Nick Jewson
Biographic Data
| ID | 244008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Jewson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Jewson |
| SIGNATURE | JEWSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 379 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Transforming Cities
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book indicates various ways in which attempts are being made to knit together members of partnerships, in the interests of effectiveness and integration. It offers remarkably topical discussions of cities and urban policies in the 1990s whilst, at the same time, locating current trends in a broader context. The renewal of theoretical and…
Transforming Cities: Contested governance and new spatial divisions
This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns o…
Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives
Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives
1. Introduction: Communities of Practice - A Contested Concept in Flux? Jason Hughes, Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin 2. Critiquing Theories of Learning and Communities of Practice Alison Fuller 3. Lost in Translation: Communities of Practice: The Journey from Academic Model to Practitioner Tool Jason Hughes 4. From Communities of Practice to Mycorrhizae Yrjoe Engestroem 5. Including the Missing Subject: Placing the Personal Within the Community Step…
An analysis of the impact of the 2008-9 recession on the provision of training in the UK
This article examines the impact of the 2008-9 recession on training activity in the UK. In international terms, the UK is assumed to have a deregulated training market which is sensitive to changing economic conditions. However, national datasets and qualitative interviews suggest that, despite the severity of the recession, employers cut training expenditures by a small amount and the impact on training participation rates was minimal. Contrary…
Mind the gap: Personal and collective identities at work
This paper explores three different ways in which workers experience and react to managerial attempts to mould and shape their identities. It provides illustrations of three theoretically-derived identity modalities: ‘dramaturgical selves’; ‘conformist selves’; and ‘resistant selves’. The paper shows how the relationship between personal and collective identities is at the heart of these modalities, and how they are formed as a reaction to manage…
Creating and using knowledge: An analysis of the differentiated nature of workplace learning environments
This paper argues that contemporary workplaces give rise to many different forms of knowledge creation and use, and, as a consequence to different forms of learning and pedagogical approaches. Some of these are utilised to the benefit of the organisation and employees (though not, necessarily, in a reciprocal manner), but others are buried within everyday workplace activity. The discussion builds on earlier work where it was argued that organisat…
Children's Mental Health Services and Ethnic Diversity: Gujarati Families' Perspectives of Service Provision for Mental Health Problems
The aim of this study was to explore Gujarati parents' and adolescents' perceptions of child and adolescent mental health services and how these should be improved to best meet their needs. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out with 15 parents and 15 young people, recruited from a community centre. Overall, the quality of the service appeared more important than its responsiveness to culture or ethnicity for both young people an…
Grooving to the same tunes: Learning, training and productive systems in the aerobics studio
Closing the productivity gap with other nations has become a mantra of public policy in the UK. Promoting participation in learning and training is seen as the principal means of narrowing the gap. While tracking episodes of training is relatively easy, it is not clear what is learnt, by whom and why. This article examines these questions among a specific occupational group - exercise to music instructors - whose numbers have grown significantly …
Transforming Cities: Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions
This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns o…
Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation
The shifting locations of work: New Statistical Evidence on the Spaces and Places of Employment
Purpose - Examines the places where people work in the UK, pointing out that new technologies, such as mobile phones and laptop computers have made it possible to work in far more places than before. \n \nDesign/methodology/approach - Uses official statistics, such as the Labour Force Survey, the Change in Employer Practices Survey and the Location of Work Survey to analyse where people work and how this is changing. \n \nFindings - Concludes tha…
In Work, at Home: Towards an Understanding of Homeworking
The option to work at home: Another privilege for the favoured few
This paper compares and contrasts the demographic and employment characteristics of those who have the option to work at home with those who actually carry out paid work where they live. The results suggest that having the opportunity to choose where to work represents another perk for those already occupying an advantaged position in the labour market. However, some of the most disadvantaged in society are found among those who actually do most …
Working at Home: Statistical Evidence for Seven Key Hypotheses
It is frequently suggested that working at home will be the future of work for many people in the UK and that trends in this direction are already well underway. This paper examines these claims by analysing data from the Labour Force Survey which has, at various times, asked questions about the location of work. Seven key hypotheses are identified, including issues surrounding the extent and growth of working at home, reliance on information and…
Global Trends in Flexible Labour
Researching a Problematic Concept: Homeworkers in Britain
Health, 'Race' and Ethnicity: Making Sense of the Evidence (Book)
Race', Employment and Equal Opportunities: Towards a Political Economy and an Agenda for the 1990s
This paper attempts to provide a broad overview of the recent history of equal opportunities, particularly of work-place policies and programmes directed towards ethnic minorities. It identifies three main stages in the recent history of equal opportunities at the work-place and seeks to connect these with an analysis of the economic arrangements and dominant political philosophies characteristic of each phase. The paper concludes by noting that …
Ethnicity and infant deaths: The Implications of Recent Statistical Evidence for Materialist Explanations
The paper begins with a summary of recent OPCS data on ethnic inequalities in infant deaths, emphasizing the diversity of trends which they demonstrate. It continues by reviewing the implications of this evidence for materialist, and other, explanations of health inequalities. It is suggested that further progress in developing explanations for patterns of ethnic minority infant mortality would be facilitated by greater refinement of indices of e…
Race’, equal opportunities policies and employment practice: Reflections on the 1980s, prospects for the 1990s
This article attempts to take stock of some of the research evidence on ethnic minority employment and equal opportunities issues, gathered by the authors over a period of some ten years. It reviews some of the implications for equal opportunities of major changes in business organisation and employment practice which began in the 1980s. It continues by identifying a number of trends, both of potential benefit and threat to equal opportunities, t…
Ethnic Minorities and Employment Practice: A Study of Six Organizations
Universities and ethnic minorities: The public face
It is commonly assumed that the traditional academic ethic of individual achievement recognises no barriers other than those of merit and ability. As such, equal opportunity issues are often not considered of great relevance for universities. This article presents the findings of recent research into UK universities’ public image in relation to ethnic minorities. Fifty three general undergradute prospectuses were examined determining their textua…
Monitoring equal opportunities policies: A rejoinder to John Shaw
Monitoring equal opportunities policies: A rejoinder to John Shaw." New Community, 13(1), pp. 107–108
Reprofessionalization' or 'occupational imperialism: Some reflections on pharmacy in Britain
The Disappearance of the Sick-Man from Medical Cosmology, 1770-1870
The sick-man may be said to have disappeared from medical cosmology in two related senses during the period 1770-1870. Firstly, as control over the means of production of medical knowledge shifted away from the sick towards medical investigators the universe of discourse of medical theory changed from that of an integrated conception of the whole person to that of a network of bonds between microscopical particles. Secondly, as control over the o…
Transforming Cities: Contested governance and new spatial divisions
This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns o…
The Theory and Practice of Equal Opportunities Policies: Liberal and Radical Approaches
This paper explores the conceptual confusions characteristic of the practice of equal opportunities policies the workplace. The differences between 'liberal' and 'radical' approaches to policy making are identified and described. It is argued that, while these are conceptually distiner from one another, in practice they are routinely confused and conflated. In particular the preferred procedures of the liberal approach are widely assumed to resul…
The option to work at home: Another privilege for the favoured few
This paper compares and contrasts the demographic and employment characteristics of those who have the option to work at home with those who actually carry out paid work where they live. The results suggest that having the opportunity to choose where to work represents another perk for those already occupying an advantaged position in the labour market. However, some of the most disadvantaged in society are found among those who actually do most …
Working at Home: Statistical Evidence for Seven Key Hypotheses
It is frequently suggested that working at home will be the future of work for many people in the UK and that trends in this direction are already well underway. This paper examines these claims by analysing data from the Labour Force Survey which has, at various times, asked questions about the location of work. Seven key hypotheses are identified, including issues surrounding the extent and growth of working at home, reliance on information and…
Modes of Discrimination in the Recruitment Process: Formalisation, Fairness and Efficiency
Equal opportunities policies, and other programmes for the elimination of racial and sexual discrimination at work, frequently place great store by the formalisation of the recruitment process. This article suggests that such recommendations fail to take account of the nature of recruitment to most occupations. This point is developed by the presentation of both a typology of modes of discrimination in the recruitment process and an empirical cas…
The shifting locations of work: New Statistical Evidence on the Spaces and Places of Employment
Purpose - Examines the places where people work in the UK, pointing out that new technologies, such as mobile phones and laptop computers have made it possible to work in far more places than before. \n \nDesign/methodology/approach - Uses official statistics, such as the Labour Force Survey, the Change in Employer Practices Survey and the Location of Work Survey to analyse where people work and how this is changing. \n \nFindings - Concludes tha…
Medical Knowledge and the Patronage System in 18th Century England
Medical knowledge in eighteenth century England was characterized by the growth of numerous often contradictory theoretical systems, founded upon a common underlying analogy of bodily processes. This foundation of metaphor was derived from the ancient humoural model of classical medicine, attenuated by the introduction of concepts imported from contemporary mechanical philosophy. Medical theory may be viewed as a form of social interaction betwee…
