Teresa Barnes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 90208 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Teresa Barnes |
| NOMBRES | Teresa |
| APELLIDO | Barnes |
| FIRMA | BARNES T |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3768-7905 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
New technology, work organization and workers
Research in political economy and the labour process has highlighted how management uses new technology to shape work and society. Scholarship in these traditions has viewed technology as a tool for increasing profitability. Organization Studies scholars, on the other hand, have largely ignored power, except when examining how new technology disrupts relations between occupational groups. Nevertheless, this tradition has contributed significantly…
New worlds of logistical labour
This Special Issue offers new research on the dynamic interaction and interdependence of global logistics with spaces of labour, including work, workers, organisations and workers’ communities. It presents ten articles that emphasise the changing nature of logistical labour in the context of radical technological transformation and changing spatial and social configurations. Spanning diverse geographical contexts across five continents, the colle…
The conscientious worker
Employer discourse is an under-researched element of scholarship on labour regimes, which has tended to dismiss employer views as self-serving or duplicitous. In response, this article argues that employer discourse should be taken more seriously as a response to real-world transformations in markets, supply chains, technologies and labour markets. Evidence is drawn from Australia’s largest cities, where experimentation with automation has led to…
Raising Hell
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Sociology explores 'Equity in the creative industries' in the context of a changing employment landscape in Australia. Inequality is central to understanding the social consequences and distribution of cultural work. The COVID-19 pandemic, rise of digital cultural production, growth of media sharing platforms, and instability of changes in government (and policy) have both disrupted and re-organised cultural w…
Just transitions in the Australian automotive sector
The closure of the Australian passenger vehicle industry in 2017 ended an important phase in the nation’s economic history. Closure affected up to 100, 000 employees working across the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and the supply chain, with the impacts concentrated in two Australian states. This paper examines both the processes and the outcomes of this closure, making use of a Just Transitions lens to assess the wider impacts of this …
Rethinking job loss in an age of assetisation
Studies of job loss and deindustrialisation have tended to reproduce findings of long-term disadvantage for people and places. Far from purely reflecting matters of historical interest, recent studies have found that deindustrialisation exhibits a 'half-life' in which effects linger for generations after major closures. But these literatures are yet to fully consider job loss in contemporary societies where workers' lives have been transformed by…
Left-behind neighbourhoods in old industrial regions
This article focuses on the neighbourhoods and people that have been left behind in the economic transformation of two now-diversified old industrial regions: Geelong (Victoria) in Australia and Oshawa (Ontario) in Canada. Political discontent has found expression in different ways in the two locations. This, we contend, reflects policy frameworks that dampen the extent to which socio-spatial inequality and entrenched disadvantage generate discon…
Punish, protect or redirect? Synthesising workfare with 'spatially Keynesian' labour market policies in times of job loss
The relationship between job loss and workfare has been well documented. Workers who lose jobs, including long-term careers in previously secure employment, enter systems of workfare that churn them through precarious jobs in return for meagre income support. But the relationship between workfare and alternative systems of labour market assistance rolled out before job loss is less understood. To shed new light on this issue, this article critica…
Plant closures in Australia’s automotive industry
This paper explores the possibility of using diachronic case study comparisons to shed light on continuity and change in policy interventions to manage plant closures. It compares the early results of a survey of workers retrenched in the 2017 closure of Australia’s passenger vehicle manufacturing industry with the results of a similar survey of workers who lost their jobs in the 2005 closure of Mitsubishi’s Adelaide engine-casting and components…
Is There an Indian Precariat? Evidence from the Auto Manufacturing Industry
Guy Standing's precariat thesis, which suggests that precarious workers have distinctive class interests, has resonance in India where the overwhelming majority of workers lack adequate social protection. Among many criticisms, researchers have responded that this thesis ignores the historical experience of workers in poor countries and erroneously frames precarity as the province of a separate social class. As part of this debate, Erik Olin Wrig…
Articulations of workplace precarity
As critical nodes for global commodity flows, warehouses are an important example of segmented labour regimes which partition workers into groups with different conditions of security or its opposite, precarity. An emerging literature on warehouse work has tended to place segmentation in the context of managerial despotism based upon low wages, high labour turnover and job insecurity. However, the literature has, thus far, tended to pay comparati…
Teri L Caraway and Michele Ford, Labor and Politics in Indonesia
Detroit five years after bankruptcy
