John Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Laurentian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9133-4150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Workers as climate actors: What can unions do about climate change? Introduction
Climate change is an existential threat requiring mitigation and adaptation efforts likely to affect workers, their workplaces and their communities. The introduction to this thematic issue of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research explores how workers and their unions become climate actors. In addition to presenting the seven studies featured in this issue, we identify cross-cutting themes emerging from them. These include: the importa…
How do workers and their unions become climate actors? A research framework
This article develops a research framework for understanding workers and their unions as strategic actors in the climate transition, emphasising the centrality of their agency. While climate change poses profound challenges such as job losses, work reorganisation, and health risks, workers are often described as passive recipients of state or employer-led decisions. We conceptualise union engagement along two dimensions: the strategies they pursu…
Being more human: Rooting learning analytics through re sistance and re connection with the values of higher education
Universities are now compelled to attend to metrics that (re)shape our conceptualisation of the student experience. New technologies such as learning analytics (LA) promise the ability to target personalised support to profiled ‘at risk’ students through mapping large-scale historic student engagement data such as attendance, library use, and virtual learning environment activity as well as demographic information and typical student outcomes. Ye…
Financialization and the Decline of Organized Labor: A Study of 18 Advanced Capitalist Countries, 1970–2012
Is financialization contributing to the slow decline of union density that is occurring across most advanced capitalist countries? Combining insights from literatures on financialization, corporate governance, and comparative political economy, we argue that the growing dominance of finance within advanced capitalism weakens unions through several channels, and plays an important but underappreciated role in the deunionization of national workfor…
Financial Contributors
Journal Article 2017 Financial Contributors Get access Political Science Quarterly, Volume 133, Issue 1, Spring 2018, Pages 6-7, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12769 Published: 25 March 2018
Collaborative Learning in a Japanese Language Course: Student and Teacher Experiences
This article describes ethnographic action research that explored experiences of the first author and her undergraduate students as they engaged in collaborative learning (CL) activities in a university Japanese language course. The purpose of the study was to generate new practical knowledge of CL for her, so that she might subsequently improve her teaching practice. A thematic analysis of the interview and descriptive data revealed that the inc…
Neoliberal convergence in North America and Western Europe: Fiscal austerity, privatization, and public sector reform
This article discusses public sector reform in North America and Western Europe. The argument is made that recent comparative literatures have yet to adequately consider governments themselves, and how changes to their budgeting, operation, and collective bargaining structures have affected jobs and income inequality. Drawing on a range of recent OECD and trade union statistics, as well as qualitative studies, it is claimed that governments conve…
The Rise of Finance and the Decline of Organised Labour in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of finance and corporate governance reforms on organised labour since 1980. The argument is made that contemporary institutional and ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ as well as ‘Varieties of Unionism’ perspectives on labour market reform have overstated the power of states, institutions and organised interests in deflecting global economic pressures. Drawing on a range of r…
Global Goods Movement and the Local Burden of Childhood Asthma in Southern California
Objectives. As part of a community-based participatory research effort, we estimated the preventable burden of childhood asthma associated with air pollution in the southern California communities of Long Beach and Riverside. Methods. We calculated attributable fractions for 2 air pollution reduction scenarios to include assessment of the newly recognized health effects associated with residential proximity to major roads and impact from ship emi…
Preferred ‘learning styles’ in students studying sports‐related programmes in higher education in the United Kingdom
This article investigates the ‘preferred learning styles’ and their relationship with grades for students undertaking sports‐related undergraduate programmes at a higher education institution in the UK. Preferred ‘learning styles’ in students in this discipline have been identified as auditory, kinaesthetic and group, although the vast majority of students are multimodal in their learning preferences. Only individual learning style preference was…
Labour market deregulation and the decline of labour power in North America and Western Europe
The goal of this article is to provide a critical evaluation of what has happened to organized labour and labour markets since 1980. It examines the impacts of labour market deregulation on wage share and pay standardization. It also explores how recent economic changes have weakened organized labour and eroded wage setting and social corporatism. The argument is made that contemporary institutional and ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ perspectives on l…
Ungoverned Territories: A Unique Front in the War on Terrorism
This research brief describes a RAND Project AIR FORCE study of the factors that give rise to ungoverned territories and make some of them conducive to terrorists and insurgents
Rodent Allergen in Los Angeles Inner City Homes of Children with Asthma
Teaching and learning in a model-based action research course
