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Dr Jonathan Preminger
(he/him)
Senior Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Jonathan Preminger is senior lecturer in HRM, director of the Employment Research Unit at Cardiff Business School, and author of Labor in Israel: Beyond Nationalism and Neoliberalism (2018, ILR Press). His PhD investigated industrial relations and organised labour within the broad social and political context, and he continues to publish on the changing nature of industrial relations systems, state-union relations, union revitalisation, democracy and citizenship within the frameworks of collective labour relations, and trade unionism more generally. His most recent research investigates employee ownership, where he continues to pursue key issues such as democracy, participation, power, control and citizenship in the workplace.
Publication
2023
- Major, G. and Preminger, J. 2023. Democratising democracy: votes-weighted representation. JeDEM 15(1), pp. 191-218. (10.29379/jedem.v15i1.778)
- Preminger, J. and Bondy, A. 2023. Conflicting imperatives? Ethnonationalism and neoliberalism in industrial relations. ILR Review 76(4), pp. 646-673. (10.1177/00197939221145117)
- Cockburn, P. J. L. and Preminger, J. 2023. Migration and demos in the democratic firm: an extension of the firm-state analogy. Political Theory 51(3), pp. 557-580. (10.1177/00905917231154422)
2022
- Bondy, A. S. and Preminger, J. 2022. Collective labor relations and juridification: a marriage proposal. Economic and Industrial Democracy 43(3), pp. 1260-1280. (10.1177/0143831X20983593)
2021
- Preminger, J. 2021. Moral community as a yardstick for alternative organizations: evaluating employee ownership and its place within the socioeconomic order. In: Chen, K. K. and Chen, V. T. eds. Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy., Vol. 72. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Emerald Publishing, pp. 83-112., (10.1108/S0733-558X20210000072004)
2020
- Preminger, J. 2020. ‘Ideational power’ as a resource in union struggle. Industrial Relations Journal 51(3), pp. 209-224. (10.1111/irj.12289)
- Preminger, J. 2020. Meritocracy in the service of ethnocracy. Citizenship Studies 24(2), pp. 247-263. (10.1080/13621025.2020.1720604)
2019
- Major, G. and Preminger, J. 2019. Overcoming the capital investment hurdle in worker-controlled firms. Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership 2(2), pp. 133-150. (10.1108/JPEO-01-2019-0001)
2018
- Preminger, J. 2018. Labor in Israel: beyond nationalism and neoliberalism. Ithaca and London: ILR Press/Cornell University Press.
- Preminger, J. 2018. Israel's recent unionizing drives: the broader social context. Israel Studies Review 33(1), pp. 23-41. (10.3167/isr.2018.330103)
- Preminger, J. 2018. Creating a multilayered representational ‘package’ for subcontracted workers: the case of cleaners at Ben-Gurion University. Industrial Relations Journal 49(1), pp. 34-49. (10.1111/irj.12201)
2016
- Preminger, J. 2016. Effective citizenship in the cracks of neocorporatism. Citizenship Studies 21(1), pp. 85-99. (10.1080/13621025.2016.1252719)
- Preminger, J. 2016. The contradictory effects of neoliberalization on labour relations: the health and social work sectors. Economic and Industrial Democracy 37(4), pp. 644-664. (10.1177/0143831X14550423)
2013
- Preminger, J. 2013. Activists face bureaucrats: the failure of the Israeli social workers' campaign. Industrial Relations Journal 44(5-6), pp. 462-478. (10.1111/irj.12029)
Articles
- Major, G. and Preminger, J. 2023. Democratising democracy: votes-weighted representation. JeDEM 15(1), pp. 191-218. (10.29379/jedem.v15i1.778)
- Preminger, J. and Bondy, A. 2023. Conflicting imperatives? Ethnonationalism and neoliberalism in industrial relations. ILR Review 76(4), pp. 646-673. (10.1177/00197939221145117)
- Cockburn, P. J. L. and Preminger, J. 2023. Migration and demos in the democratic firm: an extension of the firm-state analogy. Political Theory 51(3), pp. 557-580. (10.1177/00905917231154422)
- Bondy, A. S. and Preminger, J. 2022. Collective labor relations and juridification: a marriage proposal. Economic and Industrial Democracy 43(3), pp. 1260-1280. (10.1177/0143831X20983593)
- Preminger, J. 2020. ‘Ideational power’ as a resource in union struggle. Industrial Relations Journal 51(3), pp. 209-224. (10.1111/irj.12289)
- Preminger, J. 2020. Meritocracy in the service of ethnocracy. Citizenship Studies 24(2), pp. 247-263. (10.1080/13621025.2020.1720604)
- Major, G. and Preminger, J. 2019. Overcoming the capital investment hurdle in worker-controlled firms. Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership 2(2), pp. 133-150. (10.1108/JPEO-01-2019-0001)
- Preminger, J. 2018. Israel's recent unionizing drives: the broader social context. Israel Studies Review 33(1), pp. 23-41. (10.3167/isr.2018.330103)
- Preminger, J. 2018. Creating a multilayered representational ‘package’ for subcontracted workers: the case of cleaners at Ben-Gurion University. Industrial Relations Journal 49(1), pp. 34-49. (10.1111/irj.12201)
- Preminger, J. 2016. Effective citizenship in the cracks of neocorporatism. Citizenship Studies 21(1), pp. 85-99. (10.1080/13621025.2016.1252719)
- Preminger, J. 2016. The contradictory effects of neoliberalization on labour relations: the health and social work sectors. Economic and Industrial Democracy 37(4), pp. 644-664. (10.1177/0143831X14550423)
- Preminger, J. 2013. Activists face bureaucrats: the failure of the Israeli social workers' campaign. Industrial Relations Journal 44(5-6), pp. 462-478. (10.1111/irj.12029)
Book sections
- Preminger, J. 2021. Moral community as a yardstick for alternative organizations: evaluating employee ownership and its place within the socioeconomic order. In: Chen, K. K. and Chen, V. T. eds. Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy., Vol. 72. Research in the Sociology of Organizations Emerald Publishing, pp. 83-112., (10.1108/S0733-558X20210000072004)
Books
- Preminger, J. 2018. Labor in Israel: beyond nationalism and neoliberalism. Ithaca and London: ILR Press/Cornell University Press.
Research
Research interests
- Industrial relations and unionising
- Sociology of work
- Employee ownership and alternative organisational forms
- Democracy, voice and participation in organisations
Teaching
Teaching commitments
- Employment Relations
- International Business Environment
- International Human Resource Management
- Managing in Multicultural Organisations
- Human Resource Management: Context & Strategy
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- MA Tel-Aviv University
- BMus Edinburgh University
Professional memberships
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy
- Academic MCIPD
- British Sociological Association (co-convener for Work, Employment and Economic Life research stream)
- Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
- British Universities Industrial Relations Association
- International Labour and Employment Relations Association
- Israel Sociological Society
Supervisions
PhD supervision research interests
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
- Alternative organisational forms, emphasising workplace democracy and collective ownership, including cooperatives, employee-owned firms, and social enterprises. Possible research topics include (but are not limited to) representation, participation and organisational democracy, and the impact of organisational structures on labour processes and "decent work".
- Industrial relations, including labour organisations, representation and participation, economic democracy, new IR actors, and union revitalisation; or more broadly changes to IR systems and institutions or the political economic context.
- Employment, labour studies and industrial relations in the MENA region, including (but not limited to) comparative studies.
Contact Details
PremingerJ@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 74000 ext 77243
Aberconway Building, Room Room C10, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
+44 29208 74000 ext 77243
Aberconway Building, Room Room C10, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
