Duncan Gallie's 1995-96 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 assess 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 the implications of forms of employee participation in industry for work motivation, and for relations with management.

He was awarded a grant by the EU under the Socio-Economic Research and Technological Development Programme to carry out a comparative project on the implications of unemployment and employment precarity for social exclusion. This will involve co-ordinating a project team drawn from 8 countries. He is also responsible for the analysis of a new survey conducted by the EU of employment conditions in all of the member states.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Employment Research (Warwick), the British Household Panel Study (Essex) and the Comité Scientifique de l’Institut Fédératif de Recherche sur les Economies et les Sociétés Industrielles in France. He has served as a member of the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society and a foreign representative on the editorial board of Sociologie du Travail. He is a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the CNRS research programme ‘Travail et Emploi’.

Publications

(edited with R Penn and M Rose) Trade Unionism in Recession. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

(with M Rose) ‘Employer Policies and Trade Union Influence’ in D Gallie, R Penn and M Rose (eds.) Trade Unionism in Recession. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

‘Trade Union Allegiance and Decline in British Urban Labour Markets’ in D Gallie, R Penn and M Rose (eds.) Trade Unionism in Recession. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

(edited with R Crompton and K Purcell) Changing Forms of Employment. Organizations, Skills and Gender. London: Routledge, 1996.

‘Skill, Gender and the Quality of Employment’ in R Crompton, D Gallie and K Purcell (eds.) Changing Forms of Employment. Organizations, Skills and Gender. London: Routledge, 1996.