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Updated: 12 September 2006
Biography
Giovanna Altieri has been employed by IRES since 1973 and its director since 1998. An economist and business studies graduate, with a post-graduate diploma in economy management she is the co-ordinator of labour market research at IRES. In this capacity, she has co-ordinated various research groups on themes concerning the labour market and policies to reduce unemployment, social exclusion and to promote equal opportunity. She has carried out studies on new form of employment (related to ICT: teleworking); labour market segmentation and local market indicators in the prospective to revitalise local areas with deficit of development. She has also organised various seminars and workshops, promoting debate and discussion on these topics with people from different areas (University, institutions, and trade unions). She has also published widely and is an acknowledged authority on issues in the labour market.
Born 1938, study of economics and sociology at the university of Munich, research assistant at the university of Nuremberg-Erlangen. Since 1970 professor of political economics at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of the Free University Berlin, retired since 2004. Visiting professorhsips in Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Canada. Co-editor of ‘Prokla - Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaften’. Member of the scientific council of ATTAC Germany. Publications on ‘the future of the market’ (Verso 1993), together with Birgit Mahnkopf on ‘the limits of globalisation’ (1996; sixth edition 2005) and of ‘the globalisation of insecurity - informal labour, dirty money and the informalisation of politics’ (2002). Last book on ‘The end of capitalism, as we know it’ (2005).
Economics professor at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA), and is consultant in economics, social accounting, modelling, labour market analysis, trade policy analysis, education and vocational training appraisal, gender analysis, local development project assessment.
Relevant publications:
“Le nouveau rôle économique et social de l’Etat,” Programming Department, Ministry of Economic Forecasting and Planning, 2000.
Concurrence et compétitivité industrielle au Maroc. Rabat: CERAB, 1997. Principal co-ordinator and editor.
Dr. Chris Benner is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Labor Studies at Pennsylvania State University, and a research associate at the Keystone Research Center (Harrisburg), the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community at University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Sociology of Work Program at University of Witwatersrand (South Africa). Benner’s research focuses on the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labour markets and the transformation of work and employment patterns. His applied policy work focuses on workforce development policy, the structure, dynamics and evaluation of workforce intermediaries, and strategies for promoting regional equity. He received his doctorate in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
Associate Professor of Industrial Sociology at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (UNL-New University of Lisbon), since 1983. Is president of the Department of Applied Social Sciences since 2001. Has the professorship since 1999, and the habilitation for full professor (‘Agregação’) since 2001. He is a founding member and President of the Research Center on Enterprise and Work Innovation (IET), from 2002. Visiting researcher at Fraunhofer Institut ISI FhG (Karlsruhe, Germany), 2002-2003, and Visiting Scholar at the Brown University, Providence (USA), 1999. Director of journals ‘Organizações e Trabalho’ (Organisations and Work) of APSIOT/Celta since 1998, and ‘Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies’ of IET since 2005. Member of IFIP-TC9 ‘Relationship between Computer and Society’ and of ISA-International Sociological Association.
Malcolm Brynin is a sociologist with interests in education, technology, and the labour market, and specialising in the analysis of large-scale datasets, in particular household panel surveys. PhD in Social Science, City University 1983. Current Employment: Principal Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.
Relevant publications:
Gender equality through computerisation (2006), European Sociological Review, 22 (2): 111-23.
Gender, technology, and jobs (forthcoming, 2006) British Journal of Sociology.
Skill relativities, computers and pay (2003), in Cunningham P. et al (eds), Building the knowledge economy, IOS Press, Amsterdam: 1526-31.
Graduate density, gender, and employment (2002), British Journal of Sociology,53 (3), 363-81.
Overqualification in employment (2002), Work, Employment and Society, 16 (4), 637-54.
David Coates holds the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA. He was previously Professor of Contemporary Political Economy at the University of Leeds, and later Professor of Labour Studies at the University of Manchester, both in the UK. He has written extensively on the politics of UK labour and on the political economy of modern capitalism.
Carla Dahl-Jørgensen received her Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway in 1993. She is currently professor in organisational anthropology at NTNU and Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Technology and Society. She has done fieldwork in Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Norway. Her research interest includes work environment, working conditions and the globalisation and internationalisation of working life. She is the author of several articles related to these topics.
