Gillian Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0473-5832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Getting by or getting on
This article explores how British working-class households have navigated deindustrialisation, rising economic inequality and the changing provision of public services since the mid-twentieth century. It examines how these changes have been interpreted using oral history testimonies from people born between the 1940s and the 1970s who have lived and worked their entire lives in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Two juxtaposed narratives of ‘getting on’ and …
Assembling Community Wealth Building policies in Scotland
Against the backdrop of growing interest in Community Wealth Building (CWB) globally as a means of fostering local economic resilience and social equity, Scotland has emerged as a prominent site for experimentation and policy development in this domain. Drawing on qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted in three of the Scottish CWB pilot areas, and informed by literature on policy transfer, policy mobilisation, and new munici…
Working through industrial absence
Building on scholarship that has sought to trace how moral economies interact and change over time, and their value for understanding Scotland’s experience of deindustrialisation in particular, this article investigates the formative experiences of Scotland’s community business pioneers and how they shaped a moral economy response to deindustrialisation and Thatcherism. The working-class moral economy terms of ‘economic security’ and ‘control of …
Community Business in Scotland
The force and coherency with which Margaret Thatcher and her inner circle outlined their vision for 'enterprise culture', like so many aspects of Thatcherism, have masked the complexity of its origins and the histories of alternative responses. This article provides a history of an alternative vision for enterprise culture by examining the community business movement in Scotland, the largest experiment of its kind in the UK in the 1980s and a for…
Taking Work Home
This article explores how the role of the private secretary informed domestic identities in the long 1950s, arguing that as a highly visible figure in social commentary and popular culture she became an important icon around which discussions of feminine ideals circulated. Using archived television news film it is possible to open up a discussion of the visual themes surrounding the female secretary in the second half of the twentieth century and…
Regional News and the Mid-Twentieth-Century 'Housewife
Feminist Media Studies has revealed the ways in which women have been excluded from television news. However there has been less consideration of at what times and in what spaces women have appeared in different forms of television journalism. Based around the central figure of afternoon television, the 'housewife', this article explores its legacy in Midland's news programmes between 1956 and 1968. The analysis reveals that the conventional trop…
Community Business in Scotland
The force and coherency with which Margaret Thatcher and her inner circle outlined their vision for 'enterprise culture', like so many aspects of Thatcherism, have masked the complexity of its origins and the histories of alternative responses. This article provides a history of an alternative vision for enterprise culture by examining the community business movement in Scotland, the largest experiment of its kind in the UK in the 1980s and a for…
Working through industrial absence
Building on scholarship that has sought to trace how moral economies interact and change over time, and their value for understanding Scotland’s experience of deindustrialisation in particular, this article investigates the formative experiences of Scotland’s community business pioneers and how they shaped a moral economy response to deindustrialisation and Thatcherism. The working-class moral economy terms of ‘economic security’ and ‘control of …
Regional News and the Mid-Twentieth-Century 'Housewife
Feminist Media Studies has revealed the ways in which women have been excluded from television news. However there has been less consideration of at what times and in what spaces women have appeared in different forms of television journalism. Based around the central figure of afternoon television, the 'housewife', this article explores its legacy in Midland's news programmes between 1956 and 1968. The analysis reveals that the conventional trop…
Taking Work Home
This article explores how the role of the private secretary informed domestic identities in the long 1950s, arguing that as a highly visible figure in social commentary and popular culture she became an important icon around which discussions of feminine ideals circulated. Using archived television news film it is possible to open up a discussion of the visual themes surrounding the female secretary in the second half of the twentieth century and…
Community Business in Scotland
The force and coherency with which Margaret Thatcher and her inner circle outlined their vision for 'enterprise culture', like so many aspects of Thatcherism, have masked the complexity of its origins and the histories of alternative responses. This article provides a history of an alternative vision for enterprise culture by examining the community business movement in Scotland, the largest experiment of its kind in the UK in the 1980s and a for…
Working through industrial absence
Building on scholarship that has sought to trace how moral economies interact and change over time, and their value for understanding Scotland’s experience of deindustrialisation in particular, this article investigates the formative experiences of Scotland’s community business pioneers and how they shaped a moral economy response to deindustrialisation and Thatcherism. The working-class moral economy terms of ‘economic security’ and ‘control of …
Getting by or getting on
This article explores how British working-class households have navigated deindustrialisation, rising economic inequality and the changing provision of public services since the mid-twentieth century. It examines how these changes have been interpreted using oral history testimonies from people born between the 1940s and the 1970s who have lived and worked their entire lives in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Two juxtaposed narratives of ‘getting on’ and …
Assembling Community Wealth Building policies in Scotland
Against the backdrop of growing interest in Community Wealth Building (CWB) globally as a means of fostering local economic resilience and social equity, Scotland has emerged as a prominent site for experimentation and policy development in this domain. Drawing on qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted in three of the Scottish CWB pilot areas, and informed by literature on policy transfer, policy mobilisation, and new munici…
Political and Economic history of UK and US (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)