Dr Christopher Forde
Refereed Conferences and Invited presentations
Conference Papers
Forde, C. and Winterton, J. (2010) ‘Restructurations: Quel Modele?’ , presented at Workshop on
Restructurations, Sante, Travail: Ou en est la Recherche? Comment Agissent les Institutions?,
Toulouse Business School, 25th-26th November.
Forde, C. (2010) ‘Securing Insecurity?: A Case study of Manpower and the Development of the
Global Temporary Agency Industry’ , Work, Employment and Society Conference, Brighton, 7th –
9th September, University of Brighton.
Stuart, M., Forde, C. and MacKenzie, R. (2010) ‘Restructuring, Redundancy and the European
Globalisation Adjustment fund’ , World Universities Network Workshop, University of Milan, July
2010.
Stuart, M, Forde, C., MacKe nzie, R. And Greer, I. (2009) ‘Restructuring, Redundancy and Traderelated Adjustment in Europe and Beyond’ , World Universities Network Workshop on
‘Restructuring, redundancy and sustainable employment: the challenges of the contemporary economic crisi s’, Leeds, UK, 6th-7th November.
MacKenzie, R., Forde, C., Robinson, A., Cook, H , Larsson, P. Eriksson, B. Bergman, A.,
‘Contingent Work in Construction: Results from a Two Country Survey ', International Industrial
Relations Association World Congress, Sydney, Australia, 24th-27th August.
Forde, C. Stuart, M. And MacKenzie, R. (2009) ‘An Early Analysis of the European Globalisation
Adjustment Fund’ , International Industrial Relations Association World Congress, Sydney, Australia,
24th-27th August.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A., Forde, C. and Spencer, D (2009) ‘Is Job Satisfaction U-shaped in
Wages?’ , ILO Regulating for Decent Work Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 6th-9th July.
Larsson, P. Eriksson, B. Bergman, A. MacKenzie, R., Forde, C., Robinson, A. and Cook, H (2009)
‘Training in the Construction Sector: A Comparative Study of Sweden and the UK’ , Third
International Conference on Training, Employability and Employment. Karlstad, Sweden 16th-17th
June.
MacKenzie, R. And Forde, C. (2009), ‘Migrant Workers, Labour Market Intermediaries and Ethical
Agendas: Business Case, Penalty Avoidance or Social Justice?’ , Labour and Employment
Relations Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, 3rd-5th January.
Forde, C. and Greenwood, I. (2008) ‘Employer-Employee Relations and the Ethics of
Organisational Change’ , Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied (IDEA) Business Ethics Teaching and
Practice National Conference, University of Leeds, 11th September.
Forde, C. and MacKenzie, R. (2008) 'Migrant workers, agencies and the new intermediaries' ,
British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Symposium on ‘New Developments in Agency
Working', Harrogate, 8th-10th September.
Forde, C. And Slater, G. (2008) ‘Job quality amongst agency workers in Britain: evidence from 2 largescale surveys’ , British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Symposium on ‘New
Developments in Agency Working', Harrogate, 8th-10th September.
Gardiner, J. Stuart, M. Forde, C., Greenwood, I., MacKenzie, R. and Perrett, R (2008) 'Moving on from redundancy in the Welsh steel industry: fateful moments and worker biographies' ,
American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Boston, 1st-4th August.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A., Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2008) ‘Are tighter labour markets associated

with better quality jobs? An analysis using subjective survey data', Work, Pensions and Labour
Economics Study Group Conference, University of Sheffield, July 14th-16th.
Forde, C., Stuart, M., MacKenzie, R. and Panagiotakopolous, A. (2008) ‘Anticipating Change and the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: an Analysis of the EU Response to
Restructuring Due to Globalisation’ British Universities Industrial Relations Association Annual conference, University of West of England, Bristol, June 26th-28th.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A. Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2008) ‘Job quality and the economics of
New Labour: a critical appraisal using subjective survey data’ , Conference on Developing
Quantitative Marxism, University of the West of England, Bristol, 3rd-5th April 2008
Brown, A. Spencer, D. Forde, C. and Charlwood, A. (2008) ‘A Realist and Dialectical Approach to
Econometrics’ , Conference on Developing Quantitative Marxism, University of the West of England,
Bristol, 3rd-5th April 2008.
