Kevin Whitston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1502498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Whitston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitston |
| SIGNATURE | WHITSTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Politics of Production in the Engineering Industry
This article seeks to connect work and politics in the engineering industry in the twentieth century. It is about how shared identities were created from overlapping and conflicting shop-floor interests and the political ambiguities generated by this experience. There is still much to be said for Hobsbawm’s account of how the workplace experience of the engineering craftsmen drew many to revolutionary politics but it captures only part of the sto…
The Ideologies of Practical Men
Trade union opposition to Gaitskell's attempt to rid the Labour Party of its commitment to public ownership was driven by political and ideological considerations, not the sentimental attachment to the past that has been attributed to them. Their opposition has been misunderstood because trade union ideologies have been neglected for an exclusive focus on the ‘practical politics’ of trade unionism. This is ironic because trade union ideology was …
Craftsmen and Skilled Workers in Engineering, 1914–64
This paper uses workforce statistics in the archive of the Engineering Employers Federation to re-examine data from official reports and contemporary accounts on the skill composition of the engineering workforce. It suggests that skill composition, at least among adult males, changed more slowly than might be thought from reports suggesting a fall in the skilled proportion of the workforce from 60% in 1914 to 40% in 1926. This provides some supp…
Key skills and curriculum reform
A number of answers have been offered to the question 'what do we want key skills for? ̊s Key skills are supposed to compensate for early specialisation at school, bridge the academic-vocational divide, provide vocational relevance, and cultivate the sort of people employers want to employ. The range of responses, and the seriousness of the issues raised, suggest that more fundamental curriculum reform might be required than the addition of key s…
Worker Resistance and Taylorism in Britain
Worker resistance and employer conservatism in Britain are said to have combined to retard British economic development and frustrate the emergence of modern managerial structures based on Taylorism and/or Fordism. However, the notion of worker resistance is a deeply unsatisfactory one because it fails to distinguish different forms of resistance and their implications for the labour process. And if British employers were slow to abandon older to…
The Reception of Scientific Management by British Engineers, 1890–1914
While Britain never had a scientific management movement like that in America, historians have exaggerated the negative reaction of British engineers to the ideas of F. W. Taylor and other American proponents of business efficiency. A review of the leading British engineering journals in the early twentieth century reveals that Taylorism received a fair amount of attention, and much of it positive. By the beginning of the First World War, the maj…
Worker Resistance and Taylorism in Britain
Worker resistance and employer conservatism in Britain are said to have combined to retard British economic development and frustrate the emergence of modern managerial structures based on Taylorism and/or Fordism. However, the notion of worker resistance is a deeply unsatisfactory one because it fails to distinguish different forms of resistance and their implications for the labour process. And if British employers were slow to abandon older to…
The Reception of Scientific Management by British Engineers, 1890–1914
While Britain never had a scientific management movement like that in America, historians have exaggerated the negative reaction of British engineers to the ideas of F. W. Taylor and other American proponents of business efficiency. A review of the leading British engineering journals in the early twentieth century reveals that Taylorism received a fair amount of attention, and much of it positive. By the beginning of the First World War, the maj…
Key skills and curriculum reform
A number of answers have been offered to the question 'what do we want key skills for? ̊s Key skills are supposed to compensate for early specialisation at school, bridge the academic-vocational divide, provide vocational relevance, and cultivate the sort of people employers want to employ. The range of responses, and the seriousness of the issues raised, suggest that more fundamental curriculum reform might be required than the addition of key s…
Worker Resistance and Taylorism in Britain
Worker resistance and employer conservatism in Britain are said to have combined to retard British economic development and frustrate the emergence of modern managerial structures based on Taylorism and/or Fordism. However, the notion of worker resistance is a deeply unsatisfactory one because it fails to distinguish different forms of resistance and their implications for the labour process. And if British employers were slow to abandon older to…
The Reception of Scientific Management by British Engineers, 1890–1914
While Britain never had a scientific management movement like that in America, historians have exaggerated the negative reaction of British engineers to the ideas of F. W. Taylor and other American proponents of business efficiency. A review of the leading British engineering journals in the early twentieth century reveals that Taylorism received a fair amount of attention, and much of it positive. By the beginning of the First World War, the maj…
Key skills and curriculum reform
A number of answers have been offered to the question 'what do we want key skills for? ̊s Key skills are supposed to compensate for early specialisation at school, bridge the academic-vocational divide, provide vocational relevance, and cultivate the sort of people employers want to employ. The range of responses, and the seriousness of the issues raised, suggest that more fundamental curriculum reform might be required than the addition of key s…
Craftsmen and Skilled Workers in Engineering, 1914–64
This paper uses workforce statistics in the archive of the Engineering Employers Federation to re-examine data from official reports and contemporary accounts on the skill composition of the engineering workforce. It suggests that skill composition, at least among adult males, changed more slowly than might be thought from reports suggesting a fall in the skilled proportion of the workforce from 60% in 1914 to 40% in 1926. This provides some supp…
The Ideologies of Practical Men
Trade union opposition to Gaitskell's attempt to rid the Labour Party of its commitment to public ownership was driven by political and ideological considerations, not the sentimental attachment to the past that has been attributed to them. Their opposition has been misunderstood because trade union ideologies have been neglected for an exclusive focus on the ‘practical politics’ of trade unionism. This is ironic because trade union ideology was …
The Politics of Production in the Engineering Industry
This article seeks to connect work and politics in the engineering industry in the twentieth century. It is about how shared identities were created from overlapping and conflicting shop-floor interests and the political ambiguities generated by this experience. There is still much to be said for Hobsbawm’s account of how the workplace experience of the engineering craftsmen drew many to revolutionary politics but it captures only part of the sto…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · History (2 works)