Critical scholarship has characterised the 2013–2014 bankruptcy of Detroit – the largest municipal bankruptcy in history – as a fiscal ‘state of exception’ which undermined the democratic foundations of urban citizenship. From this perspective, the imposition of emergency management and declaration of bankruptcy were acts of raw coercion. Drawing upon Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and empirical evidence, including interviews with civic lea…
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory
Agency-based approaches represent a fundamental advance in how researchers and policymakers can address questions of place-based industrial strategy, including issues of governance, leadership, new technology and regional assets. However, these approaches can be advanced further by recognizing the centrality of discourse in regional change. This paper does this by synthesizing two conceptual frameworks: Grillitsch and Sotarauta’s trinity of chang…
S ue O nslow and M artin P laut . Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe, longtime leader of the southern African nation of Zimbabwe, died on September 6, 2019, at the age of ninety-five, a year after being deposed from power. He left no autobiography or authorized biography. After an initial collected volume of speeches and interviews was published in 1983—soon after he had come to power—no additional compilations of his letters, essays, or policy reflections were produced. In contrast, a virtua…
Pathways to precarity
Precarious work research has increasingly understood that precarity is not limited to poor job quality. However, this idea has received insufficient attention among older workers whose careers have been erased by retrenchment. The sense in which retrenched workers' lives are co-determined by the residual effects of previous long-term careers has been under-studied. Through a study of the closure of Australia's automotive manufacturing industry, t…
Becoming Precarious? Precarious Work and Life Trajectories After Retrenchment
Much of the large literature on precarious work has largely tended to assume that precarity is shaped by job quality: that precarious work leads to precarious lives. This paper adds to the literature by questioning this line of causality and highlighting the broader range of influences shaping the lives of older workers who enter precarious work after retrenchment from secure, long-term careers. Drawing on a study of Australia's automotive manufa…
Rethinking Economic Security in a Precarious World
The introduction to this special issue of Critical Sociology offers an interpretation of recent debates in the precarity literature and the role precarity plays in a wide range of disciplines' scholarship. It makes the case for a broad conceptualization of precarity, one that recognises many dimensions and sites of precariousness in contemporary life. In addition to providing grounded examples of precarity experienced in this broad sense, this co…
The urban and regional impacts of plant closures
Work on large-scale plant closures has provided a rich vein of scholarship and academic debate. This paper articulates a new set of methods and concepts for understanding how large-scale redundancies associated with the closure of manufacturing plants affects society and the economy at the local, regional and national scales. It posits the need for a more comprehensive exercise in data collection and experimentation with previously unused methods…
From economic rationalism to global neoliberalism? Marking 25 years since Economic Rationalism in Canberra
Despite the impact of global economic crises and, more recently, the international shockwave of populism, neoliberalism persists as a framework for policies, policymakers and social orders. In Australia, debate about neoliberalism was largely initiated by the publication of Economic Rationalism in Canberra in 1991. This special section of the Journal of Sociology has been compiled to mark the impact of this seminal text over the past quarter of a…
New Institutionalism
Over the last 40 years, new institutionalism has gradually emerged as an important subdiscipline of economics. This field of “transaction cost” economics offers elegant insights into the world of business and economic history and, in the last 20 years, has strongly influenced the study and practice of economic development. The tradition is underpinned by the simple insight that organizational hierarchies and institutions are crucial to the functi…
Political Economy
Political economy may be regarded as a subdiscipline of, as broadly related to, or as a “heterodox” critical alternative to mainstream economics. Perhaps surprisingly, political economy's role as an alternative to mainstream economics has not been significantly strengthened in recent years, despite the “great recession” casting doubt upon economists' traditional assumptions about market society. The entry explores this quandary by showing that po…
The best defense is to attack’
This article focuses on two examples of the agency of African people in the South West Africa Case, in which Ethiopia and Liberia brought South Africa before the International Court of Justice in the Hague in 1960. ‘African’ here refers both to diasporic and continental Pan-African organisations, and to individual citizens (of all races) in African countries. The paper seeks, first, to bring Pan-African political history together with the interna…
Politics of the mind and body
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory
Agency-based approaches represent a fundamental advance in how researchers and policymakers can address questions of place-based industrial strategy, including issues of governance, leadership, new technology and regional assets. However, these approaches can be advanced further by recognizing the centrality of discourse in regional change. This paper does this by synthesizing two conceptual frameworks: Grillitsch and Sotarauta’s trinity of chang…
The Fight for Control of African Women's Mobility in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-1939
Am I a Man