Prof.dr. Peter Ester (1953) is director of OSA and Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University. He studied Sociology at Utrecht University (1970-1976) after which he started his scientific career at the Free University of Amsterdam (1976-1984). In 1981 he was Fulbright Scholar at Claremont Graduate College, California and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In 1984 he received his Ph.D from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. From 1984 to 1989, Peter Ester was head of the Department of Social Reporting of the Dutch Social and Cultural Office (SCP) and responsible for the biannual Social and Cultural Report (SCR). In 1989 he was appointed full Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University, and from 1991 to 1998 he was also director of IVA, Institute for Social Research at this university. From 1998 to 1999 he combined the directorate of OSA with setting up a new institute: GLOBUS, Institute for Globalisation chaired by Ruud Lubbers, former Dutch Prime Minister. Peter Ester is visiting professor at ZUMA, Center for Survey Analysis and Methodology (2002-2006) and Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan (2001, 2004). Former Chairman of the Dutch Association of Cultural and Social Sciences (NVMC) and member of the Advisory Board of CentER. Peter Ester is co-founder and member of EGOPSI (European Group of Organisational Panel Survey Institutes) and co-founder of VBO (Dutch Association for Policy Research).
Jörg Flecker, born in 1959, is the scientific director of Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA, WORC). He studied at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna and accomplished a Post-Graduate-Study in Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna in 1985. He worked as a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies from 1986 to 1990 and received the doctorate from the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna in 1989. A visiting research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, in 1991, he was appointed head of the Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA) the same year. He has taught at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna and is now teaching sociology at the University of Vienna. His main research interests are work organisation and ICT, internationalisation and employment relations. Main research areas: work organisation and ICT, skills and employment, internationalisation, employment relations.
Born 1958 in Hungary, graduate in electronical engineering (1982) at the Technical University of Budapest, then in sociology and philosophy (1986) of the University of Sciences Budapest, postgraduate course in political sciences at the University of Amsterdam (1990), PhD in Economics 1994 (Hungarian Academy of Sciences); 1987-2002 researcher at several Hungarian research institutes (Trade Union Research Institute, Research Institute for Economic and Social Studies, Institute for Privatisation Studies – research director), economic advisor at various Hungarian Ministries (1996-97, 1999-2000), senior research officer at the ETUI since April 2003. Main research topics: Wage developments, collective bargaining, relocation – restructuring, workers participation in the context of the enlarged EU.
Relevant publications:
Von Billigloenern zu Hightech-Standorten: die neuen EUStaaten wandeln sich rasant‘ In: Brenner Brief, No. 18, p.4-6, Otto Brenner Stiftung Berlin, 2004.
Wage developments in candidate countries, Transfer, 1/2003, ETUI, Brussels, 2003 (co-author: Emmanuel Mermet).
The impact of multinational enterprises on the corporate culture and on industrial relations in Hungary’ in: SEER, Volume 6/, Number 1-2, July 2003, Brussels, HBS and ETUI.
The social and economic dimension of EU enlargement’, In: ‘Beyond enlargement: Trade, Business and Investment in a Changing Europe’, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 2003.
The process of wage catching up in the future member states and candidate countries at the light of recent experiences, In: Papeles del Este, Madrid, 2003.
Ms. Sujata Gothoskar has completed her graduation and post-graduation in Economics and Sociology. She has been working as a researcher on issues of gender, work, and organisational processes, among others. She has also been involved in research as well as campaigns with the women’s movement and the labour movement for over 30 years now. Sujata has written in over 60 popular magazines, journals and newspapers in several languages, and continues to do so. She has been involved in the activities of several organisations and is involved in the training of workers, women and activists of unions, groups and non-governmental organisations. She worked with the Union Research Group, Mumbai from 1980 to 1988, with the Workers’ Solidarity Centre, Mumbai, from 1988 to 1994, with the Forum Against Oppression of Women in Mumbai from 1980 to date and the Committee for Asian Women as a Program Officer in Bangkok from 2001 to 2004.
Relevant publications:
Author of the monograph, `Women workers in the Informal Economy in twenty countries in Asia’, for the Committee for Asian Women in 2001.
