Gill Ursell
Biographic Data
| ID | 271253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gill Ursell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gill |
| FAMILY NAME | Ursell |
| SIGNATURE | URSELL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Economic and Social Research Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Creating Value and Valuing Creation in Contemporary UK Television: Or "dumbing down" the workforce
On the basis of British evidence, this paper addresses the debate about standards in television, particularly the charge of "dumbing down". It makes this address not in terms of changes in television content but rather by focusing on changes in the working and employment conditions of television production employees. It suggests that a mixture of labour-saving strategies and "growth in the job", varying between public and commercial sectors, have…
State, Capital and Labour: Changing Patterns of Power and Dependence
State, Capital and Labour
Job status and white‐collar members' union activity
The study looks at membership activity and intra‐union relations in one branch of NALGO, the local government union, organizing across all job levels of the white‐collar hierarchy, including managerial grades. From the findings of research on small‐group behaviour and studies of blue‐collar unions, it was hypothesized that members' job status in the managerial system would be positively related to their union activity, and that status would also …
Regional culture and identity in industralized societies: A critical comment
Cornish M., Jackson C., Ursell G. and Walker R. (1977) Regional culture and identity in industrialized societies: a critical comment, Reg. Studies 11, 113–116. This criticism of research on Regional Culture and Identity in North-East England, reported in Reg. Studies 9, 379–393, is based on four major criteria: its definition of the study area; its sole dependence on the survey method; its sampling framework and the manner in which this was deriv…
Creating Value and Valuing Creation in Contemporary UK Television: Or "dumbing down" the workforce
On the basis of British evidence, this paper addresses the debate about standards in television, particularly the charge of "dumbing down". It makes this address not in terms of changes in television content but rather by focusing on changes in the working and employment conditions of television production employees. It suggests that a mixture of labour-saving strategies and "growth in the job", varying between public and commercial sectors, have…
Regional culture and identity in industralized societies: A critical comment
Cornish M., Jackson C., Ursell G. and Walker R. (1977) Regional culture and identity in industrialized societies: a critical comment, Reg. Studies 11, 113–116. This criticism of research on Regional Culture and Identity in North-East England, reported in Reg. Studies 9, 379–393, is based on four major criteria: its definition of the study area; its sole dependence on the survey method; its sampling framework and the manner in which this was deriv…
Job status and white‐collar members' union activity
The study looks at membership activity and intra‐union relations in one branch of NALGO, the local government union, organizing across all job levels of the white‐collar hierarchy, including managerial grades. From the findings of research on small‐group behaviour and studies of blue‐collar unions, it was hypothesized that members' job status in the managerial system would be positively related to their union activity, and that status would also …
State, Capital and Labour
State, Capital and Labour: Changing Patterns of Power and Dependence
Creating Value and Valuing Creation in Contemporary UK Television: Or "dumbing down" the workforce
On the basis of British evidence, this paper addresses the debate about standards in television, particularly the charge of "dumbing down". It makes this address not in terms of changes in television content but rather by focusing on changes in the working and employment conditions of television production employees. It suggests that a mixture of labour-saving strategies and "growth in the job", varying between public and commercial sectors, have…
Economics (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 19th century (1 works) · 20th century (1 works)