Recent publications

Books

• Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times; Hard Choices (with Richard Hyman), under contract for delivery to Oxford University Press, December 2012, scheduled for publication end 2013.

Chapters in books

• ‘Collective representation at work: Institutions and dynamics’, in John Kelly and Carola Frege (eds.) Comparative Employment Relations, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2013
• ‘The International Labour Movement: Structures and Dynamics’, in Peter Fairbrother, Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Christian Lévesque, eds, Transnational Trade Unionism: Building Union Power, London: Routledge, forthcoming February 2013
• ‘The International Labour Movement: What Next after Unity?’ in ACV/CSC (ed.), Working on a Dream, Brussels: ACV-CSC, 2012, 131-3
• 'European Trade Unions and "Atypical" Workers' (with Mihai Varga and Richard Hyman), in Susan J. Schurman and Adrienne E. Eaton (eds), Trade Union Organizing in the Informal Economy: A Review of the Literature on Organizing in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America and Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Newark: Rutgers University, 2012, 59-70
• ‘Works Councils: The European Model of Industrial Democracy?’ (with Richard Hyman), in Adrian Wilkinson, Paul Gollan, Mick Marchington and David Lewin (eds), Oxford Handbook of Employee Participation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 286-314
• ‘International Actors and International Regulation,’ in Paul Blyton, Nick Bacon, Jack Fiorito and Ed Heery (eds) Handbook of Industrial Relations, London: Sage, 2008, 325-45

Articles in refereed journals

• ‘The International Trade Union Confederation: From Two (or More?) Identities to One’, British Journal of Industrial Relations. Published online May 2012 [doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2012.00897.x], scheduled for print publication 2013
• ‘Global Unions as Imperfect Multilateral Organisations: An International Relations Perspective’ (with Elizabeth Cotton), Economic and Industrial Democracy 33(4), November 2012, 707-28
• ‘European Trade Unions and Atypical Workers’, Industrial Relations Journal 42(3), May 2011, 293-310
• ‘D’un congrès à un autre: La CSI quatre uns après’, Chroniques Internationales de l’IRES 129, mars 2011, 35-46.
• ‘Trade Unions, Politics and Parties: Is a New Configuration Possible?’ (with Richard Hyman), Transfer 16(3), August 2010, 315-31
• ‘Trade Unions and the Crisis: A Lost Opportunity?’ (with Richard Hyman), contribution to symposium, Socio-Economic Review 8(2), April 2010, 364-72
• ‘Embedded Collectivism? Workplace representation in France and Germany’ (with Richard Hyman), Industrial Relations Journal 37(5), September 2006, 473-91

Other articles

• ‘From the Old Trade Union Internationals to the New: Commentary on ICFTU/ITUC Congresses, Vienna, 31.10 - 3.11.06’, LabourStart 2006

Conference papers and invited lectures

• ‘La fondation de la CSI: Le bilan six ans après’, conference Le Syndicalisme dans sa Dimension Internationale’, ULB, Brussels, November 2012
• ‘European Trade Unions and Young Workers’, international conference on International Conference on Productivity, Investment on Human Capital and the Challenge of Youth Employment, Bergamo, October 2012.
• ‘(How) Can Trade Unions be both Democratic and Strategic?’, IREC conference, Lisbon, September 2012.
• ‘Trade Unions and Atypical Workers’, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 2012.
• ‘Trade Unions and Atypical Workers’, University of Leicester, Centre for Labour Market Studies, December 2011.
• 'Trade Union Education and Training in Europe', conference ‘The Work of the Future: Learning at the Workplace’, Bergamo, October 2011.
• ‘Syndicats, Organisations Militantes et Rapport au Politique’, colloque scientifique ‘L’Engagement Militant’, Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, September 2011.
• ‘European Trade Unions and Atypical Workers’, IREC conference, Barcelona, September 2011.
• ‘The International Labour Movement: A New Relationship?, SASE conference, Madrid, June 2011.
• ‘La formation syndicale (ouest-) européenne : Enjeux et stratégies’, Conference ‘Syndicalisation et formation : Renouvellement des perspectives et approches comparées sur le syndicalisme’, Université Lille 2, December 2010
• ‘Le mouvement syndical international: Qu’est ce que c’est?’, Conference ‘L'action syndicale sans frontières’, Université de Montréal, September 2010
• ‘The International Trade Union Confederation: From Two Identities to One?’, Conference on ‘Ideas at Work’, Employment Research Unit, Cardiff, September 2010
• ‘European Trade Unions and “Atypical” Workers’, IREC conference, Oslo, September 2010
• ‘Trade Unions, Politics and Parties’, International Sociological Association World Congress, Gothenburg, July 2010 (and joint session organiser)
• ‘Responding to the Changing Nature of Work: European Trade Unions and “Precarious” Workers’, CRIMT/Canadian Industrial Relations Association conference, Université Laval, Québec, June 2010
• ‘Unions, Politics and Parties’, University of Surrey, March 2010