Robert O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4270937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1325-3280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Preventing Suicide Among Homeless Veterans
Rates of death by suicide among Veterans remain high, with age- and sex-adjusted rates 1.5 times higher for Veterans than non-Veteran adults.1 This risk is especially pronounced among Veterans experiencing homelessness, who have particularly high rates of suicidal ideation and suicidal self-directed violence.2 This likely relates to the presence of multiple risk factors, including extreme poverty and lack of housing; loneliness and limited social…
Ten Years of the Global Labour Journal
The article examines the origins of the Global Labour Journal (GLJ) and its goal of broadening labour studies. It shows how, over the past decade, the GLJ has recorded and analysed the forms of action and organisation that fall outside the traditional focus of labour studies. Through a range of careful case studies, the Journal has made an important contribution to the growing field of global labour studies. The two topics that have been the focu…
Islam-based legal language and state governance
Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg’s internationalism
In an era where internationalism is on the retreat in the Western world, a modified version of Rosa Luxemburg’s thinking about internationalism can serve as a useful guide for those concerned about relations between peoples in different countries. Luxemburg contributes to existing internationalist, cosmopolitan and transnational approaches by offering a unique set of answers to questions about the appropriate ethics, political project and tools t…
Letter from the Co-editors
Depleting Capital? Race, Wealth and Informal Financial Assistance
Recent work suggests that part of the racial gap in wealth is explained by racial differences in network poverty. In this article, data from the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances and the 2005 and 2007 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) are used to demonstrate that middle- and upper-income blacks are more likely to provide informal financial assistance than their white counterparts. Further, a lagged model using the PSID finds that this differen…
Letter from the Co-Editors of Sociological Perspectives
North American Regional Report
Global Social Policy Forum
Society for the Anthropology of Work
GSP Forum
Editors’ Message
GSP Forum
Labor History Symposium
Continuing incivility
International Unionism
The potential of international unionism is to provide a political counterweight to the ever-growing power of international capital, which has over the past 25 years rolled back many of the gains made by organised labour during the post-war Tong boom'. The topic is surprisingly under-researched, despite its salience to labour history, industrial relations, political economy and international relations. This may be because it has tended to inhabit …
Global Social Policy Forum
Organizational Politics, Multilateral Economic Organizations and Social Policy
This article contributes to the debate over social policy and multilateral economic organizations by suggesting that advocates seeking to strengthen or defend redistributive social policy in the face of such institutions face a series of conflicts that involve challenges in three areas: organizational politics, state interest, and the balance of social forces. In terms of organizational politics, social policy is disadvantaged by the fusion of fu…
Contesting Global Governance
This book argues that increasing engagement between international institutions and sectors of civil society is producing a new form of global governance. The authors investigate 'complex multilateralism' by studying the relationship between three multilateral economic institutions (the IMF, World Bank, and World Trade Organization), and three global social movements (environmental, labour and women's movements). They provide a rich comparative an…
The Difficult Birth Of A Global Labour Movement
(2000). The Difficult Birth Of A Global Labour Movement. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 514-523
Workers and world order
The activity of workers' organizations and labour issues is once again on the international relations agenda in fields ranging from labour standards at the WTO, to the terms of regional integration, to corporate codes of conduct, to civil society coalition building. This article argues that the role of the international union movement is transforming from a supporter of US capitalism to a brake on neoliberal industrial relations, to potentially a…
UN Compensation Commission Panel Sets Precedents on Government Claims
While the public’s attention has recently focused on the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) and its weapons inspection activities, the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC or Commission), another ad hoc UN body created pursuant to Security Council Resolution 687 in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf war, has been making steady progress in resolving the war reparation claims asserted against Iraq. Nonetheless, the UNCC is un…
Contesting the canon
The growth of international political economy (IPE) as a sub-field of international relations (IR) has been nothing short of amazing. As late as twenty years ago few institutions featured IPE among their offerings. Specialists in IPE were peripheral to the field. Jacob Viner's (1948) article on the very first pages of World Politics to the contrary, published work in IPE was rare. Much has changed. During the later 1970s IPE was recognized and ad…
North American Integration and International Relations Theory
Although North American integration has been the topic of heated public debate, it has not yet received adequate theoretical attention from the field of international relations. This article reviews the movement to codify North American integration, and explores the implications for integration and international relations theory. The first section reviews the intellectual history of integration theory as it developed in the European context. The …
Environmental Disputes
Contesting Global Governance
This book argues that increasing engagement between international institutions and sectors of civil society is producing a new form of global governance. The authors investigate 'complex multilateralism' by studying the relationship between three multilateral economic institutions (the IMF, World Bank, and World Trade Organization), and three global social movements (environmental, labour and women's movements). They provide a rich comparative an…
Workers and world order
The activity of workers' organizations and labour issues is once again on the international relations agenda in fields ranging from labour standards at the WTO, to the terms of regional integration, to corporate codes of conduct, to civil society coalition building. This article argues that the role of the international union movement is transforming from a supporter of US capitalism to a brake on neoliberal industrial relations, to potentially a…
North American Integration and International Relations Theory
Although North American integration has been the topic of heated public debate, it has not yet received adequate theoretical attention from the field of international relations. This article reviews the movement to codify North American integration, and explores the implications for integration and international relations theory. The first section reviews the intellectual history of integration theory as it developed in the European context. The …
