Robert Barton
Biographic Data
| ID | 245704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Barton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Barton |
| SIGNATURE | BARTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3856-1933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding the dynamics of inequity in collective bargaining
Unions and collective bargaining are generally considered to be the main vehicles for ensuring equity at work. This article questions this assertion by examining distinct forms of inequity between workers in unionised workplaces and, more specifically, the role of collective bargaining in creating, maintaining, reducing or avoiding them. Based on a study conducted in Australia, Canada (Québec), Denmark and France, the situations of inequity exami…
The Charismatic Organization
British Telecom’s 1984 partial privatization set in motion the privatization and deregulation of many international state-owned telecommunications carriers. Most previous research on the privatization and deregulation of state-owned telecommunications carriers has focused on the economic outcomes. However, this was also a time of changes in managerial practice and thinking influenced by organizational theory. This article presents an analysis of …
Trade unions and industrial regeneration in North West Tasmania
As the North West coast of Tasmania, Australia, has deindustrialised, the region's unions have lost membership, power and relevance. This process of deindustrialisation opens up possibilities for the unions to become involved in regeneration as regional development actors and, by moving outside the workplace and engaging with the community, renew and revitalise themselves. But many unions have found it difficult to move beyond their traditional f…
Do state funding, geographic location, and networks matter
Using a uniquely constructed data set, we look at the ecologies of creative careers in film/TV-drama/theatre, using a detailed interview questionnaire case study of eighty-two prominent workers in the Irish film/TV-drama/theatre sectors. Three influences on career progression are given special attention: state patronage, geographic location and networks. There is strong evidence to show that those interviewed consider state patronage as very impo…
Our Tarkine, Our Future”
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) represents the miners on the West Coast of Tasmania. When the future of mining on much of the West Coast was threatened by the environmentalists' proposed National Heritage listing of the Tarkine region, the union campaigned to prevent the listing. Through its embeddedness in place, the AWU was able to use a sense of place, memory and identity to construct a community campaign that moved beyond the West Coast in…
Good Riddance to the Stinkin' Place
As areas have deindustrialised, the factories that once symbolised prosperity and constancy are abandoned. These buildings are imbued with the memories of the workers and local people and can become the site of contest over visions of the past, present and future. In Burnie, Tasmania, the Associated Pulp and Paper Mills factory closed in 2010 and was demolished in 2012. There was a sense of ambivalence around these buildings that had dominated Bu…
Screening the Irish in Britain
The State, Labour Management and Union Marginalisation at Electrolytic Zinc, Tasmania, 1920-48
While there has been considerable debate about arbitration's role in framing union strategy and tactics, its impact on managerial strategy and subordinating labour has been less explored. Electrolytic Zinc had a strategy of using the industrial regulation system, particularly the Tasmanian wages boards, and participative structures to marginalise trade unions for 15 years. However, these measures failed to completely suppress unionism and encoura…
The politics of union-government relations
Successive governments, particularly in the Anglo-American world, have sought to redefine the state by redrawing the boundaries between the public and private sectors, with marked implications for trade unions. One consequence of this process is that relations between unions and governments are reforged. In Australia, governments have initiated comprehensive processes of corporatisation and privatisation. One result is that previously close and o…
Unions Facing the Future
The current circumstances of trade unions are subject to extensive debate. As a contribution to these debates, three sets of issues are ad dressed : how unions organize and operate in relation to members, how unions reposition and rebuild themselves against changing forms of ownership and different managerial practices, and how unions attempt to face the challenges of multinational capital. Unions have sought to renew and revitalize themselves by…
The Royal Family, and
The Royal Family was replaced by the real thing at the Haymarket this past spring. Peter Hall's staging of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's slight examination of a theatrical dynasty (based on the Barrymores) gave way to his production of Oscar Wilde's more complex and witty Lady Windemere's Fan starring members of England's royal theatre family, Vanessa Redgrave and her daughter Joely Richardson
Kitsch as Authenticity
Kitsch as Authenticity
The evolutionary ecology of the primate brain
