Chris Forde
Biographic Data
| ID | 246338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Forde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Forde |
| SIGNATURE | FORDE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6484-1704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 276 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A crisis-induced bricolage policy in Australia: Ethical contradictions in policymaking in times of crisis
Building on Oliver’s (2020) concept of governmentality-effected neglect and applying an ethical lens, this paper examines how ideas and discourse shape migration and social policy during crises, particularly the role of state assumptions in fostering ethical contradictions in policy. We analyse secondary material and original qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with macro-level policymakers, meso-level civil societal actors and indiv…
Varieties of digitalisation? A comparison of employment services digitalisation in the UK and Australia
This article examines the digitalisation of employment services in the UK and Australia, countries that have been on similar policy trajectories with respect to the development of quasi‐markets and increased digitalisation. The article deploys comparative mixed methods comprising surveys of employment service providers and interviews with providers and technology developers in both countries to analyse the extent of, forms and challenges around d…
Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy
The article develops a novel conceptualisation of labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy, extending current understandings in two ways. First, we situate platform work historically, in the longue durée of paid work under capitalism. Secondly, we introduce a consideration of social structure into debates on union practices often framed in terms of agency. Building on Silver and the Webbs, we highlight the importance in platform w…
Furloughing and Covid-19: Assessing regulatory reform of the state
This article assesses regulatory reform of the state in the context of the move to furloughing in the UK. It establishes that furloughing was a successful response to the COVID-19 crisis, partly because it challenged the traditional UK crisis response of non-state intervention in the labour market. Furloughing prevented higher unemployment and enabled a swifter recovery. The article also identifies the limits of furloughing (not least its tempora…
The UK National Health Service's migration infrastructure in times of Brexit and Covid ‐19: Disjunctures, continuities and innovations
The COVID‐19 pandemic and Brexit were separate yet inter‐related developments which affected the British National Health Service (NHS). The UK's state‐funded health sector had historically relied on migrant labour and depended on a migration infrastructure designed to solve its nursing labour shortages. The analysis of primary qualitative and secondary quantitative data shows that the NHS migration infrastructure increased its orientation towards…
Leadership at all levels: System alignment through empowerment in Scottish education
This article examines the policy construction of leadership at all levels in Scottish education. In the current reforms ‘leadership at all levels’ is being used to mobilise support around changes to the role of the headteacher and of the local authorities (LAs) to bring about greater system alignment. From a critical policy analysis six themes are reported on: (1) Social Justice Ideology and the Equity Agenda – Perception Versus Reality?; (2) Mob…
Caring practices and social justice leadership: Case studies of school principals in Scotland and USA
This article explores how headteachers/principals engage in social justice leadership practice using data gathered from the Scottish and American contributions to the International School Leadership Development Network’s (ISLDN) research on social justice leadership. While the literature focuses on high-level strategies to address issues of equity there is limited discussion of the day-to-day practice of social justice leadership. In fostering in…
Remember the Chechens: A Process-Tracing Analysis of the Evolution of Chechen Terrorism
This explorative study uses descriptive process tracing to outline the evolution of Chechen terrorism from 1994-2017. Analysis begins with simple descriptive statistics that characterize data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and identify those years in which significant changes occurred in the processes, environmental context, and overall security conditions in Chechnya. A detailed narrative is then given to contextualize the security sce…
Micro‐ and meso‐regulatory spaces of labour mobility power: The role of ethnic and kinship networks in shaping work‐related movements of post‐2004 Central Eastern European migrants to the United Kingd…
European Union (EU) enlargement in 2004 produced a multi‐layered regulatory space structuring labour mobility between Central Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. Building on a critical revaluation of the concept of labour mobility power as a phenomenon that cannot be reduced to earnings' maximisation, the paper contends that although post‐2004 migration was nested in the macro‐regulatory mechanism of EU freedom of movement of labour, kinship a…
The worker branch in Yorkshire as a way of organising Polish migrants: Exploring the Process of Carving Out Diasporic Spaces Within the Trade Union Structure
While post-2004 Polish labour migration to the UK was underpinned by diasporic spaces instrumental in facilitating social and labour market adjustments, the institutions of the host society such as trade unions also sought to establish links with migrants. The analysis of interactions between UK unions and EU migrants focused on organising strategies and specific provisions such as English language learning. However, the discussion tended to igno…
Labour market regulation and the 'competition state: An analysis of the implementation of the Agency Working Regulations in the UK
