Dr Sian Moore
Position
Reader
Qualifications
BA (York); PhD (Essex).
Background/Career
Following her doctorate at the University of Essex (in Social
History), Sian worked in a number of research posts in local government,
supporting economic development, urban policy and education and training
programmes. She was active in, what was then, the local government trade union,
NALGO. She then went on to work for the Labour Research Department, the
independent, trade union-based research organisation, where she undertook a
number of commissioned research projects for trade unions.
Between 2000 and 2003 Sian worked as a Research Officer on the
Leverhulme Foundation Future of Trade Unionism Programme, based in the Centre
for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. She taught on the
LSE’s MSc in Employment Relations.
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Research interests and expertise
Sian’s current research interest is trade union recognition;
her work under the Leverhulme Future of Unions Programme focused on the impact
of the statutory recognition legislation introduced in 2000. Her doctoral work
involved a study of working class women’s response to the restructuring of the
labour market and sexual division of labour in Bradford, West Yorkshire
1780-1845. She is interested in a number of related fields including working
class women’s consciousness and organisation in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries as well as contemporary workplace organisation and mobilisation.
Contact details
sian.moore@londonmet.ac.uk
Working
Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry
Street
London EC3N 2EY
Tel. 020 7320 1318
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Publications
Book Chapters
- 2008 ‘Market driven restructuring: the case of the UK’ in Gazier, B. and Bruggeman. F. (Eds) Work and Employment in Europe: Managing Change in an Era of Globalisation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Geof Luton.
- 2008 ‘The role of European trade unions in organisational restructuring processes - obstacles or facilitators?’ in Gazier, B. and Bruggeman. F. (Eds) Work and Employment in Europe: Managing Change in an Era of Globalisation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Greg Thomson and Geof Luton.
- 2005 ‘The nature of collective bargaining achieved through the statutory procedure’ in Gall, G (ed) Union Recognition - Organising and Bargaining Outcomes London: Routledge with Sonia McKay and Hannah Wood.
- 2004 ‘Union mobilization and employer counter-mobilization in the statutory recognition process’ in Kelly, J. and Willman, P. (eds.) Union organization and Activity, London: Routledge.
- 2004 ‘Crafting a statutory union recognition procedure that works for the UK’ in Verma, A and Kochan, T. (eds.) Unions in the 21st Century, Palgrave: Basingstoke with Stephen Wood.
- 2003 ‘The impact of the trade union recognition procedure under the Employment Relations Act, 2000-2’, in Gospel, H. and Wood, S. (eds.) Representing Workers; Union recognition and membership in Britain, London: Routledge with Stephen Wood and Keith Ewing.
Journal Articles
- 2008 ‘The evolving role of union learning representatives’, Journal of In-Service Education, Volume 34, No.4, December 2008 423-440, with Cilla Ross.
- 2007 ‘Review of Workplace Representatives’ Facilities and Facility Time, Industrial Law Journal Research and Reports, Volume 36, No. 2, with Sonia McKay.
- 2007 ‘Age as a factor defining older women’s experience of labour market participation in the UK’ Industrial Law Journal Research and Reports, Volume 36, No. 3.
- 2007 ‘Why do Europe’s unions find it difficult to organise in small firms?’ Transfer, Volume 13(1) Spring 2007 with Jefferys, S. and Cours-Salies, P.
- 2006 ‘Employee representation, voice and unionisation in small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK’, Human Resource Management Journal Volume 16(4) November 2006, with Ian Read.
- 2006 ‘The relationship between legislation and industrial practice - a study of the outcome of trade union recognition’ Employee Relation, Volume 28: Issue 4 2006.
- 2003 ‘Unfair Labour Practices: Trade Union Recognition and Employer Resistance’, London, Institute of Employment Rights, with Keith Ewing and Stephen Wood.
- 2002 ‘Third time lucky for statutory union recognition in the UK’, Industrial Relations Journal, (Special edition), 33(3): 215-33 with Stephen Wood and Paul Willman.
- 2000 Recognition of Trade Unions - Consultation over the Access Code and Method of Bargaining’ Industrial Law Journal, 29: 406 with Stephen Wood and Paul Davies.
Recent Reports
- 2008 ‘The impact of employee representation upon workplace industrial relations outcomes’ with Ali Tasiran and Steve Jefferys, BERR, Employment Relations Research Series, 87.
- 2007 ‘Union learning, union recruitment and organising’ unionlearn Research paper 1, with Hannah Wood.
- 2005 ‘The Role of Acas in Trade Union Recognition Claims under Employment Relations Act, 1999’, Acas Research Paper, Ref 03/05, London.
- 2005 ‘The Content of New Voluntary Trade Union Recognition Agreements 1998-2002: Volume Two - Findings from the survey of employers’, DTI Employment Relations Research Series No.43. London: DTI, with Sonia Mckay and Helen Bewley.
- 2005 An Evaluation of the UK Union Learning Fund - its impact on unions and employers, WLRI London.
- 2004 ‘The Content of New Voluntary Trade Union Recognition Agreements 1998-2002: Volume One - an analysis of new agreements and case studies’, DTI Employment Relations Research Series No.26. London: DTI, with Sonia Mckay and Helen Bewley.
- 2003 ‘Reviewing the Statutory Union Recognition (ERA 1999)’, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper 583. London: CEP, with Stephen Wood.
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