Michael Quinlan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3604016 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Quinlan |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Quinlan |
| FIRMA | QUINLAN M |
| AFILIACIONES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7877-1188 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Psychosocial hazards
The past two decades witnessed rapidly growing interest in psychosocial hazards at work. The paper overviews the state of knowledge of psychosocial hazards, demonstrating they have long existed, are present in virtually all work settings but seem to becoming more prevalent due to changes in work and society over the past four decades. A number of models seeking to explain psychosocial hazards are critically examined. It is argued there a number o…
Trouble on the Roads
It is now known that convicts engaged in widespread work-related dissent in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, and that dissent climaxed in 1833–34 undermining penal transportation as a system of labour exploitation. This article explores resistance patterns within a particular road party, Notman’s Gang in Northern Tasmania between 1831 and 1834. An important aim is to demonstrate how quantitative data can be used to place qualitative observa…
Alcohol, Work and Play in Convict Australia
This article critiques previous attempts to contextualise the culture of drinking in convict Australia, arguing that such practices were embedded within a moral economy of work. It explains the importance of alcohol in British society and the manner in which its relationship to labour changed with industrialisation. Analysing quantitative and qualitive evidence drawn from court and convict records, it demonstrates how alcohol was used to motivate…
Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific
Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights, 1906–2006." Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Battling the Bench
Shipboard Mutinies
Unfree Workers
The Covid-19 pandemic
This discussion paper by a group of scholars across the fields of health, economics and labour relations argues that COVID-19 is an unprecedented humanitarian crisis from which there can be no return to the ‘old normal’. The pandemic’s disastrous worldwide health impacts have been exacerbated by, and have compounded, the unsustainability of economic globalisation based on the neoliberal dismantling of state capabilities in favour of markets. Flow…
Subcontracting and low pay kill
Over the past 20 years, regular reports of eroding safety standards and deaths among workers, customers and other members of the public in an array of industries ranging from transport (ride-share platforms, long-haul trucking and aviation), construction (including, in Australia, insulation batts installation), mining, oil rigs and refineries, and factories, have emerged. These workplace deaths shared one largely overlooked characteristic; all in…
Knowledge Activists on Health and Safety
Worker campaigns for a more direct say in protecting their health and safety are a significant but under-researched subject in labour history. Largely overlooked are the attempts by coalminers in the UK, Australia and Canada to establish mechanisms for representation on health and safety in the 1870s. This push for a voice then spread to New Zealand, France, Belgium and other countries, with unions eventually securing legislative rights to inspec…
Information needs of bereaved families following fatal work incidents
The sudden and unexpected nature of fatal work incidents can leave family members with a strong need to know how and why the worker died. Forty Australian family members were interviewed to identify the information sought following fatal work incidents and explore the factors enhancing or impairing satisfaction with the account of the death. Findings demonstrated that employers tended to divert responsibility to the worker, to mask underlying sys…
Bereaved Family Members’ Views of the Value of Coronial Inquests Into Fatal Work Incidents
Fatal work incidents result in an array of government responses, and in countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, this may include the holding of coronial inquests. A common theme from the scant literature is that family members have a strong need to know how and why their loved one died. The inquisitorial nature of inquests suggests potential in uncovering this information, although little is known about families' experiences with thes…
Professionalism or Inter-Union Solidarity? Organising Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers, 1955-75
In a recent examination of modern-day “worker voice,” Peter Ackers argued that declining membership density should impel trade unions to disavow outdated radicalism, embracing instead more “responsible” relations with employers, the state and the public. In professionalism, he maintained, trade unions might find greater public legitimacy and increased membership, by focussing upon “bread and butter” issues and occupational identity.1In this histo…
Bereaved families and the coronial response to traumatic workplace fatalities
Work remains a significant source of illness, injury, and death in developed countries. In Australia, for example, over 2,000 people die from work-related causes each year, with heavy social, economic, and personal costs (Safe Work Australia, 2013a ). Most die as a result of work-related disease. However, many die from trauma. In 2012, 223 workers were fatally injured in Australia and in the United States the figure was 4,383 (Bureau of Labor Sta…
Precarious and hazardous work
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The Low Rumble of Informal Dissent
This article charts patterns of informal collective dissent amongst seamen, mainly those on merchant ships but also some involved in pelagic (deep sea) whaling, in Australian waters between 1790 and 1900. It highlights both the widespread nature of collective action (unmatched by any other group of workers) and the importance of health and safety concerns as the single more significant impetus for such action. Much can be learned about the experi…
