Valentina Paolucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 4410520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Paolucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Paolucci |
| SIGNATURE | PAOLUCCI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maynooth University, School of Business North Campus Maynooth University Maynooth Ireland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3009-2543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Working Through (In)fertility: An Autoethnography of Fertility Treatment, Employment, and Institutional Nonrecognition in Ireland
Infertility predominantly affects people of working age, yet the experience of pursuing treatment while in employment rarely enters the workplace as a legitimate concern. Drawing on a longitudinal autoethnography of fertility treatment undertaken alongside an early academic career in Ireland between 2017 and 2024, and informed by policy, legal, and public sources, this article asks how institutional nonrecognition of infertility is produced and s…
The transformation of pay determination in Ireland
The collapse of social partnership in 2009 and several ensuing years of concession bargaining forced Irish unions to innovate in order to restore pay growth and improve conditions. Drawing on a unique dataset of over 1,600 pay agreements, alongside interviews and case studies, this paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of Ireland’s decentralised and primarily firm-level pay-bargaining system since the global financial crisis. Contrary t…
The unlikely success of coordinated bargaining in a liberal market economy: The case of Ireland
This paper challenges the prevailing view of the negative impact of collective bargaining decentralisation on trade unions in liberal market economies. It uses quantitative and in‐depth company cases from four major sectors in Ireland, to explain how unions have effectively established bargaining coordination following the global financial crisis
Power resources and successful trade union actions that address precarity in adverse contexts: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
Is it possible for trade unions to fight precarity in an adverse global context? Although existing research suggests this is possible, there is limited understanding of the interplay of resources that enable unions to address precarity in deregulated markets. This study employs a power resource approach to investigate how unions overcome their external constraints. It draws upon 130 in-depth interviews with key informants across nine Central and …
Collective bargaining towards mutual flexibility and security goals in large internationalised companies—why do institutions (still) matter
This paper examines the potential of collective bargaining to generate mutually advantageous flexibility and security outcomes at firm level. By focusing attention on actors' negotiating capacity at sites in Denmark and Italy of four large chemical‐pharmaceutical companies, it provides a nuanced, comparative explanation. The findings demonstrate that, across countries, differences in actors' capacity and negotiated outcomes are attributable to th…
Power resources and successful trade union actions that address precarity in adverse contexts: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
Is it possible for trade unions to fight precarity in an adverse global context? Although existing research suggests this is possible, there is limited understanding of the interplay of resources that enable unions to address precarity in deregulated markets. This study employs a power resource approach to investigate how unions overcome their external constraints. It draws upon 130 in-depth interviews with key informants across nine Central and …
Collective bargaining towards mutual flexibility and security goals in large internationalised companies—why do institutions (still) matter
This paper examines the potential of collective bargaining to generate mutually advantageous flexibility and security outcomes at firm level. By focusing attention on actors' negotiating capacity at sites in Denmark and Italy of four large chemical‐pharmaceutical companies, it provides a nuanced, comparative explanation. The findings demonstrate that, across countries, differences in actors' capacity and negotiated outcomes are attributable to th…
Power resources and successful trade union actions that address precarity in adverse contexts: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
Is it possible for trade unions to fight precarity in an adverse global context? Although existing research suggests this is possible, there is limited understanding of the interplay of resources that enable unions to address precarity in deregulated markets. This study employs a power resource approach to investigate how unions overcome their external constraints. It draws upon 130 in-depth interviews with key informants across nine Central and …
The unlikely success of coordinated bargaining in a liberal market economy: The case of Ireland
This paper challenges the prevailing view of the negative impact of collective bargaining decentralisation on trade unions in liberal market economies. It uses quantitative and in‐depth company cases from four major sectors in Ireland, to explain how unions have effectively established bargaining coordination following the global financial crisis
The transformation of pay determination in Ireland
The collapse of social partnership in 2009 and several ensuing years of concession bargaining forced Irish unions to innovate in order to restore pay growth and improve conditions. Drawing on a unique dataset of over 1,600 pay agreements, alongside interviews and case studies, this paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of Ireland’s decentralised and primarily firm-level pay-bargaining system since the global financial crisis. Contrary t…
Working Through (In)fertility: An Autoethnography of Fertility Treatment, Employment, and Institutional Nonrecognition in Ireland
Infertility predominantly affects people of working age, yet the experience of pursuing treatment while in employment rarely enters the workplace as a legitimate concern. Drawing on a longitudinal autoethnography of fertility treatment undertaken alongside an early academic career in Ireland between 2017 and 2024, and informed by policy, legal, and public sources, this article asks how institutional nonrecognition of infertility is produced and s…
Economic system (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Collective bargaining (2 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works)