Ian Robinson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 89527 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ian Robinson |
| NOMBRES | Ian |
| APELLIDO | Robinson |
| FIRMA | ROBINSON I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2747-8077 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 164 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Concept of Academic Quality
The paper outlines the history of the different uses of ‘quality’ in higher education. Emphasis is given to the United Kingdom, but consideration is also given to a range of international contexts. Three different uses of ‘academic quality’ are identified (the state‐driven, sector‐derived, and the traditional academic uses) and their relationship to fundamentally different priorities, values, criteria, purposes and practices is established. The n…
Area and International Studies
Transforming Retirement
This quantitative research study uses survey data of women born between 1946 and 1951 in Australia. It follows earlier work that identified the importance of transitions from work for women of the baby boomer generation. We provide important insights into the lives of women who have partially or fully retired and the changing nature of women's work and retirement. For many women, retirement is characterized by newfound freedoms, opportunities, ca…
Does Confirmed Pathogen Transfer between Sanctuary Workers and Great Apes Mean that Reintroduction Should not Occur
This commentary discusses the findings and conclusions of the paper “Drug resistant human Staphylococcus aureus findings in sanctuary apes and its threat to wild ape populations.” This paper confirms the zoonotic transfer of Staphylococcus aureus in a sanctuary setting. The assertion that this in itself is enough to reconsider the conservation potential of ape reintroduction provides an opportunity to discuss risk analysis of pathogen transmissio…
Democratic Critiques of the Institutions and Processes of Neoliberal International Economic Integration
Three basic types of democratic critique have been levelled against "neoliberal" economic integration agreements such as the NAFTA and the Single European Act. One type holds that the institutions created to oversee the integration process are deficient on democratic grounds. This paper summarizes and evaluates this type of democratic critique. It is argued that allegations that the European Union suffers from a "democratic deficit" are not very …
The China Road
Critics of neoliberal globalization, myself included, have argued that suppressing worker rights is a powerful?though ultimately self destructive?source of international competi tive advantage for both firms and nations.2 We have used the term race to the bottom as a shorthand for this argument. There is no question, I think, that the vast difference in compensation rates between the countries of the global North and countries such as Mexico and …
The Decline of Tenure in Higher Education
normally taken by constitutionally defined bodies were repeatedly devolved to ad hoc agencies, including courts, designed to organize the populace to deal with what had been deemed exceptional circum stances, a state of permanent emergency. To be sure, Neumann wrote before Naz ism's totalitarian and genocidal image had crystallized. Nevertheless, as someone who had been a lawyer and political scien tist in the Weimar Republic, he was struck simpl…
What Explains Unorganized Workers' Growing Demand for Unions
Reorganizing Higher Education in the United States and Canada
Every year in Canada and the U.S., the share of higher education faculty who teach off the tenure track grows. One might expect that faculty unionization would limit this process, but the data examined here indicate that this is not so. While Canadian universities are significantly more unionized than their U.S. counterparts, they rely at least as heavily on contingent faculty. Similarly, U.S. states with high levels of unionization do not exhibi…
Labor History symposium
Consumers with a Conscience
Most Americans say they will pay more for clothes not made in sweatshops. Is this just talk, or will they actually put their money where their mouth is? An in-store test of consumer behavior turns up some surprising results.
