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Edmund Heery

Professor Edmund Heery

Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations

Overview

Edmund Heery is Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School.

Edmund is currently involved in a major piece of research examining the UK's Living Wage campaign, and a book, The Real Living Wage: Civil Regulation and the Employment Relationship, presenting this work, will be published shortly.

Over a long career Edmund has published numerous books and articles and is joint author, with Mike Noon, of the Oxford Dictionary of Human Resource Management.

Edmund was a member of the Welsh Government's Fair Work Commission and has advised a range of policy-making and practitioner organizations, including the Living Wage Foundation, ACAS, the Trades Union Congress, and UNISON. 

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  • Heery, E. J. and Salmon, J. 2000. The insecurity thesis. In: Heery, E. J. and Salmon, J. eds. The Insecure Workforce. Routledge Studies in Employment Relations London: Routledge, pp. 1-24.

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Conferences

  • Frege, C., Heery, E. J. and Turner, L. 2003. Comparative coalition building and the revitalization of the labor movement. Presented at: 55th International Industrial Relations Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, 3–5 January 2003Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting: January 3-5, 2003, Washington, D. C.. Industrial Relations Research Association Series Champaign, IL, USA: Industrial Relations Research Association pp. 122-130.

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Research

Over the past ten years Edmund Heery's research has focusd on the role of civil society organizations - charities, NGOs and campaigning bodies - in shaping the world of work. He has examined the workplace programmes and policies of Stonewall, MacMillan, Amnesty International and several other organizations of this type.

The latest phase of this research has involved an in-depth stody of the UK's voluntary Living Wage. The Living Wage standard has been developed and promoted by Citizens UK, a network of community organizations and has been promoted to employers by the Living Wage Foundation.

More than 9000 employers have signed up to the accreditation scheme operated by the Living Wage Foundation since its inception in 2011 and the research has tracked this development, looking at why employers sign up to voluntary standards of this type, assessing whether the Living Wage brings benefits to the organizations which adopt it, and examining how many and which types of workers benefit.

The Living Wage is a striking example of the civil regulation of the labour market and the research of Edmund and his colleagues, Deborah Hann, David Nash and Celia Netanta, provides an unrivalled insight into this important development.

Biography

Edmund Heery hails originally from Liverpool and was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Essex and the London School of Economics and has been an  academic working in the field of employment relations for more than 40 years.

Over that time, Edmund has carried out research on trade unions, employers' organizations, payment systems and new employment actors, such as the organizations which promote the Living Wage. Edmund was a member of the Welsh Government's Fair Work Commission, which produced far-reaching proposals for the reform of the Welsh labour market in 2019. He also has been an advisor to the UK’s central trade union organisation, the Trades Union Congress and has provided numerous reports and given numerous talks and seminars to UK trade union audiences. In addition, Edmund has undertaken research work for Amnesty International UK, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service and the Living Wage Foundation..

Edmund’s academic engagement includes membership of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He also serves on several editorial boards, including those of the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Industrial Relations, Labor Studies Journal, and Economic and Labour Relations Review.Together with Rick Delbridge, Edmund is the editor of the long-established and successful book series, Routledge Studies in Employment Relations.