 Simon
Clarke directs the Russian
Research Programme in the Department, which
currently involves two research staff and twelve
teams with a total of more than fifty researchers
in Russia, Belarus and Georgia, and four doctoral
students currently attached to the project.
Recently completed projects have been on the
restructuring of the coal-mining industry; the
restructuring of employment and the formation of
a labour market; household survival strategies
and new forms of employment, and on changing
gender relations and gender identity. The most recently
completed projects have been : one on the
development of trade unions in Russia, in
collaboration with international trade union and
labour organisations, funded by ESRC and INTAS,
and one on innovation
in post-Soviet industry funded under the EU's
INCO-COPERNICUS programme. Current projects are on Management
structures, employment relations and class formation in Russia,
funded by ESRC; Exchange
of experience in the training of young trade union activists
in Russia and Britain, funded by DFID, and monitoring the
social and economic Impact of the BAS Programme in Samara,
also funded by DFID. Sarah
Ashwin, now at LSE, directs a parallel
project on gender differences in employment
strategies in Russia, funded by INTAS. Simon is also involved
in comparative research on the development of
trade unionism in Russia and China, in
collaboration with Bill
Taylor at City University Hong Kong. Papers on industrial
relations in China can be found here. You
will find details of the
research programme and access to a large number
of reports and publications in English and
Russian on the project website at www.warwick.ac.uk/russia.
Prospective research
students (who should have a good command
of Russian) can email Simon.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk
, who will be happy to comment on draft
research proposals.
Simon also maintains his teaching and research
interests in the area of social and political
thought. He currently teaches an MA course on Marx's
Social Theory and (with Tony Elger and Annie Phizacklea) a
second-year undergraduate course on Gender and Work Worldwide. 
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 The
Formation of a Labour Market in Russia,
Making
Ends Meet: Secondary Employment, Domestic
Production and Social Networks in Contemporary
Russia, both published by Edward
Elgar and, with Sarah Ashwin, Russian Trade
Unions and Industrial Relations in Transition, published by Palgrave.
Simon and Lin have two children, Sam and
Becky, and two grandchildren, Jade and Kai
(above). When he is not working he is most likely
to be found on his bike. He tries to fit in a
week's skiing each winter and some sailing each
summer.
You can access Simon Clarke's CV here. You can access many published and
unpublished materials from the list of publications in the CV,
but please note that some of these materials are only available
to registered
users of the site.
You can e-mail: Simon.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk
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