Gradually, feminist historians are building up a formidable challenge to androcentric studies of Africa; new thinking about the personal and public lives of men and women is beginning to reflect the breadth and depth of gender structures in African societies. This article focuses on the dynamics of one such structure in the society of colonial Zimbabwe (Ranger 1985; Phimister 1988; Sylvester 1991; Schmidt 1992). This was a construction at the int…
The urban and regional impacts of plant closures
Work on large-scale plant closures has provided a rich vein of scholarship and academic debate. This paper articulates a new set of methods and concepts for understanding how large-scale redundancies associated with the closure of manufacturing plants affects society and the economy at the local, regional and national scales. It posits the need for a more comprehensive exercise in data collection and experimentation with previously unused methods…
Left-behind neighbourhoods in old industrial regions
This article focuses on the neighbourhoods and people that have been left behind in the economic transformation of two now-diversified old industrial regions: Geelong (Victoria) in Australia and Oshawa (Ontario) in Canada. Political discontent has found expression in different ways in the two locations. This, we contend, reflects policy frameworks that dampen the extent to which socio-spatial inequality and entrenched disadvantage generate discon…
Plant closures in Australia’s automotive industry
This paper explores the possibility of using diachronic case study comparisons to shed light on continuity and change in policy interventions to manage plant closures. It compares the early results of a survey of workers retrenched in the 2017 closure of Australia’s passenger vehicle manufacturing industry with the results of a similar survey of workers who lost their jobs in the 2005 closure of Mitsubishi’s Adelaide engine-casting and components…
Rethinking Economic Security in a Precarious World
The introduction to this special issue of Critical Sociology offers an interpretation of recent debates in the precarity literature and the role precarity plays in a wide range of disciplines' scholarship. It makes the case for a broad conceptualization of precarity, one that recognises many dimensions and sites of precariousness in contemporary life. In addition to providing grounded examples of precarity experienced in this broad sense, this co…
Becoming Precarious? Precarious Work and Life Trajectories After Retrenchment
Much of the large literature on precarious work has largely tended to assume that precarity is shaped by job quality: that precarious work leads to precarious lives. This paper adds to the literature by questioning this line of causality and highlighting the broader range of influences shaping the lives of older workers who enter precarious work after retrenchment from secure, long-term careers. Drawing on a study of Australia's automotive manufa…
So that a labourer could live with his family
This article examines an oft‐ignored aspect of worker demands in the 1940s and early 1950s in urban colonial Zimbabwe. It is argued that although married African men played important roles in those years of social and economic conflict, androcentric historiography has generally ignored the influence of women on men's consciousness of themselves as dissatisfied workers. The 1945 railway workers' strike, the general strike of 1948 and the agitation…
Articulations of workplace precarity
As critical nodes for global commodity flows, warehouses are an important example of segmented labour regimes which partition workers into groups with different conditions of security or its opposite, precarity. An emerging literature on warehouse work has tended to place segmentation in the context of managerial despotism based upon low wages, high labour turnover and job insecurity. However, the literature has, thus far, tended to pay comparati…
Pregnancy and Bodies of Knowledge in a South African University
Based on a classroom encounter of the author, this article explores the gendered nature of African university space. It discusses a 2007-8 policy that banned pregnant adult students from living in the student residence halls at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. The policy was implemented despite protests from the university's students and staff. The article argues that the more visibly reproductive a student's body be…
Changing Discourses and Meanings of Redress in South African Higher Education, 1994-2001
The apartheid state provided higher education in very differentiated ways. After 1994, the issue of how new policies would address the issue of unjust differentiation was widely discussed via the concept of 'redress'. After 1994, the idea of redress for the cohort of historically disadvantaged institutions went through many shifts and competing definitions. The article shows that by 2001 the stage was set for a number of centrally imposed proposa…
Pathways to precarity
Precarious work research has increasingly understood that precarity is not limited to poor job quality. However, this idea has received insufficient attention among older workers whose careers have been erased by retrenchment. The sense in which retrenched workers' lives are co-determined by the residual effects of previous long-term careers has been under-studied. Through a study of the closure of Australia's automotive manufacturing industry, t…
History has to Play its Role
This article examines changes in Zimbabwean secondary school history syllabi and textbooks, specifically their treatment of the issue of race; and relates these developments to larger social forces at work after 1980. A nationalist, Africa-centred and Marxist-inspired history syllabus was introduced in 1991; it was revised in 2000 and replaced in 2002 by one that was narrower, less comparative and with less emphasis on the development of critical…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Sociology explores 'Equity in the creative industries' in the context of a changing employment landscape in Australia. Inequality is central to understanding the social consequences and distribution of cultural work. The COVID-19 pandemic, rise of digital cultural production, growth of media sharing platforms, and instability of changes in government (and policy) have both disrupted and re-organised cultural w…