This article examines the changing role of the state, through an analysis of the development and implementation of the EU Temporary Agency Work Directive in the UK. The article outlines and utilizes the concept of the 'competition state' to help frame and comprehend the UK Government's approach to negotiating and shaping the Directive. Using archival, secondary and primary research, the article shows how the state continues to exercise important …
Clear, rigorous and relevant: Publishing quantitative research articles in Work, employment and society
This article was published in the journal, Work, Employment and Society [Sage Publications / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017014526448
Reflections on work and employment into the 21st century: Between Equal Rights, Force Decides
In this introductory article, the editors of Work, Employment and Society reflect on the journal's body of published work and present the main contributions of the 25-year anniversary issue. As a journal of record WES is now well established and offers extensive conceptual insights into, and empirical analysis of, contemporary trends and experiences of work, employment and unemployment. Yet academic scholarship should also aspire to comment, crit…
Networks of Support for New Migrant Communities: Institutional Goals versus Substantive Goals
This article examines the role of support mechanisms for new migrant communities provided by networks of statutory, third-sector and refugee community organisations. The article explores the dynamics of the relationships between support groups, with analysis located in the urban context of NorthTown. The findings point to the possibility of tension between migrant support groups where there is a perceived need to compete over resources or politic…
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: Different Voices, Same Language
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society : different voices, same language Foreward
The more things change… towards 25 years of Work, Employment and Society
Redundancy as a critical life event: Moving on from the Welsh steel industry through career change
This article investigates the process of moving on from redundancy in the Welsh steel industry among individuals seeking new careers. It identifies a spectrum of career change experience, ranging from those who had actively planned their career change, prior to the redundancies, to those 'at a career crossroads', for whom there were tensions between future projects, present contingencies and past identities. It suggests that the process of moving…
The rhetoric of the 'good worker' versus the realities of employers' use and the experiences of migrant workers
The article examines the attitudes and strategies of a UK based employer as they developed their use of migrant labour in the latest manifestation of a strategy that targeted groups of vulnerable workers with lower labour market power. Management's celebration of the 'good worker', based on the stereotyping of the perceived attributes of immigrant employees, resonated with the 'business case' and 'resource based view' debates within the human res…
You know we are not an Employment Agency”: Manpower, Government, and the Development of the Temporary Help Industry in Britain
This article looks at the early development of the temporary help industry in Britain. It focuses on the activities of one of the largest suppliers of temporary workers, Manpower, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on material from The UK National Archives, the article examines Manpower's efforts to gain access as a genuine employer to the state employment exchange network to advertise their temporary vacancies. The article reveals the in…
All that is Solid: Class, Identity and the Maintenance of a Collective Orientation amongst Redundant Steelworkers
This article explores the importance of class and collectivism to personal identity, and the role this played during a period of personal and collective crisis created by mass redundancy in the Welsh steel industry. The research findings demonstrate the importance of occupational identity to individual and collective identity formation. The apparent desire to maintain this collective identity acted as a form of resistance to the increased individ…
The social dynamics of changing practice
In this paper we develop a socio-dynamic account for the impact of continuing professional development (CPD) on practice. The model we propose for changing practice challenges the essentially individualised explanation of practical learning offered by a number of writers and researchers in the field of CPD such as Joyce and Showers (1988 Joyce B Showers J (1988) Student achievement through staff development (London, Longman) [Google Scholar]), Er…
Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market
Temporary Arrangements: The Activities of Employment Agencies in the UK
Temporary employment agency working has increased dramatically in recent years. Labour Force Survey figures reveal that the number of workers employed on a temporary basis through agencies increased in the UK from 50,000 in 1984 to 250,000 in 1999, by which point temporary agency staff (temps) constituted 1.1 per cent of the employed workforce (Casey 1988: 490; Department of Trade and Industry 1999: 109). Studies which have considered UK employer…
The rhetoric of the 'good worker' versus the realities of employers' use and the experiences of migrant workers
The article examines the attitudes and strategies of a UK based employer as they developed their use of migrant labour in the latest manifestation of a strategy that targeted groups of vulnerable workers with lower labour market power. Management's celebration of the 'good worker', based on the stereotyping of the perceived attributes of immigrant employees, resonated with the 'business case' and 'resource based view' debates within the human res…
Temporary Arrangements: The Activities of Employment Agencies in the UK
Temporary employment agency working has increased dramatically in recent years. Labour Force Survey figures reveal that the number of workers employed on a temporary basis through agencies increased in the UK from 50,000 in 1984 to 250,000 in 1999, by which point temporary agency staff (temps) constituted 1.1 per cent of the employed workforce (Casey 1988: 490; Department of Trade and Industry 1999: 109). Studies which have considered UK employer…
