ILPC 2026

ILPC 2011 Papers

Surname Firstname Title AbstractLink PaperLink
When people ask me what I do for a living … I say NHS manager with an uneasy laugh’ : the experiences of feeling demonised in troubled times Abstract Paper
Is lean production the solution or the problem? Work organizational change in the UK Civil Service Abstract
The New Political Economy of Lean Production Abstract
‘WHAT’S YOUR CONTRIBUTION?’ – An exploration of the knowledge labour processes in a high technology multi-national. Abstract
De-isolating Con-“temp”-orary Resistance Abstract Paper
Three dimensions for a vulnerable profession. The professionalism of Italian management consultants. Abstract
Organizational factors and patterns of sickness absence: An occupational-specific relationship? Abstract Paper
Effects of worksite health promotion programs on work quality and employees’ productivity Abstract
Allotment work? Theorising the relationship between allotments and wage labour Abstract Paper
Governing austerity: parity, flexibility and innovation in Northern Ireland as a response to welfare reform, a jobs crisis and public expenditure restraint Abstract Paper
Organisational changes for cleaning workers -A study of a municipal cleaning unit’s way to increased independence Abstract
Body work and NHS Marketisation Abstract
The ‘autonomous worker’ under pressure at Finnish engineering shops Abstract Paper
Explaining job satisfaction of public professionals: policy alienation and politicking in an organization Abstract Paper
Autonomy – Control – “Eigensinn” – German education workers and organizational reform Abstract Paper
Changing relations between technologies of standardization, self-management and professionalized labor – tales from banking and elderly care Abstract Paper
Sadean women: An exploration into how erotic dancers negotiate the interplay of power in the social relations within their workplace during stag parties. Abstract
Assessing the positive about disabled people ‘Two-Tick’ award: data from a survey of union disability champions Abstract
Job-filling processes in Germany: a gender perspective Abstract
‘You’ve got to look appealing to other people, haven’t you?’: Exploring the corporeal labour of nightclub dancers. Abstract
From erotic capital to erotic knowledge: body, sexuality and gender as symbolic skills in phone sex work Abstract
Family Provisions and Equality Bargaining in Australia: Symbolic or Emerging? Abstract
‘Green’ Jobs, Decent Work and Trade Unions Abstract
Varieties of Temporary Staffing: An exploration in Europe Abstract
Individualized flexibility: Differences and similarities between regular employees and agency workers. Abstract Paper
Institutionalizing cooperation: The case of the Danish Development Fund Abstract
Re-segmentation in the printing industry and its effect on the gender pay gap Abstract Paper
The Work, Employment and Career Experiences of Scotland’s New Migrant Workers Abstract
Balancing Specializations and Teamwork in Creative Organizations - How the Games Industry organizes proactive Perspective-Taking Abstract
"Knowledge and Progress"?: The Professionalization of Management Consultancy in the UK Abstract
Retail’s ‘New Normal’?: Flexibilisation, De-skilling, and the Social World of Work in an American Hypermart Abstract Paper
Why have permanent workers grown dissatisfied with their job? Abstract
Professionalism and the International Division of IT Work and Knowledge Abstract
Trade Union action in the service sector – evidence from a survey of two portuguese trade unions. Abstract
Union Responses to the Austerity Measures: A Comparative Study of France and Britain Abstract
Education and Training a Response to the Problem of Unemployment in the U.S. Abstract
work life boundary Abstract
Working to Live, Living to Work or ‘Wanting it all’? A Person-Organization Fit Perspective on the Work-Life Conflict of Professionals Abstract
The embodied work of migrant women in London hotels: precarious experiences, “gendered skills” and implications for union organising Abstract
Paradoxes of Luxury Work: Precariousness, Emotional Labour, Identity - and the Customer Abstract Paper
Knowledge Economy or Shareholder Value? A Critical Realist Framework for Understanding Discourse Abstract
Matching between life-scripts and organizational models as challenging of work-life boundaries. A study of employee in German companies. Abstract
Older Workers Meet New Careers: The Case of Personal Coaching Abstract
Does mass higher education ends up in new competition between professionals and managers? Observations from the German service sector. Abstract Paper
Organizational restructuring by western elites in Japan: The role of narrative management Abstract
Building Internationalism: Trade Unions in the Transport and Logistics Sector in Australia Abstract
Love in the time of Global Production. Love and affection as control and oppositional practice in a Sri Lankan Export Processing Factory. Abstract
Family Joblessness and Social Inclusion in Australia Abstract
The determinants of union membership: A longitudinal analysis Abstract
Convergent Evolution of (hitherto) different Capitalisms? Abstract Paper
Making Out in the Crisis: The Case of Freelance Translators Abstract
Creativity and Professionalism in Pornographic Labour Abstract
Synecdoche in Sex Work: Selling Sex in the Small Ads Abstract
labour migration in the former Soviet Union: state regulation, employers' practices and workers' resistance Abstract
Desiring Discipline: Shopfloor Sexuality and the Embodiment of Labor by Indian Factory Women Abstract
“What’s the ‘Craic’?” Contingent humour, community relations and management of sectarian workplace conflict in Northern Ireland Abstract
Well-Being and Work: Insights from Managerial and Non-Managerial Employees in Local Government Abstract
Gender and Informal Work in Urban Area in Indonesia: Policy Issues and Challenges. (Work in Progress) Abstract
A smoking gun? Using the ‘Legacy Tobacco’ archive to explore the strategies of Big Tobacco towards unions and labour organisations Abstract
Restructuring of work in the Solictors' labour market in England and Wales - a new professional precariate? Abstract
Is it the state or is it the employer? Exploring responsibility for poor employment conditions in social care. Abstract
Supply-chain organising and bargaining strategies: An avenue for union revitalisation? Abstract
“Are there comparable gray zones within national labor markets from South to North: the employment relationship in question?” Abstract
How cross disciplinary working supports and complicates the practicalities of creating organisational wellbeing. Abstract Paper
Theorising subjective well-being at the workplace: towards an interdisciplinary and needs-based approach Abstract
Erotic Labour in night-time leisure spaces: A visual depiction of sexualised work Abstract
Women’s experiences of conducting sexual labour in Lap dancing venues in Scotland. Abstract
Open Source Sex Work: New Erotic Labourers Online Abstract
Dealing with emergencies: skill-mix changes on the front line Abstract
Hybrid Management in Hospitals Abstract
Young workers in crisis: social partner responses Abstract
Reintroducing Notions of Power and Contestation into the Skills Debate Abstract
Using Equality to Challenge Austerity Abstract
Licensing sexual labour: exploring the regulation of sex/body work in Canada Abstract
The meaning of unemployment: a gendered analysis Abstract
Altered Bodies, Engineered Careers: The Effect of Body Technologies on Pornographic Performance Abstract
Tactics at street-level: How employment advisers mediate governance tensions Abstract
Visualizing Sexual Labour: Sex, Space and the 'Scenography of Production' in Soho's Sex Shops Abstract
Racing Bodies Abstract
Confounded Subjectivities: the Psychic Prison in ‘Labour Process Theory’. Abstract Paper
The Flexible Firm – A Comparison of Exit- and Voice-Oriented Systems (Work in Progress Paper) Abstract Paper
Is agency work appealing or isn’t it? – Strategies of the German temporary help industry to improve their public image Abstract Paper