Author of the monograph, `Women workers in the Informal Economy – perspective paper’, for the Committee for Asian Women in 2001.
Author of the monograph, `New initiatives in organising strategy in the informal economy – Case study of domestic workers’ organising’ for the Committee for Asian Women in 2005.
Co-author of the monograph, `Women Workers in Mumbai’s dance bars – Reality behind the debate’, for SNDT and FAOW, Mumbai in 2005.
Co-author of the monograph, `Background and Working Conditions of Women Working as dancers in dance bars’, for SNDT and FAOW, Mumbai in 2006.
Ewa Gunnarsson, professor at the institution of Work Sciences at Luleå University of Technology and the National Institute for Working Life at Stockholm, partner in the WORKS project with focus on gender issues. Her main research focus is on gender, technology and organisation, formation of skills and qualifications. She has a special
interest in qualitative and interactive methods.
Recently published work in English:
The Snake and the Apple in the Common Paradise, Ewa Gunnarsson, Chapter in Action Research and Interactive Research - Beyond practice and theory, Kurt Aagaard Nielsen, Lennart Svensson (Eds.) Shaker Publishing, 2006.
Where Have All the Structures Gone? Doing Gender in Organisations, Examples from Finland, Norway and Sweden. Ewa Gunnarsson, Susanne Andersson, Annika Vänje Rosell, Arja Lehto and Minna Salminen-Karlsson (Eds.) Report serie at the Center for Women´s Studies, number 33, University of Stockholm, 2003.
Virtually Free? - Gender, Work and Spatial Choice. Ewa Gunnarsson and Ursula Huws, NUTEK Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development B 1997:7, Stockholm.
Dr. Penny Gurstein is a Full Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning and a Faculty Research Associate at the Centre for Human Settlements at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. She specialises in the socio-cultural aspects of community planning with particular emphasis on those who are the most marginalised in planning processes. Her book, ‘Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life,’ (UBC Press, 2001) investigates the socio-spatial consequences of work patterns in the new economy. Current projects include a major study funded by SSHRC, the Canadian academic funding agency, which is researching the impact of e-work on companies and communities, in Canada and internationally (www.chs.ubc.ca/emergence/).
Ursula Holtgrewe has recently joined Forba as a senior researcher. She is a sociologist and a ‘Privatdozentin’ of sociology at Duisburg/Essen University she has held visiting appointments at Duisburg, Vienna and Mainz University and most recently been a Visiting Scholar at the ILRScholl, Cornell University. She is one of three co-ordinators of the ‘Global Call Centre Industry Project’.
Professor Ursula Huws is Professor of International Labour Studies at the Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University. Her work for the European Commission includes evaluations, project reviews and expert consultancy as well as substantial involvement in research projects, with a special focus on the reorganisation of work in the knowledge society and its social and policy impacts. As well as directing the RESPECT and Asian EMERGENCE projects, she is currently carrying out a policy review for DG Research of projects on Information Society issues. In addition she has been requested to take over the scientific co-ordination for the L@W project (DG Information Society). She has also played a key role in the organisation of several major international conferences including ‘Where in the World? eWork Location in a Global Digital Economy’ (Budapest 2000), ‘the World, the Workplace and We, the Workers’ (Brussels 2002), ‘Globalization, Innovation and Human Resource Development for Competitive Advantage’ (Bangkok, 2002) and ‘Real work in a Virtual World: the human impact of organisational transformation in a digital global economy’ (Vienna, 2003).
Her research clients at an international level include the European Trade Union Confederation, the International Labour Organisation, the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations University Institute of Technology. She has also carried out research and consultancy and presented seminars for government departments and/or government-funded conferences in Australia, Canada, France, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Latvia, Japan, India, Malaysia, and the USA as well as in the UK where she has carried out research for many national and local government bodies and QUANGOs. Between 1990 and 1996 she was a senior lecturer in social research methodology at the University of North London, developing courses in labour market research, researching gender, policy analysis, equal opportunities in education and research ethics. She has extensive publishing experience, both as an author and as an editor.
During 27 years Carla Kiburg is working for FNV Bondgenoten, the biggest trade union in The Netherlands. As a union official specifically active in the ICT sector from 1998 on. Next to negotiations for Collective Labour Agreements (about benefits) she is dealing with company restructurings and offshore outsourcing activities.
As a vice president of the IT Committee Europe of the Union Network Internal organisation, based in Switzerland, she receives signals and trends from affiliated unions. These are used for discussions with members of FNV Bondgenoten to development trade union policy on e.g. offshore outsourcing.
Vassil Kirov is a Research fellow in the Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and independent consultant. He holds a Master degree in Human Resource Management and a PhD in Sociology from the Paris Institute for Political Sciences and has a vast experience and policy-oriented and applied research and expertise in the area of work organisation, enterprise development and social dialogue in Central and Eastern Europe, undertaken under various projects funded by the European Commission, ILO, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, UNDP, etc.
Krings, Bettina-Johanna, M.A., Research fellow at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. Studies in political sciences, sociology and anthropology in Heidelberg. Working experiences in Latin America. Since 1994 research activities at ITAS on different issues like i.e. science and technology policy, gender studies, research policies for a sustainable development. Since 1999 strong focus on the relationship between information technologies and consequences on working conditions. Several projects on that issue with a strong bias on the role of technology in the development of new social processes.
Relevant publications:
Bechmann, G.; Krings, B.-J.; Rader, M. (Hg.) (2003): Across the Divide.
Work, Organisation and Social Exclusion in the European Information Society. Berlin.
Krings, B.-J. (2003): Individualisierung der Arbeit. Neue Arbeitsstrukturen in der Informationsgesellschaft. In: Fischer, P.; Hubig, Ch.; Koslowski, P. (Hg.): Wirtschaftsethische Fragen der E-Economy. Heidelberg, S. 256-272.
Krings, B.-J. (2003): Wandel der Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen im Multimediabereich aus der Gender-perspektive. Karlsruhe: Forschungs-zentrum Karlsruhe (Wissenschaftliche Berichte, FZKA 8692).
Krings, B.-J. (2003): Hen or Egg? - The Relationship between IC-Technologies and Social Exclusion. In: Bechmann, G.; Krings, B.-J.; Rader, M. (Hrsg.): Across the Divide. Work, Organisation and Social Exclusion in the European Information Society. Berlin, S. 123-138.
Steffen Lehndorff is an economist, currently working as Director of the Working Time and Work Organisation Research Unit at the Institute of Work and Technology (Institut Arbeit und Technik/IAT) in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His major research interests include international comparisons of employment and working-time structures, working-time regulation, and work organisation and industrial relations in services and manufacturing. His most recent books are ‘Das Politische in der Arbeitspolitik: Ansatzpunkte für eine nachhaltige Arbeits- und Arbeitszeitgestaltung’ (Berlin 2006: Edition Sigma), and in co-editorship with Gerhard Bosch, ‘Working in the service sector: a tale from different worlds’ (London/New York 2005: Routledge). Together with Gerhard Bosch he is co-ordinating the EU 6th Framework Programme research project ‘Dynamics of national employment models’ (http://iat-info.iatge.de/projekt/2005/dynamo/ index.html).
Marcia Leite is a sociologist, and senior researcher at The Universidade de Campinas, in Brasil. Specialised in Sociology of Work, she was Editor of the Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo, between 1997 and 2000 and has participated of several research projects on globalisation, productive restructuring and working conditions with international researchers teams from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex; Laboratoire Travail et Mobilité at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Sociale (CNRS); and Programa de Posgrado en Estudios Laborales at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journals: Sociología del Trabajo, from Spain; Trabajo, from México; Revista Organizações e Trabalho, from Portugal; Revista Latinoamericana de Sociología del Trabajo; and Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies-Journal of IET Research Centre. Since January this year, she has been member of the International Scientific Board of IET.
