Sheila Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
John Tully, Silvertown
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Equal pay – or what? Economics, politics and the 1968 Ford sewing machinists’ strike
The 40-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act in 2010 brought a new notoriety to what was once an obscure dispute – the Ford sewing machinists’ strike of 1968. Even a film, Made In Dagenham, has now been released in Britain and the US and, as described below, a number of letters and articles have appeared celebrating what is universally described as ‘a strike for equal pay’. Yet the sewing machinists’ placards at their union conference proclaiming…
Left agency and class action
This paper seeks to examine the valuable concept of left agency and interrogate it in terms of an inherent paradox not immediately apparent to many who support the role of politicised activists in the workplace. This paradox is that politicised workplace activists, particularly those belonging to revolutionary organisations, may in presenting an overtly political agenda centred on extra-workplace issues actually have weakened resistance against m…
The 1968–1974 labour upsurge in Britain and America
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/ Copyright Taylor & Francis [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Us and Them
Sheila Cohen provides a detailed review of Kim Moody's book An Injury to All. On the basis of a consideration of 'business unionism' in the US, Cohen presents a critical analysis of reformism in the British Trade Union movement, and urges socialists to recognise the practical potential of 'economistic' trade union activity
A Labour Process to Nowhere
What has come to be known over the last ten years or so as ‘the labour process debate’ has been, literally, very much an academic exercise. And now its academic participants are pronouncing its end: ‘It is not perhaps an exaggeration to claim that the labour process bandwagon
Evaluating A Teacher Education Program
By combining survey techniques-rating scale, open-ended questions, and personal interviews-the University of Kentucky College of Education has devised a comprehensive means of evaluating its teacher education program. Other colleges may find its questionnaire useful
Left agency and class action
This paper seeks to examine the valuable concept of left agency and interrogate it in terms of an inherent paradox not immediately apparent to many who support the role of politicised activists in the workplace. This paradox is that politicised workplace activists, particularly those belonging to revolutionary organisations, may in presenting an overtly political agenda centred on extra-workplace issues actually have weakened resistance against m…
The 1968–1974 labour upsurge in Britain and America
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/ Copyright Taylor & Francis [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Equal pay – or what? Economics, politics and the 1968 Ford sewing machinists’ strike
The 40-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act in 2010 brought a new notoriety to what was once an obscure dispute – the Ford sewing machinists’ strike of 1968. Even a film, Made In Dagenham, has now been released in Britain and the US and, as described below, a number of letters and articles have appeared celebrating what is universally described as ‘a strike for equal pay’. Yet the sewing machinists’ placards at their union conference proclaiming…
Us and Them
Sheila Cohen provides a detailed review of Kim Moody's book An Injury to All. On the basis of a consideration of 'business unionism' in the US, Cohen presents a critical analysis of reformism in the British Trade Union movement, and urges socialists to recognise the practical potential of 'economistic' trade union activity
A Labour Process to Nowhere
What has come to be known over the last ten years or so as ‘the labour process debate’ has been, literally, very much an academic exercise. And now its academic participants are pronouncing its end: ‘It is not perhaps an exaggeration to claim that the labour process bandwagon
Evaluating A Teacher Education Program
By combining survey techniques-rating scale, open-ended questions, and personal interviews-the University of Kentucky College of Education has devised a comprehensive means of evaluating its teacher education program. Other colleges may find its questionnaire useful
A Labour Process to Nowhere
What has come to be known over the last ten years or so as ‘the labour process debate’ has been, literally, very much an academic exercise. And now its academic participants are pronouncing its end: ‘It is not perhaps an exaggeration to claim that the labour process bandwagon
Us and Them
Sheila Cohen provides a detailed review of Kim Moody's book An Injury to All. On the basis of a consideration of 'business unionism' in the US, Cohen presents a critical analysis of reformism in the British Trade Union movement, and urges socialists to recognise the practical potential of 'economistic' trade union activity
The 1968–1974 labour upsurge in Britain and America
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/ Copyright Taylor & Francis [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Left agency and class action
This paper seeks to examine the valuable concept of left agency and interrogate it in terms of an inherent paradox not immediately apparent to many who support the role of politicised activists in the workplace. This paradox is that politicised workplace activists, particularly those belonging to revolutionary organisations, may in presenting an overtly political agenda centred on extra-workplace issues actually have weakened resistance against m…
Equal pay – or what? Economics, politics and the 1968 Ford sewing machinists’ strike
The 40-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act in 2010 brought a new notoriety to what was once an obscure dispute – the Ford sewing machinists’ strike of 1968. Even a film, Made In Dagenham, has now been released in Britain and the US and, as described below, a number of letters and articles have appeared celebrating what is universally described as ‘a strike for equal pay’. Yet the sewing machinists’ placards at their union conference proclaiming…
John Tully, Silvertown
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Political science (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)