The cross-national diversity of job quality in the temporary help industry and levels of temporary agency work regulation in Germany and Australia Abstract Paper
Workers in Food Distribution Lean Logistics & Global Commodity Chains Abstract
International Trade Unionism on UK Ferry Routes Abstract Paper
Union organising, mobilisation and activists: A study of health and safety representatives Abstract
Flat whites: who gets progression in the UK café sector? Abstract
Union- free (NER) HRM Strategy and its Implications for IR: A case study of a Japanese MNC in India. Abstract
The Myth of Self Employment: Lap Dancing as a Case Study Abstract
From Europe with love? An analysis of prevailing mechanisms of Hungarian voice and the impact of European Works Councils for Hungarian workers of UK-owned multinationals. Abstract Paper
Company Restructuring in Europe and Local Union Influence Abstract Paper
Gendered ill-health in the 'new model office': the mean, lean regime in UK tax processing centres Abstract
Subjectively perceived tension between work and life, a multi-level approach Abstract Paper
Controlling the supermarket shopfloor Abstract
Professional autonomy during crisis: reactions of adaptation to short term perspectives. A comparative analysis of Swiss engineers and human ressources managers. Abstract
The dynamic process of the psychological contract Abstract
HRM and performance in the recession: qualitative progress at the largest private sector employer in the UK Abstract
'I don't want to tell people how to feel': rejecting the role of the 'tutelary expert' in the museums sector. Abstract
PRECARIOUS JOBS WITHOUT PRECARIOUNESS ? The Case of French Policy for Domestic Services Abstract Paper
Do Institutions matter? Employment insecurity of European individuals (during the financial crisis), a multi-level approach Abstract Paper
Empowerment and intensification? The effects of new management practices on workers Abstract
Green shoots from the grass roots? A comparative analysis of independent worker activist networks. Abstract
The Impact of Activating Labor Market Policies on Labor Market Orientations in Germany Abstract Paper
Abel Gillian Sex work – choice, exploitation or more than just a dichotomy? Abstract
Andersson Bäck Monica Between control and autonomy in Swedish psychiatry Abstract
Baird Marian Australian Women’s Employment in the Global Economic Downturn -- ‘Partial’ and ‘Compensatory’ Employment Patterns Abstract
BARREAU Jocelyne The recent success of transnational collective bargaining: an unexpected phenomenon? Abstract Paper
Battaglia Stefano Building Trust or reproduction of consent? Interrelations between the objective and the subjected featured of work Abstract
Beh LooSee Challenges of Quality of Work Life: Evidences and Implications in Developed and Developing Countries Abstract Paper
Bennett Jenny Unemployment dynamics - The Role of Employment Protection Legislation Abstract Paper
Bensman David Trucking in the Gray Zone Abstract
Bevort Frans From Knights to Courtiers: The Civilizing Proces as a Lense to Investigate the Practice and Manners of Professionals-as-managers in a Big4 Professional Service Firm Abstract
Bould Sally Older Women: Employment vs. caregiving Abstract
BOUTSIOUKI SOFIA “Promoting Female Entrepreneurship: European Union Strategy and Greek Experience” Abstract Paper
Bråten Mona New forms of control and surveillance in working life - impact on the working environment Abstract Paper
Brents Barb There are many way to sell a body: Strategies of emotion and body work in legal brothels Abstract
Brook Paul The workplace Spirit Level: Rediscovering the value of Marx’s alienation theory for conceptualising the experience of whole person labour power Abstract
Budd John Conceptualizing Work and Worker Well-Being Abstract Paper
Burgmann Verity Resistance and misbehaviour in the information technology workforce Abstract
Chillas Shiona Expansion of higher education: opportunities and costs for the professions Abstract
Clarke Linda Mutual recognition of occupational qualifications at European level: problems, issues and possible solutions Abstract
