Theo Nichols
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77010 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Theo Nichols |
| NOMBRES | Theo |
| APELLIDO | Nichols |
| FIRMA | NICHOLS T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bristol |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Politics of Representation
Living with Capitalism
Part 1. Labour for Capital 1. ChemCo 2. The Labour of Labouring Men 3. The Labour of Superintendence: Managers 4. The Labour of Superintendence: Foremen 5. Capital’s Division of Labour Part 2. Individuals in a Class Society 6. Lives in Process Part 3. The Politics of the Factory 7. The Management Strategy 8. The Worker’s Struggle 9. The Politics of Representation 10. Trade Unionism, Corporate Capitalism and the Working Class Part 4. Living with C…
White Collar Workers
The Other Car Workers
The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists. This book examines globalization changes in cost structure and dynamics; in ownership, freight, labour and other mar
Work and Working Conditions 1 — The Division of Labour, Contracts, Hours and Wages
This chapter begins with a description of the shipboard division of labour that will be readily recognised by seafarers, more or less irrespective of which country they come from or on which types of vessels they have sailed. Indeed, as we suggest below, for many of them it represents a ‘normal’, taken-for-granted order of things. Judged against land-based occupations, however, it looks very different and today there are several respects in which…
Labour in a Global World
This book gets behind much generality about globalisation to examine the production of relatively familiar commodities such as refrigerators and ovens in different countries. By considering a range of
Factory regimes and the dismantling of established labour in Asia
This article is about factory regimes and more particularly about changes in factory regimes in East Asia. Its point of departure is Burawoy’s early and highly influential contribution to the understanding of factory regimes (Burawoy, 1985), which has very often been associated with the idea of ‘hegemonic despotism’ and increased attempts by management at ideological control. The article seeks to go beyond this particular interpretation. Theoreti…
Signs of change in Turkey's working class
This paper explores the possible effects of the increasing exposure to modernity on younger workers in some sectors of developing countries with special reference to those employed in advanced manufacturing in Turkey. In recent decades Turkey has undergone considerable urbanization, improvements in literacy and rising levels of formal education. The paper systematically examines differences in the work‐related attitudes and expectations, commitme…
Signs of change in Turkey's working class
Muhacir Bulgarian Workers in Turkey
This article is concerned with Muhacir Bulgarians in Turkey - Turkish term for immigrants from the Balkans, particularly from Bulgaria. It considers them as a distinct sociological presence in the formal manufacturing sector of the Turkish labour force and examines their employment, means of material support, their position in the labour market, and their relation to management, trade unions and other workers. Possible future developments are con…
Beyond cheap labour
The ability of developing countries to export to more developed parts of the world is often associated with cheap labour. But such very obvious economic advantage is not always the end of the story. A fuller account needs to consider the wider institutional context. In some instances trade unionism can be an important part of this. This paper addresses trade unionism with specific reference to workers employed in large firms in Turkey that are si…
The condition of labour-a retrospect
The publication of the first issue of Capital & Class belongs to much the same period that saw the publication of Living with Capitalism, which was written by Huw Beynon and myself (Nichols and Beynon 1977) and which was the product of a research team that also included Peter Armstrong and Martyn Nightingale. I recently re-read the book, 30 years after the fieldwork began
Road Traffic Accidents in Turkey
Although road traffic accidents are a matter of considerable public concern in Turkey, they have attracted little systematic analysis from social scientists. This paper seeks to examine accident trends from 1955 to 1995, in terms of changes in fatalities per vehicle as well as fatalities per head of population. It then critically surveys the adequacy and applicability to the Turkish case of theories of motorization and accidents and of risk compe…
Health and Safety at Work
It is a remarkable feature of sociologists' contributions to occupational health and safety that whereas links are sometimes forged with social history or law or psychology, engagement with the theory and methods of economics generally remains severely off-limits. It was precisely for this reason that I recently made a deliberate attempt to incorporate a critique of the contribution from economics as part of a wider evaluation which included psyc…
Privatisation in Turkey
