Professor Charles Woolfson, BA PhD FRSA |
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Currently, Professor of Labour Studies and previously on extended leave of absence (2004-2007) as holder of European Commission Framework Programme 6 excellence award as ‘Marie Curie Chair’ based at the University of Latvia. Responsibility for peripatetic teaching and research on themes of European integration, migration, industrial relations and working environment in three Baltic new EU Member States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Research Interests
Labour standards and industrial relations in a European and Global context.Research students under supervision
Currently no research students are under supervision
Selected publications
Forthcoming
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Woolfson, C. and Sommers, J., "Trajectories of Entropy and "the Labour Question": The Political Economy of Post-communist Migration in the New Europe", Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 53-69. |
2008
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Calite, D. and Woolfson, C., 2008, "Working Environment in the new EU Member State of Lithuania: Examining a "worst case" example", Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 3-28. |
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Sommers, J. and Woolfson, C., 2008, "Trajectories of Entropy and "the Labour Question": The Political Economy of Post-communist Migration in the New Europe", Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 53-69. |
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Woolfson, C., 2008, "European Briefing: Social Dialogue and Life-long learning in the new EU Member States: EU "reform fit" in Latvia", Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 79-87. |
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Woolfson, C., Calite , D. . and Kallaste, E. ., 2008, "Employee "voice" and working environment in post-communist New Member States: An empirical analysis of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania", Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 314-334. |
2007
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Woolfson, C., 2007, "Pushing the envelope: The 'informalisation' of labour in post-communist new EU Member States", Work, Employment and Society, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 551-564. |
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Woolfson, C., 2007, "Labour Standards and Labour Migration in the new Europe: Post-communist legacies and perspectives", European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 199-218. |
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Woolfson, C. and Calite, D., 2007, "New European Community strategy for health and safety: The elephant in the room", International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 343-357. |
2006
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Woolfson, C., 2006, "The 'Conventionalization' of Safety Crimes in the Post-Communist New Member States of the European Union", Critical Criminology, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 339-364. |
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Woolfson, C., 2006, "New Modes of Regulation for Health and Safety: Post-enlargement policy perspectives for the European Union", New Solutions: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, pp. 155-173. |
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Woolfson, C., 2006, "Working Environment and Soft Law in the Post-Communist New Member States", Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, March, pp. 195-215. |
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Woolfson, C., 2006, "Discourses of Labour Protest", Atlantic Journal of Communication, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 70-96. |
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Woolfson, C. and Petrylaite, D., 2006, "Missing in action: The Right to Strike in the Post-Communist new Member States - An Absent EU competence", International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 439-468. |
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Woolfson, C. and Sommers, J., 2006, "Die Gestaltung des neuen Europas nach der EU-Erweiterung: Rechtliche und politische Implikationen des "Laval un Partneri- Streits" um Sozialstandards zwischen Lettland und Schweden", ARBEIT. Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik, vol. 2, pp. 85-97. |
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Woolfson, C. and Sommers, J., 2006, "Labour Mobility in Construction: European Implications of the Latvian Laval un Partneri Dispute with Swedish Labour", European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 12, no. 1, March, pp. 49-68. |
2005
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Woolfson, C., 2005, "Health and Safety at Work after Enlargement: A 'new European strategy', or more of the same?", Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, vol. 3, no. 4, November, pp. 69-88. |
2004
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Woolfson, C., 2004, "Business Organisation, Precarious Employment and Risk Transfer Mechanisms: Death in the Offshore Oil Industry", Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 91-110. |
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Woolfson, C. and Beck, M., 2004, "The End of Labour Quiescence? Industrial Unrest in Contemporary Lithuania", Journal of Comparative Labor Law and Industrial Relations, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 227-251. |
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Woolfson, C. and Beck, M., 2004, "The Employment Relations Act 1999 and Partnership Union Recognition in Britain's Offshore Oil and Gas Industry", Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 344-358. |
2003
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Woolfson, C., 2003, "Occupational Safe and Health in Transitional Lithuania", Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 34, pp. 241-259. |
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Woolfson, C., 2003, "The Right to Strike, Labor Market Liberalization and the new Labour Code in pre-Accession Lithuania", Review of Central and East European Law, vol. 28, pp. 77-102. |
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Woolfson, C., 2003, "Workplace health and safety in pre-accession Lithuania: a survey", Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, vol. 1, pp. 59-81. [other] |
2002
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Woolfson, C., 2002, "Remapping Labour's Rights: The Case of Transitional Lithuania", Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 54, pp. 749-769. |