A Lloyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 43905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Lloyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lloyd |
| SIGNATURE | LLOYD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Teesside University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7017-8125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Critical Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complement…
The New Futures of Exclusion
This book discusses the rise of digital surveillance and new forms of control throughout the pandemic, including vaccine passports.
Covid-19 and organized crime
Refugee and Asylum Seeker Communities and Access to Mental Health Support
Consumer culture, precarious incomes and mass indebtedness
In recent years, labour markets have been characterised by stagnant wages, reduced incomes and growing insecurity supplemented by the ongoing proliferation of outstanding payment obligations at almost all levels of economy and society. We draw upon current debates in social and economic theory to explore the disconnect between the deterioration of late capitalism's distributive measures and the relative vitality of consumer cultures, suggesting t…
Covid-19 and the Future of Work
This paper offers a critical reflection on the impact of Covid-19 and government public health measures on patterns of work in the UK. This paper will focus specifically on remote or home workers as this generates myriad questions about the future of work and employment, particularly in the context of advances in digital technology and the growing emphasis on environmental inequality, the spectre of climate change and a green revolution. If the l…
“Just tensions left, right and centre”
Deindustrialization wrought socio-economic and cultural change throughout the UK, Western Europe and the USA. Within some deindustrialized zones, multiple indices of deprivation rise significantly which presents complex and interrelated social problems including poverty, unemployment, poor quality private rented housing, complex physical and mental health problems, and crime. The austerity agenda further exacerbates these problems, cuts local sup…
We are still quite patchy about what we know' International migration and the challenges of definition, categorisation and measurement on local service provision
International migration has a consistently high profile within national and international politics with increased focus on measurement and quantification of migrant numbers, impact on services and contribution to local, regional and national economies. However, the absence of consistency within definitions, categorisations and measurement of international migration and migrant populations create challenges and barriers to both understanding the n…
‘Illegal labour practices, trafficking and exploitation’
New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical concepts of transcendental materialism and the “event”, the paper discusses the strength of participants' attachment to the “old normal” and their dreams of a “new normal”. Design/methodology/approach This pa…
From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town
Harm at Work
Efficiency, Productivity and Targets
This article draws upon data from an ethnographic study of a UK call centre to investigate the claims of efficiency and productivity that underpin service occupations. Neoliberal ideology valorises competition, profitability and the free market, imperatives which filter down to organisational level and manifest as the pursuit of efficiency. The evidence in this paper highlights how the call centre's quest for efficiency is undermined by inefficie…
The Harms of Work
This book discusses workplace harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. It investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift to flexibility, and highlights working conditions and organisational practices within which multiple harms occur
Kicked to the Curb
Uberworked and underpaid
‘Solo workers shoulder the material backbone for crowd work while platform owners provide the cloud-computing infrastructure’ (p. 131). This neatly encapsulates the two strands of Scholz’s work on
Ideology at work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider existing debates within the sociology of work, particularly the re-emergence of labour process theory (LPT) and the “collective worker”, in relation to resistance at work. Through presentation of primary data and a dialectical discussion about the nature of ideology, the paper offers alternative interpretations on long-standing debates and raises questions about the efficacy of workplace resistance…
Understanding the Post‐Industrial Assembly Line
As a relatively new form of service sector employment, call centres have been an important issue in the sociology of work for two decades. This article offers a critical review and appraisal of call centre literature, drawing upon an existing typology classifying call centre research in four categories: characteristics and organisational features; choices and strategies of management; the effect of work on employees; and the response of employees…
A longitudinal study of hepatitis C virus testing and infection status notification on behaviour change in people who inject drugs
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and counselling have the potential to impact individual behaviour and transmission dynamics at the population level. Evidence of the impact of an HCV-positive status notification on injection risk reduction is limited. The objective of our study was to (1) assess drug and alcohol use and injection risk behaviours following notification; (2) to compare behaviour change in people who inject drugs (PWID) w…
The Bloomsbury companion to Hobbes
Hobbes today
Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists, and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we face today. Its essays demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Hobbes's political thought on such issues as justice, human rights, …