Bellbrook
I first met Mrs Quinlan in 1981 when her
Community Campaigns, Supply Chains, and Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Workers
The growth of contingent work (also known as precarious employment), the informal sector, and business practices that diffuse employer responsibility for worker health and safety (such as outsourcing and the development of extended national and international contracting networks [supply chains]) pose a serious threat to occupational health and safety that disproportionately affects low-wage, ethnic minority, and immigrant workers. Drawing on case…
Short Trips and Long Days
This paper looks at the role and influence of contingent employment among short-haul truckers, an occupational group that has been little studied to date. A 2003 survey of Australian short-haul drivers examined the predictors of health and safety outcomes for all drivers and provided comparative information on the working hours, occupational safety and health, and work-life conflict of permanent employees, temporary (casual) employees, and owner-…
Regime Type and International Conflict
The authors take a new look at the relationship between regime type and deadly militarized conflict among pairs of states (dyads) in the international system. With the goal of describing the general functional form, they evaluate three perspectives: democratic peace, regime similarity and regime rationality. They employ both standard logistic regression (logit) and a recently developed machine learning technique, a support vector machine (SVM). L…
The Changing Role of the State
The state has played a conspicuous role in the history of labour in Australia and New Zealand both as a focus for struggles and where the labour movement achieved a degree of influence that garnered the interest of progressives in other countries. The state is a complex institution and its relationship to labour has been equally complex, especially when the differential impacts on particular groups, such as women, are considered. This article tra…
Violence and Colonial Dialogue
Abolishing Nuclear Armouries
The future of United Kingdom nuclear weapons
Journal Article The future of United Kingdom nuclear weapons: shaping the debate Get access MICHAEL QUINLAN MICHAEL QUINLAN 1Spent most of his career in the UK Ministry of Defence, latterly as Policy Director and then as Permanent Under-Secretary of State. In some posts he was much involved in nuclear-weapon policy and doctrine, both nationally and in NATO, and since leaving government service in 1992 he has written often on such matters. He was …
Defiant Voices
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority." Australian Historical Studies, 52(4), pp. 661–662
Working hours, work-life conflict and health in precarious and "permanent" employment
OBJECTIVE: The expansion of precarious employment in OECD countries has been widely associated with negative health and safety effects. Although many shiftworkers are precariously employed, shiftwork research has concentrated on full-time workers in continuing employment. This paper examines the impact of precarious employment on working hours, work-life conflict and health by comparing casual employees to full-time, "permanent" employees working…
Ethics in the Public Service
Gender Bias in Examinations
Recent analyses of public examination results, particularly in the GCSE, have demonstrated significant gender differences in both entry patterns and outcomes. This generally involves better results for girls in subjects other than mathematics and some sciences. The article discusses whether examination boards should work for equal outcomes given that the assessment techniques used in examinations may differentially affect girls' and boys' perform…
Fordism in the fast food industry
A growing body of international research points to an association between precarious employment or contingent work arrangements and a higher incidence of injury, disease and psychological distress as well as inferior knowledge/compliance with occupational health and safety (OHS) standards. Despite this, published research on the OHS problems of young workers in hospitality and other service industries largely ignores the fact that many are engage…
Immigration and Labour
No persuasive account of labour in Australia and Canada can ignore the impact that immigration has wrought on the composition of the working class and preoccupations of workers, unions, and the varied political parties they have sponsored. Highlighting both similarities and differences between countries, the paper explores the paradoxical relationship that immigration has had with the labour movements of Australia and Canada. Although immigrants …
Regime Type and International Conflict
The authors take a new look at the relationship between regime type and deadly militarized conflict among pairs of states (dyads) in the international system. With the goal of describing the general functional form, they evaluate three perspectives: democratic peace, regime similarity and regime rationality. They employ both standard logistic regression (logit) and a recently developed machine learning technique, a support vector machine (SVM). L…
Bereaved families and the coronial response to traumatic workplace fatalities
Work remains a significant source of illness, injury, and death in developed countries. In Australia, for example, over 2,000 people die from work-related causes each year, with heavy social, economic, and personal costs (Safe Work Australia, 2013a ). Most die as a result of work-related disease. However, many die from trauma. In 2012, 223 workers were fatally injured in Australia and in the United States the figure was 4,383 (Bureau of Labor Sta…
Short Trips and Long Days
