McGovern, Patrick
Dr Patrick McGovern
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Experience keywords:
employment relations; immigration; economic sociology; work
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Dr McGovern's interests are in economic sociology, the sociology of work and labour markets, and international migration. He has recently completed a major co-authored, ESRC funded, study entitled Market, Class, and Employment (Oxford University Press, 2007). Among other things, this book examines an issue that has of been of interest since he began his doctoral research back in the 1980s: the impact of new employment practices on traditional patterns of social inequality. Currently, he is developing an innovative comparative project on international migration and social mobility in Britain and the USA.
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Britain; Ireland
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Media experience:
Has written for mainstream press; Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
McGovern, Patrick (2013) Contradictions at work: a critical review. Sociology, ISSN 0038-0385 McGovern, Patrick (2012) Inequalities in the (de-)commodification of labour: immigration, the nation state, and labour market stratification. Sociology compass, 6 (6). pp. 485-498. ISSN 1751-9020 Frege, Carola M. and Kelly, John and McGovern, Patrick (2011) Richard Hyman: marxism, trade unionism and comparative employment relations. British journal of industrial relations, 49 (2). pp. 209-230. ISSN 0007-1080 McGovern, Patrick (2009) Will the economic downturn alter current work-life strategies?: the debate on work-life balance is still in its infancy. Personalführung, 2 pp. 40-45. ISSN 1430-5658 McGovern, Patrick and Hill, Stephen and Mills, Colin and White, Michael (2007) Market, class, and employment. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 0199213380 McGovern, Patrick (2007) Immigration, labour markets and employment relations: problems and prospects. British journal of industrial relations, 45 (2). pp. 217-235. ISSN 0007-1080 McGovern, Patrick and Smeaton, Deborah and Hill, Stephen (2004) Bad jobs in Britain: non-standard employment and job quality. Work & occupations, 31 (2). pp. 225-249. ISSN 0730-8884 McGovern, Patrick (2003) Rational choice theory, the "new economic sociology" and functionalism. Work, employment & society, 17 (4). pp. 747-756. ISSN 0950-0170 White, Michael and Hill, Stephen and McGovern, Patrick and Mills, Colin and Smeaton, Deborah (2003) "High-performance" management practices, working hours and work-life balance. British journal of industrial relations, 41 (2). pp. 175-195. ISSN 0007-1080 McGovern, Patrick (2002) Globalization or internationalization? Foreign footballers in the English league, 1946-1995. Sociology, 36 (1). pp. 23-42. ISSN 0038-0385 McGovern, Patrick (1999) HRM policies and management practices. In: Gratton, Lynda and Hope-Hailey, Veronica and Stiles, Philip and Truss, Catherine, (eds.) Strategic human resource management: corporate rhetoric and Human reality. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 133-152. ISBN 9780198782049 McGovern, Patrick The experience of work in comparative perspective. In: Sociology. . ISSN 0038-0385
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