We describe an action research course from the point of view of our joint participation as instructor and student. The course is structured and its process is driven by the instructor's model of action research. We discuss the demands that the model places on participants as they develop individual plans for action research. The article concludes with our reflection on participants' experiences and a discussion of assumptions that inform course d…
The Effect of Air Pollution on Lung Development from 10 to 18 Years of Age
BACKGROUND: Whether exposure to air pollution adversely affects the growth of lung function during the period of rapid lung development that occurs between the ages of 10 and 18 years is unknown. METHODS: In this prospective study, we recruited 1759 children (average age, 10 years) from schools in 12 southern California communities and measured lung function annually for eight years. The rate of attrition was approximately 10 percent per year. Th…
Note from the Publisher
Breathless in Los Angeles: The Exhausting Search for Clean Air
Population growth and the proliferation of roadways in Southern California have facilitated a glut of mobile air pollution sources (cars and trucks), resulting in substantial atmospheric pollution. Despite successful efforts over the past 40 years to reduce pollution, an alarming set of health effects attributable to air pollution have been described in Southern California. The Children’s Health Study indicates that reduced lung function growth, …
Medium and message
Education and the Net
Productivity
Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity
List of Plates. List of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction: Modernity, Postmodernity and the Social Sciences (Georges Benko). Part I Reasons, Texts and Debates Around Postmodernism. Postmodern Bloodlines (Michael Dear). Social Theory, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Development (Richard Peet). Shelf Length Zero: The Disappearance of the Geographical Text (Michael Curry). Part II Writing Space, Forming Identities. Re--Presenti…
The Hundred Years War started today: An exploration of electronic peer review
Discusses electronic peer review of academic papers on the Internet. Looks at the changes which may occur with the shift from paper to electronic media. Proposes some guidelines for authors, editors and reviewers using electronic publishing
The British Government and the City-Industry Divide: The Case of the 1914 Financial Crisis
The British Government and the City-Industry Divide: The Case of the 1914 Financial Crisis Get access JOHN PETERS JOHN PETERS University of Wales, College of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 126–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/4.2.126 Published: 01 January 1993
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
Introduction We make the road by walking 2. Formative Years I was always getting in trouble for reading in school Reading has to be a loving event I couldn't use all this book learning I always am in the beginning, as you Pockets of hope: Literacy and citizenship 3. Ideas Without practice there's no knowledge Is it possible just to teach biology? I've always been ambivalent about charismatic leaders The difference between and organizing My expert…
Misreadings and misquotations; reply to Ray on authoritarianism and ethnocentrism
P. SCHEEPERS, A. FELLING, J. PETERS; Misreadings and misquotations; reply to Ray on authoritarianism and ethnocentrism, European Sociological Review, Volum
Social conditions, authoritarianism and ethnocentrism: A theoretical model of the early Frankfurt School updated and tested
n Contains fulltext :\n 3331.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Neoliberal convergence in North America and Western Europe: Fiscal austerity, privatization, and public sector reform
This article discusses public sector reform in North America and Western Europe. The argument is made that recent comparative literatures have yet to adequately consider governments themselves, and how changes to their budgeting, operation, and collective bargaining structures have affected jobs and income inequality. Drawing on a range of recent OECD and trade union statistics, as well as qualitative studies, it is claimed that governments conve…
The Rise of Finance and the Decline of Organised Labour in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of finance and corporate governance reforms on organised labour since 1980. The argument is made that contemporary institutional and ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ as well as ‘Varieties of Unionism’ perspectives on labour market reform have overstated the power of states, institutions and organised interests in deflecting global economic pressures. Drawing on a range of r…
Breathless in Los Angeles: The Exhausting Search for Clean Air
Population growth and the proliferation of roadways in Southern California have facilitated a glut of mobile air pollution sources (cars and trucks), resulting in substantial atmospheric pollution. Despite successful efforts over the past 40 years to reduce pollution, an alarming set of health effects attributable to air pollution have been described in Southern California. The Children’s Health Study indicates that reduced lung function growth, …
Daily Relaxation Response Breaks in a Working Population: II. Effects on Blood Pressure
A 12-week randomized experiment investigated the effects of daily relaxation breaks on office workers with “normal” blood pressure. Blood pressures of 126 volunteers from the corporate offices of a manufacturing firm were measured biweekly. After four weeks of baseline monitoring,volunteers were divided randomly into three groups: Group A was taught a technique for producing the relaxation response; Group B was “taught” to sit quietly; and Group …
Lung function in fire fighters, I: A three year follow-up of active subjects
From a cohort of 1,768 Boston fire fighters studied initially in 1970, pulmonary function measurements were repeated on 1, 146 active subjects in 1974. The mean time between examinations was 3.4 years. The data on 1,430 subjects after one year of follow-up had indicated excessive decrements in levels of forced vital capacity and one-second forced expiratory bolume which were related to the frequency of fire exposure. The annual decline over three…