Just transitions in the Australian automotive sector
The closure of the Australian passenger vehicle industry in 2017 ended an important phase in the nation’s economic history. Closure affected up to 100, 000 employees working across the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and the supply chain, with the impacts concentrated in two Australian states. This paper examines both the processes and the outcomes of this closure, making use of a Just Transitions lens to assess the wider impacts of this …
Is There an Indian Precariat? Evidence from the Auto Manufacturing Industry
Guy Standing's precariat thesis, which suggests that precarious workers have distinctive class interests, has resonance in India where the overwhelming majority of workers lack adequate social protection. Among many criticisms, researchers have responded that this thesis ignores the historical experience of workers in poor countries and erroneously frames precarity as the province of a separate social class. As part of this debate, Erik Olin Wrig…
Detroit five years after bankruptcy
Critical scholarship has characterised the 2013–2014 bankruptcy of Detroit – the largest municipal bankruptcy in history – as a fiscal ‘state of exception’ which undermined the democratic foundations of urban citizenship. From this perspective, the imposition of emergency management and declaration of bankruptcy were acts of raw coercion. Drawing upon Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and empirical evidence, including interviews with civic lea…
From economic rationalism to global neoliberalism? Marking 25 years since Economic Rationalism in Canberra
Despite the impact of global economic crises and, more recently, the international shockwave of populism, neoliberalism persists as a framework for policies, policymakers and social orders. In Australia, debate about neoliberalism was largely initiated by the publication of Economic Rationalism in Canberra in 1991. This special section of the Journal of Sociology has been compiled to mark the impact of this seminal text over the past quarter of a…
The IT Industry and Economic Development in India
Many scholars have questioned the role of the IT industry in India’s economic development. Some have correctly highlighted the limited impact of IT firms in creating occupations accessible to less-educated people or the modest impact of industry output on the livelihoods of people from poorer households and communities. There are thus strong arguments against governments giving fiscal and industrial priority to the IT industry. However, this arti…
The Exile and Recalls of Arius
This article argues that after the Council of Nicaea in 325 Arius was exiled to Illyricum, then summoned to the imperial court in the winter of 327-8 by Constantine, who was however unable to effect his return to Alexandria. Some years later, Arius grew impatient at his continuing exclusion from Alexandria and wrote an injudicious letter to the emperor, who denounced him in a letter read out in Alexandria in the presence of the prefect Paterius. …
We Women Work so Hard
To Raise a Hornet's Nest
To Raise a Hornet's Nest
The Fight for Control of African Women's Mobility in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-1939
So that a labourer could live with his family
This article examines an oft‐ignored aspect of worker demands in the 1940s and early 1950s in urban colonial Zimbabwe. It is argued that although married African men played important roles in those years of social and economic conflict, androcentric historiography has generally ignored the influence of women on men's consciousness of themselves as dissatisfied workers. The 1945 railway workers' strike, the general strike of 1948 and the agitation…
Am I a Man
Gradually, feminist historians are building up a formidable challenge to androcentric studies of Africa; new thinking about the personal and public lives of men and women is beginning to reflect the breadth and depth of gender structures in African societies. This article focuses on the dynamics of one such structure in the society of colonial Zimbabwe (Ranger 1985; Phimister 1988; Sylvester 1991; Schmidt 1992). This was a construction at the int…
We Women Worked so Hard
We Women Work so Hard
Gendered Colonialisms in African History
We Women Worked So Hard
Democracy and Historiographies of Organized Labour in Zimbabwe
Keep on Knocking: A History of the Labour Movement in Zimbabwe, 1900–97. Ed. by Brian Raftopoulos and Ian Phimister. Baobab Books on behalf of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Harare 1997. xx, 164 pp. Striding Back: The Labour Movement and the Post-Colonial State in Zimbabwe 1980–2000. Ed. by Brian Raftopoulos and Lloyd Sachikonye. Weaver Press, Harare 2001. xxvii, 316 pp., £14.95; $24.95
"We Women Work So Hard". Gender, Urbanization and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956
Changing Discourses and Meanings of Redress in South African Higher Education, 1994-2001
The apartheid state provided higher education in very differentiated ways. After 1994, the issue of how new policies would address the issue of unjust differentiation was widely discussed via the concept of 'redress'. After 1994, the idea of redress for the cohort of historically disadvantaged institutions went through many shifts and competing definitions. The article shows that by 2001 the stage was set for a number of centrally imposed proposa…
History has to Play its Role
This article examines changes in Zimbabwean secondary school history syllabi and textbooks, specifically their treatment of the issue of race; and relates these developments to larger social forces at work after 1980. A nationalist, Africa-centred and Marxist-inspired history syllabus was introduced in 1991; it was revised in 2000 and replaced in 2002 by one that was narrower, less comparative and with less emphasis on the development of critical…
