Michael L Dougherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 77469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael L Dougherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael L |
| FAMILY NAME | Dougherty |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGHERTY M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5468-598X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Caterpillar's Spatial Metamorphosis
Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest heavy equipment manufacturer, grew rapidly in the 20th century before a crisis of overproduction in the early 1980s threatened its survival. In response, it launched the $2.8 billion “Plant with a Future” (PWAF) program, a sweeping material and ideological overhaul that remade the firm for the post‐Fordist global economy. This article advances three interventions. First, it shows how post‐Fordism as a spatial…
Building Post-Fordism from the Shopfloor Up
This article investigates a joint union/company program at Caterpillar, Inc—the Employee Satisfaction Process ( esp )—which operated between 1986 and 1991. The esp was an initiative ostensibly designed to upgrade workers’ skills and involve workers in creative decision-making. In practice it served to extract and exploit workers’ considerable shopfloor knowledge in matters of cost savings, production efficiency, shopfloor configuration, and effec…
Syllabus as argument in an era of politicized pedagogy
The traditional character of higher education in the US is under assault. The broad, intellectual focus on the liberal arts and its concomitant values of academic freedom and academic governance are giving way to an over‐managed vocational institution that prioritizes ambience over integrity and credentialism over citizenship. In this milieu, sociologists should use the classroom as an opportunity to model the explanatory power of the discipline …
Porousness and Peru’s moratorium on genetically modified organisms
In 2011 Peru became the first nation in Latin America to prohibit the importation of genetically modified material as well as its use in agricultural applications. To date Peru is one of just eight countries worldwide with such a comprehensive ban, and within Latin America, only Venezuela has followed suit. This paper takes up this historic legislation as a case study of knowledge production in the context of the politicization of science and the…
Boom times for technocrats? How environmental consulting companies shape mining governance
How Does Development Mean? Attitudes toward Mining and the Social Meaning of Development in Guatemala
The ways that the concept of development comes to mean refract individual value sets and map onto Guatemalan host-community residents' attitudes toward mining. Economically oriented residents tend to support mining while those who prioritize public health and environmental advocacy tend to oppose it. Individuals who trust institutions of the state tend to support mining, while individuals who perceive these issues through the lens of their religi…
Contingent work in the US recycling industry
Development with identity
Development with identity: Community, culture and sustainability in the Andes." Community Development, 47(4), pp. 577–578
Subterranean struggles
The scholarship of extractive industries is experiencing boom times. As extractive activity has expanded across the global south since the early 2000s, so too has the social science of the subsurfa
Film Review
Complejizando los conflictos ambientales en el altiplano guatemalteco
Durante los ltimos diez aos, los cambios en patrones de inversin minera en Latinoamrica han generado un alza en los conflictos ambientales entre
The Global Gold Mining Industry, Junior Firms, and Civil Society Resistance in Guatemala
Over the past two decades, the gold mining industry has increased its activity in Latin America. Growing contestation and conflict around gold mining projects have accompanied this shift. This article draws from the case of Guatemala, where metal exploration has grown by 1,000 per cent since 1998, to illustrate how the proliferation of small 'junior' firms – together with neoliberal investment policies and suitability of mineralisation – set the …
Localizing Linkages for Food and Tourism
The local food movement is taking a variety of forms—including farm-to-school programs, farmers markets, community supported agriculture, and direct marketing. An emerging component of this movement is culinary tourism. Culinary tourism offers new opportunities for communities to integrate tourism and local food systems in order to promote economic development, respond to the demand for quality food and dining experiences, and build on the cultur…
The Global Gold Mining Industry, Junior Firms, and Civil Society Resistance in Guatemala
Over the past two decades, the gold mining industry has increased its activity in Latin America. Growing contestation and conflict around gold mining projects have accompanied this shift. This article draws from the case of Guatemala, where metal exploration has grown by 1,000 per cent since 1998, to illustrate how the proliferation of small 'junior' firms – together with neoliberal investment policies and suitability of mineralisation – set the …
Subterranean struggles
The scholarship of extractive industries is experiencing boom times. As extractive activity has expanded across the global south since the early 2000s, so too has the social science of the subsurfa
Localizing Linkages for Food and Tourism
