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Getting together or breaking apart? Trade union strategies, restructuring and contingent workers in Southern Europe (2018)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. The article considers the strategies of trade unions towards the representation of call centre workers. Using a comparative case study, it examines the divergent union responses to the growth of contingent labour by look... Read More about Getting together or breaking apart? Trade union strategies, restructuring and contingent workers in Southern Europe.

Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study examines the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability on career choice status (CCS) among undergraduates. Making informed and appropriate career... Read More about Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability.

How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The recent Eurozone crisis has reinvigorated neoliberal policies and brought to the fore an academic and policy debate over the deregulation of employment relations’ institutions ‘in the... Read More about How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?.

Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 HERDSA. Underemployment, continued growth in the supply of graduates and seemingly perpetual instability are dominant trends in graduate labour markets. In order to negotiate an increasingly complex career terrain, graduates require sharpened... Read More about Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics.

Developing career management competencies among undergraduates and the role of work-integrated learning (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. This paper explores undergraduate capabilities in career self-management and the influence of work-integrated learning (WIL). Career management competencies are an important aspect of individual employability and impact on... Read More about Developing career management competencies among undergraduates and the role of work-integrated learning.

The genesis of a scientific community: the British Universities Industrial Relations Association and the field of industrial relations in Britain, c.1950–1983 (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Scholarship dealing with labour-related topics has been prevalent in Britain from the early twentieth century, but a scientific field dedicated exclusively to the study of industrial relations did not emerge until t... Read More about The genesis of a scientific community: the British Universities Industrial Relations Association and the field of industrial relations in Britain, c.1950–1983.

Flexible working (2014)
Book Chapter

Chapter in book which critically evaluates the arguments for and against flexible working from both the employers and workers' perspective