Alan Draper
Biographic Data
| ID | 302045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Draper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Draper |
| SIGNATURE | DRAPER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2264-1290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Food Systems Under Pressure
This special section represents an exciting new multiplatform collection that contains a range of contributions that all focus on contemporary food systems and the ways in which they operate to influence consumption patterns. In addition to conventional research papers, the section also includes a Sociology in Action paper containing a shorter opinion piece and Beyond the Text, which is a creative audio-visual contribution. Some of the papers der…
The chimera of choice in UK food policy 1976–2018
Purpose This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of “choice” as it appears in UK policy documents relating to food and public health. A dominant policy approach to improving public health has been health promotion and health education with the intention to change behaviour and encourage healthier eating. Given the emphasis on evidence-based policy making within the UK, the continued abstraction of choice without definition or explanation…
Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration
Book Review| May 01 2021 Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration Lockheed, Atlanta, and the Struggle for Racial Integration. Patton, Randall L.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019. 244 pp., $59.95 (cloth). Alan Draper Alan Draper St. Lawrence University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2021) 18 (2): 136–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8849460 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Pe…
Well London Phase-1: Results among adults of a cluster-randomised trial of a community engagement approach to improving health behaviours and mental well-being in deprived inner-city neighbourhoods
BACKGROUND: We report the main results, among adults, of a cluster-randomised-trial of Well London, a community-engagement programme promoting healthy eating, physical activity and mental well-being in deprived neighbourhoods. The hypothesis was that benefits would be neighbourhood-wide, and not restricted to intervention participants. The trial was part of a multicomponent process/outcome evaluation which included non-experimental components (se…
Measures of exposure to the Well London Phase-1 intervention and their association with health well-being and social outcomes
In this paper, we describe the measures of intervention exposure used in the cluster randomised trial of the Well London programme, a public health intervention using community engagement and community-based projects to increase physical activity, healthy eating and mental health and well-being in 20 of the most deprived neighbourhoods in London.10 No earmarked resources to support the development of these measures and associated data collection …
A qualitative study exploring parental accounts of feeding pre‐school children in two low‐income populations in the UK
Good nutrition in the early years of life is essential, yet the diets of many pre-school children in the UK are known to be poor. Understanding the decisions parents make when feeding young children is very important in determining what type and nature of interventional support may be developed to promote good nutrition. The aim of this study was to explore using qualitative methods, parental perceptions of feeding their children in order to info…
Methodological development of an exploratory randomised controlled trial of an early years' nutrition intervention: The CHERRY programme ( C hoosing H ealthy E ating when R eally Y oung)
Good nutrition in the early years of life is vitally important for a child's development, growth and health. Children's diets in the United Kingdom are known to be poor, particularly among socially disadvantaged groups, and there is a need for timely and appropriate interventions that support parents to improve the diets of young children. The Medical Research Council has highlighted the importance of conducting developmental and exploratory rese…
Using Participatory Approaches with Older People in a Residential Home in Guyana: Challenges and Tensions
Complaints about dog faeces as a symbolic representation of incivility in London, UK: A qualitative study
During a 'Well London' study, residents were asked about their neighbourhood and its environment. Above all other complaints, 'dog poo' was mentioned as a key concern. Despite low rates of infection and disease among the human population resulting from contact with canine faecal matter, the concerns of the public continue to rate it as a serious public health issue. Most public health studies, therefore, seek to identify processes of transmission…
All Labor Has Dignity”
Book Review| December 01 2012 “All Labor Has Dignity” “All Labor Has Dignity” by King, Martin LutherJr. Edited and introduced by Honey, Michael K.. Boston: Beacon Press, 2011xxxix + 224 pp., $26.95 (cloth) Alan Draper Alan Draper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (4): 99–100. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1726108 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alan Draper; “All L…
OP07 What Shapes Participation in a Community-Based Intervention? Evidence from a Qualitative Evaluation of the Well London Project
Background This paper examines how individual and area-level contextual factors shape participation in a community-based development and health promotion intervention. Well London was a 3-year community development and health promotion programme for improving health behaviours (physical activity and healthy eating) and mental health and wellbeing in areas of high deprivation. The programme aimed to improve individual level health outcomes through…
OP06 Well London: Results of a Cluster-Randomised Trial of a Community Development Approach to Improving Health Behaviours and Mental Wellbeing in Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhoods
Background Few public health interventions combining modification of the social and built environment with individual-level health promotion have been robustly evaluated in the UK. Well London is an assets-based community development programme designed to improve physical activity, healthy eating and mental wellbeing in highly deprived inner-city communities. The programme, delivered between 2007 and 2011, comprised a mix of projects delivering t…
