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Number of items: 31.
Article
  • McGovern, Patrick, Thielemann, Eiko R., Hammoud Gallego, Omar (2025). The return of the state: how European governments regulate labour market competition from migrant workers. Comparative Migration Studies, 13, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00433-3 picture_as_pdf
  • McGovern, Patrick (2024). The new pluralism: interests, identity and social change. Employee Relations, 46(6), 1332 - 1345. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-09-2023-0449 picture_as_pdf
  • McGovern, Patrick, Obradović, Sandra, Bauer, Martin W. (2023). In search of a Tawney Moment: income inequality, financial crisis and the mass media in the UK and the USA. The Sociological Review, 71(5), 1213 - 1233. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231176365 picture_as_pdf
  • McGovern, Patrick (2020). Beyond theory? The workplace case study tradition in the 21st century. Industrial Relations Journal, 51(3), 136-152. picture_as_pdf
  • McGovern, Patrick (2020). In search of theory? The workplace case study tradition in the 21st century. Industrial Relations Journal, 51(3), 136 - 152. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12285 picture_as_pdf
  • McGovern, Patrick, Alburez-Gutierrez, Diego (2017). Who takes workplace case study seriously? The influence of gender, academic rank and PhD traning. Industrial Relations Journal, 48(2), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12171
  • Beine, Michel, Boucher, Anna, Burgoon, Brian, Crock, Mary, Gest, Justin, Hiscox, Michael, McGovern, Patrick, Rapoport, Hillel, Schaper, Joep, Thielemann, Eiko R. (2016). Comparing immigration policies: an overview from the IMPALA database. International Migration Review, 50(4), 827-863. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12169
  • Beine, Michel, Burgoon, Brian B., Crock, Mary, Gest, Justin, Hiscox, Michael, McGovern, Patrick, Rapoport, Hillel, Thielemann, Eiko R. (2015). Measuring immigration policies: preliminary evidence from IMPALA. CESifo Economic Studies, 61(3-4), 527-559. https://doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifu038
  • Gest, Justin, Boucher, Anna, Challen, Suzanna, Burgoon, Brian, Thielemann, Eiko R., Beine, Michel, McGovern, Patrick, Crock, Mary, Rapoport, Hillel, Hiscox, Michael (2014). Measuring and comparing immigration, asylum and naturalization policies across countries: challenges and solutions. Global Policy, 5(3), 261-274. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12132
  • McGovern, Patrick (2014). Contradictions at work: a critical review. Sociology, 48(1), 20 - 37. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038512467711
  • McGovern, Patrick (2012). Inequalities in the (de-)commodification of labour: immigration, the nation state, and labour market stratification. Sociology Compass, 6(6), 485-498. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2012.00470.x
  • Frege, Carola M., Kelly, John, McGovern, Patrick (2011). Richard Hyman: marxism, trade unionism and comparative employment relations. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 49(2), 209-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00845.x
  • McGovern, Patrick (2010). The young Lipset on the iron law of oligarchy: a taste of things to come. British Journal of Sociology, 61(s1), 29-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01283.x
  • McGovern, Patrick (2009). Will the economic downturn alter current work-life strategies?: the debate on work-life balance is still in its infancy. Personalführung, 2, 40-45.
  • McGovern, Patrick (2008). A mystery from the world of book reviewing. British Universities Industrial Relations Association, (63), 8-9.
  • McGovern, Patrick (2007). Immigration, labour markets and employment relations: problems and prospects. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 45(2), 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2007.00612.x
  • McGovern, Patrick, Smeaton, Deborah, Hill, Stephen (2004). Bad jobs in Britain: non-standard employment and job quality. Work and Occupations, 31(2), 225-249. https://doi.org/10.1177/0730888404263900
  • McGovern, Patrick (2003). Rational choice theory, the "new economic sociology" and functionalism. Work, Employment and Society, 17(4), 747-756.
  • White, Michael, Hill, Stephen, McGovern, Patrick, Mills, Colin, Smeaton, Deborah (2003). "High-performance" management practices, working hours and work-life balance. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 41(2), 175-195. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8543.00268
  • McGovern, Patrick (2002). Globalization or internationalization? Foreign footballers in the English league, 1946-1995. Sociology, 36(1), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038502036001002
  • McGovern, Patrick (2000). The Irish brawn drain: English league clubs and Irish footballers, 1946-1995. British Journal of Sociology, 51(3), 401-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00401.x
    • Book
  • McGovern, Patrick, Hill, Stephen, Mills, Colin, White, Michael (2007). Market, class, and employment. Oxford University Press.
    • Chapter
  • McGovern, Patrick (2024). The unsettling nature of immigration: labour migration, racism, and discrimination. In Meardi, Guglielmo (Ed.), Research Handbook on Migration and Employment (pp. 76 - 88). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107245.00011 picture_as_pdf
  • McGovern, Patrick (2020). Job quality, work intensity and working time: some cross-national comparisons on the experience of work. In Frege, Carola, Kelly, John (Eds.), Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy (pp. 54-68). Routledge. description
  • McGovern, Patrick (2013). The experience of work in comparative perspective. In Frege, Carola M., Kelly, John (Eds.), Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy (pp. 71-88). Routledge.
  • McGovern, Patrick (1999). HRM policies and management practices. In Gratton, Lynda, Hope-Hailey, Veronica, Stiles, Philip, Truss, Catherine (Eds.), Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality (pp. 133-152). Oxford University Press.
    • Dataset
  • Mills, Colin, White, Michael, Hill, Stephen, McGovern, Patrick (2003). Changing Employment Relationships, Employment Contracts and the Future of Work, 1999-2002. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4641-1
    • Working paper
  • McGovern, Patrick, Obradović, Sandra, Bauer, Martin W. (2020). Income inequality and the absence of a Tawney moment in the mass media. (III Working paper 53). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.csqbwekqs941 picture_as_pdf
    • Blog post
  • McGovern, Patrick, Thielemann, Eiko R., Hammoud Gallego, Omar (19 August 2025) Has immigration led to a new form of labour market protectionism in Europe? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • McGovern, Patrick (6 March 2020) Long read who are you calling unskilled? LSE Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • McGovern, Patrick (11 July 2016) Five problems with UK immigration control post-Brexit. LSE Brexit. picture_as_pdf