Prof. Csaba Makó holds both a degree in economics and a doctorate in sociology as well as a number of distinguished professorships. He has held visiting fellowships at the University of Glasgow Business School (under the PHARE programme), at the Institute for Social Sciences at Cho University in Tokyo, and in the USA, under the Eisenhower Foundation Exchange Fellowship scheme. He has also been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, the University of Trento, the University of Quebec in Montreal and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests include organisational innovation, social conditions of labour, changes in work, skill use, different forms of knowledge, small firm networks, technology transfer and industrial relations in transition. He is president of Management Science Committee, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (member: 1990–, president 1999–); consulting Member of the (IXth) Division of Law and Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1999–); President of the Committee of ‘Management of Transformation Processes’ (MOST), Hungarian UNESCO Committee (1999–).
Pamela Meil is a sociologist and has worked at the Institute for Social Science Research, ISF-München, a private non-profit research institute, since 1991 and is currently a senior research fellow and director of international studies there. Her research interests include: Training and competence development in new forms of geographically distributed work; the impact of project-based organisation on work and workers in global value chains; the changing institutional structure and role of industrial relations in international comparison; the interaction between globalisation and national adaptation processes. She conducts and coordinates research projects for the European Union, the German Ministry of Research and Technology (e.g. a project on the Future of Work and its research implications); the Volkswagen Foundation, and the German Research Foundation. Her publications and edited volumes include: Technology and Work in German Industry; Globalisierung industrieller Produktion; Industrielle Fachkräfte für das 21. Jahrhundert; die (Un)Sichtbare Hand: Nationale Systeme der Arbeitsregulierung in der Ära des Shareholder Value, plus numerous articles in both English and German language books and journals.
Vincent Mosco is Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society at Queen’s University. Professor Mosco graduated from Georgetown University in 1970 and received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1975. Professor Mosco is the author of numerous books, articles and policy reports on the media, telecommunications, computers and information technology. His most recent book, The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004), won the 2005 Olson Award for outstanding book in the field of rhetoric and cultural studies. He is also the author of Continental Order? Integrating North America for Cybercapitalism (edited with Dan Schiller and published by Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) and The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal (Sage, 1996) which has been translated into Chinese (two editions- Beijing and Taiwan), Spanish, and Korean. In 2004 Professor Mosco received the Dallas W. Smythe Award for outstanding achievement in communication research. Professor Mosco is currently working on a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council that addresses knowledge workers and the future of trade unions and worker movements in Canada and the United States. He is also carrying out research on globalisation as politics and as myth.
Dr. Ulrike Papouschek is a sociologist and senior researcher at Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt. She studied sociology and ethnology at the University of Vienna and social work at the Academy of Social Work in Vienna and holds a doctorate in sociology. An independent social researcher from 1988 to 1991, she was a scientific researcher at the Vienna Institute for the Documentation of Social Sciences from 1991 to 1994 and a scientific researcher at the Federal Academy for Public Administration in 1995. In 1996, she began to lecture at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and, in the same year, joined Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA) as a senior researcher and board member. In 2000, Ulrike Papouschek was awarded the Käthe-Leichter Austrian State Award for her contributions to women’s studies. Ulrike Papouschek has carried out, managed and collaborated in many national and international research projects on gender-specific issues, including paid and unpaid work, equal opportunities and gender mainstreaming, qualification and women in science and IT. She has been a member of the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture’s expert group on ‘Equal Opportunities in Science’ and is a member of the Austrian platform ‘Gender IT!’.
Georgia Petraki is sociologist, associate professor at Panteion University, Department of Social Policy (Athens). She studied Economics and Sociology in Athens and Paris. She holds a PhD in Sociology of Work. She was associate researcher of INE-GSEE (Greek unions Institute Research) from 1993 to 1999. She has participated in research programs on work organisation-technological changes labor markets. She has published two books and several articles. Her current research focuses on New Forms of Work organisation on which is going to publish her new book.
Dr. Markus Promberger, born in 1963 in Nuernberg/ Germany, attended the Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) in Erlangen, where he achieved his MA-degree in sociology 1990. Until 2001 he worked at the FAU's Department of Sociology, where he did various research on industrial and labour relations as well as working hours items, especially on the ‘Four-Day-Working-Week’ at Volkswagen, the reduction of working hours in the German metal manufacturing industry and entrepreneurship and labour relations in cross-cultural contexts. In 1999 Markus Promberger gained a Dr. phil. degree at the FAU. Since late 2001 he changed to the IAB's Department of Labour force Demand and Innova-tions in Nuernberg. Markus Promberger is consultant to the German Metalworkers Union (IGM) and the Hans-Böckler-Foundation (HBS) on working-hours and collective agree-ments since 1992.