The Exile and Recalls of Arius
This article argues that after the Council of Nicaea in 325 Arius was exiled to Illyricum, then summoned to the imperial court in the winter of 327-8 by Constantine, who was however unable to effect his return to Alexandria. Some years later, Arius grew impatient at his continuing exclusion from Alexandria and wrote an injudicious letter to the emperor, who denounced him in a letter read out in Alexandria in the presence of the prefect Paterius. …
Soccer Nation/Corporation
Comparing industrial development in India and China
This article reviews three recent books on the comparative political economy of China and India. Each book addresses the ability of both countries to sustain rapid economic development. Specific issues include the comparison between software and hardware production, the relationship between import substitution and â opennessâ , the emergence of innovation-oriented policies and the role of research in the development process. The article finds tha…
History and Ordinary Womanhood
Contemporary social history is premised on the idea of writing histories of ordinary people. This article reflects critically on the concept of “ordinariness“ as facilitated by the author's brief moment of personal fame and her professional experiences of learning and writing about women's and gender history in and of southern Africa. These perspectives then informed her attempts to write and publish a story of the brief encounter in the late 193…
The IT Industry and Economic Development in India
Many scholars have questioned the role of the IT industry in India’s economic development. Some have correctly highlighted the limited impact of IT firms in creating occupations accessible to less-educated people or the modest impact of industry output on the livelihoods of people from poorer households and communities. There are thus strong arguments against governments giving fiscal and industrial priority to the IT industry. However, this arti…
Pregnancy and Bodies of Knowledge in a South African University
Based on a classroom encounter of the author, this article explores the gendered nature of African university space. It discusses a 2007-8 policy that banned pregnant adult students from living in the student residence halls at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. The policy was implemented despite protests from the university's students and staff. The article argues that the more visibly reproductive a student's body be…
African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe 1923-80
Penfold openly acknowledges his personal and hence limited perspective from the start.However, given his extensive experience as a diplomat and privileged access to first-hand information one would have hoped nevertheless for a more analytical approach.Furthermore, as the book is published more than a decade after the ending of the conflict and given the author's continued close relationship with the country and its people, it would have been wel…
Not until Zimbabwe Is Free Can We Stop to Think about It
This article contributes to the fledgling literature on solidarity with individual African liberation struggles other than the South African antiapartheid movement by focusing on one of several connections made by the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) with radicals in the United States. In 1979, a time of global revolutionary optimism, discussions were held about building solidarity between ZANU and the Federation of Women's Health Centers, …
Labour Contractors and Global Production Networks
Research on labour in global production networks has raised serious questions about the role played by labour contractors. This article uses a case study of automotive components production in north India to show how labour contractors assist firms to adapt to the rigours of competition in supply chains. We demonstrate that a regional contract labour system has enabled employers to keep wages low, increase firm flexibility, offload the burden of …
Meghan Healy-Clancy. A World of Their Own
A World of Their Own: A History of South African Women’s Education is a savvy book that identifies and fills a large hole in the social history of South African education. In telling the story of Inanda Seminary, a high school for African girls founded in the colonial province of Natal in 1869 by the American Zulu Mission, Meghan Healy-Clancy deftly stitches a story of the Christian remolding of African women’s aspirations to the larger political…
New Institutionalism
Over the last 40 years, new institutionalism has gradually emerged as an important subdiscipline of economics. This field of “transaction cost” economics offers elegant insights into the world of business and economic history and, in the last 20 years, has strongly influenced the study and practice of economic development. The tradition is underpinned by the simple insight that organizational hierarchies and institutions are crucial to the functi…
Political Economy
Political economy may be regarded as a subdiscipline of, as broadly related to, or as a “heterodox” critical alternative to mainstream economics. Perhaps surprisingly, political economy's role as an alternative to mainstream economics has not been significantly strengthened in recent years, despite the “great recession” casting doubt upon economists' traditional assumptions about market society. The entry explores this quandary by showing that po…
The best defense is to attack’
This article focuses on two examples of the agency of African people in the South West Africa Case, in which Ethiopia and Liberia brought South Africa before the International Court of Justice in the Hague in 1960. ‘African’ here refers both to diasporic and continental Pan-African organisations, and to individual citizens (of all races) in African countries. The paper seeks, first, to bring Pan-African political history together with the interna…
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