In the 1980s privatization was resorted to by governments world-wide. Very little comparative research has been conducted into what this has meant for employees in companies that were privatised in either developed or developing countries. This paper examines the views of employees in privatised cement companies in a developing country, Turkey, and systematically compares their views to those of employees whose opinions were examined in a previou…
Management Control of Labour in State-Owned Enterprises
Small employers in Turkey
(1996). Small employers in Turkey: the OSTIM estate at Ankara. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 230-252
The condition of mine labour in Turkey
There are few students of development and modernization who would deny a concern with quality of life, but industrial injury remains a neglected indicator of this. It is an indicator which exists for the Zonguldak coalfield in Turkey by virtue of very detailed records, often handwritten, a complete set of which goes back to 1942. Accordingly, it is this year that marks the starting point for our enquiry, between which time and its end point in 19…
Industrial Accidents as a Means of Withdrawal from the Workplace according to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
IN rRODUC rION This paper revisits a classic study in the development of British industrial sociology which was conducted by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in the early postwar period and which still remains a common source for the idea that there is a relationship between industrial accidents and absenteeism. It is argued that the lack of any sustained appraisal of this study over the span of several decades has allowed the specific …
Research Note Problems in Monitoring the Safety Performance of British Manufacturing at the End of the Twentieth Century
I have frequently expressed the view that the statistics for over three day injuries cannot be relied upon for the sort of temporal research on safety in which I have recently been engaged, for instance concerning the effectiveness of the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act (Nichols, 1989a; 1990). It has been suggested in the context of some related research (Nichols, 1989b; 1991a) that the over three day injury rate may actually be a useful indic…
Consumption and Class
Privatisation and Economism
Both academic and political debate about the effects of privatisation upon employees in privatised companies has taken place in something of an empirical vacuum. In particular, there is a lack of systematic enquiries into the major privatised utilities. Despite the lack of evidence, a number of claims have been advanced, both about the impact of privatisation upon the political attitudes of employees, and about its effects on working conditions, …
Different Forms of Labour
Industrial Injuries in British Manufacturing Industry and Cyclical Effects
An article appeared in The Sociological Review for May 1990 by Steve Tombs that bore the same title as an earlier one by me ('Industrial injuries in British manufacturing industry' May 1986) and which took as its starting point my 'The business cycle and industrial injuries' which appeared in August 1989. It is argued here that Tombs's analysis does not represent the step forward that might have been hoped. It is for example extremely important i…
Redundancy and Recession in South Wales
Part I 1.Redundancy and Recession C.C. Harris and R.M. Lee 2. The History of a Labour Market C.C. Harris and R. Fevre 3. Mass Redundancy: the Event and the Process C.C. Harris, R. Fevre and R.M. Lee 4. All Sorts and Conditions of Men C.C. Harris, R.M. Lee and P. Brown Part II 5. Looking for Work R.M. Lee 6. The Households in the Labour Market L.D. Morris 7. Domestic Circumstances L.D. Morris 8. Getting by without Employment G.G. Leaver Part III 9…
Living with Capitalism
Part 1. Labour for Capital 1. ChemCo 2. The Labour of Labouring Men 3. The Labour of Superintendence: Managers 4. The Labour of Superintendence: Foremen 5. Capital’s Division of Labour Part 2. Individuals in a Class Society 6. Lives in Process Part 3. The Politics of the Factory 7. The Management Strategy 8. The Worker’s Struggle 9. The Politics of Representation 10. Trade Unionism, Corporate Capitalism and the Working Class Part 4. Living with C…
Redundancy and Recession in South Wales
Part I 1.Redundancy and Recession C.C. Harris and R.M. Lee 2. The History of a Labour Market C.C. Harris and R. Fevre 3. Mass Redundancy: the Event and the Process C.C. Harris, R. Fevre and R.M. Lee 4. All Sorts and Conditions of Men C.C. Harris, R.M. Lee and P. Brown Part II 5. Looking for Work R.M. Lee 6. The Households in the Labour Market L.D. Morris 7. Domestic Circumstances L.D. Morris 8. Getting by without Employment G.G. Leaver Part III 9…
Management Control of Labour in State-Owned Enterprises
Privatisation in Turkey
In the 1980s privatization was resorted to by governments world-wide. Very little comparative research has been conducted into what this has meant for employees in companies that were privatised in either developed or developing countries. This paper examines the views of employees in privatised cement companies in a developing country, Turkey, and systematically compares their views to those of employees whose opinions were examined in a previou…
Muhacir Bulgarian Workers in Turkey
This article is concerned with Muhacir Bulgarians in Turkey - Turkish term for immigrants from the Balkans, particularly from Bulgaria. It considers them as a distinct sociological presence in the formal manufacturing sector of the Turkish labour force and examines their employment, means of material support, their position in the labour market, and their relation to management, trade unions and other workers. Possible future developments are con…