Global Goods Movement and the Local Burden of Childhood Asthma in Southern California
Objectives. As part of a community-based participatory research effort, we estimated the preventable burden of childhood asthma associated with air pollution in the southern California communities of Long Beach and Riverside. Methods. We calculated attributable fractions for 2 air pollution reduction scenarios to include assessment of the newly recognized health effects associated with residential proximity to major roads and impact from ship emi…
Rodent Allergen in Los Angeles Inner City Homes of Children with Asthma
Teaching and learning in a model-based action research course
We describe an action research course from the point of view of our joint participation as instructor and student. The course is structured and its process is driven by the instructor's model of action research. We discuss the demands that the model places on participants as they develop individual plans for action research. The article concludes with our reflection on participants' experiences and a discussion of assumptions that inform course d…
Labour market deregulation and the decline of labour power in North America and Western Europe
The goal of this article is to provide a critical evaluation of what has happened to organized labour and labour markets since 1980. It examines the impacts of labour market deregulation on wage share and pay standardization. It also explores how recent economic changes have weakened organized labour and eroded wage setting and social corporatism. The argument is made that contemporary institutional and ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ perspectives on l…
The British Government and the City-Industry Divide: The Case of the 1914 Financial Crisis
The British Government and the City-Industry Divide: The Case of the 1914 Financial Crisis Get access JOHN PETERS JOHN PETERS University of Wales, College of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 126–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/4.2.126 Published: 01 January 1993
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
Introduction We make the road by walking 2. Formative Years I was always getting in trouble for reading in school Reading has to be a loving event I couldn't use all this book learning I always am in the beginning, as you Pockets of hope: Literacy and citizenship 3. Ideas Without practice there's no knowledge Is it possible just to teach biology? I've always been ambivalent about charismatic leaders The difference between and organizing My expert…
Financial Contributors
Journal Article 2017 Financial Contributors Get access Political Science Quarterly, Volume 133, Issue 1, Spring 2018, Pages 6-7, https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12769 Published: 25 March 2018
Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity
List of Plates. List of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction: Modernity, Postmodernity and the Social Sciences (Georges Benko). Part I Reasons, Texts and Debates Around Postmodernism. Postmodern Bloodlines (Michael Dear). Social Theory, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Development (Richard Peet). Shelf Length Zero: The Disappearance of the Geographical Text (Michael Curry). Part II Writing Space, Forming Identities. Re--Presenti…
The Hundred Years War started today: An exploration of electronic peer review
Discusses electronic peer review of academic papers on the Internet. Looks at the changes which may occur with the shift from paper to electronic media. Proposes some guidelines for authors, editors and reviewers using electronic publishing
Daily Relaxation Response Breaks in a Working Population: II. Effects on Blood Pressure
A 12-week randomized experiment investigated the effects of daily relaxation breaks on office workers with “normal” blood pressure. Blood pressures of 126 volunteers from the corporate offices of a manufacturing firm were measured biweekly. After four weeks of baseline monitoring,volunteers were divided randomly into three groups: Group A was taught a technique for producing the relaxation response; Group B was “taught” to sit quietly; and Group …
Lung function in fire fighters, I: A three year follow-up of active subjects
From a cohort of 1,768 Boston fire fighters studied initially in 1970, pulmonary function measurements were repeated on 1, 146 active subjects in 1974. The mean time between examinations was 3.4 years. The data on 1,430 subjects after one year of follow-up had indicated excessive decrements in levels of forced vital capacity and one-second forced expiratory bolume which were related to the frequency of fire exposure. The annual decline over three…
One Man Hurt
In defence of the subjunctive
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Religion and Politics in the Netherlands: A Causal Analysis
An overview of the sociology of religion of the last few decades, shows that there is no consensus among social scientists as to the influence of religious beliefs on behaviour in other non-religious aspects of life. As a hypothesis the authors pose that traditional religion exerts a conservative influence on political convictions Next a theoretical model is described in which religion and politics are related via intermediate elements, which exi…
Social conditions, authoritarianism and ethnocentrism: A theoretical model of the early Frankfurt School updated and tested
n Contains fulltext :\n 3331.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Misreadings and misquotations; reply to Ray on authoritarianism and ethnocentrism
P. SCHEEPERS, A. FELLING, J. PETERS; Misreadings and misquotations; reply to Ray on authoritarianism and ethnocentrism, European Sociological Review, Volum
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
