Rate My Professor Agnes Akkerman

Agnes Akkerman is Professor of Regulation of Labour in the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam, appointed in September 2021. She previously served as Professor of Labour Market Institutions and Industrial Relations at Radboud University Nijmegen from 2016 and held the James Coleman Chair in Sustainable Cooperation in Collective Labour Relations at the University of Groningen from 2015 to 2019. Trained as a sociologist at the University of Groningen from 1991 to 1994, she obtained her PhD there in 1999. Akkerman's research examines labour relations, focusing on how labour law and collective labour agreements regulate work and shape employer-employee relationships and interactions among employees. Her multidisciplinary work integrates sociology with political science, public administration, philosophy, psychology, and economics. In 2016, she received a VICI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) worth 1.5 million euros for the project 'A dissatisfied employee, a dissatisfied citizen?'. She contributes to initiatives like the NWO Gravitation programme SCOOP and the interfaculty course 'Work in the 21st Century', and holds roles such as member of the curatorium of De Burcht, the supervisory committee for FWG research, and trainer for the Algemene Werkgevers Vereniging Nederland.

Akkerman maintains an extensive publication record of over 50 works. Recent key publications include 'Watched but Not Seen: Electronic Employee Monitoring as Workplace Imprisonment' (Sociology, 2026, with G. Jansen et al.), 'If they can do it, so can I: When vicarious experiences of coworker voice create a positive voice climate' (Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2026, with A. Snoep-Delleman et al.), 'Reinforcing the educational divide at work' (Transfer, 2025, with B. Geurkink et al.), and 'The workplace as a source of ethnic tolerance?' (International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2024, with K. Manevska et al.). Her scholarship addresses worker voice, strikes, electronic monitoring, political trust, and workplace diversity, influencing interdisciplinary understandings of labour regulation and its societal impacts.