationship between elit…
The municipal elections of March 2001
Globalisation and employment in France: Between flexibility and protection
This article examines the extent to which employment, particularly manufacturing employment, has been 'hollowed out' as a result of internationalisation strategies of leading French multinationals. It finds evidence of a shift to overseas employment, but notes the complexity of globalising trends which make it difficult to interpret them solely in terms of competition for lower labour costs. However, globalisation has shifted power decisively tow…
France and Globalisation
(2001). France and Globalisation. Modern & Contemporary France: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 285-287
An ambiguous reform: The Jospin government and the 35-hour-week laws
This article, in reviewing of one the major policies of the Jospin government, lays emphasis on the relative ambiguities of the reforms and legislation put forward to reduce working time in France to a 35-hour week. The article examines the effects of the policy on the range of actors involved, including the unions and the employers, as well as situating it in the context of unemployment, one of the major issues to preoccupy the Frencch over the …
The Consequences of Official Labels: An Examination of the Rights Lost by the Mentally Ill and Mentally Incompetent Ten Years Later
Integrated impact assessment in the UK—use, efficacy and future development
Paths to Retirement: The French Life-Course Regime and the Regulation of Older Workers’ Employment
Fatherhood regimes and father involvement in France and the UK
This paper contrasts and compares the institutional framework for fatherhood and father involvement and the survey evidence relating to fathers’ contribution to childcare and domestic work in the two countries. It shows that while men’s contribution to such activities appears to be increasing in both France and the UK, change is slow and father involvement does not necessarily seem to correlate directly either with patterns of female labour force…
Fathers and work‐life balance in France and the UK: Policy and practice
Purpose This paper seeks to focus on the role of organizations in mediating the impact of national work‐life balance (WLB) policy on employees, in particular fathers. Design/methodology/approach It presents existing research about WLB policy implementation in organizations as well as the findings of empirical work in insurance and social work in France and the UK (questionnaire survey, case study analysis, interviews with national and sector‐leve…
What is 'New' about Fatherhood: The Social Construction of Fatherhood in France and the UK
This article reviews the way that fatherhood is constructed in the public discourse and more broadly in the public sphere in the UK and France by examining (1) the fatherhood regime and its influence on the construction of fatherhood in the two countries; (2) gender attitudes and parenting roles; and (3) popular images of fatherhood, particularly as represented in women's and men's magazines in France and in the UK. The authors explore to what ex…
Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain
The flexicurity approach to labour market policy may offer advantages for trade unions but also poses challenges, given their weak situation in policy formulation at EU level and in many member states. This article explores unions’ capacity to mobilize around flexicurity issues and to influence policy debates and outcomes in two member states. In the UK, flexicurity has low political salience and unions have little capacity for mobilization or in…
Fixing France's broken social model? An assessment of employment and labour market policy under the Sarkozy presidency
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, by Andrew Ross
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times, by Andrew Ross, New York and London, New York University Press, 2009, viii + 264 pp., $27.95 (cloth), ISBN: 9780814776292 Andrew Ros
Work‐life balance in times of economic crisis and austerity
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview of the wider debates concerning the evolution of work‐life balance practice and policy since the onset of the “Great Recession” of 2008 and to draw out some comparisons of the issues raised by the papers in the special issue by focusing particularly on the example of the UK. Design/methodology/approach The editorial analyses how the direction and pace of changes in work‐life balance …
The politics of unemployment policy in an age of austerity: France in comparative perspective
Fathers, care and family policy in France: An unfinished revolution
This article reviews policy debates and output on employment rights for fathers in France, focusing on paternity leave and the debates leading to reform of leave in 2014. Since the extension of paternity leave to 10 days in 2002, take-up has increased but a minority of fathers, particularly those in managerial positions, find it difficult to access. The new law on parental leave enjoys public support but has been politically controversial. Policy…
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