Richard Hyman

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Richard Hyman (born July 9, 1942 in Oxford ) is a British industrial relations expert who, in contrast to the so-called Oxford School of Industrial Relations ( Allan Flanders , Alan Fox and Hugh Armstrong Clegg ) in Great Britain, has a Marxist-oriented theory and research perspective established industrial relations .

life and work

Hyman graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts and a Ph.D. As a student of Allan Flanders and Hugh Clegg, he turned against the pluralism advocated by Allan Flanders and his colleagues in the field of industrial relations with his 1974 textbook Industrial Relations: A Marxist Introduction .

Hyman has taught and researched since 1968, first as a reader , later as Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick, and from 2000 to 2009 at the London School of Economics and Political Science . He is the founder and editor of the European Journal of Industrial Relations . His numerous books and articles are frequently cited by scientists in his field of research.

Hyman was involved in the left-wing British student movement and today sees himself as an independent leftist. In 2020 Hyman was elected to the British Academy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Strikes (1972)
  • Industrial Relations: A Marxist Introduction (1975)
  • (Ed. With Wolfgang Streeck ): New Technology and Industrial Relations (1988)
  • The Political Economy of Industrial Relations (1989)
  • Understanding European Trade Unionism. Between Market, Class and Society (2002)
  • Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices (with Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick) (2013)
  • Democracy in trade unions, democracy through trade unions? (2018, in: Economic and Industrial Democracy )

Literature on Richard Hyman

  • Symposium in Honor of Richard Hyman . In: British Journal of Industrial Relations , Volume 49, Issue 2, June 2011, pp. 209-410
  • Carola Frege, John Kelly and Patrick McGovern: Richard Hyman: Marxism, Trade Unionism and Comparative Employment Relations . In: British Journal of Industrial Relations , Volume 49, Issue 2, June 2011, pp. 209-230
  • Gregor Gall: Richard Hyman: An assessment of his Industrial Relations: A Marxist Introduction . In: Capital & Class , Volume 36, Issue 1, February 2012, pp. 135–149

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for New Economic Thinking
  2. ^ IG Metall: Author's note
personal data
SURNAME Hyman, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford