Austerity and Recovery in Ireland
Europe's Poster Child and the Great Recession
Edited by William K. Roche, Philip J. O'Connell, and Andrea Prothero
Author Information
William K. Roche is Professor of Industrial Relations & Human Resources at the College of Business, University College Dublin and Honorary Professor at the Management School, Queen's University, Belfast. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was Heyworth Memorial Prize Research Fellow of Nuffield College. He has published extensively in leading international peer-reviewed journals in industrial relations and human resource management. His recent books include Managing Conflict at Work: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Ireland (with P. Teague, T. Gormley, and D. Currie, Institute of Public Administration, 2015), The Oxford Handbook of Conflict Management in Organizations (with P. Teague and A. Colvin, OUP, 2014), and Recession at Work: HRM in the Irish Crisis (with P. Teague, A. Coughlan and M. Fahy, Routledge, 2013).
Philip J. O'Connell is Professor of Applied Social Science at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin, and Director of the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. Most of his work focuses on the labour market and on migration. He has an enduring interest in equality at work and in access to employment, and has published papers on wage inequality, on working conditions and workplace practices, on the transition from unemployment to work, and on the experience of migrant workers in Ireland. He has written several books on the determinants and effects of work-related education and training, and published papers on this and other labour market issues in the leading peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a consultant on human resource development and labour market issues to the European Commission and the OECD. He is a government-appointed member of the Irish Labour Market Council.
Andrea Prothero is Professor of Business and Society at the College of Business, University College Dublin. Her research focuses primarily on exploring the relationships between marketing and society, with a particular emphasis on sustainability marketing research, and she has published widely in these areas. Prior to moving to Ireland in 1999, Andrea worked at universities in the UK, and also completed a sabbatical at Arizona State University in 2002. She recently led one of UCDs contributions to the President of Ireland's Ethics Initiative, asking students across Ireland to engage in debate focusing on why 'we need to talk about ethics.'
Contributors:
Frank Barry, Trinity College Dublin
Adele Bergin, ESRI
Donald Taylor Black, documentary filmmaker, writer, and educator
Richard Boyle, Institute of Public Administration, Ireland
Sara Cantillon, Glasgow Caledonian University
Blanaid Clarke, Trinity College Dublin
Marius C. Claudy, University College Dublin
Gregory Connor, Maynooth University
Margaret Crean, University College Dublin
David M. Farrell, University College Dublin
Thomas Flavin, Maynooth University
Irial Glynn, Leiden University
Rory Hearne, TASC
Andrew Keating, University College Dublin
Stephen Kinsella, University of Limerick
Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University
Brigid Laffan, European University Institute, Florence
Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin
Cian O'Callaghan, Trinity College Dublin
Philip J. O'Connell, University College Dublin
Brian O'Kelly, Dublin City University
Sean O Riain, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Andrea Prothero, University College Dublin
William K. Roche, University College Dublin
Paul Teague, Queen's University, Belfast