PS48 Processes Of Change: What Are The Specific Pathways And Project Components That Have A Positive Impact On The Well-Being Of Participants In A ‘Well London’ Project
Background This paper presents follow-up data from a qualitative study of a Big Lottery funded ‘Well London’ project; an initiative set up to improve the health and well-being of Londoners living in areas historically marked by social, economic and environmental deprivation. The project introduced a series of health interventions: healthy eating, physical activity, and mental health and well-being, across a total of 20 areas within London. An eva…
Food and public health: Contemporary issues and future directions
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Chasing the dragon: Developing indicators for the assessment of community participation in health programmes
Evaluation of community level interventions to address social and structural determinants of health: A cluster randomised controlled trial
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN68175121
Everybody Was Black Down There: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields
In 1930, almost 13,000 African Americans worked in the coal mines around Birmingham, Alabama. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union's local membership. At the close of the twentieth century, only about 15 percent of Birmingham's miners were black, and the entire mining workforce had been sharply reduced. Robert H. Woodrum offers a challenging interpretation of why this dramatic decline occurred and why…
Improving food provision in a Guyanese home for the elderly: A participatory approach
Objectives To conduct a needs assessment of all aspects of food provision in a residential home and to evaluate a subsequent nutrition intervention. Design An intervention study using a before and after design. A participatory approach was adopted and quantitative and qualitative methods used throughout. The intervention involved a revised menu, kitchen equipment, and establishing wholesale shopping and food donations. Setting A residential home …
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A compilation of energy costs of physical activities
Objectives There were two objectives: first, to review the existing data on energy costs of specified activities in the light of the recommendations made by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization/United Nations University (FAO/WHO/UNU) Expert Consultation of 1985. Second, to compile existing data on the energy costs of physical activities for an updated annexure of the current Expert Consultation on Energy and Prote…
Short cuts to safety: Risk and 'rules of thumb' in accounts of food choice
A number of 'food scares' over the past decade in Europe have generated considerable debate about public understandings of food risk, and the extent to which such understandings impact on decision making. This paper reports on a focus group study of how UK consumers discuss choosing safe food. Strategies for making food choices were, in general, characterised by confidence rather than anxiety. Although concerned in an abstract way with the safety…
No Retreat, No Surrender: Concessions, Resistance, and the End of the Postwar Settlement
Julius Getman, The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998) Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner, Ravenswood: The Steetworkers ' Victory and the Revival of American Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999) Timothy J. Minchin, Forging aCommon Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism During the BASF Lockout (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003) Jonathon D. Rosen…
The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Food Safety and Consumers: Constructions of Choice and Risk
This paper argues that food safety did not arise as a “new” obsession at the end of the twentieth century, but has been an intermittent object of public and policy concern over the last two hundred years in the UK. However, the nature of food policy has shifted over that period, from an orientation towards protecting a largely ignorant public from fraud, through controlling the risks potentially arising from negligence in food–handling, to inform…
Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995
A collection of original essays based on oral history and archival research, this volume illuminates diverse aspects of southern workers' experience in the modern era. Included here are essays on agricultural workers, teachers, and fire fighters, as well as pieces on air transport, paper manufacturing, and aircraft production. Other topics include workers' organizations that fall outside the traditional labor movement and the role of cotton texti…
Chasing the dragon: Developing indicators for the assessment of community participation in health programmes
Measures of exposure to the Well London Phase-1 intervention and their association with health well-being and social outcomes
In this paper, we describe the measures of intervention exposure used in the cluster randomised trial of the Well London programme, a public health intervention using community engagement and community-based projects to increase physical activity, healthy eating and mental health and well-being in 20 of the most deprived neighbourhoods in London.10 No earmarked resources to support the development of these measures and associated data collection …
A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-1967
Labor Politics in Historical Perspective From PAC to COPE A Rope of Sand The Formative Years From Victory to Defeat
Food Safety and Consumers: Constructions of Choice and Risk
This paper argues that food safety did not arise as a “new” obsession at the end of the twentieth century, but has been an intermittent object of public and policy concern over the last two hundred years in the UK. However, the nature of food policy has shifted over that period, from an orientation towards protecting a largely ignorant public from fraud, through controlling the risks potentially arising from negligence in food–handling, to inform…
Well London Phase-1: Results among adults of a cluster-randomised trial of a community engagement approach to improving health behaviours and mental well-being in deprived inner-city neighbourhoods