Colley Linda Politics, reforms and jobs: How the Queensland public sector fared during the global recession Abstract
Colosi Rachela ‘You’re not like all of the other customers’-Performing ‘cynically’ in a lap-dancing club setting Abstract
cucca roberta From protection to vulnerability. The power of organization between architects and consultants Abstract
Danford Andy State sector ‘modernisation’, labour process change and trade union responses. The case of HM Revenue and Customs. Abstract Paper
Darr Asaf Control and Resistance within the Sales Triangle:Management, Salespeople and Clients at a Retail Computer Store Abstract Paper
D'Cruz Premilla Lay-offs in the Indian IT sector during the financial crisis: The legitimization of interpersonal and institutionalized bullying Abstract
Dent Mike MANAGING HOSPITAL DOCTORS IN DENMARK, ENGLAND, AND NETHERLANDS: VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF HYBRIDISATION Abstract
Dobbins Tony Employer capture of ‘regulatory space’ for workplace voice in permissive liberal market economies: evidence from the island of Ireland Abstract Paper
Duffy Ann Women Industrial Workers in a Period of Deindustrialization Abstract
Durbin Susan Professionals, Performance Appraisal and Gender: a case study of public sector scientists in the UK Abstract
Eaton Adrienne Moving Labor Management Partnership to the Frontline: Unit Based Teams at Kaiser Permanente Abstract Paper
Eikhof Doris Ruth The day the music died? New technology and the creative labour process Abstract
Eversberg Dennis 'Activation' and personnel development – the labour market-related functions of temporary agency work before and after the crisis Abstract Paper
Fassauer Gabriele Messages on "Resistance to Change" in German Change Management Approaches Abstract Paper
Fassauer Gabriele Messages on "Resistance to Change" in German Change Management Approaches Abstract
Felstead Alan IS UNEMPLOYMENT JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG? THE TOTALITY AND PATTERN OF UNDER-UTILIZATION IN THE RECESSION IN THE UK Abstract
Fincham Robin Knowledge integration in delivering integrated health and social care Abstract Paper
Gekara Victor Work Recompostion and Skills Profiles: Questions for Trade Union Strategies Abstract
Gonäs Lena Constant restructuring and gendered organisations Abstract
Granter Edward ‘Welcome to the NHS’; normalized intensity and healthcare work. Abstract
Greasley Kay ‘Managerial Commitment to Workplace Innovation: A Test Using Health and Well-being Interventions’ Abstract Paper
Greenwood Ian UK unions and coalition building: A Coalition of the Affected Abstract
Greer Ian Welfare reform and workplace effects: Toward a research programme Abstract
Grugulis Irena Assessing Soft Skills Abstract
Gundert Stefanie Do Fixed-Term and Temporary Agency Workers feel socially excluded? Do Fixed-Term and Temporary Agency Workers feel socially excluded? Labour market integration, social well-being and social capital in Germany Abstract
Haipeter Thomas "Better, Not Cheaper". A German Trade Union Campaign and its Effects for Works Councils and Union Power Abstract Paper
Hajdakova Iveta Serve or Be Served! Social Inequalities in a Luxury Restaurant in Prague Abstract
Hanappi-Egger Edeltraud The Hidden Organizational Agenda in SET Professions Abstract Paper
Hannon Enda Industry Support Agencies and other External Organisations: their impact on Firm Strategies & Employment Practices Abstract Paper
Harley Bill Managerial Control of Work in the Private Security Industry Abstract
Harrison Deborah ‘Non-Professional’ Workers in Community Mental Health Services: Exploring Key Relationships and how they Impact on Worker Experience Abstract
Hasbrouck Heidi The Political Economy of the American Waitress as Icon Abstract
Hauptmeier Marco Whipsawing in Employment Relations Abstract
Heinecken Lindy FROM PROFESSION, TO OCCUPATION, TO CONTRACT WORKER: WHO ARE THE MILITARY PROFESSIONALS NOW? Abstract Paper
Heynen Robert Sex Industry Labour Organizing: Suggestions for Improving Workplace Conditions Abstract
Hirsch-Kreinsen Hartmut Low-skilled industrial work – an overlooked sector in labour research Abstract Paper
