Dr Deborah Dean
Associate Professor of IR
Research Interests
Equality issues in employment; contingent work in the entertainment industry; the interrelation of legal, social and cultural regulation of work.
Industrial Relations Research Unit, Organisation & HRM
Email: Deborah.Dean@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 24274 / Room: 2.145
Biography
Previously Research Fellow in Industrial Relations Research Unit, WBS.
British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Research Project
Women, Theatre, Justice: Performing, Organising, Working
This is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, led by academics in theatre and performance studies and work and employment relations from Queen Mary, University of London; University of Warwick; University of Leicester and University of Reading. It is developing new understandings about Clean Break, the women-only theatre company that grew out of a prisoner-led drama workshop that took place between 1977 and 1979 in HMP Askham Grange. The work and organisation dimension of the project is to examine Clean Break as an organisation run by women for women and its unusual organisational approach of learning through listening to the voices involved in its work. It considers the implications of these practices for management and leadership more widely.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Dean, D. and Greene, A. (2017) "How do we understand worker silence despite poor conditions - as the actress said to the woman bishop", Human Relations, 70, 10, 1237-1257
- Meardi, G., Donaghey, J. and Dean, D. (2016) "The strange non-retreat of the state : implications for the sociology of work", Work, Employment And Society, 30, 4, 559-572
- Simms, M. and Dean, D. (2015) "Mobilising contingent workers : an analysis of two successful cases", Economic and Industrial Democracy, Volume 36, Number 1, 173-190
- Deborah Dean (2015) "Deviant typicality : gender equality issues in a trade union that should be different from others", Industrial Relations Journal, 46, 1, 37-53
- Deborah Dean (2012) "The relevance of ideas in a union’s organization of contingent workers : 'Here come the fairy people!'", Work, Employment And Society, 26, 6, 918-934
- Deborah Dean (2008) "No human resource is an island : gendered, racialized access to work as a performer", Gender, Work & Organization, Vol.15, No.2, 161-181
- Kirton, G., Greene, A. and Dean, D. (2007) "British diversity professionals as change agents - radicals, tempered radicals or liberal reformers?", International Journal of Human Resource Management, Volume 18, Number 11, 1979-1994
- Deborah Dean (2007) "Performing industrial relations : the centrality of gender in regulation of work in theatre and television", Industrial Relations Journal, Volume 38, Number 3, 252-268
- Deborah Dean (2005) "Recruiting a self : women performers and aesthetic labour", Work, Employment And Society, 19, 4, 761-774
- Dean, D. and Jones, C. (2003) "If women actors were working...", Media, Culture & Society , 25, 4, 527-541
Book Items
- Dean, D. and Liff, S. (2010) "Equality and diversity : the ultimate industrial relations concern", 422-446, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.
- Deborah Dean (2009) "Diversity management in the private sector", No.21, 90-114, Routledge, New York
Book
- Bushell, M. A., Hoque, K. and Dean, D. (2020) "The network trap : why women struggle to make it into the boardroom", Springer, Singapore. 9789811508783
Digital Scholarly Resources
- Deborah Dean (2017) "Harvey Weinstein : showbusiness voices signal the sad ubiquity of sexual abuse in industry"
- Deborah Dean (2017) "The real reason Mark Wahlberg earns US$42m more than any woman in Hollywood"
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