Charlwood, A., Brown, A., Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2008) ‘Do tighter labour markets produce better employee evaluations of work experience’ , Paper presented at the 26th International
Labour Process Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, 18th-20th March.
Forde, C. and Slater, G. (2007) ‘Uncomfortable Bedfellows? Temporary Employment Agencies and the State’, paper presented at the Work Employment and Society Conference, University of
Aberdeen, 12th-14th September
Forde, C. and MacKenzie, R. (2007) ‘The Rhetoric of the Resource Based View of the Firm and the Reality of Disadvantaged Migrant Workers: Evidence from Barnsley’, paper presented at the
Work, Employment and Society Conference, University of Aberdeen, 12th-14th September.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A., Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2007) ‘Is Job satisfaction U shaped in earnings?’ , paper presented at the Work, Employment and Society Conference, University of
Aberdeen, 12th-14th September.
Forde, C., Stuart, M., MacKenzie, R. And Wallis, E. (2007) ‘The European Globalisation
Adjustment Fund and the regulation of redundancy in Europe’, Paper presented at the
International Industrial Relations Association European Congress , University of Manchester, 3rd-6th
September.
Charlwood, A. and Forde, C. (2007) ‘Is there still power in a union?’, Paper presented at the
International Industrial Relations Association European Congress , University of Manchester, 3rd-6th
September.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A., Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2007) ‘Job quality and the economics of
new labour: A critical appraisal’, Paper presented at the Association for Heterodox Economists
Annual Conference , University of the West of England, 13th-15th July.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A., Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2007) ‘Changes in Human Resource
Management and Job Satisfaction 1998-2004: Evidence from the Workplace Employment
Relations Survey’ , CIPD Professional Standards Conference , Keele University, 26th-28th June.
Charlwood, A. and Forde, C. (2006) ‘Did union decline cause the growth in male wage inequality in Britain during the 1990s? New estimates based on collective bargaining coverage’ , European
Association of Labour Economists Conference , Prague 21st-23rd September.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A., Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2006) ‘Changing job quality in Great Britain
19982004: Evidence from WERS’, Employment Research Unit Annual Conference, Cardiff
Business School.
MacKenzie, R. Forde, C. and Robinson, A. (2006) 'Changes in employers' use of contingent labour'.
Paper presented at the 14th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations
Association . Universidad de Lima, Perú. September 11-14 2006.

MacKenzie, R. and Forde, C (2006) 'The 'good worker': The rhetoric of diversity and the reality of
disadvantaged migrant workers.' Paper presented at the Industrial Relations in Europe Conference ,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 31st August - 2nd September 2006
Forde, C. and Slater, G. (2006) ‘Temporary Jobs: What are they worth now?’, Work and Pensions
Economics Group Annual Conference, University of Kent, July 10th-12th.
Charlwood, A. and Forde, C. (2006) ‘Did union decline cause the growth in male wage inequality in Britain during the 1990s? New estimates based on collective bargaining coverage’, Work and
Pensions Economics Group Annual Conference , University of Kent, July 10th-12th.
Forde, C. Stuart, Gardiner, J. Greenwood, I. MacKenzie, R. and Perrett, R. (2006) 'Still mismanaging redundancy: Restructuring and corporate social responsibility in the Welsh
Steel Industry'. Paper presented at the 56th BUIRA Annual Conference , 28th-30th June National
University of Ireland, Galway.
MacKenzie, R. and Forde, C (2006) 'The Rhetoric of Diversity and the Realities of Disadvantaged
Workers: A Case Study of Migrant Workers in the UK'. Paper presented for the workshop: 'The
Unprotected Migrant: Mobility, Social Policy and Labour Rights in Europe', University of
Tampere, Finland, May 16-17th, 2006
MacKenzie, R., Stuart, M., Forde, C., Greenwood, I., Perrett, R. and Gardiner, J. (2006) 'Class,
Identity and the Maintenance of a Collective Orientation amongst Redundant Steel Workers.'