Introduction We make the road by walking 2. Formative Years I was always getting in trouble for reading in school Reading has to be a loving event I couldn't use all this book learning I always am in the beginning, as you Pockets of hope: Literacy and citizenship 3. Ideas Without practice there's no knowledge Is it possible just to teach biology? I've always been ambivalent about charismatic leaders The difference between and organizing My expert…
The British Government and the City-Industry Divide: The Case of the 1914 Financial Crisis
The British Government and the City-Industry Divide: The Case of the 1914 Financial Crisis Get access JOHN PETERS JOHN PETERS University of Wales, College of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 126–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/4.2.126 Published: 01 January 1993
The Hundred Years War started today: An exploration of electronic peer review
Discusses electronic peer review of academic papers on the Internet. Looks at the changes which may occur with the shift from paper to electronic media. Proposes some guidelines for authors, editors and reviewers using electronic publishing
Medium and message
Education and the Net
Productivity
Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity
List of Plates. List of Figures. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction: Modernity, Postmodernity and the Social Sciences (Georges Benko). Part I Reasons, Texts and Debates Around Postmodernism. Postmodern Bloodlines (Michael Dear). Social Theory, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Development (Richard Peet). Shelf Length Zero: The Disappearance of the Geographical Text (Michael Curry). Part II Writing Space, Forming Identities. Re--Presenti…
Breathless in Los Angeles: The Exhausting Search for Clean Air
Population growth and the proliferation of roadways in Southern California have facilitated a glut of mobile air pollution sources (cars and trucks), resulting in substantial atmospheric pollution. Despite successful efforts over the past 40 years to reduce pollution, an alarming set of health effects attributable to air pollution have been described in Southern California. The Children’s Health Study indicates that reduced lung function growth, …
The Effect of Air Pollution on Lung Development from 10 to 18 Years of Age
BACKGROUND: Whether exposure to air pollution adversely affects the growth of lung function during the period of rapid lung development that occurs between the ages of 10 and 18 years is unknown. METHODS: In this prospective study, we recruited 1759 children (average age, 10 years) from schools in 12 southern California communities and measured lung function annually for eight years. The rate of attrition was approximately 10 percent per year. Th…
Note from the Publisher
Ungoverned Territories: A Unique Front in the War on Terrorism
This research brief describes a RAND Project AIR FORCE study of the factors that give rise to ungoverned territories and make some of them conducive to terrorists and insurgents
Rodent Allergen in Los Angeles Inner City Homes of Children with Asthma
Teaching and learning in a model-based action research course
We describe an action research course from the point of view of our joint participation as instructor and student. The course is structured and its process is driven by the instructor's model of action research. We discuss the demands that the model places on participants as they develop individual plans for action research. The article concludes with our reflection on participants' experiences and a discussion of assumptions that inform course d…
Preferred ‘learning styles’ in students studying sports‐related programmes in higher education in the United Kingdom
This article investigates the ‘preferred learning styles’ and their relationship with grades for students undertaking sports‐related undergraduate programmes at a higher education institution in the UK. Preferred ‘learning styles’ in students in this discipline have been identified as auditory, kinaesthetic and group, although the vast majority of students are multimodal in their learning preferences. Only individual learning style preference was…
Labour market deregulation and the decline of labour power in North America and Western Europe
The goal of this article is to provide a critical evaluation of what has happened to organized labour and labour markets since 1980. It examines the impacts of labour market deregulation on wage share and pay standardization. It also explores how recent economic changes have weakened organized labour and eroded wage setting and social corporatism. The argument is made that contemporary institutional and ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ perspectives on l…
Global Goods Movement and the Local Burden of Childhood Asthma in Southern California
Objectives. As part of a community-based participatory research effort, we estimated the preventable burden of childhood asthma associated with air pollution in the southern California communities of Long Beach and Riverside. Methods. We calculated attributable fractions for 2 air pollution reduction scenarios to include assessment of the newly recognized health effects associated with residential proximity to major roads and impact from ship emi…
The Rise of Finance and the Decline of Organised Labour in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of finance and corporate governance reforms on organised labour since 1980. The argument is made that contemporary institutional and ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ as well as ‘Varieties of Unionism’ perspectives on labour market reform have overstated the power of states, institutions and organised interests in deflecting global economic pressures. Drawing on a range of r…
Neoliberal convergence in North America and Western Europe: Fiscal austerity, privatization, and public sector reform
This article discusses public sector reform in North America and Western Europe. The argument is made that recent comparative literatures have yet to adequately consider governments themselves, and how changes to their budgeting, operation, and collective bargaining structures have affected jobs and income inequality. Drawing on a range of recent OECD and trade union statistics, as well as qualitative studies, it is claimed that governments conve…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (4 works)