John O''Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John O''Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | O''Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN J O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Epilogue: Medieval Libraries in the Sixteenth Century: A Dream of Order and Knowledge
In 1698, the English doctor Martin Lister visited Paris. The library of the abbey of Saint-Victor was one of a number of sights he described: I see the Library of St. Victor: This most Antient Convent is the best seated of any in Paris; has very large Gardens, with shady Walks, well kept. The Library is a fair and large Gallery: It is open three days a week, and has a range of double Desks quite through the middle of it, with Seats and Convenienc…
Insurance, Risk and the Limits of Sentimental Representation
The financial crisis that began in late 2008 and the centrality of corporate entities such as AIG and instruments such as the credit default swap exposes the extent to which the economy depends on systems that we can broadly define as ‘insurance’. But the brief prominence of insurance in the crisis underscores how this technology is more typically an invisible actor in the economy. Taking insurance as a problem of representation, this essay inves…
Critical Distance
Labor's Troubador
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s)
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s) John O'Brien (bio) Although it is not included in his compendium of terms that have proven crucial in the history of the English language and the Anglo-American culture that has used and shaped it, "entertainment" would certainly count as one of what Raymond Williams identified as keywords, terms opening vistas into the dynamics of social change. 1 Enter…
Reconstructing the Academic Worker: Industrial Relations in the Higher Education Sector
∗This is a revised version of a paper given to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australian National University, 28 November‐2 December 1988
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
IOWAfathers who periodically carried out "purity raids" on the brothels, while simultaneously making money from the illegal business.Although relatively few members of the ranking establishment drew direct revenues from the vice trade, prominent businessmen, office holders, and civic leaders indirectly profited because the prostitutes brought dollars and clients into the broader marketplace.Sizable towns which might have attempted to eliminate th…
Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884
The Presence of the Past
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s)
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s) John O'Brien (bio) Although it is not included in his compendium of terms that have proven crucial in the history of the English language and the Anglo-American culture that has used and shaped it, "entertainment" would certainly count as one of what Raymond Williams identified as keywords, terms opening vistas into the dynamics of social change. 1 Enter…
Reconstructing the Academic Worker: Industrial Relations in the Higher Education Sector
∗This is a revised version of a paper given to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australian National University, 28 November‐2 December 1988
Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884
Insurance, Risk and the Limits of Sentimental Representation
The financial crisis that began in late 2008 and the centrality of corporate entities such as AIG and instruments such as the credit default swap exposes the extent to which the economy depends on systems that we can broadly define as ‘insurance’. But the brief prominence of insurance in the crisis underscores how this technology is more typically an invisible actor in the economy. Taking insurance as a problem of representation, this essay inves…
The Presence of the Past
Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
IOWAfathers who periodically carried out "purity raids" on the brothels, while simultaneously making money from the illegal business.Although relatively few members of the ranking establishment drew direct revenues from the vice trade, prominent businessmen, office holders, and civic leaders indirectly profited because the prostitutes brought dollars and clients into the broader marketplace.Sizable towns which might have attempted to eliminate th…
Reconstructing the Academic Worker: Industrial Relations in the Higher Education Sector
∗This is a revised version of a paper given to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australian National University, 28 November‐2 December 1988
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s)
Harlequin Britain: Eighteenth-Century Pantomime and the Cultural Location of Entertainment(s) John O'Brien (bio) Although it is not included in his compendium of terms that have proven crucial in the history of the English language and the Anglo-American culture that has used and shaped it, "entertainment" would certainly count as one of what Raymond Williams identified as keywords, terms opening vistas into the dynamics of social change. 1 Enter…
Labor's Troubador
Critical Distance
Insurance, Risk and the Limits of Sentimental Representation
The financial crisis that began in late 2008 and the centrality of corporate entities such as AIG and instruments such as the credit default swap exposes the extent to which the economy depends on systems that we can broadly define as ‘insurance’. But the brief prominence of insurance in the crisis underscores how this technology is more typically an invisible actor in the economy. Taking insurance as a problem of representation, this essay inves…
Epilogue: Medieval Libraries in the Sixteenth Century: A Dream of Order and Knowledge
In 1698, the English doctor Martin Lister visited Paris. The library of the abbey of Saint-Victor was one of a number of sights he described: I see the Library of St. Victor: This most Antient Convent is the best seated of any in Paris; has very large Gardens, with shady Walks, well kept. The Library is a fair and large Gallery: It is open three days a week, and has a range of double Desks quite through the middle of it, with Seats and Convenienc…
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)