Paper presented at the 24th Annual International Labour Process Conference, 10-12 April 2006.
London.
Forde, C., MacKenzie, R. and Robinson, A. (2005) 'Firm Foundations? Contingent Labour and
Employers' Provision of Training in the UK Construction Sector', Plenary paper given at the
Second International Conference on Training, Employability & Employment, Monash University,
Prato, 21st-23rd September
Gardiner, J., Stuart, M., Forde, C., MacKenzie, R., Greenwood, I. and Perrett, R. (2005) 'Perceptions of De-skilling and Up-skilling in the Restructuring of Employment: the Welsh Steel Industry
Redundancies', Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Training, Employability
& Employment, Monash University, Prato, 21st-23rd September.
MacKenzie, R., Stuart, M., Forde, C., Greenwood, I., Perrett, R. and Gardiner, J. (2005) ‘All that is
Solid? Class, Identity and the Maintenance of a Collective Orientation amongst Redundant
Steel Workers’, Paper presented at the American Sociological Association 100th Annual Conference ,
Philadelphia, 13th-16th August.
Forde, C. MacKenzie, R. and Robinson, A. (2005) 'Help Wanted?': Employer Attitudes to
Employment Agencies in the Construction Sector', Paper Presented at the 55th British
Universities Industrial Relations Association Conference , University of Northumbria, 7th-9th July.
Forde, C. (2005) ‘From Competitors to Partners: The Relationship between Private Employment
Agencies and the Public Employment Service in Britain over the Twentieth Century’, Paper presented at the 13th International Employment Relations Association Conference , Aalborg
University, Denmark, 26th-29th June.
Forde, C. (2004) ‘The Use of Mind Maps as a Teaching and Learning Tool’, Paper presented at the Second Annual Teaching and Learning Conference , University of Leeds, 17th December.
Forde, C. and MacKenzie, R. (2004) ‘The Use of Contract Alternatives in the UK Construction
Industry ’. Paper presented at the 7th International Industrial Relations Association European
Congress , Estoril, Portugal, 7th –11th September.
Forde, C (2004) ‘Employment Agencies, the TUC, and Regulation of the Temporary Help
Industry in the UK, 19501973’, Paper presented at the 7th IIRA European Congress , Estoril,

Portugal, 7th –11th September,2004,
Forde, C., Slater, G. and Spencer, D. (2004) ‘The Limits to Worker Participation: Issues and
Evidence’, Paper presented at the Work, Employment and Society conference , UMIST, 1st –3rd
September.
Forde, C., Slater, G. and Spencer, D. (2004) ‘The Nature and Limits of Workplace Participation’ ,
Paper presented at the 12th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of
Participation , St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 7th-9th July.
Forde, C., Sawyer, M., Slater, G. and Spencer, D. (2003) ‘The Workplace Requirements for
Sustainable Full Employment’, Paper presented at the Economics for the Future Conference ,
University of Cambridge, 17th -19th September.
Forde, C. (2003) ‘Shaping the UK Employment Agency Industry: The Activities of Manpower
Ltd. 196671’, Paper presented at the 51st British Universities Industrial Relations Association
Conference , University of Leeds, 3rd - 5th July.
Forde, C. and Slater, G (2003) ‘A Temporary Solution to Unemployment?’, Paper presented at the
Eastern Economics Association Conference , New York, 21st –23rd February.
Forde, C. and MacKenzie, R. (2003) ‘Cementing Skills: Policy and Skills Reproduction in the UK
Construction and Civil Engineering Sector’, Paper presented at the Eastern Economics
Association Conference , Manhattan, New York, 21st –23rd February.
Forde, C. and Slater, G. (2002) ‘A Temporary Solution to Unemployment?’ , Paper presented at the
Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference , New South Wales, Australia, 9th –10th
December.
Forde C. and Slater G. (2001) ‘Just a Temporary Phenomenon? The Rise and Fall of Temporary
Work in the UK’ , Paper presented at the Eastern Economic Association Conference , Manhattan,
New York, 23rd –25th February.
Forde C (2001) ‘Getting the Measure of Employment Agency Workforce’, Paper presented at the
Eastern Economic Association Conference , Manhattan, New York, 23rd -25th February.
Forde C. (2000) ‘Temps Rising: The Nature and Experience of Agency Work in the UK’ , Paper presented at the 18th International Labour Process Conference , University of Strathclyde.
Forde, C. (1997) ‘Temporary Employment Agency Working: Issues and Evidence’, Paper presented at the 15th International Labour Process Conference , University of Edinburgh, 25th –27th
March.
Invited presentations
MacKenzie, R., Forde, C. and Ciupijus, Z. (2011) ‘Translating migration information to a local context: evidence from the Barns ley Migrant Worker Research Project’ , Presentation art Leeds
City Region seminar Using Migration Statistics in Service Planning, Leeds Civic Hall, 1st April.
Forde, C. and Slater, G. (2010) ‘The role of agencies in pay setting’ , Presentation to ACAS and
BIS , Euston Tower, 24th September.
Forde, C. And Slater, G. (2010) ‘Protected at Last? Agency temps in the UK and the European
Agency Working Directive’ , Making Bad jobs Better, Workshop 2 , University of Oxford, 21st
September.
Forde, C. And Stuart, M. (2009) ‘Human Capital Investment Tax credits: Merits and Demerits’ , E-

skills funding in Europe Workshop, DG Enterprise and Industry , European Commission, Brussels, 3-
4th December.
Forde, C. And MacKenzie, R. (2009) ‘Migrant Workers, Employment Agencies and the New
Intermediaries’ , ESRC seminar series on ‘The Impact of Migrant Workers on the Functioning of
Labour Markets and Industrial Relations’ . Keele University, 11th November 2009.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A., Forde, C., and Spencer, D. (2009) ‘Employee Well-Being in Britain:
Lower than the Raw Figures Suggest?’ , ESRC/HSE Public Policy Seminar 'Well - being and
Working Life , London, 5th February.
MacKenzie, R. and Forde, C. (2008) ‘The experiences of new arrivals in the labour market: evidence from Barnsley’ , ESRC Seminar series on ‘Ethnicity, networks and voice mechanisms in established and hard to reach BME communities: capacity building and beyond’ , Workshop on ‘Local labour market dynamics and the role of networks within BME communities’ , Centre for Employment
Relations Innovation and Change, University of Leeds, 4th July.
MacKenzie, R. and Forde, C (2008) ‘The Social and Economic Experiences of New Arrivals in
Barnsley’ , presented at the Leeds Social Science Institute Knowledge Exchange Showcase
Workshop on New Migration in the Yorkshire and Humber Region , 19th May.
Stuart, M. and Forde, C. (2008) ‘The Value of Dialogue over training and skills for leveraging workforce talent’ , presented at the MarcusEvans 3rd Annual Talent Management in Oil Gas and
Petrochemicals conference , RadissionSAS Hotel, Amsterdam, 14th-15th April.
MacKenzie, R. and Forde, C. (2008) ‘The social and economic experiences of ‘new arrivals’:
Evidence from Barnsley’ , Presented at the ESOL Research Group, School of Education , University of Leeds, 11th March.
Slater, G. and Forde, C. (2008) ‘Much ado about nothing? Temporary agency work in Britain’ ,
Paper presented at Economics Division seminar , University of West of England, 6th March
Forde, C., MacKenzie, R. and Stuart, M. (2007) ‘Social dialogue and good employment relations: essential elements of effective recruiting and training strategies in the oil and gas industry’ ,
Invited presentation at the Marcus Evans ‘Effective Recruiting and Training Stategies in the Oil and
Gas Industry’ Conference , Barcelona, June 11th-12th.
Forde, C. and Slater, G. (2007) ‘Short and sweet? Job quality in temporary work’, Department of
Economics External Seminar Series , University of Sheffield, 30th May.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A. Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2007) ‘A Realist Methodology Incorporating
Large Quantitative Datasets’, Presentation to the Leeds Social Science Institute Research Methods
Seminar Series, University of Leeds, 24th May. Full
Brown, A. Charlwood, A. Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2007) ‘Changing job quality in Great Britain,
19982004’ Presentation to the Work Foundation, March 14th.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A., Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2006) ‘Changing job quality in Great Britain’ ,
Invited Presentation at Department of Trade and Industry Annual Labour Market Research
Conference , London, December 11th-12th.
MacKenzie, R. and Forde, C. (2006) ‘First Findings from the Social and Economic Experiences of Asylum Seekers, Migrant Workers, Refugees and Overst ayers Project’, One Barnsley
Community Cohesion Conference , Barnsley Football Club, 18th October.
Stuart, M. Forde, C., MacKenzie, R. and Wallis, E. (2006) ‘An impact study on relocation, restructuring and the viability of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: The impact on employment, working conditions and regional development’ , Invited address to the Employment and Social Affairs Committee, European Parliament , 4th October

Brown, A., Charlwood, A., Forde, C. and Spencer, D. (2006) ‘Changing job quality in Great Britain’,
Invited Presentation at the Department of Trade and Industry WERS Small Grants Fund Conference ,
26th September.
Forde, C. and MacKenzie, R. (2006) ‘The Social and Economic Experiences of Asylum Seekers,
Migrant Workers, Refugee s and Overstayers: Research Contributing to the IMCB Project’ ,
Second Steering Group Meeting of the IMCB Project , Barnsley, June.
MacKenzie. R. and Forde, C. (2005) ‘The Social and Economic experiences of asylum seekers, refugees, migrant workers and ove rstayers’, Report to the IMCB First Steering Group Meeting ,
Barnsley Town Hall, 23rd October.
Forde, C. (2005) ‘Selling Contingency: Manpower and the Development of the Temporary help industry in Britain’, Paper presented at Industrial Relations Research Unit Seminar Series, Warwick
Business School, 16th October.
Forde, C. and MacKenzie, R. (2004) ’Getting the Mix Right: The Use of Employment Contract
Alternatives in the UK Construction Industry’, Invited Paper Presented at ESRC Transdisciplinary
Research Seminar Series on 'Disconnected Agendas: Collaborative Working and Workforce
Casualisation in the UK Construction Industry , University of Reading, 22nd September.
Stuart, M., Greenwood, I., Forde, C. and MacKenzie, R. (2003) ‘The Impact of Redundancies from
Corus and ASW in Wales’, Presentation to Steel Partnership Training (SPT) , Cardiff, July.
Forde, C. and Slater, G. (2002) ‘Just a Temporary Phenomenon? The Rise and Fall of Temporary
Work in the UK’, Inivited Paper Presented at Workshop on Under-utilisation of Europe's Labour
Resources , organized by the Centre of Full Employment and Equity-Europe, Maastricht, 4th –5th
October.
Forde, C., Sawyer, M., Slater, G. and Spencer, D. (2002) ‘Exploring the Workplace Requirements for Sustainable Employment’, Invited Paper Presented at Workshop on Under-utilisation of
Europe's Labour Resources , organized by the Centre of Full Employment and Equity-Europe,
Maastricht, 4th – 5th October.
Forde C. and Slater G. (2001) ‘A Temporary Solution to Unemployment?’ Paper presented at
EURESCO Labour Market Change, Unemployment and Citizenship in Europe Workshop , Helsinki,
20th –25th April
Forde, C. and Slater, G. (2001) ‘Just a temporary phenomenom? The rise and fall of temporary work in the UK’, Paper presented the EWERC Seminar Series, UMIST. Manchester
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