Dr Katy Fox-Hodess
Management School
Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations
Research Development Director, Centre for Decent Work
+44 114 222 3428
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Sheffield University Management School
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Sheffield
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- Profile
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Katy is a Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations and Research Development Director of the Centre for Decent Work.
She joined the Management School in February, 2018 from the University of California, Berkeley where she received her doctorate in Sociology. Her research interests include trade unionism in the global economy; the theoretical foundations of worker power; and labour in the logistics industry.
Her work has been published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Latin American Politics and Society, and Work, Employment and Society, as well as a wide range of non-academic media.
- Qualifications
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PhD - University of California, Berkeley (Sociology), MA - University of California, Berkeley (Sociology), BA - University of California, Berkeley (Interdisciplinary Studies)
- Research interests
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Katy's research interests include trade unionism in the global economy; the theoretical foundations of worker power; and labour in the logistics industry.
Her current project is a global ethnography of the International Dockworkers Council, a non-bureaucratic global union organization. The research examines the conditions under which dockworkers are able to successfully leverage their central position in the global economic system to support one another in struggle.
The project utilizes both cross-national and cross-regional comparisons of the IDC's work in Europe and Latin America, with a focus on five country case studies of recent disputes in Greece, Portugal, England, Chile and Colombia.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- The Social Foundations of Structural Power: Strategic Position, Worker Unity and External Alliances in the Making of the Chilean Dockworker Movement. Global Labour Journal, 11(3), 222-238.
- Building labour internationalism ‘from below’: Lessons from the International Dockworkers Council’s European Working Group. Work, Employment & Society, 34(1), 91-108. View this article in WRRO
All publications
Journal articles
- Global solidarity on the docks. New Labor Forum, 31(1), 50-58.
- The Social Foundations of Structural Power: Strategic Position, Worker Unity and External Alliances in the Making of the Chilean Dockworker Movement. Global Labour Journal, 11(3), 222-238.
- Building labour internationalism ‘from below’: Lessons from the International Dockworkers Council’s European Working Group. Work, Employment & Society, 34(1), 91-108. View this article in WRRO
- Worker Power, Trade Union Strategy, and International Connections: Dockworker Unionism in Colombia and Chile. Latin American Politics and Society, 61(03), 29-54. View this article in WRRO
- (Re-)Locating the Local and National in the Global: Multi-Scalar Political Alignment in Transnational European Dockworker Union Campaigns. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(3), 626-647.
- Breaking the impasse: Reflections on university worker organising in the UK. Global Labour Journal, 14(3).
- The ‘Iron Law of Oligarchy’ and North-South Relations in Global Union Organisations: A Case Study of the International Dockworkers Council’s Expansion in the Global South. Labor History, 63.
Chapters
- No Magic Bullet: Technically Strategic Power Alone Is Not Enough In Olney P & Perusek G (Ed.), Labor Power and Strategy
Book reviews
- Arise: power, strategy, and union resurgence, ByJaneHolgate,London:Pluto Press.2021.248 pages. £16.99.. New Technology, Work and Employment, 38(3), 572-574.
- Book review: Coerced : Work under threat of punishment, Erin Hatton, Oakland, CA: UC Press, 2020, p. 304. The British Journal of Sociology. View this article in WRRO
- Strategizing against Sweatshops: The Global Economy, Student Activism, and Worker Empowerment. By Matthew S. Williams. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. xix+292. $99.50 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).. American Journal of Sociology, 126(4), 1008-1010.
- The Social Foundations of Structural Power: Strategic Position, Worker Unity and External Alliances in the Making of the Chilean Dockworker Movement. Global Labour Journal, 11(3), 222-238.
- Research group
- Teaching interests
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Katy is module leader for MGT309 and MGT659 - the undergraduate postgraduate modules in Industrial Relations. Her approach to teaching seeks to foster students' ability to connect aspects of their own experiences as workers and consumers to theoretical frameworks on key aspects of work and employment today. In addition, she seeks to develop students' critical thinking skills and interest in global labour issues.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Katy is an Associate Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) and a member of the editorial board of Work in the Global Economy. She currently serves on the Board of RC 44, the Research Committee on Labor and Labor Movements of the International Sociological Association.