Caroline Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3913877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6218-8104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Research relationalities: Trauma-informed principles for recruiting hidden and hard-to-reach participants to sensitive interviews
Purpose The challenge of recruiting participants from hidden and hard-to-reach groups to sensitive qualitative interviews is well-established. This article brings together recent thinking on trauma-informed research and research relationalities to consider methods of reaching diverse populations effectively and ethically. Design/methodology/approach The article draws from a research study on gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education in Irel…
Gender and farming intentions: Insights from Ireland's agricultural students
This study investigates the future occupational intentions of students and graduates of Ireland's foundational agricultural qualification, the Green Cert, which is required to access state agricultural supports and schemes. Retention of young people in rural areas and in farming is a key challenge for generational renewal. Additionally, a persistent gender divide exists in farming pathways, and this paper seeks to understand how and why male and …
Care Platforms: Challenges and Opportunities
Background: Increasing demand for home care is a critical issue for the European Union (EU) and policy directions for improving the quality of care and labour conditions have been set out in the European Care Strategy. Access to collective bargaining is a key element of this. However, worker organisation in the sector is generally weak and trade union strength is in decline particularly in liberal welfare states within the EU. The European Instit…
Timing is Everything: Lessons From a Trade Union Campaign for a ‘Right to Disconnect’
In the context of reduced opportunities for traditional forms of union organising, this paper asks: how well do digital campaigns facilitate the advancement of trade union aims? The paper examines a campaign to secure a Right to Disconnect (RtD) for workers in the financial services sector in Ireland. Through interviews with key actors including union organisers and activists, as well as an in‐depth examination of secondary data, including union …
The legacy of history: Women and the ownership of land in Ireland
This paper is a review of existing sources across disciplines focusing on the topic of female farm ownership. Throughout the centuries, females have been explicitly excluded from owning and prevented from inheriting land. The purpose of this paper is to examine historical customs and rules governing female land ownership in Ireland and to demonstrate how the ‘old’ laws and customs have contributed significantly to the patriarchal system of farm o…
Giovanni Botero and the Commercial Waterscape
As a political-economic thinker, Giovanni Botero is mostly remembered for identifying the importance of industrial production to economic growth. This article expands our understanding of his political-economic thought by examining his ideas about wealth-producing effects of aquatic resources. In several publications from the late 1580s and 1590s, he discussed waterways as strategic technologies of commercial navigation and urged princes to impro…
Land is a huge integral part of our identity: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap
The aim of this article is to examine female participation in farming and more specifically, the reasons for the low rate of female farm ownership in Ireland where only 13% of Irish farm owners are female. Females are excluded from the occupation of a farmer because land ownership is the key needed in most instances to being a farmer in one's own right. Females are farming, but too often, they are not owners of the farms they work on. We investig…
Employment stability and decent work: Trends, characteristics and determinants in a liberal market economy
It is often assumed that the ideological dominance of neoliberalism has profoundly altered job security and long-term employment relationships. Such claims of a more unstable and insecure jobs market in the twenty-first century are the focus of this paper. Using Labour Force Survey data employment stability in the private sector over more than 20 years in Ireland is examined. As a liberal market economy, Ireland represents a fitting context in wh…
A world of unstable jobs is far from the empirical trends displayed in the Irish labour market in the 21st century
Labour market dynamics are complex, limiting the capacity for consensus on a singular phenomenon to account for patterns. In this paper, we present a range of broader empirical trends from the Irish labour market that suggests the possible impact of neoliberal-type policies in the Irish market has been counterbalanced by strong human capital and skills development, growth in higher level occupations and employment protection. Though precarious wo…
Employee resilience: A labour process perspective
The concept of employee resilience continues to receive burgeoning academic attention within the fields of organisational psychology and human resource management, while practitioner interest has intensified since the pandemic. So far, however, resilience remains underexamined from a labour process perspective. Taking a labour process theory lens, this article explores the potential silencing effect of resilience in the workplace. We argue that t…
Providing income certainty for carers? Care, labour market participation and support for a universal basic income in Europe
The provision of care, in particular, long-term care, is a major policy concern across Europe, one exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Post-crisis, a universal basic income may be a progressive way to address how care is rewarded in society. In this article, we examine the relationship between caring responsibilities, labour market participation and support for a universal basic income across a number of European countries. Our findings indicat…
Gender Balance on State Boards in Ireland: To the Forefront of Progress or Concealing the Status Quo
