Edmund Heery
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 246302 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Edmund Heery |
| PRENOMES | Edmund |
| SOBRENOME | Heery |
| ASSINATURA | HEERY E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3914-7635 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 172 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Devolution and Industrial Relations
This article presents an overview of how industrial relations have been shaped by constitutional devolution across the United Kingdom. It shows that the devolved national governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and English regional authorities led by Metro Mayors, have developed distinctive industrial relations policies that have led to variation in labour market regulation. These policies have typically been developed under the rubri…
The fallible manager
This article uses the work of Willy Brown, John Purcell, Linda Dickens, and Keith Sisson to identify the critique of management within pluralist industrial relations. The notion of the ‘fallible manager’ captures the essence of this critique. Within the pluralist tradition, fallible managers are identified as the source of industrial relations problems and are also deemed incapable of reversing the harms they cause in the absence of supportive st…
Revisiting voluntarism
The abstract contributes to the literature by identifying a new form of voluntarism, the employer-led voluntarism of Employer Forums in the United Kingdom. Forums carry out private voluntary regulation to raise labour and social standards within their member firms through introducing codes of conducts and implementing norms through assessments, benchmarking, and certification. The article compares this new form with the traditional approach where…
Political devolution and employment relations in Great Britain
This article examines the role of the devolved governments of Scotland and Wales in promoting the voluntary Living Wage. It shows that active promotion of the Living Wage standard has emerged in both countries from a broader commitment to an economic policy of ‘inclusive growth’. Employment law is not a devolved matter, and the article identifies a broad range of economic incentives and soft forms of regulation that have been used by the devolved…
The decay and revival of sub-UK employer organisation
Dr Ritson published an article in this journal on Employer Associations (EAs) in the UK. He set out a case study of a sub-UK EA within the Engineering Employers’ Federation before criticising an article we published on countervailing power in the Human Resources Management Journal. Dr Ritson argues that we misunderstand the structures and roles of EAs, and that as a result our argument on countervailing power was misguided. We do not accept this …
Contemporary Employer Interest Representation in the United Kingdom
Focusing on employers' organizations in the United Kingdom, this article contributes to the literature on employer interest representation by advancing three interrelated arguments, which reflect how the methods, structure and interests of employer representation have evolved. First, the primary method of collective interest representation has shifted from collective bargaining, nowadays only pursued by a minority of employers' organizations, to …
England's great transformation
Ideas at work
The purpose of this article is to highlight the role of ideas in shaping the form, dynamics and products of the employment relationship. This article differentiates between various types of ideas, emphasizes the various types of agency that are involved in the creation, maintenance and defence of ideas and identifies a number of mechanisms that help to understand how actors promote ideas, how ideas gain broader prominence and how ideas change. Fi…
Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession
Union voices
Civil society organizations and trade unions
Sociologists of labour have explored the relationship of trade unions to other social movements and the conditions that allow 'coalitions across the class divide' to be formed. This article examines this question by presenting evidence on the interaction between trade unions and other civil society organizations in the UK; that is, advocacy, identity and single-issue, campaigning organizations. It finds that there is no single, dominant relations…
Seizing an opportunity? Union organizing campaigns in Britain, 1998–2004
The Employment Relations Act 1999 seemingly presented UK unions with an opportunity to reverse their long-term decline in membership. This article examines union responses to this change and uses original survey evidence to investigate union organizing campaigns. It explores the targeting, resourcing, objectives, methods and employer responses to union organizing activity in the UK between 1998 and 2004. The evidence indicates a complex pattern, …
The emerging regime of civil regulation in work and employment relations
This article examines the role of civil society organizations in generating civil regulation; that is, non-statutory norms, codes and standards of good practice that are intended to govern human resource management. It uses case study evidence of four charitable organizations in the United Kingdom to explore why they engage in civil regulation, the methods they use to secure business compliance and the forms of regulation they generate. There is …
Mediating equality at work through civil society organisations
Purpose Studies of workplace equality have often questioned the effectiveness of employers' efforts to tackle employment disadvantage. This article is concerned with the role that civil society organisations (CSOs) play in promoting equality at work. The main aims of this article are to: examine the role played by CSOs in promoting equality and challenging disadvantage at work through engaging with employers; characterise the ways in which they o…
