Professor Edmund Heery
Edmund Heery is Professor of Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School and an expert in UK Industrial Relations. Much of his research has dealt with trade unions. He has led projects on union organizing, union responses to contingent work, the changing role of the TUC, the involvement of unions in Amnesty International, and union policy on equal pay and work-life integration. More recently, Edmund has been involved in research on the role of civil society organizations in representing...See more
Edmund Heery is Professor of Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School and an expert in UK Industrial Relations. Much of his research has dealt with trade unions. He has led projects on union organizing, union responses to contingent work, the changing role of the TUC, the involvement of unions in Amnesty International, and union policy on equal pay and work-life integration. More recently, Edmund has been involved in research on the role of civil society organizations in representing working people and is undertaking research on the UK's Living Wage. Among Edmund's publications are Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing (Cornell University Press, 2013) (with Mel Simms and Jane Holgate), Reassessing the Employment Relationship (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) (with Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull), and A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (Oxford University Press 2016) (with Mike Noon). See less
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