BACKGROUND: We report the main results, among adults, of a cluster-randomised-trial of Well London, a community-engagement programme promoting healthy eating, physical activity and mental well-being in deprived neighbourhoods. The hypothesis was that benefits would be neighbourhood-wide, and not restricted to intervention participants. The trial was part of a multicomponent process/outcome evaluation which included non-experimental components (se…
The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934-1938
Alan Draper, The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934-1938, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 87-108
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and the New South Industrial Relations
Politics Against Markets: The Social Democratic Road to Power. Gosta Esping-Andersen
Labor and the 1966 elections
A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-1967
Labor Politics in Historical Perspective From PAC to COPE A Rope of Sand The Formative Years From Victory to Defeat
A Rope of Sand: The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, 1955-1967
Do the right thing: The desegregation of union conventions in the south
Brown v. Board of Education and Organized labor in the South
(1994). Brown v. Board of Education and Organized labor in the South. The Historian: Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 75-88
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and the New South Industrial Relations
Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968
Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968
Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968
Journal Article Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954–1968. By Alan Draper. (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1994. x, 234 pp. Cloth, $39.00, ISBN 0-87546-315-0. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-87546-316-9.) Get access Numan V. Bartley Numan V. Bartley University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995,…
Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968
The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934-1938
Alan Draper, The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934-1938, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 87-108
Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968
Eating agendas: Food and nutrition as a social problem
European Social Science History Conference
The first European Social Science History Conference was held in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands on May 9-11,1996. The Conference was organized by the International Institute of Social History and modeled on conferences hosted by the American Social Science History Association. Panels were organized into networks, covering such topics as Family Strategies and Changing Labor Relations; Labor; Nations and Nation-Building; Political Movements; and …
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995
A collection of original essays based on oral history and archival research, this volume illuminates diverse aspects of southern workers' experience in the modern era. Included here are essays on agricultural workers, teachers, and fire fighters, as well as pieces on air transport, paper manufacturing, and aircraft production. Other topics include workers' organizations that fall outside the traditional labor movement and the role of cotton texti…
Food Safety and Consumers: Constructions of Choice and Risk
This paper argues that food safety did not arise as a “new” obsession at the end of the twentieth century, but has been an intermittent object of public and policy concern over the last two hundred years in the UK. However, the nature of food policy has shifted over that period, from an orientation towards protecting a largely ignorant public from fraud, through controlling the risks potentially arising from negligence in food–handling, to inform…
Short cuts to safety: Risk and 'rules of thumb' in accounts of food choice
A number of 'food scares' over the past decade in Europe have generated considerable debate about public understandings of food risk, and the extent to which such understandings impact on decision making. This paper reports on a focus group study of how UK consumers discuss choosing safe food. Strategies for making food choices were, in general, characterised by confidence rather than anxiety. Although concerned in an abstract way with the safety…
No Retreat, No Surrender: Concessions, Resistance, and the End of the Postwar Settlement
Julius Getman, The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998) Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner, Ravenswood: The Steetworkers ' Victory and the Revival of American Labor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999) Timothy J. Minchin, Forging aCommon Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism During the BASF Lockout (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003) Jonathon D. Rosen…
The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
A compilation of energy costs of physical activities
Objectives There were two objectives: first, to review the existing data on energy costs of specified activities in the light of the recommendations made by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization/United Nations University (FAO/WHO/UNU) Expert Consultation of 1985. Second, to compile existing data on the energy costs of physical activities for an updated annexure of the current Expert Consultation on Energy and Prote…
Improving food provision in a Guyanese home for the elderly: A participatory approach
Objectives To conduct a needs assessment of all aspects of food provision in a residential home and to evaluate a subsequent nutrition intervention. Design An intervention study using a before and after design. A participatory approach was adopted and quantitative and qualitative methods used throughout. The intervention involved a revised menu, kitchen equipment, and establishing wholesale shopping and food donations. Setting A residential home …
Featured Title
Everybody Was Black Down There: Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields
In 1930, almost 13,000 African Americans worked in the coal mines around Birmingham, Alabama. They made up 53 percent of the mining workforce and some 60 percent of their union's local membership. At the close of the twentieth century, only about 15 percent of Birmingham's miners were black, and the entire mining workforce had been sharply reduced. Robert H. Woodrum offers a challenging interpretation of why this dramatic decline occurred and why…
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