All that is Solid: Class, Identity and the Maintenance of a Collective Orientation amongst Redundant Steelworkers
This article explores the importance of class and collectivism to personal identity, and the role this played during a period of personal and collective crisis created by mass redundancy in the Welsh steel industry. The research findings demonstrate the importance of occupational identity to individual and collective identity formation. The apparent desire to maintain this collective identity acted as a form of resistance to the increased individ…
Redundancy as a critical life event: Moving on from the Welsh steel industry through career change
This article investigates the process of moving on from redundancy in the Welsh steel industry among individuals seeking new careers. It identifies a spectrum of career change experience, ranging from those who had actively planned their career change, prior to the redundancies, to those 'at a career crossroads', for whom there were tensions between future projects, present contingencies and past identities. It suggests that the process of moving…
Labour market regulation and the 'competition state: An analysis of the implementation of the Agency Working Regulations in the UK
This article examines the changing role of the state, through an analysis of the development and implementation of the EU Temporary Agency Work Directive in the UK. The article outlines and utilizes the concept of the 'competition state' to help frame and comprehend the UK Government's approach to negotiating and shaping the Directive. Using archival, secondary and primary research, the article shows how the state continues to exercise important …
Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy
The article develops a novel conceptualisation of labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy, extending current understandings in two ways. First, we situate platform work historically, in the longue durée of paid work under capitalism. Secondly, we introduce a consideration of social structure into debates on union practices often framed in terms of agency. Building on Silver and the Webbs, we highlight the importance in platform w…
Networks of Support for New Migrant Communities: Institutional Goals versus Substantive Goals
This article examines the role of support mechanisms for new migrant communities provided by networks of statutory, third-sector and refugee community organisations. The article explores the dynamics of the relationships between support groups, with analysis located in the urban context of NorthTown. The findings point to the possibility of tension between migrant support groups where there is a perceived need to compete over resources or politic…
Clear, rigorous and relevant: Publishing quantitative research articles in Work, employment and society
This article was published in the journal, Work, Employment and Society [Sage Publications / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017014526448
Reflections on work and employment into the 21st century: Between Equal Rights, Force Decides
In this introductory article, the editors of Work, Employment and Society reflect on the journal's body of published work and present the main contributions of the 25-year anniversary issue. As a journal of record WES is now well established and offers extensive conceptual insights into, and empirical analysis of, contemporary trends and experiences of work, employment and unemployment. Yet academic scholarship should also aspire to comment, crit…
The social dynamics of changing practice
In this paper we develop a socio-dynamic account for the impact of continuing professional development (CPD) on practice. The model we propose for changing practice challenges the essentially individualised explanation of practical learning offered by a number of writers and researchers in the field of CPD such as Joyce and Showers (1988 Joyce B Showers J (1988) Student achievement through staff development (London, Longman) [Google Scholar]), Er…
The worker branch in Yorkshire as a way of organising Polish migrants: Exploring the Process of Carving Out Diasporic Spaces Within the Trade Union Structure
While post-2004 Polish labour migration to the UK was underpinned by diasporic spaces instrumental in facilitating social and labour market adjustments, the institutions of the host society such as trade unions also sought to establish links with migrants. The analysis of interactions between UK unions and EU migrants focused on organising strategies and specific provisions such as English language learning. However, the discussion tended to igno…
You know we are not an Employment Agency”: Manpower, Government, and the Development of the Temporary Help Industry in Britain
This article looks at the early development of the temporary help industry in Britain. It focuses on the activities of one of the largest suppliers of temporary workers, Manpower, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on material from The UK National Archives, the article examines Manpower's efforts to gain access as a genuine employer to the state employment exchange network to advertise their temporary vacancies. The article reveals the in…
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: Different Voices, Same Language
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society : different voices, same language Foreward
Varieties of digitalisation? A comparison of employment services digitalisation in the UK and Australia
This article examines the digitalisation of employment services in the UK and Australia, countries that have been on similar policy trajectories with respect to the development of quasi‐markets and increased digitalisation. The article deploys comparative mixed methods comprising surveys of employment service providers and interviews with providers and technology developers in both countries to analyse the extent of, forms and challenges around d…
The UK National Health Service's migration infrastructure in times of Brexit and Covid ‐19: Disjunctures, continuities and innovations
