Paul Brooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 267687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Brooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooks |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3007-8728 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Exploring the Enablers and Barriers of Developing Remote Cross-cultural Collaboration Between a Rwandan Primary School and a Welsh University
The study identifies key enablers and barriers to effective remote cross-cultural collaboration between Rwandan primary teachers and Welsh academics engaged in collaborative learning. Qualitative analysis of focus group data identified the role of shared interests, consistent communication, and cultural sensitivity in enabling successful collaborations and the potential of technology and logistics to create barriers. The study extends an establis…
At Least I'm My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work
Platform work has grown significantly in the last decade. High-profile legal cases have highlighted the grey area which platform work inhabits in terms of the employment relationship and have raised concerns about the quality and conditions of work. Platform operators claim they are neutral intermediaries, yet often control over scheduling and tasks lies with them. This article presents a theoretical framework that integrates macro and micro-leve…
Solidarities In and Through Work in an Age of Extremes
This article introduces a special issue of Work, Employment and Society on solidarities in and through the experience of work in an age of austerity and political polarisation. It commences by discussing the renaissance of studies of solidarity in the workplace - and beyond. Debates on solidarity as a concept are reviewed in relation to moral economy, labour organising-mobilisation, emotional labour and public sociology. Each of the special issue…
Work, employment and society sans frontières: Extending and Deepening Our Reach
Work, employment and society (WES ) was launched in 1987 in a period in which a number of features of British society were changing rapidly. The vibrancy and the optimism of the 1960s looked increasingly remote and sociology and the study of work reflected the more straitened times that came with the social transformations wrought by Thatcherism. The early 1980s had seen savage deflation, a consequent sharp contraction of the manufacturing indust…
Thirty years after Hochschild's ‘Managed Heart’: Exploring the commodity frontier
The University of Gloucestershire has a vibrant academic community where creative research and cutting-edge scholarship are conducted at a high level. Our learning-led environment enables research to thrive, providing the best support for students
Emotional labour and the living personality at work: Labour power, materialist subjectivity and the dialogical self
This article builds on Hochschild's primary understanding of emotional labour, as an aspect of labour power and sold for a wage, to develop a materialist theory of labour subjectivity from within the Marxist tradition that deepens and extends labour process analysis. It argues that the physical, intellectual and emotional aspects of labour power comprise a dynamic, inter-dependent complex – Marx's living personality at work – and that emotional e…
Partisan, scholarly and active: Arguments for an Organic Public Sociology of Work
Despite a thriving tradition of critical scholarship in United Kingdom-based sociology of work, Burawoy's call for a partisan organic public sociology that is part of 'a social movement beyond the academy' and Bourdieu's plea for committed scholarship in the service of the social movement against neo-liberalism have received scant attention. This article seeks to stimulate debate by presenting a framework for a left-radical organic public sociolo…
Equality and diversity in employment relations: Looking in and Pushing Out of the Industrial Relations Academy
Equality and diversity in employment relations: Looking in and pushing out of the industrial relations academy
Carbon and Nitrogen Export from Semiarid Uplands to Perennial Rivers: Connections and Missing Links, San Pedro River, Arizona, USA
Investigations of biogeochemical processes in semiarid environments have largely focused on either plot studies in the uplands or on in-stream and near stream reaction or transport studies. Recent research permits us to synthesize a conceptual model of how uplands and riparian systems are linked in semiarid climates specific to the San Pedro River basin in Arizona. These studies have demonstrated significant export of both dissolved and sediment …
The Alienated Heart: Hochschild's 'emotional labour' thesis and the anticapitalist politics of alienation
Arlie Russell Hochschild's influential emotional labour thesis in The Managed Heart (1983) exposes and opposes the harm wrought by the commodification of human feelings as customer service, and complements contemporary anticapitalist writing with an enduring influence and political relevance that is underpinned by Hochschild's application of Marx's alienation theory. Critics have sought to blunt the politics of her thesis by rejecting as absoluti…
In critical defence of 'emotional labour: Refuting Bolton’s critique of Hochschild’s concept
Sharon Bolton's comprehensive critique of Hochschild's concept of 'emotional labour' is flawed by her misinterpretation of its primary form as an aspect of labour power. Consequently, she erroneously argues that emotional labour is commodified only when transformed into commercial service work. However, emotion workers experience commodification of their labour power as wage-labour, irrespective of the nature of their product. Bolton also argues …