Hofmann Susanne Corporeal Entrepreneurialism and Neoliberal Agency in the Sex Trade at the US-Mexican Border Abstract
Holmes Craig The route out of the routine: mobility and the changing structure of occupations Abstract Paper
Holst Hajo Flexible Production and the Production of Flexible Labour – the effects of the crisis on labour’s subjectivity Abstract
Holst Hajo The Commodification of Institutions – The Transformation of German Labour Relations Abstract Paper
Hopkins Benjamin Using Labour Process Theory to analyse the ‘Polish Work Ethic’ Abstract Paper
Hossain Md. Gendered Discourses in the Global Production Industry: An Experience from Bangladesh Apparel Industry Abstract
Huzell Henrietta Strategies for dignity in service work Abstract
Huzzard Tony Labour Process Analysis, Performativity and the Trade Unions: Towards an Action Research Agenda Abstract Paper
Hvid Helge Wellbeing, standardization and control Abstract
Ivarsson Lars Non-work Related Activities at Work Abstract Paper
Johansson Stina IF Metall – Struggling against the effects or recession through individual development of the union members Abstract
Johansson Kristina Gender and food retail trade: challenging and reproducing work and gender in times of organizational changes. Abstract Paper
Karepova Maria The challenges for the development of professional associations in a transitional economy Abstract
Keefe Jeffrey Debunking the Myth of the Overcompensated Public Employee Abstract
Khattab Nabil Globalisation of researcher mobility within the UK HE: Global-oriented academics or a ‘reserve army’? Abstract
Khurana Sakshi Work and Life for Women Informal Workers: Findings based on an Ethnographic Study in New Delhi, India. Abstract
Kirchhoff Jörg Organisational Misbehaviour – can make “Bad Jobs” better Abstract
Kirchhoff Jörg Expansion of Output as Organizational Misbehaviour Abstract
Knuth Matthias Germany in the last business cycle – miracle or riddle? Abstract
Korczynski Marek Customer abuse – pathology of individuals or of the service society? Abstract
Lafer Gordon Labor Rights in International Trade Treaties. Abstract
Lafer Gordon Direct government job creation as a response to the crisis: political and policy challenges in the US. Abstract
Lethbridge Jane Professional development for the Welfare State - a shared model or diverse paths Abstract Paper
Lindén Jyri Moral Commitment and Surplus Value – The Logic and Nature of Teachers’ Work in Finland Abstract
Lizé Laurence Do Unemployed People Find Suitable Jobs in France? Abstract
Loretto Wendy Not seen and not heard: older women in the labour market Abstract
macmahon juliet Bullying, Negative acts and implications for well being in an Irish University. Abstract
main jim ‘"A War on Sickies" or a war on sick workers?: Absence management in contemporary local government’ Abstract
Marks Abigail Organizations, Community, identity and Well-being: Moving beyond Corporate Social Responsibility Abstract
Meil Pamela Consent and Content Abstract Paper
Meldgaard Hansen Agnete Working Environment Authority Interventions to Promote Well-Being at Work Abstract Paper
Melin Harri Class profiles at work Abstract
Mustosmäki Armi Managerial control and employee well-being in call centers in 21st century Finland Abstract Paper
Neubaeumer Renate The result of specialization: De-qualification and polarization of labor markets Abstract
Newsome Kirsty You Monitor Performance at Every Hour’: Labour and the Management of Performance in the Retail Supply Chain Abstract
Nickson Dennis Empowering who? Personalisation and its implications for work and employment in the voluntary sector Abstract
Nielsen Klaus T. Meaning at Work in Elderly Care - The local translation of global trends Abstract
Noronha Ernesto The dialectics of professionalism: Lawyers in India’s legal process outsourcing industry Abstract Paper
Origo Federica Why have permanent workers grown dissatisfied with their job? Abstract
Pedersini Roberto Coping with recession in Lombardy: support networks and public policies Abstract