Trade unions and contingent labour
In recent years, there has been a trend for trade unions to attempt to represent contingent workers, including agency staff, workers on fixed-term contracts and the self-employed. This article seeks to explain and characterize this development in the UK. The main conclusions are that contingent workers require an “upscaling” of union representation, beyond the workplace, and that methods other than collective bargaining are more important for adv…
Labor Divided, Labor Defeated
These two books deal, respectively, with the division of the American labor movement in 2005 and the dramatic strike of graduate teaching assistants at New York University in the same year. They are also representative of a larger class of writing on 'union revitalization' that deals with the condition of the labor movement and its prospects for renewal. In this review article, the author uses the two books to reflect on the dominant themes of th…
The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations
Runt Redux
Over the past 20 years, human resource (HR) management has emerged as a major field of social science inquiry dealing with the employment relationship. In this review article, the author considers the nature of this significant field, arguing that it is marked by contention rather than a coherent program of work informed by shared theory and assumptions. Contention in HR management can be seen in divisions over the subject matter of the HR field,…
Equality Bargaining
It is common to identify a role for trade unions in combating sex inequality at work through collective bargaining. This article uses a survey of paid union officers to identify the context in which equality bargaining by unions is likely to occur, using the specific issue of bargaining on equal pay. It concludes that equality bargaining is a function of women’s voice within unions, the characteristics and preferences of bargainers themselves and…
Sources of change in trade unions
It is argued widely that if trade unions are to experience renewal then they must invest in organizing the unorganized and align their strategies of interest representation with the needs of women and those in atypical employment. This article examines the groups and factors internal and external to trade unions that encourage representatives to engage in both types of activity. Drawing on a large survey of union paid officers in Britain, it iden…
Campaigning for Part-Time Workers
A Return to Contract? Performance Related Pay in a Public Service
Performance related pay (PRP) schemes, which link salary to the results of an individual performance assessment, have spread rapidly through the public services in recent years and are often regarded as indicators of a fundamental shift in the employment relationship. This article tests the latter claim by considering evidence on the purposes and effects of PRP in local government. It seeks to determine whether PRP represents a `return to contrac…
The Economics of the Trade Union
Working for the Union. British Trade Union Officers
Conservative Radicalism and Nostalgia
Professional, Participative and Managerial Unionism
This paper argues that the `servicing relationship' between trade unions and their members has passed through three phases in the postwar period. These are termed `professional unionism', characterized by membership dependence on a cadre of expert representatives; `participative unionism', in which union officers facilitated self-reliance among union members; and `managerial unionism', in which members are viewed as reactive consumers who must be…
Civil society organizations and trade unions
Sociologists of labour have explored the relationship of trade unions to other social movements and the conditions that allow 'coalitions across the class divide' to be formed. This article examines this question by presenting evidence on the interaction between trade unions and other civil society organizations in the UK; that is, advocacy, identity and single-issue, campaigning organizations. It finds that there is no single, dominant relations…
Do Female Representatives make a Difference? Women Full-Time Officials and Trade Union Work
The article presents information on the extent and distribution of women's employment in full-time officer posts within British trade unions, and on the priorities and objectives of those ten per cent of full-time bargainers in the British labour movement who are women. The main concern of the article is to establish whether the presence of women in representative positions in trade unions 'makes a difference'. It has been alleged by a number of …
Sources of change in trade unions
It is argued widely that if trade unions are to experience renewal then they must invest in organizing the unorganized and align their strategies of interest representation with the needs of women and those in atypical employment. This article examines the groups and factors internal and external to trade unions that encourage representatives to engage in both types of activity. Drawing on a large survey of union paid officers in Britain, it iden…
Trade unions and contingent labour
In recent years, there has been a trend for trade unions to attempt to represent contingent workers, including agency staff, workers on fixed-term contracts and the self-employed. This article seeks to explain and characterize this development in the UK. The main conclusions are that contingent workers require an “upscaling” of union representation, beyond the workplace, and that methods other than collective bargaining are more important for adv…
Equality Bargaining