Reprofessionalization' or 'occupational imperialism: Some reflections on pharmacy in Britain
Grooving to the same tunes: Learning, training and productive systems in the aerobics studio
Closing the productivity gap with other nations has become a mantra of public policy in the UK. Promoting participation in learning and training is seen as the principal means of narrowing the gap. While tracking episodes of training is relatively easy, it is not clear what is learnt, by whom and why. This article examines these questions among a specific occupational group - exercise to music instructors - whose numbers have grown significantly …
Race’, equal opportunities policies and employment practice: Reflections on the 1980s, prospects for the 1990s
This article attempts to take stock of some of the research evidence on ethnic minority employment and equal opportunities issues, gathered by the authors over a period of some ten years. It reviews some of the implications for equal opportunities of major changes in business organisation and employment practice which began in the 1980s. It continues by identifying a number of trends, both of potential benefit and threat to equal opportunities, t…
Researching a Problematic Concept: Homeworkers in Britain
An analysis of the impact of the 2008-9 recession on the provision of training in the UK
This article examines the impact of the 2008-9 recession on training activity in the UK. In international terms, the UK is assumed to have a deregulated training market which is sensitive to changing economic conditions. However, national datasets and qualitative interviews suggest that, despite the severity of the recession, employers cut training expenditures by a small amount and the impact on training participation rates was minimal. Contrary…
Ethnicity and infant deaths: The Implications of Recent Statistical Evidence for Materialist Explanations
The paper begins with a summary of recent OPCS data on ethnic inequalities in infant deaths, emphasizing the diversity of trends which they demonstrate. It continues by reviewing the implications of this evidence for materialist, and other, explanations of health inequalities. It is suggested that further progress in developing explanations for patterns of ethnic minority infant mortality would be facilitated by greater refinement of indices of e…
Race', Employment and Equal Opportunities: Towards a Political Economy and an Agenda for the 1990s
This paper attempts to provide a broad overview of the recent history of equal opportunities, particularly of work-place policies and programmes directed towards ethnic minorities. It identifies three main stages in the recent history of equal opportunities at the work-place and seeks to connect these with an analysis of the economic arrangements and dominant political philosophies characteristic of each phase. The paper concludes by noting that …
Mind the gap: Personal and collective identities at work
This paper explores three different ways in which workers experience and react to managerial attempts to mould and shape their identities. It provides illustrations of three theoretically-derived identity modalities: ‘dramaturgical selves’; ‘conformist selves’; and ‘resistant selves’. The paper shows how the relationship between personal and collective identities is at the heart of these modalities, and how they are formed as a reaction to manage…
Creating and using knowledge: An analysis of the differentiated nature of workplace learning environments
This paper argues that contemporary workplaces give rise to many different forms of knowledge creation and use, and, as a consequence to different forms of learning and pedagogical approaches. Some of these are utilised to the benefit of the organisation and employees (though not, necessarily, in a reciprocal manner), but others are buried within everyday workplace activity. The discussion builds on earlier work where it was argued that organisat…
Equal opportunities policies at the workplace and the concept of monitoring
(1984). Equal opportunities policies at the workplace and the concept of monitoring. New Community: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 124-136
Medical Knowledge and the Patronage System in 18th Century England
Medical knowledge in eighteenth century England was characterized by the growth of numerous often contradictory theoretical systems, founded upon a common underlying analogy of bodily processes. This foundation of metaphor was derived from the ancient humoural model of classical medicine, attenuated by the introduction of concepts imported from contemporary mechanical philosophy. Medical theory may be viewed as a form of social interaction betwee…
Public Health and Medical Profession in the Renaissance
The Disappearance of the Sick-Man from Medical Cosmology, 1770-1870
The sick-man may be said to have disappeared from medical cosmology in two related senses during the period 1770-1870. Firstly, as control over the means of production of medical knowledge shifted away from the sick towards medical investigators the universe of discourse of medical theory changed from that of an integrated conception of the whole person to that of a network of bonds between microscopical particles. Secondly, as control over the o…
Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth Century England
Equal opportunities policies at the workplace and the concept of monitoring
(1984). Equal opportunities policies at the workplace and the concept of monitoring. New Community: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 124-136
Monitoring equal opportunities policies: A rejoinder to John Shaw
Monitoring equal opportunities policies: A rejoinder to John Shaw." New Community, 13(1), pp. 107–108
Reprofessionalization' or 'occupational imperialism: Some reflections on pharmacy in Britain
The Theory and Practice of Equal Opportunities Policies: Liberal and Radical Approaches
This paper explores the conceptual confusions characteristic of the practice of equal opportunities policies the workplace. The differences between 'liberal' and 'radical' approaches to policy making are identified and described. It is argued that, while these are conceptually distiner from one another, in practice they are routinely confused and conflated. In particular the preferred procedures of the liberal approach are widely assumed to resul…
