David Marsden's Comparative and Theoretical Craft: Signposts to a Better World of Work

Sarah Ashwin (), Rafael Gomez and Patrice Laroche ()
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Sarah Ashwin: LSE - Department of Management - London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science
Rafael Gomez: University of Toronto
Patrice Laroche: CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine

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Abstract: David Marsden enriched and extended the field of employment relations with his interdisciplinary and comparative practice. This introduction to the special issue honouring his work examines the nature of David's contribution and analyses his influence on employment relations and adjacent fields. The article highlights David's original engagement with the social science questions of his day, and his comparative craft, which entailed sensitivity to difference and a commitment to grounded, institutionally embedded analysis. Previewing the articles that make up this special issue, this introduction shows how David's work provides signposts to a better world of work.

Keywords: well-being; varieties of capitalism; interdisciplinarity; employment systems; embeddedness; comparative employment relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-09-29
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Published in British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025, pp.1-10. ⟨10.1111/bjir.70014⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/bjir.70014

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