Introduction Comparative studies of the brain have long intrigued and frustrated researchers. They have intrigued because of what they might reveal about the evolutionary forces shaping cognitive attributes. They have frustrated because the results have been so difficult to interpret, leading to a raft of further questions. What is the cognitive significance of differences in brain size? Do correlations between brain size and ecology indicate sel…
Understanding Behavior
James D. Loy and Calvin Peters: Mortifying reflections: primatology and the human disciplines Nancy A. Nicholson: Maternal behaviour in human and non-human primates David Taub and Patrick Mehlman: Primate paternalistic investment: a cross-species view Janice Chism: Ontogeny of behaviour in humans and non-human primates: the search for common ground Linda D. Wolfe: Human evolution and the sexual behaviour of female primates Ronald D. Nadler and Ch…
John Tyndall, Pantheist
Grooming site preferences in primates and their functional implications
Acting with Style
Strutting and Fretting
The actor is probably the most neglected subject in the vast galaxy of Shakespearean research. The novice actor is certainly the most neglected category in the relatively narrow body of literature on performing Shakespeare. Since the actor is the essential final link between script and audience, and the novice (given the commitment of most universities to perform Shakespeare every one to four seasons) is the actor most frequently seen attempting …
Body Wisdom
How to Audition
Grooming site preferences in primates and their functional implications
John Tyndall, Pantheist
Unions Facing the Future
The current circumstances of trade unions are subject to extensive debate. As a contribution to these debates, three sets of issues are ad dressed : how unions organize and operate in relation to members, how unions reposition and rebuild themselves against changing forms of ownership and different managerial practices, and how unions attempt to face the challenges of multinational capital. Unions have sought to renew and revitalize themselves by…
The Charismatic Organization
British Telecom’s 1984 partial privatization set in motion the privatization and deregulation of many international state-owned telecommunications carriers. Most previous research on the privatization and deregulation of state-owned telecommunications carriers has focused on the economic outcomes. However, this was also a time of changes in managerial practice and thinking influenced by organizational theory. This article presents an analysis of …
Do state funding, geographic location, and networks matter
Using a uniquely constructed data set, we look at the ecologies of creative careers in film/TV-drama/theatre, using a detailed interview questionnaire case study of eighty-two prominent workers in the Irish film/TV-drama/theatre sectors. Three influences on career progression are given special attention: state patronage, geographic location and networks. There is strong evidence to show that those interviewed consider state patronage as very impo…
Our Tarkine, Our Future”
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) represents the miners on the West Coast of Tasmania. When the future of mining on much of the West Coast was threatened by the environmentalists' proposed National Heritage listing of the Tarkine region, the union campaigned to prevent the listing. Through its embeddedness in place, the AWU was able to use a sense of place, memory and identity to construct a community campaign that moved beyond the West Coast in…
Good Riddance to the Stinkin' Place
As areas have deindustrialised, the factories that once symbolised prosperity and constancy are abandoned. These buildings are imbued with the memories of the workers and local people and can become the site of contest over visions of the past, present and future. In Burnie, Tasmania, the Associated Pulp and Paper Mills factory closed in 2010 and was demolished in 2012. There was a sense of ambivalence around these buildings that had dominated Bu…
Kitsch as Authenticity
Understanding Behavior
James D. Loy and Calvin Peters: Mortifying reflections: primatology and the human disciplines Nancy A. Nicholson: Maternal behaviour in human and non-human primates David Taub and Patrick Mehlman: Primate paternalistic investment: a cross-species view Janice Chism: Ontogeny of behaviour in humans and non-human primates: the search for common ground Linda D. Wolfe: Human evolution and the sexual behaviour of female primates Ronald D. Nadler and Ch…
How to Audition
Body Wisdom
Strutting and Fretting
The actor is probably the most neglected subject in the vast galaxy of Shakespearean research. The novice actor is certainly the most neglected category in the relatively narrow body of literature on performing Shakespeare. Since the actor is the essential final link between script and audience, and the novice (given the commitment of most universities to perform Shakespeare every one to four seasons) is the actor most frequently seen attempting …
Acting with Style
Grooming site preferences in primates and their functional implications
John Tyndall, Pantheist
Understanding Behavior
James D. Loy and Calvin Peters: Mortifying reflections: primatology and the human disciplines Nancy A. Nicholson: Maternal behaviour in human and non-human primates David Taub and Patrick Mehlman: Primate paternalistic investment: a cross-species view Janice Chism: Ontogeny of behaviour in humans and non-human primates: the search for common ground Linda D. Wolfe: Human evolution and the sexual behaviour of female primates Ronald D. Nadler and Ch…
The evolutionary ecology of the primate brain