Monique Ramioul is a Sociologist (sociology of work and organisation). From 1985 until 1990 she worked as a researcher at the section Work and Organisation of the Department of Sociology - K.U.Leuven. After that (1990-95) she worked as an advisor at the Flemish Foundation for Technology Assessment, where she conducted research on issues like the impact of technological innovation on the organisation of work, outsourcing, flexibility, the position of female workers on the labour market and related issues. In 1995, she returned at the university. Between October 1999 and September 2000, Monique Ramioul worked as a case officer at the Policy and Programme Evaluation Unit of DG Information Society, European Commission (Brussels). From September 2000 on, she is Research Manager in the Work and Organisation sector at HIVA. From November 2001 to December 2004, she was the coordinator of STILE, a multi-annual project with nine European partners within the 5FP of the IST programme. Further, she is one of the core partners in the PASO Flanders project (Panel Survey on Organisations), an economy-wide organisations panel research. From 2005 to 2009 she is the coordinator of WORKS - Works and Organisation Restructuring in the Knowledge Society, an Integrated Project, including 17 European partners, in Thematic Priority 7 - Citizens and Governance in the Knowledge-based Society (6FP). Her research experiences include both the management and co-ordination of large-scale international projects, the management of a research team and a personal long-standing experience in scientific research. Her main research topics concern: the information society and changes in work, organisational innovation, globalisation and outsourcing, flexibility, social dialogue, and labour market issues.
Ole H. Sørensen is researcher at the National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark. He research area is management, organisation and working life. He has participated in several research project related to work condition and working life. Special topics has been safety culture, accident prevention, call centre research, job quality, psychosocial work conditions and the organization of the safety organization. He has tought at the Technical University of Denmark in the area of Occupational Health and Safety and workpsychology.
Maria Stratigaki has studied economics, sociology and women’s studies in Athens (University of Athens), Paris (Paris IX, Paris VII) and New York (NYU). She holds a Doctorate Degree in sociology of work (1994) (title of thesis: Computerisation and gender division of labour. The case of the National Bank of Greece). She has worked in business from 1974-1987, in a women’s research centre (Diotima) from 1988-1991, and in the European Commission (DG V-Equal Opportunities Unit) from 1991-1999. Her tasks in the EC included actions promoting women in the decision-making and the design of EU gender mainstreaming strategy. She has initiated, co-ordinated and evaluated a large number of studies, policy assessments, conferences and seminars in a variety of gender equality relevant issues. From 1999-2002, she was the Director of the Research Centre for Gender Equality (KETHI) in Greece. Her tasks included direction of research and studies as well as designing of positive actions in favour of women and gender mainstreaming in the Community Support Framework (2000-2006). She has organised the development of Counselling Centres for unemployed and social excluded women in Greece. She is currently Assistant Professor at PANTEION University (Department of Social Policy) teaching on Gender and Social Policy, Gender equality policies and European Social Policy. She is Scientific Director of interdepartmental project ‘Gender Studies in Political and Social Sciences (2002-2006)’ (www.genderpanteion.gr).
Relevant publications:
The Cooptation of Gender Concepts in EU polities: The Case of ‘Reconciliation of Work and Family’, Social Politics, 2005, Volume 11, n° 1, pp. 30-56.
Gender Mainstreaming versus Positive Action. An on-going conflict in EU gender equality policy’, European Journal of Women’s Studies, 2005, Vol. 12, n° 2, pp. 165-186.