The local food movement is taking a variety of forms—including farm-to-school programs, farmers markets, community supported agriculture, and direct marketing. An emerging component of this movement is culinary tourism. Culinary tourism offers new opportunities for communities to integrate tourism and local food systems in order to promote economic development, respond to the demand for quality food and dining experiences, and build on the cultur…
Boom times for technocrats? How environmental consulting companies shape mining governance
How Does Development Mean? Attitudes toward Mining and the Social Meaning of Development in Guatemala
The ways that the concept of development comes to mean refract individual value sets and map onto Guatemalan host-community residents' attitudes toward mining. Economically oriented residents tend to support mining while those who prioritize public health and environmental advocacy tend to oppose it. Individuals who trust institutions of the state tend to support mining, while individuals who perceive these issues through the lens of their religi…
Contingent work in the US recycling industry
Localizing Linkages for Food and Tourism
The local food movement is taking a variety of forms—including farm-to-school programs, farmers markets, community supported agriculture, and direct marketing. An emerging component of this movement is culinary tourism. Culinary tourism offers new opportunities for communities to integrate tourism and local food systems in order to promote economic development, respond to the demand for quality food and dining experiences, and build on the cultur…
The Global Gold Mining Industry, Junior Firms, and Civil Society Resistance in Guatemala
Over the past two decades, the gold mining industry has increased its activity in Latin America. Growing contestation and conflict around gold mining projects have accompanied this shift. This article draws from the case of Guatemala, where metal exploration has grown by 1,000 per cent since 1998, to illustrate how the proliferation of small 'junior' firms – together with neoliberal investment policies and suitability of mineralisation – set the …
Complejizando los conflictos ambientales en el altiplano guatemalteco
Durante los ltimos diez aos, los cambios en patrones de inversin minera en Latinoamrica han generado un alza en los conflictos ambientales entre
Film Review
Subterranean struggles
The scholarship of extractive industries is experiencing boom times. As extractive activity has expanded across the global south since the early 2000s, so too has the social science of the subsurfa
Development with identity
Development with identity: Community, culture and sustainability in the Andes." Community Development, 47(4), pp. 577–578
Contingent work in the US recycling industry
Porousness and Peru’s moratorium on genetically modified organisms
In 2011 Peru became the first nation in Latin America to prohibit the importation of genetically modified material as well as its use in agricultural applications. To date Peru is one of just eight countries worldwide with such a comprehensive ban, and within Latin America, only Venezuela has followed suit. This paper takes up this historic legislation as a case study of knowledge production in the context of the politicization of science and the…
Boom times for technocrats? How environmental consulting companies shape mining governance
How Does Development Mean? Attitudes toward Mining and the Social Meaning of Development in Guatemala
The ways that the concept of development comes to mean refract individual value sets and map onto Guatemalan host-community residents' attitudes toward mining. Economically oriented residents tend to support mining while those who prioritize public health and environmental advocacy tend to oppose it. Individuals who trust institutions of the state tend to support mining, while individuals who perceive these issues through the lens of their religi…
Syllabus as argument in an era of politicized pedagogy
The traditional character of higher education in the US is under assault. The broad, intellectual focus on the liberal arts and its concomitant values of academic freedom and academic governance are giving way to an over‐managed vocational institution that prioritizes ambience over integrity and credentialism over citizenship. In this milieu, sociologists should use the classroom as an opportunity to model the explanatory power of the discipline …
Building Post-Fordism from the Shopfloor Up
This article investigates a joint union/company program at Caterpillar, Inc—the Employee Satisfaction Process ( esp )—which operated between 1986 and 1991. The esp was an initiative ostensibly designed to upgrade workers’ skills and involve workers in creative decision-making. In practice it served to extract and exploit workers’ considerable shopfloor knowledge in matters of cost savings, production efficiency, shopfloor configuration, and effec…
Caterpillar's Spatial Metamorphosis
Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest heavy equipment manufacturer, grew rapidly in the 20th century before a crisis of overproduction in the early 1980s threatened its survival. In response, it launched the $2.8 billion “Plant with a Future” (PWAF) program, a sweeping material and ideological overhaul that remade the firm for the post‐Fordist global economy. This article advances three interventions. First, it shows how post‐Fordism as a spatial…
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