Anna Pollert

Zur Person / Biographical Details

Anna Pollert is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Greenwich Business School (1998 to present), and was previously at the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick. She studied Sociology at Bristol University, and her main interests are in the areas of gender, work and equal opportunity, industrial relations and labour representation, flexibility at work, and the transformation of the former command economies of Central Eastern Europe to democracy and capitalism. Her research on CEE focused on the Czech Republic, where she conducted fieldwork on workplace change and trade union developments, and at a comparative level, she has also explored transition Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

Ausgewählte Publikationen / Selected Publications

  • Transformation at Work in the New Market Economies of Central Eastern Europe, Sage 1999
  • Farewell to Flexibility? (ed.) 1991
  • Girls, Wives, Factory Lives, Macmillan 1981
  • Fordism and Flexibility: Divisions and Change (Co-editor with N.Gilbert and R.Burrows ) 1992, London: Macmillan [1999, translated into Japanese, by arrangement with The Macmillan Press and the English Agency (Japan) Ltd.].
  • Labour and Trade Unionism in the Czech Republic 1989 - 1998; in Ost D./ Crowley, S. (eds.), Workers after Workers' States: Labor and Politics in Postcommunist Europe, New York (forthcoming)
  • Privatisation and Labour Movements in Central Eastern Europe; in: International Union Rights Journal, October 2001
  • Ten Years of Post-Communist Central Eastern Europe: Labour's Tenuous Foothold in the Regulation of the Employment Relationship; in: Economic and Industrial Democracy: an International Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2, May 2000, 183 - 210
  • The Czech Labour Movement a Decade after 1989; in: Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, No. 66, November 2000, 8-33
  • Ten Years On: The Weakness of the Labour Movement in Post-Communist Central Eastern Europe; in: Employee Relations Review, No. 15, November 2000, 22-27
  • Trade Unionism in Transition in Central Eastern Europe; in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 1999, 209-234
  • Class Dismissed? Labour and Trade Unions in the Czech Republic, 1989 - 1999; in: Emergo - Journal of Transition, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999, 6-23
  • Industrial Relations in the Czech Republic; in: European Industrial Relations Review, No. 296, September 1998, 19-24
  • The Sexual Division of Labour in Process Manufacturing: Economic Restructuring, Training and "Women's Work" (with J. Flecker and P. Meil); in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1998, 7-34
  • From Acquiescence to Assertion? Trade Unionism in the Czech Republic 1989 - 1995; in Schienstock, G./ Thompson, P./ Traxler, F. (eds.), Industrial Relations between Command and Market, New York 1997
  • Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung und Umstrukturierung in der Lebensmittelproduktion. Über die Voraussetzungen der Beschäftigungssicherung für Frauen durch Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen (with J. Flecker and P. Meil); in: Flecker, J. im Auftrag FORBA (ed.) Jenseits der Sachzwanglogik: Arbeitspolitik zwischen Anpassungsdruck und Gestaltungschancen, Berlin 1997
  • The transformation of trade unionism in the capitalist and democratic restructuring of the Czech Republic; in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 3, No. 2, June 1997, 203-228
  • Team work on the assembly line: contradictions and the dynamics of union resilience; in: Ackers, P./ Smith, C./Smith, P. (eds.), The New Workplace and Trade Unionism, London 1996
  • The Challenge for Trade Unionism: Sectoral Change, "Poor Work" and Organising the Unorganised; in: Socialist Register, 1996, 150-173
  • Which Way for Service Sector Transformation in Central Eastern Europe: Case Studies in Retail in the Czech Republic; in: Austrian Journal of Sociology, (Oestereichische Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie, Sonderband), Flecker, J./Hofbauer, J. (eds.), Vernetzung und Vereinnahmung - Arbeit zwischen Internationalisierung und neuen Managementkonzepten, Opladen Special Issue 1996
  • Gender and Class Revisited: Or, the Poverty of "Patriarchy"; in: Sociology Vol. 30, No. 4, November 1996, 639 - 659
  • The Revival of Czech Social Democracy: A New Turn in Central Eastern Europe?; in: Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, 1996, No.54, 55-63
  • Trade Unionism in the Czech Republic; in: Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, No.55, 1996, 6-38
  • Women's Employment and Service Sector Transformation in Central Eastern Europe: Case Studies in Retail in the Czech Republic; in: Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 9, No. 4, December 1995, 629 - 655
  • The Orthodoxy of Flexibility; in: A.Pollert (ed.), Farewell to Flexibility?, Oxford 1991
  • Flexibilitat - eine fixe Idee?; in: Flecker, J./Schienstock, G. (eds.), Flexibilisierung, Deregulierung und Globalisierung, Munchen 1991, 11-35