Genre and loans
‘Botti vietati agli under 14,’ La Repubblica , 29 Dec 03. The aim of this work is to examine the use of English loan words in a specific genre of language: parts of an Italian newspaper. In essence, it looks at how English is encroaching on one among many languages – and occurring in their texts. The key question is: ‘In a specific context, what are loanwords?’, in terms of which we will consider genre as it is exemplified in newspapers, followin…
Nafta, Social Unionism, and Labour Movement Power in Canada and the United States
This paper considers how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is likely to affect labour movement power in Canada and the United States. The paper is divided into four parts. It first defines the concept of « labour movement power », breaking it down into its component parts. It next considers why we should care about what happens to labour movement power. It then outlines the principal negative and positive effects that the NAFTA is l…
Consumers of the World Unite
Sweatshops are re-emerging across the globe. In the current neoliberal environment—which has unions, government protec tion of worker rights, and fair trade policies on the defensive—we propose a market-based strategy that relies on "conscientious con sumers" to slow the global race to the bottom. To assess whether the consumer market in the United States could provide the added revenues needed to lift workers in the southern hemisphere up and ou…
The Last Good Job in America
Part 1 Accelerated Lives Chapter 2 No Time for Democracy? Time, Space, and Social Change Chapter 3 The Last Good Job in America Chapter 4 The End of Bohemia Part 5 Education and Democracy Chapter 6 Thinking Beyond Failure: Freire's Legacy Chapter 7 Violence and the Myth of Democracy Chapter 8 Higher Education as a Public Good Chapter 9 Education for Citizenship: Gramsci's Common School today Part 10 Culture, Identity, and Democracy Chapter 11 The…
Neoliberal Restructuring and U.S. Unions
This paper identifies three causal pathways by which economic restructuring attributable to neoliberal policies has promoted a shift away from the previously dominant culture of business unionism, and toward social movement unionism, in the U.S. labor movement. These union types are located within a larger typology of voluntary, autonomous unions organized around two dimensions of union leadership culture: who union leaders think the labor moveme…
Neoliberal Restructuring and U.S. Unions
Countering Essentialism in Behavioural Social Science
After discussing ways in which the concept of vulnerability is applied to children in psychology and sociology. It is argued that many of these may arise from the mistaken concretisation of essentialising concepts which have sometimes thereby become barriers to, rather than facilitators of, sociological understanding. Fieldwork is presented and analysed concerning the interactions of some London children, and their characterisations of themselves…
Union Responses to Nafta in the US and Canada
In this article we ask why some unions in Canada and the United States were more actively opposed to NAFTA than others, and why these "activist" unions differed in the strategies that they adopted for fighting NAFTA and in the alternatives that they offered to it. We ask the same questions about differences between the U.S. and Canadian labor movements as embodied in the rhetoric and behavior of their central federations. We distinguish four unio…
Life and Death Under High Technology Medicine
Life and death under high technology medicine, Ian Robinson. Part 1 Understanding life in the context of high technology medicine: the social consequences of advances in the clinical applications of genetics, Martin Bobrow and Elizabeth Manners screening for fetal and genetic disease - some social and psychological consequences, Martin Richards and Jo Green the human genome project - creator of the potentially sick, potentially vulnerable and pot…
Significantly different or successfully unique? An asthmatic child's construction of social identity
A review of the aetiology of multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of unknown aetiology characterized by myelin destruction. Approaches to the aetiology of the condition have noted its differential geographic and demographic distribution; a tentative and inconsistent link with infectious agents; a genetic susceptibility; and a tendency to track with dietary lipids. This review proposes a multidisciplinary approach to the aetiology of MS, emphasizing the interlocking and inter…
Confidentiality for whom
Personal narratives, social careers and medical courses
The characteristics of a national register of people with multiple sclerosis (MS)
Problems with case ascertainment in epidemiological research on multiple sclerosis (MS) make it necessary to use indirect sources. However, there is a lack of information about the characteristics of cases drawn from different sources and thus little basis on which sampling frames for large scale surveys may be constructed. The characteristics of a population drawn from the membership of Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis (ARMS) were com…
Personal narratives, social careers and medical courses
Neoliberal Restructuring and U.S. Unions
This paper identifies three causal pathways by which economic restructuring attributable to neoliberal policies has promoted a shift away from the previously dominant culture of business unionism, and toward social movement unionism, in the U.S. labor movement. These union types are located within a larger typology of voluntary, autonomous unions organized around two dimensions of union leadership culture: who union leaders think the labor moveme…
Union Responses to Nafta in the US and Canada