PEREZ Coralie Organizational change and job separation : endure or escape ? Abstract Paper
Persson Stromback Karin Johanna The Impact of Ideas on Sex-worker Unionization Abstract
Prowse Julie ‘As long as we are all doing the same thing and we know what each other is doing: Midwives’ experiences of collaborative working. Abstract
Pupo Norene Unions in Times of Crisis: Unionized Workers and Plant Closure Abstract
Rabeau Marie-Claude Natalie Exploring the Tension between Personal Intimacy and Spousal Intimacy in Couples Working Together Abstract Paper
Rasmussen Bente Power and freedom to manage? Governing by management agreements in public elderly care Abstract Paper
Rathzel Nora Environmental Labour Studies: tackling the job-environment, north-south contradictions Abstract
Rees Chris The restructuring of public sector work: a critical realist account of workplace change in UK local government Abstract Paper
Rivers-Moore Megan Embodying sex worker rights: comparative movements in Latin America Abstract
Rolfsen Monica Labor-management partnership in global companies Abstract Paper
Salamonska Justyna 'Working holiday' - Polish students on the labour markets of Western Europe and the US Abstract
Sandberg Ake On Scandinavian perspectives on management in the new working life Abstract Paper
Schulze Michaela The End of A Success Story? Danish Unions and Employment Policies in Situation of Crisis Abstract
Sgobbi Francesca The permeability of the labour market for professional skills at large Portuguese banks Abstract
Shen Xuehong Towards an integrated approach for managerial work studies: the case of China Abstract Paper
Stephen McBride Employment Regimes and the Crisis Abstract
Stewart Ann Legal constructions of body/work Abstract
Sturdy Andrew Consultancy’s consequences? Management consultancy and management Abstract Paper
Tai Hsiao-Hui Trade Unions and Identities at Work in Taiwan: A Comparison of Workers and Their Representatives Abstract Paper
Tangian Andranik Modelling Dutch collective bargaining Abstract
Taylor Phil From boom to where? The experience of post-crisis work and employment in offshored BPO in India Abstract Paper
Thomas Mark Responding to Crisis: Joblessness, Labour Market Adjustment and Union Strategy in the Hospitality Sector Abstract
Thory Kathryn Emotions and Misdemeanours: Emotional Intelligence as Work-based Therapeutic Self-Control? Abstract
Tijdens Kea How Do Individual Workers Experience The Impact Of The Economic Crisis? A German-Dutch Comparison Abstract
Tuchkov Arkadiy Institutional forms of labour fragmentation: Case of modern Russia Abstract
Urano Edson The Social Consequences of the Economic Crisis and the Need for a Transnational Social Agenda – the Case of Brazilian Workers in Japan Abstract
van der Meulen Emily Sex Work as Sexual and Emotional Labour: Towards Improved Labour Rights for Sex Workers Abstract
Vidal Matt On the Persistence of Labor Market Insecurity and Slow Growth in the US: Reckoning with the Waltonist Growth Regime Abstract
Vincent Steve Social structures, agencies, identities and moral orders: exploring disadvantage amongst freelance HR workers Abstract
Volmer Janina Managing Psychological Contracting. Increasing Professionalism in the Process of Psychological Contract Formation Abstract Paper
Walwei Ulrich Securing jobs trough labour hoarding in Germany - Potential impacts of subsidised working time reductions in time of recessions Abstract
Wickham James Buy not make? Hidden employment policy choices during Ireland’s economic boom Abstract
Will-Zocholl Mascha Globalised Knowledge Work. Engineering in the Automobile Industry. Abstract Paper
Wimalasena Lakshman The Presence of the Departed? An Attempt to Understand the ‘Meaning of Work’ in a Postcolonial Society. Abstract
Wolkowitz Carol What's new about 'new' body work? Towards a typology of body work Abstract
Yoon Se Joon Governing through Creativity: Discursive Formation and Neoliberal Subjectivity in Korean Firms Abstract Paper
Zheng Yu Collaborative Networks and Skill Development among R&D Staff: the case of Chinese High-Tech Firms Abstract