Customer oriented militants? A critique of the 'customer oriented bureaucracy' theory on front-line service worker collectivism
This critique challenges the Customer Oriented Bureaucracy (COB) theory’s argument that the experience of customer service is pivotal to the formation of front-line service worker collectivism. COB’s rejection of the major tenets of Marxist analysis, thereby denying the exploitative and class nature of service work, results in Korczynski theorising front-line worker collectivism as based only on the shared experience of doing customer service rat…
Two Park Street: A Publishing Memoir
Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America
In critical defence of 'emotional labour: Refuting Bolton’s critique of Hochschild’s concept
Sharon Bolton's comprehensive critique of Hochschild's concept of 'emotional labour' is flawed by her misinterpretation of its primary form as an aspect of labour power. Consequently, she erroneously argues that emotional labour is commodified only when transformed into commercial service work. However, emotion workers experience commodification of their labour power as wage-labour, irrespective of the nature of their product. Bolton also argues …
At Least I'm My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work
Platform work has grown significantly in the last decade. High-profile legal cases have highlighted the grey area which platform work inhabits in terms of the employment relationship and have raised concerns about the quality and conditions of work. Platform operators claim they are neutral intermediaries, yet often control over scheduling and tasks lies with them. This article presents a theoretical framework that integrates macro and micro-leve…
Partisan, scholarly and active: Arguments for an Organic Public Sociology of Work
Despite a thriving tradition of critical scholarship in United Kingdom-based sociology of work, Burawoy's call for a partisan organic public sociology that is part of 'a social movement beyond the academy' and Bourdieu's plea for committed scholarship in the service of the social movement against neo-liberalism have received scant attention. This article seeks to stimulate debate by presenting a framework for a left-radical organic public sociolo…
Solidarities In and Through Work in an Age of Extremes
This article introduces a special issue of Work, Employment and Society on solidarities in and through the experience of work in an age of austerity and political polarisation. It commences by discussing the renaissance of studies of solidarity in the workplace - and beyond. Debates on solidarity as a concept are reviewed in relation to moral economy, labour organising-mobilisation, emotional labour and public sociology. Each of the special issue…
The Alienated Heart: Hochschild's 'emotional labour' thesis and the anticapitalist politics of alienation
Arlie Russell Hochschild's influential emotional labour thesis in The Managed Heart (1983) exposes and opposes the harm wrought by the commodification of human feelings as customer service, and complements contemporary anticapitalist writing with an enduring influence and political relevance that is underpinned by Hochschild's application of Marx's alienation theory. Critics have sought to blunt the politics of her thesis by rejecting as absoluti…
Work, employment and society sans frontières: Extending and Deepening Our Reach
Work, employment and society (WES ) was launched in 1987 in a period in which a number of features of British society were changing rapidly. The vibrancy and the optimism of the 1960s looked increasingly remote and sociology and the study of work reflected the more straitened times that came with the social transformations wrought by Thatcherism. The early 1980s had seen savage deflation, a consequent sharp contraction of the manufacturing indust…
Emotional labour and the living personality at work: Labour power, materialist subjectivity and the dialogical self
This article builds on Hochschild's primary understanding of emotional labour, as an aspect of labour power and sold for a wage, to develop a materialist theory of labour subjectivity from within the Marxist tradition that deepens and extends labour process analysis. It argues that the physical, intellectual and emotional aspects of labour power comprise a dynamic, inter-dependent complex – Marx's living personality at work – and that emotional e…
Customer oriented militants? A critique of the 'customer oriented bureaucracy' theory on front-line service worker collectivism
This critique challenges the Customer Oriented Bureaucracy (COB) theory’s argument that the experience of customer service is pivotal to the formation of front-line service worker collectivism. COB’s rejection of the major tenets of Marxist analysis, thereby denying the exploitative and class nature of service work, results in Korczynski theorising front-line worker collectivism as based only on the shared experience of doing customer service rat…
Thirty years after Hochschild's ‘Managed Heart’: Exploring the commodity frontier
The University of Gloucestershire has a vibrant academic community where creative research and cutting-edge scholarship are conducted at a high level. Our learning-led environment enables research to thrive, providing the best support for students
Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America
Two Park Street: A Publishing Memoir
Customer oriented militants? A critique of the 'customer oriented bureaucracy' theory on front-line service worker collectivism
This critique challenges the Customer Oriented Bureaucracy (COB) theory’s argument that the experience of customer service is pivotal to the formation of front-line service worker collectivism. COB’s rejection of the major tenets of Marxist analysis, thereby denying the exploitative and class nature of service work, results in Korczynski theorising front-line worker collectivism as based only on the shared experience of doing customer service rat…