In this article, we examine female appointments to government-owned corporations, called State Sponsored Boards (SSBs), in Ireland over a twenty-eight-year period, to analyze the extent to which gender parity has been achieved using voluntary gender targets. Using data from thirty-four SSBs, we found that overall figures relating to the achievement of gender parity on SSBs are masking the reality of female representation on these boards. We have …
Running to stand still? Two decades of trade union activity in the Irish long-term care sector
This article examines the ongoing efforts of trade unions in Ireland to protect and improve the working conditions of personal care workers amid employment and social policy regimes associated with a liberal welfare state. Comparatively low public expenditure on care and the increasing marketisation of care services have undermined the provision of decent work. This article assesses two major union campaigns related to personal care workers over …
Employer-led flexibility, working time uncertainty, and trade union responses: The case of academics, teachers and school secretaries in Ireland
This article examines the extent to which occupations within a sector differ in their experiences of employer-led flexibility and in their responses through collective power. Three occupations are analysed in the Irish education sector – academics, school teachers and school secretaries. It might be expected that higher-level occupations would have greater sources of occupational power to resist employer-led flexibility. We find varying levels of…
It’s Not Us, It’s You!”: Extending Managerial Control through Coercion and Internalisation in the Context of Workplace Bullying amongst Nurses in Ireland
This article investigates why workers submit to managerial bullying and, in doing so, we extend the growing research on managerial control and workplace bullying. We employ a labour process lens to explore the rationality of management both engaging in and perpetuating bullying. Labour process theory posits that employee submission to workplace bullying can be a valuable method of managerial control and this article examines this assertion. Based…
Intersectional Encounters, Representative Bureaucracy, and the Routine Traffic Stop
We evaluate the factors associated with an officer’s decision to search a driver or vehicle after a routine traffic stop, and we compare the accuracy of these searches by looking at the share leading to arrest. Racial disparities in search rates by race and gender of driver are similar for all types of officers; all tend to search Black male drivers at higher rates than any other demographic. White male officers have higher search rates for all t…
The One Health Approach to Toxoplasmosis: Epidemiology, Control, and Prevention Strategies
One Health is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort that seeks optimal health for people, animals, plants, and the environment. Toxoplasmosis, caused by Toxoplasma gondii, is an intracellular protozoan infection distributed worldwide, with a heteroxenous life cycle that practically affects all homeotherms and in which felines act as definitive reservoirs. Herein, we review the natural history of T. gondii, its transmission and impacts in huma…
Formal and informal long term care work: Policy conflict in a liberal welfare state
Purpose The undervaluing of care work, whether conducted informally or formally, has long been subject to debate. While much discussion, and indeed reform has centred on childcare, there is a growing need, particularly in countries with ageing populations, to examine how long-term care (LTC) work is valued. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the way in which employment policies (female labour market participation, retirement a…
Fear and Leadership in Union Organizing Campaigns: An Examination of Workplace Activist Behavior
This article adopts a mobilization framework to examine the crucial actions of workplace activists in overcoming fear of employer reprisal during union organizing campaigns in hostile environments. The article explores fear as part of the organizing process in two ways; first, we examine how fear can act as a stimulus for workplace activists to take action in an attempt to overcome the source of that fear. Second, we examine fear as an inhibiting…
Lay Activism and Activism Intentions in a Faculty Union: An Exploratory Study
Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism’s antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, thus providing considerable diversity in work settings within a single employer organization. Using survey and archival data, this study explores the role of selected contextual factors on faculty labor activism. A tentative but …
The Tobacco Control Community of Tomorrow: A Vision for Training
Nutrient Intakes and Food Consumption Patterns Among Ontario Students in Grades Six, Seven, and Eight
Discharge from physiotherapy following stroke
Patients' health-related quality-of-life and health state values for motor neurone disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Intersectional Encounters, Representative Bureaucracy, and the Routine Traffic Stop
We evaluate the factors associated with an officer’s decision to search a driver or vehicle after a routine traffic stop, and we compare the accuracy of these searches by looking at the share leading to arrest. Racial disparities in search rates by race and gender of driver are similar for all types of officers; all tend to search Black male drivers at higher rates than any other demographic. White male officers have higher search rates for all t…
Discharge from physiotherapy following stroke
Nutrient Intakes and Food Consumption Patterns Among Ontario Students in Grades Six, Seven, and Eight
Formal and informal long term care work: Policy conflict in a liberal welfare state
Purpose The undervaluing of care work, whether conducted informally or formally, has long been subject to debate. While much discussion, and indeed reform has centred on childcare, there is a growing need, particularly in countries with ageing populations, to examine how long-term care (LTC) work is valued. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the way in which employment policies (female labour market participation, retirement a…
Lay Activism and Activism Intentions in a Faculty Union: An Exploratory Study
Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism’s antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, thus providing considerable diversity in work settings within a single employer organization. Using survey and archival data, this study explores the role of selected contextual factors on faculty labor activism. A tentative but …
The Tobacco Control Community of Tomorrow: A Vision for Training
Land is a huge integral part of our identity: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap
The aim of this article is to examine female participation in farming and more specifically, the reasons for the low rate of female farm ownership in Ireland where only 13% of Irish farm owners are female. Females are excluded from the occupation of a farmer because land ownership is the key needed in most instances to being a farmer in one's own right. Females are farming, but too often, they are not owners of the farms they work on. We investig…
Fear and Leadership in Union Organizing Campaigns: An Examination of Workplace Activist Behavior
This article adopts a mobilization framework to examine the crucial actions of workplace activists in overcoming fear of employer reprisal during union organizing campaigns in hostile environments. The article explores fear as part of the organizing process in two ways; first, we examine how fear can act as a stimulus for workplace activists to take action in an attempt to overcome the source of that fear. Second, we examine fear as an inhibiting…
Patients' health-related quality-of-life and health state values for motor neurone disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Discharge from physiotherapy following stroke
The Tobacco Control Community of Tomorrow: A Vision for Training
Nutrient Intakes and Food Consumption Patterns Among Ontario Students in Grades Six, Seven, and Eight
Lay Activism and Activism Intentions in a Faculty Union: An Exploratory Study
Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism’s antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, thus providing considerable diversity in work settings within a single employer organization. Using survey and archival data, this study explores the role of selected contextual factors on faculty labor activism. A tentative but …
Fear and Leadership in Union Organizing Campaigns: An Examination of Workplace Activist Behavior
This article adopts a mobilization framework to examine the crucial actions of workplace activists in overcoming fear of employer reprisal during union organizing campaigns in hostile environments. The article explores fear as part of the organizing process in two ways; first, we examine how fear can act as a stimulus for workplace activists to take action in an attempt to overcome the source of that fear. Second, we examine fear as an inhibiting…
Formal and informal long term care work: Policy conflict in a liberal welfare state
Purpose The undervaluing of care work, whether conducted informally or formally, has long been subject to debate. While much discussion, and indeed reform has centred on childcare, there is a growing need, particularly in countries with ageing populations, to examine how long-term care (LTC) work is valued. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the way in which employment policies (female labour market participation, retirement a…
The One Health Approach to Toxoplasmosis: Epidemiology, Control, and Prevention Strategies
One Health is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort that seeks optimal health for people, animals, plants, and the environment. Toxoplasmosis, caused by Toxoplasma gondii, is an intracellular protozoan infection distributed worldwide, with a heteroxenous life cycle that practically affects all homeotherms and in which felines act as definitive reservoirs. Herein, we review the natural history of T. gondii, its transmission and impacts in huma…
Running to stand still? Two decades of trade union activity in the Irish long-term care sector
This article examines the ongoing efforts of trade unions in Ireland to protect and improve the working conditions of personal care workers amid employment and social policy regimes associated with a liberal welfare state. Comparatively low public expenditure on care and the increasing marketisation of care services have undermined the provision of decent work. This article assesses two major union campaigns related to personal care workers over …
Employer-led flexibility, working time uncertainty, and trade union responses: The case of academics, teachers and school secretaries in Ireland
This article examines the extent to which occupations within a sector differ in their experiences of employer-led flexibility and in their responses through collective power. Three occupations are analysed in the Irish education sector – academics, school teachers and school secretaries. It might be expected that higher-level occupations would have greater sources of occupational power to resist employer-led flexibility. We find varying levels of…
It’s Not Us, It’s You!”: Extending Managerial Control through Coercion and Internalisation in the Context of Workplace Bullying amongst Nurses in Ireland
This article investigates why workers submit to managerial bullying and, in doing so, we extend the growing research on managerial control and workplace bullying. We employ a labour process lens to explore the rationality of management both engaging in and perpetuating bullying. Labour process theory posits that employee submission to workplace bullying can be a valuable method of managerial control and this article examines this assertion. Based…
Intersectional Encounters, Representative Bureaucracy, and the Routine Traffic Stop
We evaluate the factors associated with an officer’s decision to search a driver or vehicle after a routine traffic stop, and we compare the accuracy of these searches by looking at the share leading to arrest. Racial disparities in search rates by race and gender of driver are similar for all types of officers; all tend to search Black male drivers at higher rates than any other demographic. White male officers have higher search rates for all t…
Employee resilience: A labour process perspective
