Tony Dobbins

2025

Downsizing

Dobbins, T. & Wilkinson, A., Jan 2025, Contemporary Human Resource Management: Text and Cases. Wilkinson, A., Dundon, T. & Yates, E. (eds.). 7 ed. SAGE Publications

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2024

Conceptualizing decent work: an explorative study of decent work in England’s Midlands region

Dobbins, T., Cao, X., Green, A., Johnstone, P. & Foster, W., 16 May 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Policy Studies.

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Industrial relations, the New Right and the praxis of mismanagement

Dobbins, T. & Dundon, T., 29 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Employee Relations.

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Moral Economy and the Ethics of the Real Living Wage in UK Football Clubs

Dobbins, T. & Prowse, P., 26 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Business Ethics. 16 p.

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Why employment relations matter(s) for governance of problems for labour in the real world of work

Dobbins, T., 12 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Labour & Industry. 17 p., 2317185.

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2023

Comparative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on work and employment—Why industrial relations institutions matter

Dobbins, T., Johnstone, S., Kahancová, M., Lamare, R. & Wilkinson, A., 23 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Industrial Relations. 11 p.

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Dobbins, T., 23 Feb 2023, Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management, Second Edition. Johnstone, S., Rodriguez, J. K. & Wilkinson, A. (eds.). 2 ed. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 65-66 2 p. (Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management).

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Furlough

Dobbins, T., 23 Feb 2023, Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management, Second Edition. Johnstone, S., Rodriguez, J. K. & Wilkinson, A. (eds.). 2 ed. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 141-142 2 p. (Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management).

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Living wage

Dobbins, T. & Prowse, P., 23 Feb 2023, Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management, Second Edition. Johnstone, S., Rodriguez, J. K. & Wilkinson, A. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 248-249 2 p. (Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management).

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Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working

Wheatley, D., Broome, M., Dobbins, T., Hopkins, B. & Powell, O., 19 Sept 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Work, Employment and Society. p. 1-24 24 p.

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2022

Contesting the politics of neoliberal resilience: regional labour market resilience from a workers’ perspective

Dobbins, T. & Plows, A., 25 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Regional Studies. 57, 1, p. 26-40 15 p.

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Employee choice of voice and non-union worker representation

Donaghey, J., Cullinane, N., Dundon, T., Dobbins, T. & Hickland, E., 10 Oct 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Industrial Relations Journal.

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Good work: Policy and research on the quality of work in the UK

Dobbins, T., 6 Jun 2022, House of Commons. 42 p. (Research Briefing; no. 9561)

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Responsible autonomy: the interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19

Abgeller, N., Bachmann, R., Dobbins, T. & Anderson, D., 7 Dec 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Economic and Industrial Democracy.

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2021

Flexible working: remote and hybrid work

Dobbins, T., 30 Nov 2021, House of Commons. 41 p. (Commons Library Research Briefing; no. CBP-9391)

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Frontier of control struggles in British and Irish public transport

Hughes, E. & Dobbins, T., 1 Sept 2021, In: European Journal of Industrial Relations. 27, 3, p. 327-344 18 p.

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Social media: a (new) contested terrain between sousveillance and surveillance in the digital workplace

Taylor, C. & Dobbins, T., Nov 2021, In: New Technology, Work and Employment. 36, 3, p. 263-284 22 p.

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The Living Wage: Advancing a Global Movement

Dobbins, T. (Editor) & Prowse, P. (Editor), 30 Sept 2021, 1st ed. London: Routledge. 230 p.

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2020

Employer Silencing in a Context of Voice Regulations: Case Studies of Non-Compliance

Hickland, E., Cullinane, N., Dobbins, T., Dundon, T. & Donaghey, J., Nov 2020, In: Human Resource Management Journal. 30, 4, p. 537-552 16 p.

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Ireland's conundrum on union bargaining rights: assessing the Industrial Relations Amendment Act 2015

Dobbins, T., Cullinane, N. & Sheehan, B., 12 Feb 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Industrial Relations Journal. 51, 1-2, p. 75-91

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Non-union employee representation

Dobbins, T. & Dundon, T., 1 Jan 2020, Handbook of Research on Employee Voice, Second Edition. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 378-396 19 p.

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2 Citations (Scopus)

‘Zones of contention’ in industrial relations: Framing pluralism as praxis

Dobbins, T., Hughes, E. & Dundon, T., 26 Sept 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Industrial Relations.

