Professor Carola Frege

Professor of International Employment Relations and Chair of the LSE Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce

Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Faculty Group

Biography

Carola Frege is Professor of Employment Relations. She is also Chair of the LSE Taskforce for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Her main teaching is in 'comparative employment relations'. Her research focuses on union revitalization strategies and the transformation of workplace democracy in Europe and the USA; the social science traditions within employment research; job quality and wellbeing; as well as racism at work.

Professor Frege is the author of Employment Research and State Traditions (OUP), Social Partnership at Work: Workplace Relations in Post-Unification Germany (Routledge) and co-editor of Varieties of Unionism: Comparative Strategies for Union Renewal (OUP). Her work on comparative employment relations has appeared in journals such as American Sociological Review, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and Industrial Relations.

Research interests

Comparative employment relations
German employment relations
Workplace democracy, voice, employee participation, works councils,
Trade unions
Employment theory
Racism

Recent publications

Varieties of capitalism and job quality: the attainment of civic principles at work in the United States and Germany
Frege, Carola M. and Godard, John (2014) Varieties of capitalism and job quality: the attainment of civic principles at work in the United States and Germany. American Sociological Review, 79 (5). pp. 942-965. ISSN 0003-1224
Worker perceptions of representation and rights in Germany and the USA
Godard, John and Frege, Carola M. (2014) Worker perceptions of representation and rights in Germany and the USA. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 20 (1). pp. 73-89. ISSN 0959-6801
Comparative employment relations in the global political economy
Frege, Carola M. and Kelly, John, eds. (2013) Comparative employment relations in the global political economy. Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9780415686624
Labor unions, alternative forms of representation, and the exercise of authority relations in U.S. workplaces
Godard, John and Frege, Carola M. (2013) Labor unions, alternative forms of representation, and the exercise of authority relations in U.S. workplaces. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 66 (1). pp. 142-168. ISSN 0019-7939
Across boundaries: the global challenges facing workers and employment research
Jackson, Gregory, Kuruvilla, Sarosh and Frege, Carola (2013) Across boundaries: the global challenges facing workers and employment research. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 51 (3). pp. 425-439. ISSN 0007-1080

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