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D-Index
50
Citations
9086
World Ranking
2794
National Ranking
483

Overview

Damian Grimshaw is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and works primarily within social sciences. Their research spans several subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, public administration, general health professions, and economics and econometrics.

Their scholarly output focuses heavily on topics related to labor and employment dynamics. Main topics of study include labor movements and unions, employment and welfare studies, social policy and reform studies, digital economy and work transformation, social sciences and governance, employment, labor, and gender studies, as well as work-family balance challenges.

Grimshaw's recent published papers include:

  • A gendered lens on COVID-19 employment and social policies in Europe (2020, European Societies)
  • Why does unpaid labour vary among digital labour platforms? Exploring socio-technical platform regimes of worker autonomy (2023, Human Relations)
  • International organisations and the future of work: How new technologies and inequality shaped the narratives in 2019 (2020, Journal of Industrial Relations)
  • Unions and precarious work: How power resources shape diverse strategies and outcomes (2023, European Journal of Industrial Relations)
  • Dualisation and part-time work in France, Germany and the UK: Accounting for within and between country differences in precarious work (2022, European Journal of Industrial Relations)

Frequent co-authors include Mathew Johnson, Jill Rubery, Bernd Brandl, Valeria Pulignano, and Miguel Martínez Lucio.

Grimshaw publishes regularly in well-known academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Human Relations
  • European Journal of Industrial Relations
  • International Labour Review
  • Revue internationale du Travail
  • Revista Internacional del Trabajo

Best Publications

  • Fragmenting work: blurring organizational boundaries and disordering hierarchies

    Mick Marchington;Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery;Hugh Willmott

  • The Organisation of Employment: An International Perspective

    J. Rubery;Damian Grimshaw

  • Going Privately: Partnership and Outsourcing in UK Public Services

    Damian Grimshaw;Steve Vincent;Hugh Willmott

  • Modularity and innovation in knowledge intensive business services: IT outsourcing in Germany and the UK

    Marcela Miozzo;Damian Grimshaw

  • Challenges and contradictions in the ‘normalising’ of precarious work

    Jill Rubery;Damian Grimshaw;Arjan Keizer;Mathew Johnson

  • PPPs and the changing public sector ethos: Case-study evidence from the health and local authority sectors

    Gail Hebson;Damian Grimshaw;Mick Marchington

  • Organisations and the Transformation of the Internal Labour Market

    Damian Grimshaw;Kevin G. Ward;Jill Rubery;Huw Beynon

  • Managing Employment Change: The New Realities of Work

    Huw Beynon;Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery;Kevin Ward

  • How to Close the Gender Pay Gap in Europe: towards the gender mainstreaming of pay policy

    Jill Rubery;Damian Grimshaw;Hugo Figueiredo

  • Undervaluing women's work

    D. Grimshaw;J. Rubery

  • Working Time, Industrial Relations and the Employment Relationship

    Jill Rubery;Kevin Ward;Damian Grimshaw;Huw Beynon

  • Dilemmas in the management of temporary work agency staff

    Kevin Ward;Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery;Huw Beynon

  • Integrating the Internal and External Labour Markets

    Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery

  • ICTs and Employment: The Problem of Job Quality.

    Jill Rubery;Damian Grimshaw

  • The end of the UK’s liberal collectivist social model? The implications of the coalition government’s policy during the austerity crisis

    Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery

  • Flexibility bites back: the multiple and hidden costs of flexible employment policies

    Jill Rubery;Arjan Keizer;Damian Grimshaw

  • Knowledge Intensive Business Services

    Marcela Miozzo;Damian Grimshaw

  • Inter-capital relations and the network organisation: redefining the work and employment nexus

    Damian Grimshaw;Jill Rubery

  • The Restructuring of Career Paths in Large Service Sector Organizations: 'delayering', upskilling and polarisation

    Damian Grimshaw;Huw Beynon;Jill Rubery;Kevin Ward

  • The organization of employment

    Jill Rubery;Damian Grimshaw

  • Fragmenting Work:Blurring Organisational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies

    M P. Marchington;D. Grimshaw;J. Rubery;H. Willmott

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Colette Fagan
Colette Fagan University of Manchester
Chris Warhurst
Chris Warhurst University of Warwick
John Hassard
John Hassard University of Manchester

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