Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
Chris Howell
"The Role of The French State in the Post-Fordist Reconstruction of Industrial Relations Institutions." Paper prepared for the roundtable "La Politique et la Dynamique des Relations Professionelles" at the VIIIth Congress of L'Association Française De Science Politique, Lyon, France, September 14-16, 2005.
"Regulating Post-Fordism: State Reconstruction of Industrial Relations In Britain and France Since 1980." Paper presented at the conference, "Labour Movements in the Twenty First Century: Employment, States, Capital and Social Movements." Political Economy Research Centre, Sheffield, UK. July 1-3, 2004.
Invited discussant at the "End of Labor Politics?" workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, June 17-18, 2004, Cologne, Germany.
Discussant on the panel "The Future of Unions in Modern Britain," at the 56th IRRA Annual Meeting, January 2-5, 2004, San Diego, CA.
"The State and Institutional Construction: Industrial Relations Reform in Britain and France." Invited presentation at the conference on "Politics and the Varieties of Capitalism," Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Für Sozialforschung, Berlin, October 31-November 1, 2003.
"The State and the Reconstruction of Industrial Relations After Fordism: Britain and France Compared." Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA. August 28-31st.
"The State after Statism In Britain and France." Invited presentation to "State After Statism" workshop, University of California, Berkeley, October 25, 2002.
"Towards an Institutional Theory of Capitalism." Invited Paper for the Conference on "The Convergence of Capitalist Economies," Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, September 27-29, 2002.
"Is There a Third Way for Industrial Relations?" Invited Paper for the British Journal of Industrial Relations Conference on "The Politics of Employment Relations," Windsor Great Park, United Kingdom, September 16-17, 2002.
Invited Chair on the panel "The Impact of More Competitive Market Relations in the Political Economy," at the Conference "Transforming the Democratic Balance Among State, Market and Society: Comparative Perspectives on France and the Developed Democracies," Minda De Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 17-18, 2002.
Discussant on the panel "Globalization and the Political Economy of New Labour," at the 43rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA. March 24-27, 2002.
Organizer and presenter for the roundtable "Approaches to Political Economy: Varieties of Capitalism and Beyond," at the 13th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, IL. March 14-17th, 2002.
"The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives." Paper presented at the 97th Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA. August 30-September 2, 2001."Is There a Third Way for the Party-Union Relationship? The Industrial Relations Project of New Labour." Paper presented at the 50th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, London, United Kingdom, April 10-13, 2000.
Discussant for the panel "Reflections on the French Regulation School," at the12th Biennial Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 30-April 2, 2000.
Chair of the panel "Reflections on the Third Way: The European Left in Power?" at the12th Biennial Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 30-April 2, 2000.
"The Relationship Between Social Democratic Parties and Trade Unions." Invited paper presented at the conference, "The Left in a Post-It World," at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Mach 10-11, 2000.
"Theorizing Institution-Building: The Construction of Industrial Relations Systems." Invited lecture at the Institute for Work & Employment Research Seminar, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, October 5, 1999.
"Social Democratic Parties and Trade Unions: A Framework for Analysis." Paper presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 2-5, 1999.
Discussant on the panel, "New Labour in Power," at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 2-5, 1999.
"New Labour and the Trade Unions." Invited lecture at Northwestern University, Evanston, March 8, 1999.
"Trade Unions and Social Democracy." Invited paper at "The Future of Social Democracy" conference, University of Birmingham, U.K., October 31-November 1, 1998.
"From New Labour to No Labor? The Blair Government in Britain." Paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 3-6, 1998.
"Constructing British Industrial Relations." Paper at the European Consortium for Political Research meeting, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom, March 23-28, 1998.
"Evaluating New Labour." Participant on roundtable at the Eleventh International Conference of Europeanists, Baltimore, MD., February 26-March 1, 1998.
"Three Systems of British Industrial Relations." Paper at the Eleventh International Conference of Europeanists, Baltimore, MD., February 26-March 1, 1998
"The Role of the State in Industrial Relations Reform in Britain." Invited lecture at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Boston, MA., December 12, 1997.
"Constructing Industrial Relations: The British State and industrial Relations Reform Since 1890." Paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 27-August 30, 1997."Between the Market and the State: Industrial Relations Restructuring in Britain." Invited lecture at Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il., November 20, 1996.
"Restructuring British Public Sector Industrial Relations: State Policies and Trade Union Responses." Paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA., August 29-September 1, 1996.
Chair on the panel "Modern French Approaches to Comparative Political Economy," at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA., August 29-September 1, 1996.
"European Labor: Strategic Responses to New Challenges." Round table at the 10th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Il., March 16, 1996.
Discussant on the panel"Unions, Public Opinion and the State," at the conference "A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century?" New York, NY, February 10, 1996
"Women as the Paradigmatic Trade Unionists? New Work, New Workers, and New Trade Union Strategies in Conservative Britain." Paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Il., August 31-September 3,1995.
"Turning to the State: British Trade Unions in Strength and Weakness." Paper at the Institute of Contemporary British History conference, "British History 1945-95: The State of the Art," London, UK, July 10, 1995.
"International and Comparative Labor History." Round table at the North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, MI, October 29, 1994.
"Unforgiven: The Crisis of British Trade Unionism." Paper at the Ninth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago IL., March 31-April 2, 1994.
"British Trade Union Strategy in the 1980s and 1990s." Invited presentation at the workshop on "The End of Labor's Century?" Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., November 13-14, 1993.
"Whatever happened to the British Model of Industrial Relations?" Invited presentation at the conference on "The Shifting Boundaries of Labor Politics: New Directions for Comparative Research and Theory," Cambridge, Mass., March 12-14, 1993.
"British Trade Union Strategies in the 1980s and 1990s." Invited presentation at the workshop on "The End of Labor's Century?" at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., February 26-28, 1993.
"Socialists, Trade Unions and the Transformation of Industrial Relations in France Since 1981." Invited presentation at the Conference on "Labor and the Left in France: A Decade of Mitterrand," at Wesleyan University, April 11-12, 1992.
"Family or Just Good Friends? The Changing Labour Party-Trade Union Connection in Britain Since 1979." Paper at the 8th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, IL., March 27-29, 1992.
"The Future of British Trade Unionism." Invited presentation at the Workshop on "The Changing Place of Labor in European Society: The End of Labor's Century?" at Harvard University, November 23-24, 1991.
"The Dilemmas of Post-Fordism: Socialists and the Introduction of Flexibility in France." Paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 29-September 1, 1991.
"Party Mobilization and Post-Fordism in Europe" (co-authored with Anthony Daley and Stephen Silvia). Paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 29-September 1, 1991.
Discussant for panel "Mitterrand's Second Term: New Directions in Public Policy," at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 1990.
Discussant for panel "Industrial Restructuring: Strategies and Consequences," at the Seventh Annual Conference of Europeanists, Washington D.C., March 23-25, 1990.
"Taking the State Back Out: Flexibility and the French Industrial Relations System since 1981." Paper at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 13-15, 1989.
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