The concept of employee resilience continues to receive burgeoning academic attention within the fields of organisational psychology and human resource management, while practitioner interest has intensified since the pandemic. So far, however, resilience remains underexamined from a labour process perspective. Taking a labour process theory lens, this article explores the potential silencing effect of resilience in the workplace. We argue that t…
Providing income certainty for carers? Care, labour market participation and support for a universal basic income in Europe
The provision of care, in particular, long-term care, is a major policy concern across Europe, one exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Post-crisis, a universal basic income may be a progressive way to address how care is rewarded in society. In this article, we examine the relationship between caring responsibilities, labour market participation and support for a universal basic income across a number of European countries. Our findings indicat…
Gender Balance on State Boards in Ireland: To the Forefront of Progress or Concealing the Status Quo
In this article, we examine female appointments to government-owned corporations, called State Sponsored Boards (SSBs), in Ireland over a twenty-eight-year period, to analyze the extent to which gender parity has been achieved using voluntary gender targets. Using data from thirty-four SSBs, we found that overall figures relating to the achievement of gender parity on SSBs are masking the reality of female representation on these boards. We have …
Employment stability and decent work: Trends, characteristics and determinants in a liberal market economy
It is often assumed that the ideological dominance of neoliberalism has profoundly altered job security and long-term employment relationships. Such claims of a more unstable and insecure jobs market in the twenty-first century are the focus of this paper. Using Labour Force Survey data employment stability in the private sector over more than 20 years in Ireland is examined. As a liberal market economy, Ireland represents a fitting context in wh…
A world of unstable jobs is far from the empirical trends displayed in the Irish labour market in the 21st century
Labour market dynamics are complex, limiting the capacity for consensus on a singular phenomenon to account for patterns. In this paper, we present a range of broader empirical trends from the Irish labour market that suggests the possible impact of neoliberal-type policies in the Irish market has been counterbalanced by strong human capital and skills development, growth in higher level occupations and employment protection. Though precarious wo…
Land is a huge integral part of our identity: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap
The aim of this article is to examine female participation in farming and more specifically, the reasons for the low rate of female farm ownership in Ireland where only 13% of Irish farm owners are female. Females are excluded from the occupation of a farmer because land ownership is the key needed in most instances to being a farmer in one's own right. Females are farming, but too often, they are not owners of the farms they work on. We investig…
Timing is Everything: Lessons From a Trade Union Campaign for a ‘Right to Disconnect’
In the context of reduced opportunities for traditional forms of union organising, this paper asks: how well do digital campaigns facilitate the advancement of trade union aims? The paper examines a campaign to secure a Right to Disconnect (RtD) for workers in the financial services sector in Ireland. Through interviews with key actors including union organisers and activists, as well as an in‐depth examination of secondary data, including union …
The legacy of history: Women and the ownership of land in Ireland
This paper is a review of existing sources across disciplines focusing on the topic of female farm ownership. Throughout the centuries, females have been explicitly excluded from owning and prevented from inheriting land. The purpose of this paper is to examine historical customs and rules governing female land ownership in Ireland and to demonstrate how the ‘old’ laws and customs have contributed significantly to the patriarchal system of farm o…
Giovanni Botero and the Commercial Waterscape
As a political-economic thinker, Giovanni Botero is mostly remembered for identifying the importance of industrial production to economic growth. This article expands our understanding of his political-economic thought by examining his ideas about wealth-producing effects of aquatic resources. In several publications from the late 1580s and 1590s, he discussed waterways as strategic technologies of commercial navigation and urged princes to impro…
Research relationalities: Trauma-informed principles for recruiting hidden and hard-to-reach participants to sensitive interviews
Purpose The challenge of recruiting participants from hidden and hard-to-reach groups to sensitive qualitative interviews is well-established. This article brings together recent thinking on trauma-informed research and research relationalities to consider methods of reaching diverse populations effectively and ethically. Design/methodology/approach The article draws from a research study on gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education in Irel…
Gender and farming intentions: Insights from Ireland's agricultural students
This study investigates the future occupational intentions of students and graduates of Ireland's foundational agricultural qualification, the Green Cert, which is required to access state agricultural supports and schemes. Retention of young people in rural areas and in farming is a key challenge for generational renewal. Additionally, a persistent gender divide exists in farming pathways, and this paper seeks to understand how and why male and …
Care Platforms: Challenges and Opportunities
Background: Increasing demand for home care is a critical issue for the European Union (EU) and policy directions for improving the quality of care and labour conditions have been set out in the European Care Strategy. Access to collective bargaining is a key element of this. However, worker organisation in the sector is generally weak and trade union strength is in decline particularly in liberal welfare states within the EU. The European Instit…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works)