It is common to identify a role for trade unions in combating sex inequality at work through collective bargaining. This article uses a survey of paid union officers to identify the context in which equality bargaining by unions is likely to occur, using the specific issue of bargaining on equal pay. It concludes that equality bargaining is a function of women’s voice within unions, the characteristics and preferences of bargainers themselves and…
Campaigning for Part-Time Workers
A Return to Contract? Performance Related Pay in a Public Service
Performance related pay (PRP) schemes, which link salary to the results of an individual performance assessment, have spread rapidly through the public services in recent years and are often regarded as indicators of a fundamental shift in the employment relationship. This article tests the latter claim by considering evidence on the purposes and effects of PRP in local government. It seeks to determine whether PRP represents a `return to contrac…
Contemporary Employer Interest Representation in the United Kingdom
Focusing on employers' organizations in the United Kingdom, this article contributes to the literature on employer interest representation by advancing three interrelated arguments, which reflect how the methods, structure and interests of employer representation have evolved. First, the primary method of collective interest representation has shifted from collective bargaining, nowadays only pursued by a minority of employers' organizations, to …
The emerging regime of civil regulation in work and employment relations
This article examines the role of civil society organizations in generating civil regulation; that is, non-statutory norms, codes and standards of good practice that are intended to govern human resource management. It uses case study evidence of four charitable organizations in the United Kingdom to explore why they engage in civil regulation, the methods they use to secure business compliance and the forms of regulation they generate. There is …
The Incorporation of Workplace Trade Unionism? Some Evidence from the Mining Industry
The incorporation of the workplace leadership has been a recurrent theme in recent writings on British trade unionism. Several surveys have revealed the emergence, since the 1960s, of more full-time representatives and more elaborate hierarchies on the shop floor, amounting to a 'bureaucratisation' of the workplace union organisation. The newly established tier of senior shop stewards, it is said, have become distant from the shop floor workers a…
Conservative Radicalism and Nostalgia
We welcome Paul Smith's and Peter Ackers' responses to our article on change in trade unions, which was written deliberately in order to stimulate debate, and we acknowledge the constructive tone of their criticism. In making our reply we have chosen to concentrate on Smith's critique, partly because he has more critical comments to make, and partly because he has developed his criticism from within a particular tradition of radical industrial re…
Seizing an opportunity? Union organizing campaigns in Britain, 1998–2004
The Employment Relations Act 1999 seemingly presented UK unions with an opportunity to reverse their long-term decline in membership. This article examines union responses to this change and uses original survey evidence to investigate union organizing campaigns. It explores the targeting, resourcing, objectives, methods and employer responses to union organizing activity in the UK between 1998 and 2004. The evidence indicates a complex pattern, …
Labor Divided, Labor Defeated
These two books deal, respectively, with the division of the American labor movement in 2005 and the dramatic strike of graduate teaching assistants at New York University in the same year. They are also representative of a larger class of writing on 'union revitalization' that deals with the condition of the labor movement and its prospects for renewal. In this review article, the author uses the two books to reflect on the dominant themes of th…
Working Order
The Incorporation of Workplace Trade Unionism? Some Evidence from the Mining Industry
The incorporation of the workplace leadership has been a recurrent theme in recent writings on British trade unionism. Several surveys have revealed the emergence, since the 1960s, of more full-time representatives and more elaborate hierarchies on the shop floor, amounting to a 'bureaucratisation' of the workplace union organisation. The newly established tier of senior shop stewards, it is said, have become distant from the shop floor workers a…
A Dive in the Penalty Area
Do Female Representatives make a Difference? Women Full-Time Officials and Trade Union Work
The article presents information on the extent and distribution of women's employment in full-time officer posts within British trade unions, and on the priorities and objectives of those ten per cent of full-time bargainers in the British labour movement who are women. The main concern of the article is to establish whether the presence of women in representative positions in trade unions 'makes a difference'. It has been alleged by a number of …
Management Control and Union Power
Professional, Participative and Managerial Unionism
This paper argues that the `servicing relationship' between trade unions and their members has passed through three phases in the postwar period. These are termed `professional unionism', characterized by membership dependence on a cadre of expert representatives; `participative unionism', in which union officers facilitated self-reliance among union members; and `managerial unionism', in which members are viewed as reactive consumers who must be…
Conservative Radicalism and Nostalgia
Conservative Radicalism and Nostalgia
We welcome Paul Smith's and Peter Ackers' responses to our article on change in trade unions, which was written deliberately in order to stimulate debate, and we acknowledge the constructive tone of their criticism. In making our reply we have chosen to concentrate on Smith's critique, partly because he has more critical comments to make, and partly because he has developed his criticism from within a particular tradition of radical industrial re…
