Dr. Assaf Bondy is a Labour Sociologist, who studies the political-economy of employment relations in advanced economies. Bondy’s work has been so far dedicated to the study of changing conditions for collective actions and its changing forms and effects – on workers’ rights, on inequality, on the structure of employment relations and on the political economy.

Bondy is also a senior research fellow at Haifa University, where he currently lead (co-PI, alongside Professor Tali Kristal) a large research project titled “opening the black box of union coverage”, analyzing the transformation in the structure and content of collective agreements in Israel between 1957 and 2020) (ISF Grant 128/21, 598,000 NIS).

Prior to joining Bristol Business School Bondy was the head of the employment relations research team at The Israeli Trade Union Research Institute, where he led numerous projects that focus on trade union learning and strategies as well as on the regulation of employment relations in the public and private sector.