Duncan Gallie's 1994-95 Annual Research Report

Duncan Gallie (Official Fellow) has been working on a comparative project examining the experience of employment and unemployment in Britain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This has involved a replication in the Central and East European countries of the Employment in Britain Survey (carried out together with Michael White of the Policy Studies Institute). The objective is to asses the implications of different historical trajectories and current institutional structures for work motivation and for beliefs about the legitimacy of management. He also has continued the analysis of the British data, focusing particularly upon sources of work stress and changes in the employment conditions of part-time workers.

He was an organiser of the Work, Employment and Society Conference at the University of Kent in September 1994. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Employment Research (Warwick) and the Comité Scientifique de l’Institut Fédératif de Recherche sur les Economies et les Sociétés Industrielles in France. He is a member of the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society and a foreign representative on the editorial board of Sociologie du travail. He served as a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the CNRS research programme ‘Travail et Employ’.

Publications

‘Are the Unemployed an Underclass?’ Sociology, 23 (3), August 1994..

‘Patterns of Skill Change: Upskilling, Deskilling or Polarisation?’ in R Penn, M Rose, and J Rubery (ed.) Skill and Occupational Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

(co-editor with O Benoit Guilbot) Long-Term Unemployment. London: Pinter, 1994.

(with Y Cheng, M Tomlinson and M White) ‘The Employment Commitment of Unemployment People’ (ed.) Unemployment and Public Policy in a Changing Labour Market. London: Policy Institute, 1994.

(with M White) ‘Employment Policies, Employee Contracts and Labour Market Structure’ in J Rubery and F Wilkinson (eds.) Employer Strategy and the Labour Market. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

(with M White) ‘Employer Policies and Individual Life Chances’ in J Rubery and F Wilkinson (eds.) Employer Strategy and the Labour Market. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.