Martin Behrens

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Martin Behrens (* 1967 ) is a qualified social scientist and head of department for European industrial relations at the Institute for Economic and Social Sciences (WSI) in the Hans Böckler Foundation .

Career

From 1989 to 1994 he studied social sciences at the Georg-August University Göttingen , graduating with a degree in social host . From 1994 to 1996 he worked as a research assistant at the Research Institute Göttingen (SOFI) . From 1996 to 2000 he completed a doctoral degree at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University , Ithaca / NY. He completed his doctorate in 2002 and his habilitation in 2010.

He has been teaching as a private lecturer at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf since 2015 .

Behrens has been co-editor of the journal Industrial Relations since 2011 and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Labor and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) since 2015 .

His work and research focuses on comparative industrial relations , industrial relations in the USA, employers' associations and collective bargaining policy , about which he has published numerous articles in German and English-language journals.

Fonts

  • Learning from the Enemy? Internal Union Restructuring and the Imitation of Management Strategies. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca / New York 2002 (on file).
  • The trade unions in the new federal states using the example of IG Metall: collective bargaining and industrial policy. Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf 1995.
  • The paradox of employers' organizations. edition sigma , Berlin 2011.
  • Conflict, arbitration, and dispute resolution in the German workplace. In: International Journal of Conflict Management Vol. 18, No. 2 (2007), pp. 175-192.
  • Still Married after All These Years? Union Organizing and the Role of Works Councils in German Industrial Relations. In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review Vol. 63, No. 3 (2009), pp. 275-293.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the history and importance of this international organization, see Bruce Kaufman: The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations: Events, Ideas and the IIRA. International Labor Office, Geneva 2004.

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SURNAME Behrens, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967