Working to live, not living to work
Recent debate has questioned the centrality of work in everyday life. Using evidence drawn from participant observation in a call centre and interviews with young call centre workers, this article suggests that, in locales characterized by insecure labour markets dominated by low-paid service sector jobs, work no longer serves to define individual identity. When the idea of a job for life disappears and fragmented work careers become normal, indi…
Family Justice and Social Justice
Ideals as interests in Hobbes's Leviathan
S. A. Lloyd proposes a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's Leviathan that shows transcendent interests--interests that override the fear of death--to be crucial to both Hobbes's analysis of social disorder and his proposed remedy to it. Most previous commentators in the analytic philosophical tradition have argued that Hobbes thought that credible threats of physical force could be sufficient to deter people from political insurrection. Prof…
Symposium on Restrictive Practices Legislation
New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical concepts of transcendental materialism and the “event”, the paper discusses the strength of participants' attachment to the “old normal” and their dreams of a “new normal”. Design/methodology/approach This pa…
From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town
Working to live, not living to work
Recent debate has questioned the centrality of work in everyday life. Using evidence drawn from participant observation in a call centre and interviews with young call centre workers, this article suggests that, in locales characterized by insecure labour markets dominated by low-paid service sector jobs, work no longer serves to define individual identity. When the idea of a job for life disappears and fragmented work careers become normal, indi…
We are still quite patchy about what we know' International migration and the challenges of definition, categorisation and measurement on local service provision
International migration has a consistently high profile within national and international politics with increased focus on measurement and quantification of migrant numbers, impact on services and contribution to local, regional and national economies. However, the absence of consistency within definitions, categorisations and measurement of international migration and migrant populations create challenges and barriers to both understanding the n…
Harm at Work
Ideology at work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider existing debates within the sociology of work, particularly the re-emergence of labour process theory (LPT) and the “collective worker”, in relation to resistance at work. Through presentation of primary data and a dialectical discussion about the nature of ideology, the paper offers alternative interpretations on long-standing debates and raises questions about the efficacy of workplace resistance…
Uberworked and underpaid
‘Solo workers shoulder the material backbone for crowd work while platform owners provide the cloud-computing infrastructure’ (p. 131). This neatly encapsulates the two strands of Scholz’s work on
Critical Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complement…
Understanding the Post‐Industrial Assembly Line
As a relatively new form of service sector employment, call centres have been an important issue in the sociology of work for two decades. This article offers a critical review and appraisal of call centre literature, drawing upon an existing typology classifying call centre research in four categories: characteristics and organisational features; choices and strategies of management; the effect of work on employees; and the response of employees…
Covid-19 and the Future of Work
This paper offers a critical reflection on the impact of Covid-19 and government public health measures on patterns of work in the UK. This paper will focus specifically on remote or home workers as this generates myriad questions about the future of work and employment, particularly in the context of advances in digital technology and the growing emphasis on environmental inequality, the spectre of climate change and a green revolution. If the l…
Efficiency, Productivity and Targets
This article draws upon data from an ethnographic study of a UK call centre to investigate the claims of efficiency and productivity that underpin service occupations. Neoliberal ideology valorises competition, profitability and the free market, imperatives which filter down to organisational level and manifest as the pursuit of efficiency. The evidence in this paper highlights how the call centre's quest for efficiency is undermined by inefficie…
Kicked to the Curb
Family Justice and Social Justice
Symposium on Restrictive Practices Legislation
Ideals as interests in Hobbes's Leviathan
S. A. Lloyd proposes a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's Leviathan that shows transcendent interests--interests that override the fear of death--to be crucial to both Hobbes's analysis of social disorder and his proposed remedy to it. Most previous commentators in the analytic philosophical tradition have argued that Hobbes thought that credible threats of physical force could be sufficient to deter people from political insurrection. Prof…
Family Justice and Social Justice
The Bloomsbury companion to Hobbes
Hobbes today
Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists, and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth century English philosopher, can illuminate the political and social problems we face today. Its essays demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Hobbes's political thought on such issues as justice, human rights, …
Working to live, not living to work