Contesting the canon
The growth of international political economy (IPE) as a sub-field of international relations (IR) has been nothing short of amazing. As late as twenty years ago few institutions featured IPE among their offerings. Specialists in IPE were peripheral to the field. Jacob Viner's (1948) article on the very first pages of World Politics to the contrary, published work in IPE was rare. Much has changed. During the later 1970s IPE was recognized and ad…
Organizational Politics, Multilateral Economic Organizations and Social Policy
This article contributes to the debate over social policy and multilateral economic organizations by suggesting that advocates seeking to strengthen or defend redistributive social policy in the face of such institutions face a series of conflicts that involve challenges in three areas: organizational politics, state interest, and the balance of social forces. In terms of organizational politics, social policy is disadvantaged by the fusion of fu…
The Difficult Birth Of A Global Labour Movement
(2000). The Difficult Birth Of A Global Labour Movement. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 514-523
Islam-based legal language and state governance
Status of Chinese in the Mississippi Delta
Journal Article Status of Chinese in the Mississippi Delta Get access Robert W. O'Brien Robert W. O'Brien University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 19, Issue 3, March 1941, Pages 386–390, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570743 Published: 01 March 1941
Selective Dispersion as a Factor in the Solution of the Nisei Problem
Journal Article Selective Dispersion as a Factor in the Solution of the Nisei Problem Get access Robert W. O'Brien Robert W. O'Brien University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 23, Issue 2, December 1944, Pages 140–147, https://doi.org/10.2307/2572132 Published: 01 December 1944
Environmental Disputes
North American Integration and International Relations Theory
Although North American integration has been the topic of heated public debate, it has not yet received adequate theoretical attention from the field of international relations. This article reviews the movement to codify North American integration, and explores the implications for integration and international relations theory. The first section reviews the intellectual history of integration theory as it developed in the European context. The …
Contesting the canon
The growth of international political economy (IPE) as a sub-field of international relations (IR) has been nothing short of amazing. As late as twenty years ago few institutions featured IPE among their offerings. Specialists in IPE were peripheral to the field. Jacob Viner's (1948) article on the very first pages of World Politics to the contrary, published work in IPE was rare. Much has changed. During the later 1970s IPE was recognized and ad…
UN Compensation Commission Panel Sets Precedents on Government Claims
While the public’s attention has recently focused on the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) and its weapons inspection activities, the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC or Commission), another ad hoc UN body created pursuant to Security Council Resolution 687 in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf war, has been making steady progress in resolving the war reparation claims asserted against Iraq. Nonetheless, the UNCC is un…
Contesting Global Governance
This book argues that increasing engagement between international institutions and sectors of civil society is producing a new form of global governance. The authors investigate 'complex multilateralism' by studying the relationship between three multilateral economic institutions (the IMF, World Bank, and World Trade Organization), and three global social movements (environmental, labour and women's movements). They provide a rich comparative an…
The Difficult Birth Of A Global Labour Movement
(2000). The Difficult Birth Of A Global Labour Movement. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 514-523
Workers and world order
The activity of workers' organizations and labour issues is once again on the international relations agenda in fields ranging from labour standards at the WTO, to the terms of regional integration, to corporate codes of conduct, to civil society coalition building. This article argues that the role of the international union movement is transforming from a supporter of US capitalism to a brake on neoliberal industrial relations, to potentially a…
Global Social Policy Forum
Organizational Politics, Multilateral Economic Organizations and Social Policy
This article contributes to the debate over social policy and multilateral economic organizations by suggesting that advocates seeking to strengthen or defend redistributive social policy in the face of such institutions face a series of conflicts that involve challenges in three areas: organizational politics, state interest, and the balance of social forces. In terms of organizational politics, social policy is disadvantaged by the fusion of fu…
Continuing incivility
International Unionism
The potential of international unionism is to provide a political counterweight to the ever-growing power of international capital, which has over the past 25 years rolled back many of the gains made by organised labour during the post-war Tong boom'. The topic is surprisingly under-researched, despite its salience to labour history, industrial relations, political economy and international relations. This may be because it has tended to inhabit …
Society for the Anthropology of Work
GSP Forum
Editors’ Message
GSP Forum
Labor History Symposium
Global Social Policy Forum
North American Regional Report
Depleting Capital? Race, Wealth and Informal Financial Assistance
Recent work suggests that part of the racial gap in wealth is explained by racial differences in network poverty. In this article, data from the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances and the 2005 and 2007 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) are used to demonstrate that middle- and upper-income blacks are more likely to provide informal financial assistance than their white counterparts. Further, a lagged model using the PSID finds that this differen…
Letter from the Co-Editors of Sociological Perspectives
Letter from the Co-editors
Revisiting Rosa Luxemburg’s internationalism
In an era where internationalism is on the retreat in the Western world, a modified version of Rosa Luxemburg’s thinking about internationalism can serve as a useful guide for those concerned about relations between peoples in different countries. Luxemburg contributes to existing internationalist, cosmopolitan and transnational approaches by offering a unique set of answers to questions about the appropriate ethics, political project and tools t…
Ten Years of the Global Labour Journal
The article examines the origins of the Global Labour Journal (GLJ) and its goal of broadening labour studies. It shows how, over the past decade, the GLJ has recorded and analysed the forms of action and organisation that fall outside the traditional focus of labour studies. Through a range of careful case studies, the Journal has made an important contribution to the growing field of global labour studies. The two topics that have been the focu…
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