Tim Sturgeon is a Senior Research Affiliate at the Industrial Performance Center (IPC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studies a variety of global industries. He is also co-organiser of the Global Value Chains Initiative (http://www.globalvaluechains.org), principally funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Technology, Enterprise, and Competitiveness at the Doshisha Management School in Kyoto, Japan. Prior to these activities, Tim held a Research Associate position at MIT for four years, during which he served as Executive Director of the IPC’s Globalisation Study (http://globalization.mit.edu), and Globalisation Research Director for the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development. Prior to this, he served for two years as Director of the MIT/Carnegie Mellon Project on Globalisation and Jobs in the Automotive Industry, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Tim came to MIT from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Research Specialist at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy for five years while earning his Ph.D. in Economic Geography. In addition to his academic work, Tim has held a variety of industry and consulting positions. Tim’s work has been published in a variety of scholarly journals, edited volumes, and industry trade magazines. Tim’s field research has taken him to Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Spain, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
Per Tengblad, MBA, Stockholm School of Economics, labour consultant and researcher at ATK Arbetstagarkonsultation AB, formerly union official at the Swedish Confederation for Salaried Employees. He has done consultancy assignments for local unions and management mainly in the public sector and carried out training programmes for unions. He has participated in research on co-determination, ICT-development, learning, restructuring and European Works Councils and has as published work on change processes, participation, learning, redeployment and EWC.
Hans Torvatn, Norwegian, Senior Research Scientist on the Institute of Technology and Society. Education: BSc in electronics, Narvik Technical College, 1985; MSc in industrial economics, Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1989; PhD in industrial economics, Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1993; (Title of dissertation. Use of evaluations of Norwegian Technology Transfer programs). Experience: 1993: Research Scientist at SINTEF; 2004: Assistant Professor II, NTNU. Main fields of competence: Evaluations and theory of evaluations; Public support systems for SMEs; Occupational Health and Safety Systems; Abseentism; Occupational Health. Certificates: Basic Health, Environmental and Security training for offshore work in the North Sea.
Relevant publications:
Næsje, P., Torvatn, H., Langdal, B. I., & Ylvisåker, H. T. (Forthcoming). Strategic challenges in implementing NIS: Investigations on data quality management. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.
Rolfsen, M., & Torvatn, H. (2005). How to get through- Communication Challenges in Formative evaluations. Evaluation, 11(3), 297-309.
Hammer, T. H., Saksvik, P. Ø., Nytrø, K., Torvatn, H., & Bayazit, M. (2004). Expanding the domain of the psychosocial work environment: Workplace norms and work-family conflict as predictors of stress and subjective health symptoms. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 9, 83-97.
Saksvik, P. Ø., Tovatn, H., & Nytrø, K. (2003). Systematic occupational health and safety work in Norway: a decade of implementation. Safety Science, 41, 721-728.
Dahl-Jørgensen, C., Torvatn, H., & Rasmussen, B. (2002). Ansiktsløs på avstand. In U. Forseth & B. Rasmussen (Eds.), Arbeid for livet (pp. 119-128). Trondheim: Gyldendal Akademiske.
Willem Trommel (Den Haag 1959) is associate professor in organisational sociology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. His main interests concern a) labour market and welfare state change, especially related to the emergence of the so-called knowledge society, and b) innovation of public governance and policy systems. Trommel received his PhD from the University of Leyden in 1995, on a thesis explaining the trend towards early exit from active labour participation. Recent publications include a book on ‘modernity and intractable policy problems’ and a report on the emergence of transitional labour markets. Trommel is chair of the editorial board of B&M, Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek & Maatschappij (‘Policy, Politics and Society’).
Gérard Valenduc is co-director of the Work & Technology Research Centre of the Fondation Travail-Université (FTU) and lecturer at the University of Namur (Institute for Informatics). After a postgraduate in nuclear physics (UCL) and some years of research in this area, he specialised in research on societal assessment of technological choices and science policy, mainly in two areas: on the one hand, information and communication technologies and on the other hand, innovation fostering sustainable development. In 1984, he created the Work & Technology Research Centre and since then he manages many projects concerning the social aspects of technological innovation, on a regional, national or European scale. He is author or co-author of various books and articles on technology and society, and on new forms of work in the information society.
