 Simon
Clarke retired in September 2009 and is now Emeritus
Professor. From 1991 until he retired he directed the Russian Research Programme
in the Department, which studied various aspects of labour and
employment relations in Russia and the former Soviet Union in
collaboration with teams of Russian researchers associated with the Institute for Comparative
Labour Relations Research (ISITO), an inter-regional organisation
of labour researchers, based in Moscow with research teams in Moscow,
Samara, Kemerovo, Perm, Ekaterinburg, Ulyanovsk, St Petersburg and
Syktyvkar. Since 1998 the research programme has extended to
comparative research on the development of trade unions and industrial
relations in China and, more recently, in Vietnam. Full details of the
research and access to many of our publications can be found on the
website of the research programme.
Simon Clarke's main publications are The
Foundations of Structuralism; Marx, Marginalism and Modern
Sociology; Keynesianism, Monetarism and the Crisis of the State;
Marx's Theory of Crisis and (with Peter
Fairbrother, Michael Burawoy and Pavel Krotov) What About the
Workers? Workers and the Transition to Capitalism in Russia; (with
Peter Fairbrother and Vadim Borisov): The Workers' Movement in
Russia. He has translated, edited and introduced a series of books
published by Edward Elgar: Management and Industry in Russia;
Conflict and Change in the Russian Enterprise; Labour
Relations in Transition; The Russian Enterprise in Transition;
Structural Adjustment without Mass Unemployment?
and The State Debate. His most recent books are (with Sarah Ashwin)The
Formation of a Labour Market in Russia, Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in
Post-Communist Russia (Palgrave,
Basingstoke and New York, 2002) , The
Development of Capitalism in Russia (Routledge,
2007), (with Tim
Pringle) The Challenge of Transition: Trade
Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam (Palgrave,
2010).
Simon and Lin have two children, Sam and Becky, and
three grandchildren, Jade, Kai and Charlie. Simon is a keen cyclist,
going out with the Coventry CTC every Sunday and Tuesday through the
winter. He tries to fit in a week's skiing each winter. Simon and Lin
now spend their summers on their yacht, a Moody 422, in the
Mediterranean.
You can find Simon's CV here,
where you can access many published
and unpublished materials. Please note that for copyright reasons
published materials are only available in final draft versions and so
should not be cited or referenced. You can find my reading guide to
Capital here. You can e-mail: Simon.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk
  
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