This paper looks at the role and influence of contingent employment among short-haul truckers, an occupational group that has been little studied to date. A 2003 survey of Australian short-haul drivers examined the predictors of health and safety outcomes for all drivers and provided comparative information on the working hours, occupational safety and health, and work-life conflict of permanent employees, temporary (casual) employees, and owner-…
The future of nuclear weapons
Journal Article The future of nuclear weapons: policy for Western possessors Get access Michael Quinlan Michael Quinlan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 485–496, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622311 Published: 01 July 1993
Deterrence and Deterrability
(2004). Deterrence and Deterrability. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 25, DETERRENCE AND THE NEW GLOBAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT, pp. 11-17
Justifying war
Nuclear weapons and the abolition of war
This article was given as an address by Britain's Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence to the Soviet General Staff in Moscow in November 1990. It is thus a unique explanation of NATO thinking, by a key NATO figure, directly to the adversary. It is both a philosophical justification of nuclear deterrence and an explanation of NATO's intention to maintain core elements of a nuclear armoury, with both long-range and lower levels kept up to…
Subcontracting and low pay kill
Over the past 20 years, regular reports of eroding safety standards and deaths among workers, customers and other members of the public in an array of industries ranging from transport (ride-share platforms, long-haul trucking and aviation), construction (including, in Australia, insulation batts installation), mining, oil rigs and refineries, and factories, have emerged. These workplace deaths shared one largely overlooked characteristic; all in…
Information needs of bereaved families following fatal work incidents
The sudden and unexpected nature of fatal work incidents can leave family members with a strong need to know how and why the worker died. Forty Australian family members were interviewed to identify the information sought following fatal work incidents and explore the factors enhancing or impairing satisfaction with the account of the death. Findings demonstrated that employers tended to divert responsibility to the worker, to mask underlying sys…
Community Campaigns, Supply Chains, and Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Workers
The growth of contingent work (also known as precarious employment), the informal sector, and business practices that diffuse employer responsibility for worker health and safety (such as outsourcing and the development of extended national and international contracting networks [supply chains]) pose a serious threat to occupational health and safety that disproportionately affects low-wage, ethnic minority, and immigrant workers. Drawing on case…
Combating the tyranny of flexibility
The campaign to limit trading hours, often known as the early closing or half-holiday movement, constituted a significant social mobilization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Prior
India-Pakistan deterrence revisited
Since the 1999 Kargil conflict and the 2002 confrontation political relations between India and Pakistan have eased considerably, with leaders on both sides spearheading a drive to improve the climate and to do practical business together, including on Kashmir. Nuclear–weapon concepts and doctrines seem to have evolved prudently, though information is limited. The buildup of armouries, slower than some observers foresaw, does not at present threa…
A Failure of Voluntarism
The struggle over shop trading hours is a significant but neglected component of the nineteenth century working-hours debate. This struggle involved a wide array of workers and their organisations, including journeymen bakers and butchers as well as shop assistants (such as drapers' assistants and grocers' assistants). For these workers, hours of labour were dictated by the trading hours of establishments they worked in, alternate sources of supp…
Reconsidering the Collective Impulse
This paper presents a reinterpretation of the causes for the US Patriot movement of 1837-38, which rose up in support of the Canadian rebellion in Upper Canada (UC) initiated by William Lyon Mackenzie (the companion rebellion in Lower Canada is not considered in this paper since its causation was arguably considerably different). Most traditional treatments of this event, by US historians in particular, are stuck in narrative mode and lack convin…
How robust is India-Pakistan deterrence
The risk that hostility between India and Pakistan may generate nuclear war depends upon factors too diverse and shifting for a simple prediction or assessment. Overall, the underpinnings of deterrence seem less solid than they had become in at least the later years of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union. Stability in that setting became, however, very robust, and to say that risk is higher in South Asia is not to say that it …
The Toll From Toil Does Matter
Changing Patterns in Government Business
Making Labour Laws Fit for the Colonies
Bellbrook
Mrs Quinlan's story has been transcribed verbatim from tapes recorded between October 1982 and February 1983.I first met Mrs Quinlan in 1981 when her daughter, Mrs P.Dixon became one of four Aboriginal people training at Armidale and New England Hospital. As I was involved peripherally in this training program, I was introduced by the trainees to their families and friends.Mrs Quinlan decided some time during the following months that she would l…
Bellbrook
Mrs Quinlan's story has been transcribed verbatim from tapes recorded between October 1982 and February 1983.I first met Mrs Quinlan in 1981 when her daughter, Mrs P.Dixon became one of four Aboriginal people training at Armidale and New England Hospital. As I was involved peripherally in this training program, I was introduced by the trainees to their families and friends.Mrs Quinlan decided some time during the following months that she would l…