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2019

Moral economy, solidarity and labour process struggle in Irish public transport

Hughes, E., Dobbins, T. & Merkl-Davies, D., 20 Dec 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Economic and Industrial Democracy.

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2018

Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in EuropeVirginiaDoellgast, NathanLillie, and ValeriaPulignano (eds) Oxford University Press Publications, 2018, 250 pp., £60.00. ISBN: 9780198791843

Dobbins, T., 26 May 2018, In: Industrial Relations Journal. 49, 3, p. 295-296

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‘Going Underground’: A Tube Worker’s Experience of Struggles over the Frontier of Control

Hughes, E. S., Dobbins, T. & Murphy, S., 19 Mar 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Work, Employment & Society.

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2017

Employment regulation, game theory and weak employee voice in liberal economies

Dobbins, T., Dundon, T., Cullinane, N., Hickland, E. & Donaghey, J., 2017, In: International Labour Review. 156, 3-4

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6 Citations (Scopus)

Labour market intermediaries: a corrective to the human capital paradigm (mis)matching skills and jobs?

Dobbins, T. & Plows, A., 2017, In: Journal of Education and Work. 30, 6, p. 571-584

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8 Citations (Scopus)

The chimera of sustainable labour-management partnership

Dobbins, T. & Dundon, T., 11 Jul 2017, In: British Journal of Management. 28, 3, p. 519-533

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25 Citations (Scopus)

Triggering employee voice under the European Information and Consultation Directive: A non-union case study

Cullinane, N., Hickland, E., Dundon, T., Dobbins, T. & Donaghey, J., 2017, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. 38, 4, p. 629-655

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4 Citations (Scopus)

2015

Double-breasting employee voice: An assessment of motives, arrangements and durability

Dundon, T., Dobbins, T., Cullinane, N., Donaghey, J., Wilkinson, A. & Hickland, E., 1 Mar 2015, In: Human Relations. 68, 3, p. 489-513 25 p.

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8 Citations (Scopus)

Militant partnership: a radical pluralist analysis of workforce dialectics

Dundon, T. & Dobbins, T., 1 Dec 2015, In: Work, Employment & Society. 29, 6, p. 912-931 20 p.

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15 Citations (Scopus)

2014

Considering the impact of the ‘Right to Bargain’ legislation in Ireland: a review

Cullinane, N. & Dobbins, T., 18 Feb 2014, In: Industrial Law Journal. 43, 1, p. 52-83 32 p.

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4 Citations (Scopus)

Employer occupation of regulatory space of the Employee Information and Consultation (I&C) Directive in liberal market economies

Dundon, T., Dobbins, T., Cullinane, N., Hickland, E. & Donaghey, J., 1 Feb 2014, In: Work, Employment & Society. 28, 1, p. 21-39 19 p.

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26 Citations (Scopus)

Regulating for mutual gains? Non-union employee representation and the Information and Consultation Directive

Cullinane, N., Donaghey, J., Dundon, T., Hickland, E. & Dobbins, T., 2014, In: International Journal of Human Resource Management. 25, 6, p. 810-828 19 p.

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‘Make do and mend’ after redundancy at Anglesey Aluminium: critiquing human capital approaches to unemployment

Dobbins, T., Plows, A. & Lloyd-Williams, H., 1 Aug 2014, In: Work, Employment & Society. 28, 4, p. 515-532 18 p.

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10 Citations (Scopus)

2013

Beyond union avoidance? Exploring the dynamics of double-breasting voice regimes in Ireland

Cullinane, N., Dundon, T., Hickland, E., Dobbins, T. & Donaghey, J., 8 Aug 2013, Global Anti-Unionism: Nature, Dynamics, Trajectories and Outcomes. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 121-142 22 p.

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2012

Different rooms, different voices: Double-breasting, multi-channel representation and the managerial agenda

Cullinane, N., Donaghey, J., Dundon, T. & Dobbins, T., Jan 2012, In: International Journal of Human Resource Management. 23, 2, p. 368-384 17 p.

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Non-union employee representation, union avoidance and the managerial agenda

Donaghey, J., Cullinane, N., Dundon, T. & Dobbins, T., May 2012, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. 33, 2, p. 163-183 21 p.

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2010

The case for 'beneficial constraints': Why permissive voluntarism impedes workplace cooperation in Ireland

Dobbins, T., Nov 2010, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. 31, 4, p. 497-519 23 p.

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