Dr Edward Yates
Management School
Lecturer in Employment Relations
+44 114 222 3435
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Management School
Room A009
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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Edward Yates is a Lecturer in Employment Relations in the School of Management at the University of Sheffield.
Edward is a member of the Centre for Decent Work (CDW) located within the Management School.
- Research interests
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Edward’s research explores the relationship between processes of political economy, state regulation, employment relations and labour market outcomes. He is particularly interested in the behaviour of local labour markets, in particular for young workers. Edward’s current research is organised into four main areas:
- Local labour markets. Specifically how processes of capitalist accumulation manifest in and through local labour markets and how this is expressed in the behaviour of local state actors, local employers, and workers.
- State regulation of work, employment, and labour markets. In particular how shifts in the global economy in the last 50 years have impacted upon state policy for labour market regulation and what this means for workers.
- Young workers. Edward’s research examines central and local government policy regarding young workers, wage-rates for young workers, conditions of work and employment, skills and training provision, and the theoretical development of a ‘political economy of youth’.
- Work, employment and labour markets in the NHS. This strand of research explores contemporary conditions of work and employment in the NHS for different staff groups and occupations.
- The research examines: the intensification of working conditions in the NHS, processes of churn and attrition, pension changes, the role of trade unions and professional organisations in the NHS, and NHS financing.
In addition to these four research areas Edward is interested in the theoretical development of critical, global political economy, and in research methodologies.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- From coworking to competing? Business models and strategies of UK coworking spaces beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Competition & Change, 28(1), 123-143. View this article in WRRO
- Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective. Journal of Youth Studies.
- Local economic governance strategies in the UK’s post-industrial cities and the challenges of improving local work and employment conditions. Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 36(2), 115-132. View this article in WRRO
- The strategic economic governance of Greater Manchester’s local labour market by the local state: Implications for young workers. Economic and Industrial Democracy. View this article in WRRO
- Reproducing low-wage labour: capital accumulation, labour markets and young workers. Industrial Relations Journal, 48(5-6), 463-481. View this article in WRRO
- Coworking spaces and workplaces of the future: Critical perspectives on community, context and change. European Management Review.
- Low interest rates, low productivity, low growth? A multi-sector case study of UK-based firms’ funding and investment strategies in the context of loose monetary policy. New Political Economy, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1-20.
- Developing or Degrading Young Workers? How Business Strategy and the Labour Process Shape Job Quality across Different Industrial Sectors in England. Work, Employment and Society, 095001702110704-095001702110704.
- Monetary Policy as Usual? The Bank of England’s Extraordinary Monetary Policies and the Disciplining of Labour. New Political Economy, 1-19.
Book reviews
- Marketization: How capitalist exchange disciplines workers and subverts democracy, ByGreer,I. (Ed.),Umney,C. (Ed.), :Bloomsbury Publishing.2022. pp.192 £17.99.. New Technology, Work and Employment.
- Peter Latham Who stole the town hall? The end of local government as we know it. Capital and Class(3), 609-612.
- Thomas Janoski, David Luke and Christopher Oliver. The Causes of Structural Unemployment: Four Factors That Keep People from the Jobs They Deserve. Work, Employment and Society, 30(6), 1052-1055.
Reports
- Written evidence submitted to Parliament on Coworking by the Co-Working Research Collective (evidence COV0125)
- The Relationship Between Firm Financing and Investment in Productivity in a Very Low Interest Rate Environment
- The Impact of the National Living Wage on Businesses: Retail and Hospitality in Two English Cities
Website content
- Alone Together: Co-Working Spaces and the Covid-19 Crisis.
- Curling up and dyeing? the hairdressing and barbering sector during COVID19.
- How Britain’s economy has wronged young people for decades.
- From coworking to competing? Business models and strategies of UK coworking spaces beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Competition & Change, 28(1), 123-143. View this article in WRRO
- Research group
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- Teaching interests
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Edward is committed to providing a stimulating, challenging and rewarding teaching experience for students, one which treats each students as individuals and as responsible independent adults.
Central to this approach is identifying the differing abilities, aims and ambitions of students and responding accordingly in order to help students achieve their potential.
Edward’s teaching is shaped by his research interests and as such it is theoretically driven and guided by contemporary examples.
- Teaching activities
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Edward currently teaches on the following modules:
- MGT650 – Managing People in Organisations
- MGT6127 – Management Theory and Practice
- MGT682 – Research Methods
- PhD Supervision
I am interested in being part of a supervisory team for students wishing to research any of the following areas:
- Local labour markets
- Young workers
- State regulation of work and employment
- Local state policy and labour market regulation
- Global political economy, work and employment
- Labour markets, work and employment in the UK National Health Service (NHS)