Thomas Fetzer

Thomas Fetzer joined the IRES department in December 2009. He received his Ph D from the Department of History at the European University Institute Florence in October 2005 with a thesis on British and German trade union politics at Ford and General Motors since the late 1960s. In 2006 he was a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne and taught in several programs of US-based universities in Florence. In 2007 and 2008 Thomas was a Marie Curie post-doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics, and in 2009 he was Assistant Professor for Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick and also Visiting Lecturer at CEU. His research interests include the relationship between nationalism and the international economy, the comparative political economy of labour and industrial relations, EU social policy and the European social model, multinational firms, the politics of consumption, and contemporary European and transnational history. Thomas also has a strong methodological interest in the relationship between history and the social sciences.