The COVID‐19 pandemic and Brexit were separate yet inter‐related developments which affected the British National Health Service (NHS). The UK's state‐funded health sector had historically relied on migrant labour and depended on a migration infrastructure designed to solve its nursing labour shortages. The analysis of primary qualitative and secondary quantitative data shows that the NHS migration infrastructure increased its orientation towards…
Micro‐ and meso‐regulatory spaces of labour mobility power: The role of ethnic and kinship networks in shaping work‐related movements of post‐2004 Central Eastern European migrants to the United Kingd…
European Union (EU) enlargement in 2004 produced a multi‐layered regulatory space structuring labour mobility between Central Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. Building on a critical revaluation of the concept of labour mobility power as a phenomenon that cannot be reduced to earnings' maximisation, the paper contends that although post‐2004 migration was nested in the macro‐regulatory mechanism of EU freedom of movement of labour, kinship a…
Temporary Arrangements: The Activities of Employment Agencies in the UK
Temporary employment agency working has increased dramatically in recent years. Labour Force Survey figures reveal that the number of workers employed on a temporary basis through agencies increased in the UK from 50,000 in 1984 to 250,000 in 1999, by which point temporary agency staff (temps) constituted 1.1 per cent of the employed workforce (Casey 1988: 490; Department of Trade and Industry 1999: 109). Studies which have considered UK employer…
The social dynamics of changing practice
In this paper we develop a socio-dynamic account for the impact of continuing professional development (CPD) on practice. The model we propose for changing practice challenges the essentially individualised explanation of practical learning offered by a number of writers and researchers in the field of CPD such as Joyce and Showers (1988 Joyce B Showers J (1988) Student achievement through staff development (London, Longman) [Google Scholar]), Er…
Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market
All that is Solid: Class, Identity and the Maintenance of a Collective Orientation amongst Redundant Steelworkers
This article explores the importance of class and collectivism to personal identity, and the role this played during a period of personal and collective crisis created by mass redundancy in the Welsh steel industry. The research findings demonstrate the importance of occupational identity to individual and collective identity formation. The apparent desire to maintain this collective identity acted as a form of resistance to the increased individ…
You know we are not an Employment Agency”: Manpower, Government, and the Development of the Temporary Help Industry in Britain
This article looks at the early development of the temporary help industry in Britain. It focuses on the activities of one of the largest suppliers of temporary workers, Manpower, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on material from The UK National Archives, the article examines Manpower's efforts to gain access as a genuine employer to the state employment exchange network to advertise their temporary vacancies. The article reveals the in…
Redundancy as a critical life event: Moving on from the Welsh steel industry through career change
This article investigates the process of moving on from redundancy in the Welsh steel industry among individuals seeking new careers. It identifies a spectrum of career change experience, ranging from those who had actively planned their career change, prior to the redundancies, to those 'at a career crossroads', for whom there were tensions between future projects, present contingencies and past identities. It suggests that the process of moving…
The rhetoric of the 'good worker' versus the realities of employers' use and the experiences of migrant workers
The article examines the attitudes and strategies of a UK based employer as they developed their use of migrant labour in the latest manifestation of a strategy that targeted groups of vulnerable workers with lower labour market power. Management's celebration of the 'good worker', based on the stereotyping of the perceived attributes of immigrant employees, resonated with the 'business case' and 'resource based view' debates within the human res…
The more things change… towards 25 years of Work, Employment and Society
Networks of Support for New Migrant Communities: Institutional Goals versus Substantive Goals
This article examines the role of support mechanisms for new migrant communities provided by networks of statutory, third-sector and refugee community organisations. The article explores the dynamics of the relationships between support groups, with analysis located in the urban context of NorthTown. The findings point to the possibility of tension between migrant support groups where there is a perceived need to compete over resources or politic…
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: Different Voices, Same Language
Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society : different voices, same language Foreward
Reflections on work and employment into the 21st century: Between Equal Rights, Force Decides
In this introductory article, the editors of Work, Employment and Society reflect on the journal's body of published work and present the main contributions of the 25-year anniversary issue. As a journal of record WES is now well established and offers extensive conceptual insights into, and empirical analysis of, contemporary trends and experiences of work, employment and unemployment. Yet academic scholarship should also aspire to comment, crit…
Clear, rigorous and relevant: Publishing quantitative research articles in Work, employment and society
This article was published in the journal, Work, Employment and Society [Sage Publications / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017014526448
Labour market regulation and the 'competition state: An analysis of the implementation of the Agency Working Regulations in the UK
