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  1. Regulation and regulation theory

    Article • June 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  2. The state and decent work in a context of social and economic trauma: the challenging nature of intervening, learning, and forgetting

    Article • January 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  3. Bypassing the Limitations of Algorithmic Management via Out‐of‐App Activities and the Emergence of Opportunistic Agency in the Swedish Gig economy

    Article • New Technology Work and Employment, December 2024, Wiley

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  4. The mediatization of work? Gig workers and gig apps in Sweden

    Article • New Media & Society, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  5. Employer strategies and migration

    Article • July 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  6. Restructuring regimes in and between two crises: A comparison of Sweden and the UK

    Article • European Journal of Industrial Relations, July 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  7. Strategic, episodic and truncated orientations to planning in post-redundancy career transitions

    Article • Human Relations, March 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  8. Old norms in the new normal: Exploring and resisting the rise of the ideal pandemic worker

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, October 2023, Wiley

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  9. Do union strategic influence, job security and the industrial relations climate matter for the adoption of high performance work systems?

    Article • Journal of Organizational Effectiveness People and Performance, September 2023, Emerald

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  10. Are bargaining concessions inevitable in recessions? An empirical investigation into union bargaining priorities and trade-offs of pay rises for job security

    Article • Employee Relations The International Journal, July 2022, Emerald

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  11. Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets

    Article • Work Employment and Society, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  12. Victims, survivors and the emergence of ‘endurers’ as a reflection of shifting goals in the management of redeployment

    Article • Human Resource Management Journal, August 2020, Wiley

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  13. Micro‐ and meso‐regulatory spaces of labour mobility power: The role of ethnic and kinship networks in shaping work‐related movements of post‐2004 Central Eastern European migrants to the United Kingdom

    Article • Population Space and Place, February 2020, Wiley

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  14. Regulation, migration and the implications for industrial relations

    Article • Journal of Industrial Relations, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  15. The Role of the Steelworker Occupational Community in the Internalization of Industrial Restructuring: The ‘Layering Up’ of Collective Proximal and Distal Experiences

    Article • Sociology, March 2019, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  16. The worker branch in Yorkshire as a way of organising Polish migrants: exploring the process of carving out diasporic spaces within the trade union structure

    Article • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  17. Older Workers and Occupational Identity in the Telecommunications Industry: Navigating Employment Transitions through the Life Course

    Article • Work Employment and Society, April 2018, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  18. Union partnership as a facilitator to HRM: improving implementation through oppositional engagement

    Article • The International Journal of Human Resource Management, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  19. The state and the regulation of work and employment: theoretical contributions, forgotten lessons and new forms of engagement

    Article • The International Journal of Human Resource Management, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  20. HRM and performance: the vulnerability of soft HRM practices during recession and retrenchment

    Article • Human Resource Management Journal, November 2016, Wiley

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  21. Gender, availability and dual emancipation in the Swedish ICT sector

    Article • Work Employment and Society, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  22. The occupational identity of telecommunications engineers and the importance of technology

    Article • Sociology, December 2015, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  23. Clear, rigorous and relevant: publishing quantitative research articles in Work, employment and society

    Article • Work Employment and Society, April 2014, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie, Prof Irena Grugulis

  24. The colonisation of employment regulation and industrial relations? Dynamics and developments over five decades of change

    Article • Labor History, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  25. Reflections on work and employment into the 21st century: between equal rights, force decides

    Article • Work Employment and Society, June 2013, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie, Prof Irena Grugulis

  26. Organizations and community groups that provide support for new migrants

    Article • Urban Studies, February 2012, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  27. Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: different voices, same language

    Article • Work Employment and Society, February 2012, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie, Prof Irena Grugulis

  28. The Ethical Agendas of Employment Agencies Towards Migrant Workers in the UK: Deciphering the Codes

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  29. Ethnicity, Equality and Voice: The Ethics and Politics of Representation and Participation in Relation to Equality and Ethnicity

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Robert MacKenzie, Fiona Wilson

  30. Contingent work in the UK and Sweden: evidence from the construction industry

    Article • Industrial Relations Journal, November 2010, Wiley

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  31. Why do contingent workers join a trade union? Evidence from the Irish telecommunications sector

    Article • European Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2010, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  32. Redundancy as a critical life event: moving on from the Welsh steel industry through career change

    Article • Work Employment and Society, December 2009, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  33. Built on Shifting Sands: Changes in Employers' Use of Contingent Labour in the UK Construction Sector

    Article • Journal of Industrial Relations, November 2009, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  34. Union Responses to Restructuring and the Growth of Contingent Labour in the Irish Telecommunications Sector

    Article • Economic and Industrial Democracy, October 2009, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  35. Employers' use of low‐skilled migrant workers

    Article • International Journal of Manpower, August 2009, Emerald

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  36. The rhetoric of the `good worker' versus the realities of employers' use and the experiences of migrant workers

    Article • Work Employment and Society, March 2009, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  37. Help wanted? Employers' use of temporary agencies in the UK construction industry

    Article • Employee Relations The International Journal, October 2008, Emerald

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  38. Firm foundations? Contingent labour and employers' provision of training in the UK construction sector

    Article • Industrial Relations Journal, September 2008, Wiley

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  39. From Networks to Hierarchies: The Construction of a Subcontracting Regime in the Irish Telecommunications Industry

    Article • Organization Studies, June 2008, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  40. Getting the mix right? The use of labour contract alternatives in UK construction

    Article • Personnel Review, June 2007, Emerald

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  41. People and Culture in Construction

    Article • May 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  42. Work–life balance and older workers: employees' perspectives on retirement transitions following redundancy

    Article • The International Journal of Human Resource Management, March 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  43. 'All that is Solid?': Class, Identity and the Maintenance of a Collective Orientation amongst Redundant Steelworkers

    Article • Sociology, October 2006, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  44. The Realities of Regulatory Change: Beyond the Fetish of Deregulation

    Article • Sociology, July 2005, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  45. Cementing skills: training and labour use in UK construction

    Article • Human Resource Management Journal, July 2004, Wiley

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  46. ‘Unstable boundaries?’ Evaluating the ‘new regulation’ within employment relations

    Article • Economy and Society, February 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  47. The Migration of Bureaucracy: Contracting and the Regulation of Labour in the Telecommunications Industry

    Article • Work Employment and Society, December 2002, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  48. The migration of bureaucracy: contracting and the regulation of labour in the telecommunications industry

    Article • Work Employment and Society, December 2002, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  49. Subcontracting and the Reregulation of the Employment Relationship: A Case Study from the Telecommunications Industry

    Article • Work Employment and Society, December 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Robert MacKenzie

  50. Subcontracting and the Reregulation of the Employment Relationship: A Case Study from the Telecommunications Industry

    Article • Work Employment and Society, December 2000, SAGE Publications

    Prof Robert MacKenzie