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Edmund Heery is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a specialized focus on labor movements, industrial relations, and employment studies. The main fields of study covered in Heery's work include Public Administration, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The research topics addressed in Heery's publications predominantly revolve around Labor Movements and Unions, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Employment and Welfare Studies, Management and Organizational Studies, and the Political and Economic history of the UK and US.

Heery has published several papers in notable academic journals, including:

  • Political devolution and employment relations in Great Britain: the case of the Living Wage (2020), Industrial Relations Journal
  • The fallible manager: The critique of management within pluralist industrial relations (2024), Industrial Relations Journal

Other relevant papers related to the fields Heery works in, though authored by different scholars and intersecting with similar topics, include:

  • Revisiting voluntarism: Private voluntary regulation by Employer Forums in the United Kingdom (2021), Journal of Industrial Relations
  • Beyond liberalization: employers' organizations' varied responses to employment law (2024), Employee Relations
  • The decay and revival of sub-UK employer organisation: a response to Dr Ritson (2020), Labor History

Heery collaborates frequently with a range of coauthors, particularly Leon Gooberman and Marco Hauptmeier, each of whom has coauthored multiple publications alongside Heery. Other coauthors include Deborah Hann, David Nash, and Philippe Demougin, indicating interdisciplinary and multi-author engagements in associated research areas.

The primary venues for Heery's research dissemination include the Industrial Relations Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Industrial Relations, Employee Relations, and Labor History. These publications underline an ongoing engagement with topics centered around industrial relations, labor policy, and employment studies.

Best Publications

  • A Dictionary of Human Resource Management

    Edmund Heery;Mike Noon

  • Trade unions and the insecure workforce

    Edmund Heery;Brian Abbott

  • The Insecure Workforce

    Edmund Heery;John Salmon

  • Partnership versus organising: alternative futures for British trade unionism

    Edmund James Heery

  • Working for the union

    John Kelly;Edmund Heery

  • Working for the Union: British Trade Union Officers

    John E. Kelly;Edmund Heery

  • Organizing unionism comes to the UK

    Edmund Heery;Melanie Simms;Dave Simpson;Rick Delbridge

  • Union revitalization in Britain

    Edmund James Heery;John Kelly;Jeremy Waddington

  • The New Solidarity? Trade Union Coalition-Building in Five Countries

    Carola Frege;Edmund Heery;Lowell Turner

  • Professional, Participative and Managerial Unionism: An Interpretation of Change in Trade Unions

    Edmund Heery;John Kelly

  • The Relaunch of the Trades Union Congress

    Edmund Heery

  • New Actors in Industrial Relations

    Edmund James Heery;Carola Frege

  • Organizing the unorganized

    Edmund James Heery;L. Adler

  • The International Journal of Human Resource Management

    Marco Hauptmeier;Edmund Heery

  • The trade union response to agency labour in Britain

    Edmund James Heery

  • Full-time Officers and Trade Union Recruitment

    John Kelly;Edmund Heery

  • Trade unions and contingent labour: scale and method

    Edmund James Heery

  • Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing

    Melanie Simms;Jane Holgate;Edmund James Heery

  • Sources of change in trade unions

    Edmund James Heery

  • Do Female Representatives make a Difference? Women Full-Time Officials and Trade Union Work

    Edmund Heery;John Kelly

  • Union organizing in Britain: a survey of policy and practice

    Edmund Heery;Melanie Simms;Rick Delbridge;John Salmon

  • Future of Worker Representation

    Geraldine Healy;Edmund Heery;Philip Taylor;William Brown

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