211. SJI Seminars Ep.55: Seán Ó Riain on 'Collective Enabling’ of Society through Decent Services.
Description
Our 2024 Annual Social Policy Conference was on the theme of ' Managing Change to Build a Just Society'. Ireland is going through several major transitions, each of which is only going to deepen with time. While much is changing, many of the problems facing our society are long-standing: inequality, poverty, and under-investment in our social infrastructure remain major challenges. Although the economy in Ireland has experienced record growth since the pandemic, infrastructure and services in areas such as housing, healthcare and public transport are far below the levels and standards that would be expected in a normally functioning society.
Seán Ó Riain is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
His research interests are in the sociology of work and employment, comparative political economy, inequality and social change and the global information economy.
Seán is the author of: The Politics of High Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy (Cambridge, 2004) The Rise and Fall of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: Liberalism, Boom and Bust (Cambridge, 2014) and co-editor of The Changing Worlds and Workplaces of Capitalism (Palgrave, 2015).
He was PI for New Deals in the New Economy, a five year study of workplace bargains in Europe (www.maynoothuniversity.ie/newdeals), funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant.
He was a member of the National Economic and Social Council from 2011 to 2017.
Seán presented his paper at our 2024 Annual Social Policy Conference.
All videos, papers and presentations for the 2024 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.
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