Prof. dr. Geert Van Hootegem studied Social Science at the Katholieke Universiteit Leu-ven (K.U.Leuven) from 1980 to 1985 and is doctor in the Social Sciences (1999). In 1989-1995, he was scientific assistant at the Study centre Sociology of Work and Organisations, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where his research topics included: temporary labour, Japanese organisations in Belgium, car industry, flexibility, new technology and effects on qualifications in the health care. From 1994 to 2000 (till 1996 full-time, from 1996 part-time) he was assistant professor at the Nijmegen Business School (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen). Since 1996 till 2000 he has been a Project Manager at the Higher Institute of Work and Organisation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. From 1999 on, till the end of 2000 he was head of the sector labour studies at the institute. Currently, he is professor at the Department of Sociology. Conducting research on new production concepts, flexibility, lean production, new technology, socio-technical system design, integral organisational renewal, the information society and globalisation. He has also carried out research on: team based work and socio-technical system design.
Patricia Vendramin is co-director of the ‘Work and Technology’ research centre of the Fondation Travail-Université (www.ftu-namur.org). She has a PhD in sociology and master degrees in communication sciences and development studies. Her research interests concern the social and economic aspects of the information society, mainly in the areas of work transformations and e-inclusion. In the area of work, her main research interests are flexible work practices, women’s work, working time, distance working, new work organisation in manufacturing and services, evolving forms of labour relations and social bond at work. She has a long experience in research and networking at the European level. She is author or co-author of various books and articles, in French and in English.
Greet Vermeylen is research manager in the working conditions section in the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. She is working on the Foundation’s fourth working conditions survey, as well as on the European Working Conditions Observatory. She is also responsible for a project on case study methodology and involved in the project on attractive workplaces for all and a series of other projects. She previously worked in the European Commission (DG Employment and Social Affairs) and the 2001 Belgian Presidency Taskforce, dealing with social protection issues. She is a Belgian national.
Nationality: Colombia and Austria. Since 1970-1999 Professor at the Sociology Department of the National University of Colombia. 2000: Honorary Professor of the National University of Colombia. Social Studies Research Institute (CES) of the Faculty for Human Sciences. Contributions to Training: Courses at the Sociology Department for graduate and under graduate students about Iindustrial Sociology, Labour Studies, Research Methodology, Problems of the Colombian Society, were related to the different research projects. Also the supervision of students and direction of several theses related to these projects.
Relevant publications:
Revised and Submitted General Context of ICT diffusion in Latin America. (2006) Preliminary Results of an exploratory Case Study of Call Centers in Colombia. Contribution for a forthcoming book from the Emergence Research Consortium, coordinated by Penelope Gurstein, Director of the Emergence Project, Canada.
Responsabilidad Social de las Empresas en una sociedad de ‘afectados’ (Social Responsability of Enterprises in a stakeholder society) (2003) Revista Innovar, Julio-Dic 2003 Bogotá-Colombia (Journal of Management and Social Sciences- National University of Colombia: Faculty of Economic Sciences).
Necesita América Latina una sociología del trabajo propia? (2001) (Does Latin America need a particular sociology of Work?) Revista Innovar, julio 2001 Bogotá-Colombia (Journal of Management and Social Sciences – National University of Colombia: Faculty of Economic Sciences).
Vigencia del taylorismo. (Today’s Validity of Taylorism) (1999) Revista Innovar, julio 1999 Bogotá-Colombia (Journal of Management and Social Sciences- National University of Colombia: Faculty of Economic Sciences).
Weiss,Anita,Prologue of the Book: Globalización, Apertura económica y relaciones industriales en América Latina ( Globalization, Economical Opening anf Industrial Relations in Latin America) (1999) 9 p. In: Arango, Luz G and López Carmen (comp) Nacional Univeristy of Colombia.
Inger-Marie Wiegman is a M. Sc. from the Technical University of Denmark in 1986. Inger-Marie Wiegman was for some years a research assistant in the field of technology assessment at the Technical University of Denmark. For ten years she has been working as a consultant in a large Danish trade union (former “Municipal Workers Union”, now “Trade and Labour”. Since the late nineties, Inger-Marie has been working as a researcher and consultant in various private companies, including CASA (Centre of Alternative Social Analysis). In April 2005 Inger-Marie and 3 colleagues established a company of their own “TeamArbejdsliv” (Team Working Life) with psychosocial working environment and development of organisation of work as the key areas of interest. Improving working conditions in call centres has been her main field of research since 2002.
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