Privatisation and Economism
Both academic and political debate about the effects of privatisation upon employees in privatised companies has taken place in something of an empirical vacuum. In particular, there is a lack of systematic enquiries into the major privatised utilities. Despite the lack of evidence, a number of claims have been advanced, both about the impact of privatisation upon the political attitudes of employees, and about its effects on working conditions, …
The Business Cycle and Industrial Injuries in British Manufacturing over a Quarter of a Century
Constructs a time-series for fatalities in British manufacturing for 1960-85. Examines the relation between the business cycle and industrial injury rate and finds this to be pro-cyclical whether tested against a rate for employees or for total operative hours at risk. Points to the possible contribution of changes in the engagement rate, employment-output ratio, capacity utilisation, vintage of machinery
Small employers in Turkey
(1996). Small employers in Turkey: the OSTIM estate at Ankara. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 230-252
The condition of mine labour in Turkey
There are few students of development and modernization who would deny a concern with quality of life, but industrial injury remains a neglected indicator of this. It is an indicator which exists for the Zonguldak coalfield in Turkey by virtue of very detailed records, often handwritten, a complete set of which goes back to 1942. Accordingly, it is this year that marks the starting point for our enquiry, between which time and its end point in 19…
Beyond cheap labour
The ability of developing countries to export to more developed parts of the world is often associated with cheap labour. But such very obvious economic advantage is not always the end of the story. A fuller account needs to consider the wider institutional context. In some instances trade unionism can be an important part of this. This paper addresses trade unionism with specific reference to workers employed in large firms in Turkey that are si…
Industrial Accidents as a Means of Withdrawal from the Workplace according to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
IN rRODUC rION This paper revisits a classic study in the development of British industrial sociology which was conducted by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in the early postwar period and which still remains a common source for the idea that there is a relationship between industrial accidents and absenteeism. It is argued that the lack of any sustained appraisal of this study over the span of several decades has allowed the specific …
Industrial Injuries in British Manufacturing in the 1980s — A Commentary on Wright's Article
The ‘Socialism’ of Management
Labourism and Class Consciousness
The condition of labour-a retrospect
The publication of the first issue of Capital & Class belongs to much the same period that saw the publication of Living with Capitalism, which was written by Huw Beynon and myself (Nichols and Beynon 1977) and which was the product of a research team that also included Peter Armstrong and Martyn Nightingale. I recently re-read the book, 30 years after the fieldwork began
Health and Safety at Work
It is a remarkable feature of sociologists' contributions to occupational health and safety that whereas links are sometimes forged with social history or law or psychology, engagement with the theory and methods of economics generally remains severely off-limits. It was precisely for this reason that I recently made a deliberate attempt to incorporate a critique of the contribution from economics as part of a wider evaluation which included psyc…
Research Note Problems in Monitoring the Safety Performance of British Manufacturing at the End of the Twentieth Century
I have frequently expressed the view that the statistics for over three day injuries cannot be relied upon for the sort of temporal research on safety in which I have recently been engaged, for instance concerning the effectiveness of the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act (Nichols, 1989a; 1990). It has been suggested in the context of some related research (Nichols, 1989b; 1991a) that the over three day injury rate may actually be a useful indic…
Consumption and Class
Industrial Injuries in British Manufacturing Industry and Cyclical Effects
An article appeared in The Sociological Review for May 1990 by Steve Tombs that bore the same title as an earlier one by me ('Industrial injuries in British manufacturing industry' May 1986) and which took as its starting point my 'The business cycle and industrial injuries' which appeared in August 1989. It is argued here that Tombs's analysis does not represent the step forward that might have been hoped. It is for example extremely important i…
New Perspectives on Organisation Theory
Bureaucracy
Labourism and Class Consciousness
Job Satisfaction
Workers' Participation in Management in Britain
The ‘Socialism’ of Management
Industrial Relations
The New Working Class
Capital and Labour
Industrial Injuries in British Manufacturing in the 1980s — A Commentary on Wright's Article
The Politics of Efficiency