This article examines the changing role of the state, through an analysis of the development and implementation of the EU Temporary Agency Work Directive in the UK. The article outlines and utilizes the concept of the 'competition state' to help frame and comprehend the UK Government's approach to negotiating and shaping the Directive. Using archival, secondary and primary research, the article shows how the state continues to exercise important …
Remember the Chechens: A Process-Tracing Analysis of the Evolution of Chechen Terrorism
This explorative study uses descriptive process tracing to outline the evolution of Chechen terrorism from 1994-2017. Analysis begins with simple descriptive statistics that characterize data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and identify those years in which significant changes occurred in the processes, environmental context, and overall security conditions in Chechnya. A detailed narrative is then given to contextualize the security sce…
Micro‐ and meso‐regulatory spaces of labour mobility power: The role of ethnic and kinship networks in shaping work‐related movements of post‐2004 Central Eastern European migrants to the United Kingd…
European Union (EU) enlargement in 2004 produced a multi‐layered regulatory space structuring labour mobility between Central Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. Building on a critical revaluation of the concept of labour mobility power as a phenomenon that cannot be reduced to earnings' maximisation, the paper contends that although post‐2004 migration was nested in the macro‐regulatory mechanism of EU freedom of movement of labour, kinship a…
The worker branch in Yorkshire as a way of organising Polish migrants: Exploring the Process of Carving Out Diasporic Spaces Within the Trade Union Structure
While post-2004 Polish labour migration to the UK was underpinned by diasporic spaces instrumental in facilitating social and labour market adjustments, the institutions of the host society such as trade unions also sought to establish links with migrants. The analysis of interactions between UK unions and EU migrants focused on organising strategies and specific provisions such as English language learning. However, the discussion tended to igno…
Leadership at all levels: System alignment through empowerment in Scottish education
This article examines the policy construction of leadership at all levels in Scottish education. In the current reforms ‘leadership at all levels’ is being used to mobilise support around changes to the role of the headteacher and of the local authorities (LAs) to bring about greater system alignment. From a critical policy analysis six themes are reported on: (1) Social Justice Ideology and the Equity Agenda – Perception Versus Reality?; (2) Mob…
Caring practices and social justice leadership: Case studies of school principals in Scotland and USA
This article explores how headteachers/principals engage in social justice leadership practice using data gathered from the Scottish and American contributions to the International School Leadership Development Network’s (ISLDN) research on social justice leadership. While the literature focuses on high-level strategies to address issues of equity there is limited discussion of the day-to-day practice of social justice leadership. In fostering in…
Furloughing and Covid-19: Assessing regulatory reform of the state
This article assesses regulatory reform of the state in the context of the move to furloughing in the UK. It establishes that furloughing was a successful response to the COVID-19 crisis, partly because it challenged the traditional UK crisis response of non-state intervention in the labour market. Furloughing prevented higher unemployment and enabled a swifter recovery. The article also identifies the limits of furloughing (not least its tempora…
The UK National Health Service's migration infrastructure in times of Brexit and Covid ‐19: Disjunctures, continuities and innovations
The COVID‐19 pandemic and Brexit were separate yet inter‐related developments which affected the British National Health Service (NHS). The UK's state‐funded health sector had historically relied on migrant labour and depended on a migration infrastructure designed to solve its nursing labour shortages. The analysis of primary qualitative and secondary quantitative data shows that the NHS migration infrastructure increased its orientation towards…
Theorising labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy
The article develops a novel conceptualisation of labour unrest and trade unionism in the platform economy, extending current understandings in two ways. First, we situate platform work historically, in the longue durée of paid work under capitalism. Secondly, we introduce a consideration of social structure into debates on union practices often framed in terms of agency. Building on Silver and the Webbs, we highlight the importance in platform w…
Varieties of digitalisation? A comparison of employment services digitalisation in the UK and Australia
This article examines the digitalisation of employment services in the UK and Australia, countries that have been on similar policy trajectories with respect to the development of quasi‐markets and increased digitalisation. The article deploys comparative mixed methods comprising surveys of employment service providers and interviews with providers and technology developers in both countries to analyse the extent of, forms and challenges around d…
A crisis-induced bricolage policy in Australia: Ethical contradictions in policymaking in times of crisis
Building on Oliver’s (2020) concept of governmentality-effected neglect and applying an ethical lens, this paper examines how ideas and discourse shape migration and social policy during crises, particularly the role of state assumptions in fostering ethical contradictions in policy. We analyse secondary material and original qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with macro-level policymakers, meso-level civil societal actors and indiv…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Economics (12 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (12 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Social science (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Law (7 works)