ISS Faculty Fellow/Contentious Knowledge Team 2006-09
Rebecca Givan is assistant professor of Collective Bargaining, and International and Comparative Labor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) She holds a Ph.D. in political Science from Northwestern University and a BA from Oberlin College. Before coming to Cornell she worked at the London School of Economics and Cardiff Business School. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Public Administration, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Personnel Review and International Labor and Working Class History as well as several edited volumes.
Givan's research and teaching interests include collective bargaining and labor relations, welfare reform and British political economy. Professor Givan’s research addresses the relationship between public sector and healthcare restructuring and employment. In general, Givan examines the link between political debates and workplace implementation of key reforms. She has written on the privatization of public services and on restructuring in the British National Health Service and is currently also writing about worker representation beyond collective bargaining. One of her current research projects explores the construction and uses of authoritative knowledge in healthcare reform debates, for example in arguments between unions, healthcare managers and policy makers over nurse-patient ratios.
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