Modes of Discrimination in the Recruitment Process: Formalisation, Fairness and Efficiency
Equal opportunities policies, and other programmes for the elimination of racial and sexual discrimination at work, frequently place great store by the formalisation of the recruitment process. This article suggests that such recommendations fail to take account of the nature of recruitment to most occupations. This point is developed by the presentation of both a typology of modes of discrimination in the recruitment process and an empirical cas…
Ethnic Minorities and Employment Practice: A Study of Six Organizations
Universities and ethnic minorities: The public face
It is commonly assumed that the traditional academic ethic of individual achievement recognises no barriers other than those of merit and ability. As such, equal opportunity issues are often not considered of great relevance for universities. This article presents the findings of recent research into UK universities’ public image in relation to ethnic minorities. Fifty three general undergradute prospectuses were examined determining their textua…
Race’, equal opportunities policies and employment practice: Reflections on the 1980s, prospects for the 1990s
This article attempts to take stock of some of the research evidence on ethnic minority employment and equal opportunities issues, gathered by the authors over a period of some ten years. It reviews some of the implications for equal opportunities of major changes in business organisation and employment practice which began in the 1980s. It continues by identifying a number of trends, both of potential benefit and threat to equal opportunities, t…
Ethnicity and infant deaths: The Implications of Recent Statistical Evidence for Materialist Explanations
The paper begins with a summary of recent OPCS data on ethnic inequalities in infant deaths, emphasizing the diversity of trends which they demonstrate. It continues by reviewing the implications of this evidence for materialist, and other, explanations of health inequalities. It is suggested that further progress in developing explanations for patterns of ethnic minority infant mortality would be facilitated by greater refinement of indices of e…
Race', Employment and Equal Opportunities: Towards a Political Economy and an Agenda for the 1990s
This paper attempts to provide a broad overview of the recent history of equal opportunities, particularly of work-place policies and programmes directed towards ethnic minorities. It identifies three main stages in the recent history of equal opportunities at the work-place and seeks to connect these with an analysis of the economic arrangements and dominant political philosophies characteristic of each phase. The paper concludes by noting that …
Health, 'Race' and Ethnicity: Making Sense of the Evidence (Book)
Researching a Problematic Concept: Homeworkers in Britain
Global Trends in Flexible Labour
Working at Home: Statistical Evidence for Seven Key Hypotheses
It is frequently suggested that working at home will be the future of work for many people in the UK and that trends in this direction are already well underway. This paper examines these claims by analysing data from the Labour Force Survey which has, at various times, asked questions about the location of work. Seven key hypotheses are identified, including issues surrounding the extent and growth of working at home, reliance on information and…
In Work, at Home: Towards an Understanding of Homeworking
The option to work at home: Another privilege for the favoured few
This paper compares and contrasts the demographic and employment characteristics of those who have the option to work at home with those who actually carry out paid work where they live. The results suggest that having the opportunity to choose where to work represents another perk for those already occupying an advantaged position in the labour market. However, some of the most disadvantaged in society are found among those who actually do most …
Transforming Cities: Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions
This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns o…
Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation
The shifting locations of work: New Statistical Evidence on the Spaces and Places of Employment
Purpose - Examines the places where people work in the UK, pointing out that new technologies, such as mobile phones and laptop computers have made it possible to work in far more places than before. \n \nDesign/methodology/approach - Uses official statistics, such as the Labour Force Survey, the Change in Employer Practices Survey and the Location of Work Survey to analyse where people work and how this is changing. \n \nFindings - Concludes tha…
Creating and using knowledge: An analysis of the differentiated nature of workplace learning environments
This paper argues that contemporary workplaces give rise to many different forms of knowledge creation and use, and, as a consequence to different forms of learning and pedagogical approaches. Some of these are utilised to the benefit of the organisation and employees (though not, necessarily, in a reciprocal manner), but others are buried within everyday workplace activity. The discussion builds on earlier work where it was argued that organisat…
Children's Mental Health Services and Ethnic Diversity: Gujarati Families' Perspectives of Service Provision for Mental Health Problems
The aim of this study was to explore Gujarati parents' and adolescents' perceptions of child and adolescent mental health services and how these should be improved to best meet their needs. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out with 15 parents and 15 young people, recruited from a community centre. Overall, the quality of the service appeared more important than its responsiveness to culture or ethnicity for both young people an…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (15 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Geography (7 works)