Working for the Union. British Trade Union Officers
The Economics of the Trade Union
Campaigning for Part-Time Workers
A Return to Contract? Performance Related Pay in a Public Service
Performance related pay (PRP) schemes, which link salary to the results of an individual performance assessment, have spread rapidly through the public services in recent years and are often regarded as indicators of a fundamental shift in the employment relationship. This article tests the latter claim by considering evidence on the purposes and effects of PRP in local government. It seeks to determine whether PRP represents a `return to contrac…
Sources of change in trade unions
It is argued widely that if trade unions are to experience renewal then they must invest in organizing the unorganized and align their strategies of interest representation with the needs of women and those in atypical employment. This article examines the groups and factors internal and external to trade unions that encourage representatives to engage in both types of activity. Drawing on a large survey of union paid officers in Britain, it iden…
Equality Bargaining
It is common to identify a role for trade unions in combating sex inequality at work through collective bargaining. This article uses a survey of paid union officers to identify the context in which equality bargaining by unions is likely to occur, using the specific issue of bargaining on equal pay. It concludes that equality bargaining is a function of women’s voice within unions, the characteristics and preferences of bargainers themselves and…
The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations
Runt Redux
Over the past 20 years, human resource (HR) management has emerged as a major field of social science inquiry dealing with the employment relationship. In this review article, the author considers the nature of this significant field, arguing that it is marked by contention rather than a coherent program of work informed by shared theory and assumptions. Contention in HR management can be seen in divisions over the subject matter of the HR field,…
Trade unions and contingent labour
In recent years, there has been a trend for trade unions to attempt to represent contingent workers, including agency staff, workers on fixed-term contracts and the self-employed. This article seeks to explain and characterize this development in the UK. The main conclusions are that contingent workers require an “upscaling” of union representation, beyond the workplace, and that methods other than collective bargaining are more important for adv…
Labor Divided, Labor Defeated
These two books deal, respectively, with the division of the American labor movement in 2005 and the dramatic strike of graduate teaching assistants at New York University in the same year. They are also representative of a larger class of writing on 'union revitalization' that deals with the condition of the labor movement and its prospects for renewal. In this review article, the author uses the two books to reflect on the dominant themes of th…
Mediating equality at work through civil society organisations
Purpose Studies of workplace equality have often questioned the effectiveness of employers' efforts to tackle employment disadvantage. This article is concerned with the role that civil society organisations (CSOs) play in promoting equality at work. The main aims of this article are to: examine the role played by CSOs in promoting equality and challenging disadvantage at work through engaging with employers; characterise the ways in which they o…
Seizing an opportunity? Union organizing campaigns in Britain, 1998–2004
The Employment Relations Act 1999 seemingly presented UK unions with an opportunity to reverse their long-term decline in membership. This article examines union responses to this change and uses original survey evidence to investigate union organizing campaigns. It explores the targeting, resourcing, objectives, methods and employer responses to union organizing activity in the UK between 1998 and 2004. The evidence indicates a complex pattern, …
The emerging regime of civil regulation in work and employment relations
This article examines the role of civil society organizations in generating civil regulation; that is, non-statutory norms, codes and standards of good practice that are intended to govern human resource management. It uses case study evidence of four charitable organizations in the United Kingdom to explore why they engage in civil regulation, the methods they use to secure business compliance and the forms of regulation they generate. There is …
Civil society organizations and trade unions
Sociologists of labour have explored the relationship of trade unions to other social movements and the conditions that allow 'coalitions across the class divide' to be formed. This article examines this question by presenting evidence on the interaction between trade unions and other civil society organizations in the UK; that is, advocacy, identity and single-issue, campaigning organizations. It finds that there is no single, dominant relations…
Union voices
Ideas at work
The purpose of this article is to highlight the role of ideas in shaping the form, dynamics and products of the employment relationship. This article differentiates between various types of ideas, emphasizes the various types of agency that are involved in the creation, maintenance and defence of ideas and identifies a number of mechanisms that help to understand how actors promote ideas, how ideas gain broader prominence and how ideas change. Fi…
Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession
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