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Books

 (with Stephen Hill, Colin Mills, and Michael White). Oxford University Press, 2007.

. London: Routledge, 1998.

Articles and Book Chapters

‘’, Employee Relations Special Issue on Alan Fox, 2024. Online early cite.

,’ 2023, Sociological Review, 71, 5: 1213–1233 (with S. Obradović and M. Bauer).

‘’, 2022, in S. Schifferes and S. Knowles (eds) The Media and Inequality, Routledge, pp. 135-149, (with M. Bauer and S. Obradovic).

‘’, 2020, Industrial Relations Journal, 51, 3: 136-52.

,’ Industrial Relations Journal, 2017 48, 2: 98-114 (with Diego Alburez-Gutierrez).

International Migration Review, 2016, 50, 4: 827-863; (with Michel Beine, Anna Boucher, Brian Burgoon, Mary Crock, Justin Gest, Michael Hiscox, Hillel Rapoport, Joep Schaper, Eiko Thielemann)

 Sociology, 2014, 48 (1). 20-37.

, CESifo Economic Studies, 61, 3-4: 527-559; (with Michel Beine,  Brian Burgoon, Mary Crock, Justin Gest, Michael Hiscox, Hillel Rapoport, Eiko Thielemann)

 Global Policy Journal, 5 (3). 261-274; (with Justin Gest, Anna Boucher, Suzanna Challen, Brian Burgoon, Eiko Thielemann, Michel Beine,  Mary Crock, Hillel Rapoport, Michael Hiscox) 

McGovern, Patrick (2014)  Sociology, 48 (1). 20-37.

McGovern, Patrick, (2013) ‘The Experience of Work in Comparative Perspective’ in Carola Frege and John Kelly (eds) Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy, London: Routledge

 Sociology Compass, 6 (6). (2012) pp. 485-498.

 Frege, Carola M. and Kelly, John and McGovern, Patrick British Journal of Industrial Relations, 49 (2). (2011) pp. 209-230.

Pat specialises in two areas: economic sociology and international migration. He is currently working on three research projects that are motivated by his interests in work, economic conflict and social inequality. 

One project focuses on problems of theory and method within the qualitative case study tradition in industrial relations and the sociology of work. Drawing on an analysis of studies published in eleven major journals over a fifteen year period this work is intended to open up a discussion about the current state of theorising in employment relations research. In doing so, he hopes to address some of the mystique around workplace case study research.

With colleagues from the Universities of Amsterdam, Harvard, Luxembourg, and Sydney, he is currently investigating trends in immigration policy across major OECD countries. Known as the ‘IMPALA Project', this innovative, multi-disciplinary endeavour seeks to develop comparable measures of restrictiveness based on the creation of database of national immigration policies relating to economic, family, humanitarian and student migration (). Along with Eiko Thielemann (杏吧论坛), he is using IMPALA data to examine changes in labour market access across different categories of migration.

Finally, Pat is working with Martin Bauer (杏吧论坛) on a project that examines the way income inequality is framed in mass media discourse. Remarkably, the explosion of mass media interest in pay, especially in the form of “executive compensation” for CEOs, has been largely ignored by cultural sociologists, social psychologists and media scholars. Funded by 杏吧论坛’s International Inequalities Institute this project will explore the way different moral and market justifications are used in discussions of rising income inequality.

Pat is part of the Economic Sociology research cluster.

Pat teaches courses on Work, Inequality and Society, International Migration and Migrant Integration and Researching Migration: research questions and research methods.