Introduction Comparative studies of the brain have long intrigued and frustrated researchers. They have intrigued because of what they might reveal about the evolutionary forces shaping cognitive attributes. They have frustrated because the results have been so difficult to interpret, leading to a raft of further questions. What is the cognitive significance of differences in brain size? Do correlations between brain size and ecology indicate sel…
Kitsch as Authenticity
Kitsch as Authenticity
The Royal Family, and
The Royal Family was replaced by the real thing at the Haymarket this past spring. Peter Hall's staging of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's slight examination of a theatrical dynasty (based on the Barrymores) gave way to his production of Oscar Wilde's more complex and witty Lady Windemere's Fan starring members of England's royal theatre family, Vanessa Redgrave and her daughter Joely Richardson
Unions Facing the Future
The current circumstances of trade unions are subject to extensive debate. As a contribution to these debates, three sets of issues are ad dressed : how unions organize and operate in relation to members, how unions reposition and rebuild themselves against changing forms of ownership and different managerial practices, and how unions attempt to face the challenges of multinational capital. Unions have sought to renew and revitalize themselves by…
The politics of union-government relations
Successive governments, particularly in the Anglo-American world, have sought to redefine the state by redrawing the boundaries between the public and private sectors, with marked implications for trade unions. One consequence of this process is that relations between unions and governments are reforged. In Australia, governments have initiated comprehensive processes of corporatisation and privatisation. One result is that previously close and o…
Screening the Irish in Britain
The State, Labour Management and Union Marginalisation at Electrolytic Zinc, Tasmania, 1920-48
While there has been considerable debate about arbitration's role in framing union strategy and tactics, its impact on managerial strategy and subordinating labour has been less explored. Electrolytic Zinc had a strategy of using the industrial regulation system, particularly the Tasmanian wages boards, and participative structures to marginalise trade unions for 15 years. However, these measures failed to completely suppress unionism and encoura…
Good Riddance to the Stinkin' Place
As areas have deindustrialised, the factories that once symbolised prosperity and constancy are abandoned. These buildings are imbued with the memories of the workers and local people and can become the site of contest over visions of the past, present and future. In Burnie, Tasmania, the Associated Pulp and Paper Mills factory closed in 2010 and was demolished in 2012. There was a sense of ambivalence around these buildings that had dominated Bu…
Our Tarkine, Our Future”
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) represents the miners on the West Coast of Tasmania. When the future of mining on much of the West Coast was threatened by the environmentalists' proposed National Heritage listing of the Tarkine region, the union campaigned to prevent the listing. Through its embeddedness in place, the AWU was able to use a sense of place, memory and identity to construct a community campaign that moved beyond the West Coast in…
Do state funding, geographic location, and networks matter
Using a uniquely constructed data set, we look at the ecologies of creative careers in film/TV-drama/theatre, using a detailed interview questionnaire case study of eighty-two prominent workers in the Irish film/TV-drama/theatre sectors. Three influences on career progression are given special attention: state patronage, geographic location and networks. There is strong evidence to show that those interviewed consider state patronage as very impo…
Understanding the dynamics of inequity in collective bargaining
Unions and collective bargaining are generally considered to be the main vehicles for ensuring equity at work. This article questions this assertion by examining distinct forms of inequity between workers in unionised workplaces and, more specifically, the role of collective bargaining in creating, maintaining, reducing or avoiding them. Based on a study conducted in Australia, Canada (Québec), Denmark and France, the situations of inequity exami…
The Charismatic Organization
British Telecom’s 1984 partial privatization set in motion the privatization and deregulation of many international state-owned telecommunications carriers. Most previous research on the privatization and deregulation of state-owned telecommunications carriers has focused on the economic outcomes. However, this was also a time of changes in managerial practice and thinking influenced by organizational theory. This article presents an analysis of …
Trade unions and industrial regeneration in North West Tasmania
As the North West coast of Tasmania, Australia, has deindustrialised, the region's unions have lost membership, power and relevance. This process of deindustrialisation opens up possibilities for the unions to become involved in regeneration as regional development actors and, by moving outside the workplace and engaging with the community, renew and revitalise themselves. But many unions have found it difficult to move beyond their traditional f…
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