The Alienated Heart: Hochschild's 'emotional labour' thesis and the anticapitalist politics of alienation
Arlie Russell Hochschild's influential emotional labour thesis in The Managed Heart (1983) exposes and opposes the harm wrought by the commodification of human feelings as customer service, and complements contemporary anticapitalist writing with an enduring influence and political relevance that is underpinned by Hochschild's application of Marx's alienation theory. Critics have sought to blunt the politics of her thesis by rejecting as absoluti…
In critical defence of 'emotional labour: Refuting Bolton’s critique of Hochschild’s concept
Sharon Bolton's comprehensive critique of Hochschild's concept of 'emotional labour' is flawed by her misinterpretation of its primary form as an aspect of labour power. Consequently, she erroneously argues that emotional labour is commodified only when transformed into commercial service work. However, emotion workers experience commodification of their labour power as wage-labour, irrespective of the nature of their product. Bolton also argues …
Equality and diversity in employment relations: Looking in and Pushing Out of the Industrial Relations Academy
Equality and diversity in employment relations: Looking in and pushing out of the industrial relations academy
Carbon and Nitrogen Export from Semiarid Uplands to Perennial Rivers: Connections and Missing Links, San Pedro River, Arizona, USA
Investigations of biogeochemical processes in semiarid environments have largely focused on either plot studies in the uplands or on in-stream and near stream reaction or transport studies. Recent research permits us to synthesize a conceptual model of how uplands and riparian systems are linked in semiarid climates specific to the San Pedro River basin in Arizona. These studies have demonstrated significant export of both dissolved and sediment …
Thirty years after Hochschild's ‘Managed Heart’: Exploring the commodity frontier
The University of Gloucestershire has a vibrant academic community where creative research and cutting-edge scholarship are conducted at a high level. Our learning-led environment enables research to thrive, providing the best support for students
Emotional labour and the living personality at work: Labour power, materialist subjectivity and the dialogical self
This article builds on Hochschild's primary understanding of emotional labour, as an aspect of labour power and sold for a wage, to develop a materialist theory of labour subjectivity from within the Marxist tradition that deepens and extends labour process analysis. It argues that the physical, intellectual and emotional aspects of labour power comprise a dynamic, inter-dependent complex – Marx's living personality at work – and that emotional e…
Partisan, scholarly and active: Arguments for an Organic Public Sociology of Work
Despite a thriving tradition of critical scholarship in United Kingdom-based sociology of work, Burawoy's call for a partisan organic public sociology that is part of 'a social movement beyond the academy' and Bourdieu's plea for committed scholarship in the service of the social movement against neo-liberalism have received scant attention. This article seeks to stimulate debate by presenting a framework for a left-radical organic public sociolo…
Work, employment and society sans frontières: Extending and Deepening Our Reach
Work, employment and society (WES ) was launched in 1987 in a period in which a number of features of British society were changing rapidly. The vibrancy and the optimism of the 1960s looked increasingly remote and sociology and the study of work reflected the more straitened times that came with the social transformations wrought by Thatcherism. The early 1980s had seen savage deflation, a consequent sharp contraction of the manufacturing indust…
Solidarities In and Through Work in an Age of Extremes
This article introduces a special issue of Work, Employment and Society on solidarities in and through the experience of work in an age of austerity and political polarisation. It commences by discussing the renaissance of studies of solidarity in the workplace - and beyond. Debates on solidarity as a concept are reviewed in relation to moral economy, labour organising-mobilisation, emotional labour and public sociology. Each of the special issue…
At Least I'm My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work
Platform work has grown significantly in the last decade. High-profile legal cases have highlighted the grey area which platform work inhabits in terms of the employment relationship and have raised concerns about the quality and conditions of work. Platform operators claim they are neutral intermediaries, yet often control over scheduling and tasks lies with them. This article presents a theoretical framework that integrates macro and micro-leve…
Exploring the Enablers and Barriers of Developing Remote Cross-cultural Collaboration Between a Rwandan Primary School and a Welsh University
The study identifies key enablers and barriers to effective remote cross-cultural collaboration between Rwandan primary teachers and Welsh academics engaged in collaborative learning. Qualitative analysis of focus group data identified the role of shared interests, consistent communication, and cultural sensitivity in enabling successful collaborations and the potential of technology and logistics to create barriers. The study extends an establis…
Sociology (11 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Emotional labor (3 works)