Dr Nikolaus Hammer
Associate Professor in Work and Employment
Department: School of Business, Department of Work and Employment/Management and Organisation
Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 5938
Email: nh80@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Research
My current research focuses on the relationship between the growth of non-standard work and productivity (funded through the ESRC Productivity Insights Network), institutional experimentation for better work (funded through CRIMT and various Canadian institutions), and outsourcing and the reorganisation of production networks (with the European Trade Union Institute). I have acted as expert for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, consulted for the ILO, and served as a member of the editorial team of Work, Employment and Society (2015-2017).
Publications
Publications
(0) Pulignano, V., Hammer, N. and Doerflinger, N. (2021), Explaining Employment Effects in Multipolar Value Chains: A Cross-National Study on Soft Drinks and Dairy Manufacturing in Europe. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 59: 25-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12552
Hammer, N and R Plugor (2019) Disconnecting Labour? The Labour Process in the UK Fast Fashion Value Chain, Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017019847942
Hammer, N and R Plugor (2016) Near-sourcing UK apparel: value chain restructuring, productivity and the informal economy, Industrial Relations Journal, 47 (5-6), 402-416.
Hammer, N., Plugor, R. Nolan, P. and Clark, I, 2015, A New Industry on a Skewed Playing Field: Supply Chain Relations and Working Conditions in UK Garment Manufacturing (Leicester, London: University of Leicester/CSWEF, Ethical Trading Initiative).
Hammer, N. and Riisgaard, L. (2015) Labour and segmentation in value chains, 83-99, in Newsome, K., Taylor, P., Bair, J. and Rainnie, A., Putting labour in its place. Labour process analysis and global value chains (London: Palgrave).
Riisgaard, L and N. Hammer (2011) ‘Prospects for Labour in Global Value Chains. Labour Standards in the Banana and Cut Flower Industries’, British Journal of Industrial Relations 49 (1), 168-190. ISSN 1467-8543.
Davies, S., Hammer, N., Williams, G., Raman, R., Ruppert, C. S. and Volynets, L. (2011) 'Labour Standards and Capacity in Global Subcontracting Chains: Evidence from a Construction MNC', Industrial Relations Journal (42)2: 124-138.
Hammer, N. (2010) Cross-border Cooperation under Asymmetry - The Case of an Interregional Trade Union Council, European Journal of Industrial Relations 16 (4), 351-367. ISSN 0959-6801.
Hammer, N. (2005) International Framework Agreements: Global Industrial Relations between Rights and Bargaining. Transfer 9(4). ISSN 1024-2589.
Fairbrother, P. and N. Hammer. (2005) Global Unions: Past Efforts and Future Prospects. Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations 60(3), 405-428. ISSN 0034-379X.