Mike Richardson

Biography

ANDY DANFORD is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of the West of England, UK. He has published widely in the areas of trade union renewal and critical studies of lean production in the aerospace and automotive sectors. He is the author of Japanese Management Techniques and British Workers and co-author of New Unions, New Workplaces. MIKE RICHARDSON is a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the University of the West of England, UK. His research interests include labour history. Recent published articles include Leadership and Mobilization: SOGAT in the 1986-87 News International Dispute. PAUL STEWART is Professor of the Sociology of Work and Employment at the University of the West of England, UK. He has published widely in the areas of employment relations and labour processes in the automotive industry and the new lean politics of partnership at work. He is editor of Employment, Trade Union Renewal and Future of Work in the ESRC Future of Work series. STEPHANIE TAILBY is Reader in Employment Relations at the Bristol Business School, UK. Her recent research focuses on 'partnership at work' in the UK, and contingent employment in European healthcare and financial services. MARTIN UPCHURCH is Professor of International Employment Relations at Middlesex University Business School, UK. His research interests include trade union strategies and comparative industrial relations. He is the co-author of New Unions, New Workplaces.