Recent debate has questioned the centrality of work in everyday life. Using evidence drawn from participant observation in a call centre and interviews with young call centre workers, this article suggests that, in locales characterized by insecure labour markets dominated by low-paid service sector jobs, work no longer serves to define individual identity. When the idea of a job for life disappears and fragmented work careers become normal, indi…
A longitudinal study of hepatitis C virus testing and infection status notification on behaviour change in people who inject drugs
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing and counselling have the potential to impact individual behaviour and transmission dynamics at the population level. Evidence of the impact of an HCV-positive status notification on injection risk reduction is limited. The objective of our study was to (1) assess drug and alcohol use and injection risk behaviours following notification; (2) to compare behaviour change in people who inject drugs (PWID) w…
Understanding the Post‐Industrial Assembly Line
As a relatively new form of service sector employment, call centres have been an important issue in the sociology of work for two decades. This article offers a critical review and appraisal of call centre literature, drawing upon an existing typology classifying call centre research in four categories: characteristics and organisational features; choices and strategies of management; the effect of work on employees; and the response of employees…
Uberworked and underpaid
‘Solo workers shoulder the material backbone for crowd work while platform owners provide the cloud-computing infrastructure’ (p. 131). This neatly encapsulates the two strands of Scholz’s work on
Ideology at work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider existing debates within the sociology of work, particularly the re-emergence of labour process theory (LPT) and the “collective worker”, in relation to resistance at work. Through presentation of primary data and a dialectical discussion about the nature of ideology, the paper offers alternative interpretations on long-standing debates and raises questions about the efficacy of workplace resistance…
The Harms of Work
This book discusses workplace harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. It investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift to flexibility, and highlights working conditions and organisational practices within which multiple harms occur
Kicked to the Curb
‘Illegal labour practices, trafficking and exploitation’
New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical concepts of transcendental materialism and the “event”, the paper discusses the strength of participants' attachment to the “old normal” and their dreams of a “new normal”. Design/methodology/approach This pa…
From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town
Harm at Work
Efficiency, Productivity and Targets
This article draws upon data from an ethnographic study of a UK call centre to investigate the claims of efficiency and productivity that underpin service occupations. Neoliberal ideology valorises competition, profitability and the free market, imperatives which filter down to organisational level and manifest as the pursuit of efficiency. The evidence in this paper highlights how the call centre's quest for efficiency is undermined by inefficie…
“Just tensions left, right and centre”
Deindustrialization wrought socio-economic and cultural change throughout the UK, Western Europe and the USA. Within some deindustrialized zones, multiple indices of deprivation rise significantly which presents complex and interrelated social problems including poverty, unemployment, poor quality private rented housing, complex physical and mental health problems, and crime. The austerity agenda further exacerbates these problems, cuts local sup…
We are still quite patchy about what we know' International migration and the challenges of definition, categorisation and measurement on local service provision
International migration has a consistently high profile within national and international politics with increased focus on measurement and quantification of migrant numbers, impact on services and contribution to local, regional and national economies. However, the absence of consistency within definitions, categorisations and measurement of international migration and migrant populations create challenges and barriers to both understanding the n…
Refugee and Asylum Seeker Communities and Access to Mental Health Support
Consumer culture, precarious incomes and mass indebtedness
In recent years, labour markets have been characterised by stagnant wages, reduced incomes and growing insecurity supplemented by the ongoing proliferation of outstanding payment obligations at almost all levels of economy and society. We draw upon current debates in social and economic theory to explore the disconnect between the deterioration of late capitalism's distributive measures and the relative vitality of consumer cultures, suggesting t…
Covid-19 and the Future of Work
This paper offers a critical reflection on the impact of Covid-19 and government public health measures on patterns of work in the UK. This paper will focus specifically on remote or home workers as this generates myriad questions about the future of work and employment, particularly in the context of advances in digital technology and the growing emphasis on environmental inequality, the spectre of climate change and a green revolution. If the l…
The New Futures of Exclusion
This book discusses the rise of digital surveillance and new forms of control throughout the pandemic, including vaccine passports.
Covid-19 and organized crime
Critical Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complement…
Political science (19 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Business (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works)