In this article we ask why some unions in Canada and the United States were more actively opposed to NAFTA than others, and why these "activist" unions differed in the strategies that they adopted for fighting NAFTA and in the alternatives that they offered to it. We ask the same questions about differences between the U.S. and Canadian labor movements as embodied in the rhetoric and behavior of their central federations. We distinguish four unio…
Reorganizing Higher Education in the United States and Canada
Every year in Canada and the U.S., the share of higher education faculty who teach off the tenure track grows. One might expect that faculty unionization would limit this process, but the data examined here indicate that this is not so. While Canadian universities are significantly more unionized than their U.S. counterparts, they rely at least as heavily on contingent faculty. Similarly, U.S. states with high levels of unionization do not exhibi…
Confidentiality for whom
Countering Essentialism in Behavioural Social Science
After discussing ways in which the concept of vulnerability is applied to children in psychology and sociology. It is argued that many of these may arise from the mistaken concretisation of essentialising concepts which have sometimes thereby become barriers to, rather than facilitators of, sociological understanding. Fieldwork is presented and analysed concerning the interactions of some London children, and their characterisations of themselves…
Neoliberal Restructuring and U.S. Unions
Life and Death Under High Technology Medicine
Life and death under high technology medicine, Ian Robinson. Part 1 Understanding life in the context of high technology medicine: the social consequences of advances in the clinical applications of genetics, Martin Bobrow and Elizabeth Manners screening for fetal and genetic disease - some social and psychological consequences, Martin Richards and Jo Green the human genome project - creator of the potentially sick, potentially vulnerable and pot…
Consumers of the World Unite
Sweatshops are re-emerging across the globe. In the current neoliberal environment—which has unions, government protec tion of worker rights, and fair trade policies on the defensive—we propose a market-based strategy that relies on "conscientious con sumers" to slow the global race to the bottom. To assess whether the consumer market in the United States could provide the added revenues needed to lift workers in the southern hemisphere up and ou…
Labor History symposium
The China Road
Critics of neoliberal globalization, myself included, have argued that suppressing worker rights is a powerful?though ultimately self destructive?source of international competi tive advantage for both firms and nations.2 We have used the term race to the bottom as a shorthand for this argument. There is no question, I think, that the vast difference in compensation rates between the countries of the global North and countries such as Mexico and …
The Decline of Tenure in Higher Education
normally taken by constitutionally defined bodies were repeatedly devolved to ad hoc agencies, including courts, designed to organize the populace to deal with what had been deemed exceptional circum stances, a state of permanent emergency. To be sure, Neumann wrote before Naz ism's totalitarian and genocidal image had crystallized. Nevertheless, as someone who had been a lawyer and political scien tist in the Weimar Republic, he was struck simpl…
What Explains Unorganized Workers' Growing Demand for Unions
Significantly different or successfully unique? An asthmatic child's construction of social identity
The Candidate's Share of the Vote
Chaucer and the English Tradition
Computers and the Social Sciences
The New Grammarians' Funeral
The characteristics of a national register of people with multiple sclerosis (MS)
Problems with case ascertainment in epidemiological research on multiple sclerosis (MS) make it necessary to use indirect sources. However, there is a lack of information about the characteristics of cases drawn from different sources and thus little basis on which sampling frames for large scale surveys may be constructed. The characteristics of a population drawn from the membership of Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis (ARMS) were com…
Personal narratives, social careers and medical courses
A review of the aetiology of multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of unknown aetiology characterized by myelin destruction. Approaches to the aetiology of the condition have noted its differential geographic and demographic distribution; a tentative and inconsistent link with infectious agents; a genetic susceptibility; and a tendency to track with dietary lipids. This review proposes a multidisciplinary approach to the aetiology of MS, emphasizing the interlocking and inter…
Confidentiality for whom
Life and Death Under High Technology Medicine
Life and death under high technology medicine, Ian Robinson. Part 1 Understanding life in the context of high technology medicine: the social consequences of advances in the clinical applications of genetics, Martin Bobrow and Elizabeth Manners screening for fetal and genetic disease - some social and psychological consequences, Martin Richards and Jo Green the human genome project - creator of the potentially sick, potentially vulnerable and pot…
Significantly different or successfully unique? An asthmatic child's construction of social identity
Union Responses to Nafta in the US and Canada
In this article we ask why some unions in Canada and the United States were more actively opposed to NAFTA than others, and why these "activist" unions differed in the strategies that they adopted for fighting NAFTA and in the alternatives that they offered to it. We ask the same questions about differences between the U.S. and Canadian labor movements as embodied in the rhetoric and behavior of their central federations. We distinguish four unio…
