Dr Leon Gooberman
Lecturer in Employment Relations
- goobermanlm@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 6563
- Room R34, Aberconway Building, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Overview
I am a lecturer in Employment Relations, and research two areas. One is how and why employers organise and act collectively. The other is the historic relationship between economy and state in modern Wales.
My doctorate (2013) examined government intervention in the Welsh economy throughout the late twentieth century. I then joined Cardiff Business School as a post-doctoral researcher working on an ESRC funded project examining employer collective action in the UK.
Before obtaining my doctorate, I worked on economic development research and policy for organisations including PwC and Cardiff Council.
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD, Cardiff University, ‘Government intervention in the Welsh economy, 1974 to 1997’.
- MPA, University of Liverpool
- B.A (Hons), University of Aberystwyth.
Publications
2021
- Demougin, P.et al. 2021. Revisiting voluntarism: private voluntary regulation by employer forums in the United Kingdom. Journal of Industrial Relations
2020
- Gooberman, L. 2020. ‘It’s déjà vu all over again’ : looking back at the Welsh Development Agency. Welsh Economic Review 27, pp. 1-5. (10.18573/wer.252)
- Gooberman, L. 2020. Business failure in an age of globalisation: interpreting the rise and fall of the LG project in Wales, 1995-2006. Business History 62(2), pp. 240-260. (10.1080/00076791.2018.1426748)
- Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2020. A typology of employers' organisations in the United Kingdom. Economic and Industrial Democracy 41(1), pp. 229-248. (10.1177/0143831X17704499)
- Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2020. The decay and revival of sub-UK employer organisation: a response to Dr. Ritson. Labor History 61(5-6), pp. 417-422. (10.1080/0023656X.2020.1830958)
2019
- Gooberman, L. and Boyns, T. 2019. Public venture capital in a regional economy: The Welsh Development Agency 1976-1994. Enterprise and Society 20(4), pp. 978-1006. (10.1017/eso.2019.15)
- Gooberman, L. 2019. 'A very modern kind of English loneliness': John Redwood, the Welsh Office and devolution. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru / Welsh History Review 29(4), pp. 641-651. (10.16922/whr.29.4.5)
- Gooberman, L. and Curtis, B. 2019. The age of factories: the rise and fall of manufacturing in south Wales, 1945-1985. In: Miskell, L. ed. New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History. Cardiff: University of Wales Press
- Gooberman, L. and Boyns, T. 2019. The Welsh Development Agency: activities and impact, 1976 to 2006. In: Miskell, L. ed. New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History. Cardiff: University of Wales Press
- Demougin, P., Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2019. The unexpected survival of employer collective action in the UK. Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations 74(2), pp. 353-376. (10.7202/1062087ar)
- Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2019. The decline of Employers' Associations in the UK, 1976 to 2014. Journal of Industrial Relations 61(1), pp. 11-32. (10.1177/0022185617750418)
- Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2019. The evolution of employers' organisations in the United Kingdom: extending countervailing power. Human Resource Management Journal 29(1), pp. 82-96. (10.1111/1748-8583.12193)
- Demougin, P.et al. 2019. Employer organisations transformed. Human Resource Management Journal 29(1), pp. 1-16. (10.1111/1748-8583.12222)
2018
- Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2018. Employers' organisations and public value. In: Lindgreen, A. et al. eds. Managing Public Value. Routledge
- Gooberman, L. 2018. The state and post-industrial urban regeneration: the reinvention of south Cardiff. Urban History 45(3), pp. 504-523. (10.1017/S0963926817000384)
- Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2018. Contemporary employer interest representation in the United Kingdom. Work, Employment and Society 32(1), pp. 114-132. (10.1177/0950017017701074)
2017
- Heery, E., Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2017. The petroleum driver passport scheme: a case study in reregulation. Industrial Relations Journal 48(3), pp. 274-291. (10.1111/irj.12179)
- Gooberman, L. 2017. From depression to devolution: economy and government in Wales, 1934 to 2006. University of Wales Press.
2016
- Gooberman, L. 2016. Welsh Office exceptionalism, economic development and devolution, 1979 to 1997. Contemporary British History 30(4), pp. 563-583. (10.1080/13619462.2016.1208567)
2015
- Gooberman, L. 2015. Moving mountains: The reclamation of derelict industrial land in post-war Wales. The Welsh History Review 27(3), pp. 528-551.
2014
- Gooberman, L. 2014. Recession and recovery: The Welsh Office and job creation in the 1980s. Llafur 11(3), pp. 115-127.
2013
- Gooberman, L. 2013. Government intervention in the Welsh economy: 1974 to 1997. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Teaching
Teaching committments
Employment Relations (undergraduate)
European Business Systems (postgraduate)
Governance, regulation, and standards in global business (postgraduate)
Research interests
Employer collective action
Employment Relations/ Political Economy
Regional economic development
Deindustrialisation