Innovation and Australian Industrial Relations
Nuclear weapons and the abolition of war
This article was given as an address by Britain's Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence to the Soviet General Staff in Moscow in November 1990. It is thus a unique explanation of NATO thinking, by a key NATO figure, directly to the adversary. It is both a philosophical justification of nuclear deterrence and an explanation of NATO's intention to maintain core elements of a nuclear armoury, with both long-range and lower levels kept up to…
Gender Bias in Examinations
Recent analyses of public examination results, particularly in the GCSE, have demonstrated significant gender differences in both entry patterns and outcomes. This generally involves better results for girls in subjects other than mathematics and some sciences. The article discusses whether examination boards should work for equal outcomes given that the assessment techniques used in examinations may differentially affect girls' and boys' perform…
Making Labour Laws Fit for the Colonies
Response
Nations of Immigrants
Ethics in the Public Service
The future of nuclear weapons
Journal Article The future of nuclear weapons: policy for Western possessors Get access Michael Quinlan Michael Quinlan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 485–496, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622311 Published: 01 July 1993
Changing Patterns in Government Business
Managing Occupational Health and Safety in Australia
Researching Industrial Relations History
While there has been historiographical debate about labour history in Australia, this has not grappled substantially with the \nquestion of method. Rather there has been agreement that 'narrow' institutional history was not illuminating the heterogeneity of our labour experience. In this project we are constructing over a long period and a large terrain what might be described as an institutional history of Australian trade unionism. To do so, ho…
Immigration and Labour
No persuasive account of labour in Australia and Canada can ignore the impact that immigration has wrought on the composition of the working class and preoccupations of workers, unions, and the varied political parties they have sponsored. Highlighting both similarities and differences between countries, the paper explores the paradoxical relationship that immigration has had with the labour movements of Australia and Canada. Although immigrants …
Balancing Trade with Labour Control
The future of nuclear weapons in world affairs
It is natural that the end of the Cold War should provoke new questioning about nuclear weapons. But to find adequate answers we must understand what nuclear weapons have done to the entire business of military force, irrespective of any particular geopolitical setting. Whether or not nuclear weapons exist at a given time, we are burdened for the rest of history with knowing how to make them. To manage nuclear knowledge, forever, in a complicated…
The Toll From Toil Does Matter
Red Flags and Red Tape
Regulating labour in a colonial context
The development of separate laws in the Australian colonies, regulatory responses to the emergence of a free labour market in particular, has received limited attention from historians. The punitive and oppressive character of early labour laws has been explained largely in terms of the ‘convict heritage’. However, an examination of maritime labour law shows that the convict experience provides only a partial explanation. The main impulse for the…
Nuclear Tests in the Subcontinent
Outsourcing and Occupational Health and Safety
How robust is India-Pakistan deterrence
The risk that hostility between India and Pakistan may generate nuclear war depends upon factors too diverse and shifting for a simple prediction or assessment. Overall, the underpinnings of deterrence seem less solid than they had become in at least the later years of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union. Stability in that setting became, however, very robust, and to say that risk is higher in South Asia is not to say that it …
The Global Expansion of Precarious Employment, Work Disorganization, and Consequences for Occupational Health
In this review of a range of studies on the health and safety effects of precarious employment in industrialized societies published since 1984, the authors examine the overall findings and methodological issues and identify areas in need of further research. Of the 93 published journal articles and monographs/book chapters reviewed, 76 studies found precarious employment was associated with a deterioration in occupational health and safety (OHS)…
Occupational Violence in Long Distance Road Transport
(2001). Occupational Violence in Long Distance Road Transport: a Study of 300 Australian Truck Drivers. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 36-46
Fordism in the fast food industry
A growing body of international research points to an association between precarious employment or contingent work arrangements and a higher incidence of injury, disease and psychological distress as well as inferior knowledge/compliance with occupational health and safety (OHS) standards. Despite this, published research on the OHS problems of young workers in hospitality and other service industries largely ignores the fact that many are engage…
Reconsidering the Collective Impulse
This paper presents a reinterpretation of the causes for the US Patriot movement of 1837-38, which rose up in support of the Canadian rebellion in Upper Canada (UC) initiated by William Lyon Mackenzie (the companion rebellion in Lower Canada is not considered in this paper since its causation was arguably considerably different). Most traditional treatments of this event, by US historians in particular, are stuck in narrative mode and lack convin…
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