Redundancy and Recession in South Wales
Part I 1.Redundancy and Recession C.C. Harris and R.M. Lee 2. The History of a Labour Market C.C. Harris and R. Fevre 3. Mass Redundancy: the Event and the Process C.C. Harris, R. Fevre and R.M. Lee 4. All Sorts and Conditions of Men C.C. Harris, R.M. Lee and P. Brown Part II 5. Looking for Work R.M. Lee 6. The Households in the Labour Market L.D. Morris 7. Domestic Circumstances L.D. Morris 8. Getting by without Employment G.G. Leaver Part III 9…
The Business Cycle and Industrial Injuries in British Manufacturing over a Quarter of a Century
Constructs a time-series for fatalities in British manufacturing for 1960-85. Examines the relation between the business cycle and industrial injury rate and finds this to be pro-cyclical whether tested against a rate for employees or for total operative hours at risk. Points to the possible contribution of changes in the engagement rate, employment-output ratio, capacity utilisation, vintage of machinery
Industrial Injuries in British Manufacturing Industry and Cyclical Effects
An article appeared in The Sociological Review for May 1990 by Steve Tombs that bore the same title as an earlier one by me ('Industrial injuries in British manufacturing industry' May 1986) and which took as its starting point my 'The business cycle and industrial injuries' which appeared in August 1989. It is argued here that Tombs's analysis does not represent the step forward that might have been hoped. It is for example extremely important i…
Different Forms of Labour
Consumption and Class
Privatisation and Economism
Both academic and political debate about the effects of privatisation upon employees in privatised companies has taken place in something of an empirical vacuum. In particular, there is a lack of systematic enquiries into the major privatised utilities. Despite the lack of evidence, a number of claims have been advanced, both about the impact of privatisation upon the political attitudes of employees, and about its effects on working conditions, …
Industrial Accidents as a Means of Withdrawal from the Workplace according to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
IN rRODUC rION This paper revisits a classic study in the development of British industrial sociology which was conducted by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in the early postwar period and which still remains a common source for the idea that there is a relationship between industrial accidents and absenteeism. It is argued that the lack of any sustained appraisal of this study over the span of several decades has allowed the specific …
Research Note Problems in Monitoring the Safety Performance of British Manufacturing at the End of the Twentieth Century
I have frequently expressed the view that the statistics for over three day injuries cannot be relied upon for the sort of temporal research on safety in which I have recently been engaged, for instance concerning the effectiveness of the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act (Nichols, 1989a; 1990). It has been suggested in the context of some related research (Nichols, 1989b; 1991a) that the over three day injury rate may actually be a useful indic…
The condition of mine labour in Turkey
There are few students of development and modernization who would deny a concern with quality of life, but industrial injury remains a neglected indicator of this. It is an indicator which exists for the Zonguldak coalfield in Turkey by virtue of very detailed records, often handwritten, a complete set of which goes back to 1942. Accordingly, it is this year that marks the starting point for our enquiry, between which time and its end point in 19…
Management Control of Labour in State-Owned Enterprises
Small employers in Turkey
(1996). Small employers in Turkey: the OSTIM estate at Ankara. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 230-252
Health and Safety at Work
It is a remarkable feature of sociologists' contributions to occupational health and safety that whereas links are sometimes forged with social history or law or psychology, engagement with the theory and methods of economics generally remains severely off-limits. It was precisely for this reason that I recently made a deliberate attempt to incorporate a critique of the contribution from economics as part of a wider evaluation which included psyc…
Privatisation in Turkey
In the 1980s privatization was resorted to by governments world-wide. Very little comparative research has been conducted into what this has meant for employees in companies that were privatised in either developed or developing countries. This paper examines the views of employees in privatised cement companies in a developing country, Turkey, and systematically compares their views to those of employees whose opinions were examined in a previou…
Road Traffic Accidents in Turkey
Although road traffic accidents are a matter of considerable public concern in Turkey, they have attracted little systematic analysis from social scientists. This paper seeks to examine accident trends from 1955 to 1995, in terms of changes in fatalities per vehicle as well as fatalities per head of population. It then critically surveys the adequacy and applicability to the Turkish case of theories of motorization and accidents and of risk compe…
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