Neoliberal Restructuring and U.S. Unions
This paper identifies three causal pathways by which economic restructuring attributable to neoliberal policies has promoted a shift away from the previously dominant culture of business unionism, and toward social movement unionism, in the U.S. labor movement. These union types are located within a larger typology of voluntary, autonomous unions organized around two dimensions of union leadership culture: who union leaders think the labor moveme…
Neoliberal Restructuring and U.S. Unions
Countering Essentialism in Behavioural Social Science
After discussing ways in which the concept of vulnerability is applied to children in psychology and sociology. It is argued that many of these may arise from the mistaken concretisation of essentialising concepts which have sometimes thereby become barriers to, rather than facilitators of, sociological understanding. Fieldwork is presented and analysed concerning the interactions of some London children, and their characterisations of themselves…
The Last Good Job in America
Part 1 Accelerated Lives Chapter 2 No Time for Democracy? Time, Space, and Social Change Chapter 3 The Last Good Job in America Chapter 4 The End of Bohemia Part 5 Education and Democracy Chapter 6 Thinking Beyond Failure: Freire's Legacy Chapter 7 Violence and the Myth of Democracy Chapter 8 Higher Education as a Public Good Chapter 9 Education for Citizenship: Gramsci's Common School today Part 10 Culture, Identity, and Democracy Chapter 11 The…
Consumers of the World Unite
Sweatshops are re-emerging across the globe. In the current neoliberal environment—which has unions, government protec tion of worker rights, and fair trade policies on the defensive—we propose a market-based strategy that relies on "conscientious con sumers" to slow the global race to the bottom. To assess whether the consumer market in the United States could provide the added revenues needed to lift workers in the southern hemisphere up and ou…
Nafta, Social Unionism, and Labour Movement Power in Canada and the United States
This paper considers how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is likely to affect labour movement power in Canada and the United States. The paper is divided into four parts. It first defines the concept of « labour movement power », breaking it down into its component parts. It next considers why we should care about what happens to labour movement power. It then outlines the principal negative and positive effects that the NAFTA is l…
Consumers with a Conscience
Most Americans say they will pay more for clothes not made in sweatshops. Is this just talk, or will they actually put their money where their mouth is? An in-store test of consumer behavior turns up some surprising results.
Genre and loans
‘Botti vietati agli under 14,’ La Repubblica , 29 Dec 03. The aim of this work is to examine the use of English loan words in a specific genre of language: parts of an Italian newspaper. In essence, it looks at how English is encroaching on one among many languages – and occurring in their texts. The key question is: ‘In a specific context, what are loanwords?’, in terms of which we will consider genre as it is exemplified in newspapers, followin…
What Explains Unorganized Workers' Growing Demand for Unions
Reorganizing Higher Education in the United States and Canada
Every year in Canada and the U.S., the share of higher education faculty who teach off the tenure track grows. One might expect that faculty unionization would limit this process, but the data examined here indicate that this is not so. While Canadian universities are significantly more unionized than their U.S. counterparts, they rely at least as heavily on contingent faculty. Similarly, U.S. states with high levels of unionization do not exhibi…
Labor History symposium
The China Road
Critics of neoliberal globalization, myself included, have argued that suppressing worker rights is a powerful?though ultimately self destructive?source of international competi tive advantage for both firms and nations.2 We have used the term race to the bottom as a shorthand for this argument. There is no question, I think, that the vast difference in compensation rates between the countries of the global North and countries such as Mexico and …
The Decline of Tenure in Higher Education
normally taken by constitutionally defined bodies were repeatedly devolved to ad hoc agencies, including courts, designed to organize the populace to deal with what had been deemed exceptional circum stances, a state of permanent emergency. To be sure, Neumann wrote before Naz ism's totalitarian and genocidal image had crystallized. Nevertheless, as someone who had been a lawyer and political scien tist in the Weimar Republic, he was struck simpl…
Democratic Critiques of the Institutions and Processes of Neoliberal International Economic Integration
Three basic types of democratic critique have been levelled against "neoliberal" economic integration agreements such as the NAFTA and the Single European Act. One type holds that the institutions created to oversee the integration process are deficient on democratic grounds. This paper summarizes and evaluates this type of democratic critique. It is argued that allegations that the European Union suffers from a "democratic deficit" are not very …
Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Economics (13 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Political economy (9 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Labor Movements and Unions (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras)