Jonathan Rees
Biographic Data
| ID | 5378739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Rees |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rees |
| SIGNATURE | REES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University Pueblo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8704-6399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mapping the Oxford Shoulder Score onto the EQ-5D utility index
The developed models now allow accurate estimation of the EQ-5D health index when only the OSS responses are available as a measure of patient-reported health outcome
Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment ed. by Angela N. H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Reviewed by: Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment ed. by Angela N. H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière Jonathan Rees (bio) Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment Edited by Angela N. H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière. New York: Berghahn, 2021. Pp. 366. The technology of food production both involves machines that make more food faster, as well as various processes which make that food more de…
Refrigerator: The Story of Cool in the Kitchen by Helen Peavitt
Reviewed by: Refrigerator: The Story of Cool in the Kitchen by Helen Peavitt Jonathan Rees (bio) Refrigerator: The Story of Cool in the Kitchen. By Helen Peavitt. London: Reaction Books, 2017. Pp. 208. Hardcover £18. The history of refrigeration touches upon many different disciplines, subdisciplines, and subjects. It obviously includes the history of technology, but it also involves social history, business history, the history of food, and many…
Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business by Susan Spellman
Reviewed by: Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business by Susan Spellman Jonathan Rees (bio) Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business. By Susan Spellman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 226. Hardcover $82. Cornering the Market is about "corner" grocery stores, the small independent markets that began in the late-nineteenth-century United States and g…
Worker Voice: Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US, 1914-1939 by Greg Patmore
Reviewed by: Worker Voice: Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US, 1914–1939 by Greg Patmore Jonathan Rees Greg Patmore, Worker Voice: Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US, 1914–1939 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2016) Greg Patmore has spent more than fifteen years working on this comparative history of employee representation practice…
Industrialization and the Transformation of American Life: A Brief Introduction
This book provides a descriptive, episodic yet analytical synthesis of industrialization in America. It integrates analysis of the profound economic and social changes taking place during the period between 1877 and the start of the Great Depression. The text is supported by 30 case studies to illustrate the underlying principles of industrialization that cumulatively convey a comprehensive understanding of the era.
Beyond Body Counts: A Centennial Rethinking of the Ludlow Massacre
This article is a review of the historiography of the Ludlow Massacre of 1914, beginning in the immediate aftermath of that tragedy and continuing to the present day. During the weeks and years following the massacre, union allies played up the deaths of innocent women and children to bring sympathy to their cause. Once historians began to place the tragedy in context, the victims at Ludlow ceased to be the center of the story. Jonathan Rees sugg…
Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry, by Bruce E. Kaufman
Comparative responsiveness and minimal change for the Oxford Elbow Score following surgery
Employee publications and employee representation plans: The case of Colorado Fuel and Iron, 1915–1942
From 1915–1942 Colorado Fuel and Iron (CFI) Company’s employee publications were an important vehicle for advertising the company’s liberal labor policies to its employees and the general pubic. The Industrial Bulletin in particular was part of a strategy by CFI and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the primary stockholder, to win back public support following the Ludlow Massacre and champion his Employee Representation Plan (ERP) as a civilized approach…
Analysing and evaluating the linguistic benefit of residence abroad for UK foreign language students
This paper reports on a longitudinal study designed to assess the progress made by UK foreign language undergraduate students during the residence abroad (RA) component of their degree. The article first of all places the study within the international research context, and then describes the data collation procedures and methodology employed. It reports findings concerning proficiency gains and the predictive validity of factors such as gender, …
What If a Company Union Wasn't a ‘Sham’? The Rockefeller Plan in Action
Trade unionists and labor historians have often denounced company unions for not representing the interests of workers. However, new evidence on the day-to-day workings of the company union at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, known to history as the Rockefeller Plan, suggests that management made important concessions to their workers because of complaints registered through elected representatives. Nevertheless, despite these concessions, worke…
Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism
Book Review| March 01 2006 Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism Jonathan Cutler Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2004 xi + 236 pp., $59.50 (cloth); $20.95 (paper) Jonathan Rees Jonathan Rees Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2006) 3 (1): 159–161. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3-1-159 Cit…
The Rise of the Silver Queen: Georgetown, Colorado, 1859-1896
Journal Article The Rise of the Silver Queen: Georgetown, Colorado, 1859–1896 Get access The Rise of the Silver Queen: Georgetown, Colorado, 1859–1896. By Leyendecker Liston E. Bradley Christine A. Smith Duane A.. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. xiv + 310 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, biographical essay, index. $55.00, cloth; $22.95, paper.) Jonathan Rees Jonathan Rees Colorado State University - Pueblo Search for other …
Linde: History of a Technology Corporation, 1879-2004 (review)
Reviewed by: Linde: History of a Technology Corporation, 1879–2004 Jonathan Rees (bio) Linde: History of a Technology Corporation, 1879–2004. By Hans-Liudger Dienel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xiv+369. $45. Hans-Liudger Dienel's history of the German conglomerate called the Linde Group is not an ordinary corporate history, because Linde has not been an ordinary corporation. For most of its existence, Dienel argues, Linde has been con…
Marks, get set, go: An evaluation of entry levels and progress rates on a university foreign language programme
This paper highlights the problem of falling recruitment to foreign language (FL) degrees in higher education, outlining some of the recent changes in secondary FL education which have contributed in part to this situation. It draws attention to the lack of research into the impact that the fall in numbers of students taking a foreign language A level is having on the quality of the intake onto HE foreign languages courses. It reviews the finding…
The Bessemer Historical Society and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Archives
Counting the Cost of International Assessment: Why universities may need to get a second opinion
University academics and educationists have taken the lead in advising on testing practice in the state education system. They have encouraged the development of a multiple judgement assessment system in which the requirement for test ‘reliability’ has been viewed as inappropriate. They have also supported the growing practice amongst examination boards of downgrading the importance of test reliability in another critical area of educational asse…
The psychologist and world affairs
Employee publications and employee representation plans: The case of Colorado Fuel and Iron, 1915–1942
From 1915–1942 Colorado Fuel and Iron (CFI) Company’s employee publications were an important vehicle for advertising the company’s liberal labor policies to its employees and the general pubic. The Industrial Bulletin in particular was part of a strategy by CFI and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the primary stockholder, to win back public support following the Ludlow Massacre and champion his Employee Representation Plan (ERP) as a civilized approach…
What If a Company Union Wasn't a ‘Sham’? The Rockefeller Plan in Action
Trade unionists and labor historians have often denounced company unions for not representing the interests of workers. However, new evidence on the day-to-day workings of the company union at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, known to history as the Rockefeller Plan, suggests that management made important concessions to their workers because of complaints registered through elected representatives. Nevertheless, despite these concessions, worke…
The psychologist and world affairs
Counting the Cost of International Assessment: Why universities may need to get a second opinion
University academics and educationists have taken the lead in advising on testing practice in the state education system. They have encouraged the development of a multiple judgement assessment system in which the requirement for test ‘reliability’ has been viewed as inappropriate. They have also supported the growing practice amongst examination boards of downgrading the importance of test reliability in another critical area of educational asse…
The Bessemer Historical Society and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Archives
Marks, get set, go: An evaluation of entry levels and progress rates on a university foreign language programme
This paper highlights the problem of falling recruitment to foreign language (FL) degrees in higher education, outlining some of the recent changes in secondary FL education which have contributed in part to this situation. It draws attention to the lack of research into the impact that the fall in numbers of students taking a foreign language A level is having on the quality of the intake onto HE foreign languages courses. It reviews the finding…
Linde: History of a Technology Corporation, 1879-2004 (review)
Reviewed by: Linde: History of a Technology Corporation, 1879–2004 Jonathan Rees (bio) Linde: History of a Technology Corporation, 1879–2004. By Hans-Liudger Dienel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xiv+369. $45. Hans-Liudger Dienel's history of the German conglomerate called the Linde Group is not an ordinary corporate history, because Linde has not been an ordinary corporation. For most of its existence, Dienel argues, Linde has been con…
Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism
Book Review| March 01 2006 Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism Jonathan Cutler Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2004 xi + 236 pp., $59.50 (cloth); $20.95 (paper) Jonathan Rees Jonathan Rees Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2006) 3 (1): 159–161. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3-1-159 Cit…
The Rise of the Silver Queen: Georgetown, Colorado, 1859-1896
Journal Article The Rise of the Silver Queen: Georgetown, Colorado, 1859–1896 Get access The Rise of the Silver Queen: Georgetown, Colorado, 1859–1896. By Leyendecker Liston E. Bradley Christine A. Smith Duane A.. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. xiv + 310 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, biographical essay, index. $55.00, cloth; $22.95, paper.) Jonathan Rees Jonathan Rees Colorado State University - Pueblo Search for other …
Analysing and evaluating the linguistic benefit of residence abroad for UK foreign language students
This paper reports on a longitudinal study designed to assess the progress made by UK foreign language undergraduate students during the residence abroad (RA) component of their degree. The article first of all places the study within the international research context, and then describes the data collation procedures and methodology employed. It reports findings concerning proficiency gains and the predictive validity of factors such as gender, …
What If a Company Union Wasn't a ‘Sham’? The Rockefeller Plan in Action
Trade unionists and labor historians have often denounced company unions for not representing the interests of workers. However, new evidence on the day-to-day workings of the company union at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, known to history as the Rockefeller Plan, suggests that management made important concessions to their workers because of complaints registered through elected representatives. Nevertheless, despite these concessions, worke…
Comparative responsiveness and minimal change for the Oxford Elbow Score following surgery
Employee publications and employee representation plans: The case of Colorado Fuel and Iron, 1915–1942
From 1915–1942 Colorado Fuel and Iron (CFI) Company’s employee publications were an important vehicle for advertising the company’s liberal labor policies to its employees and the general pubic. The Industrial Bulletin in particular was part of a strategy by CFI and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the primary stockholder, to win back public support following the Ludlow Massacre and champion his Employee Representation Plan (ERP) as a civilized approach…
Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry, by Bruce E. Kaufman
Beyond Body Counts: A Centennial Rethinking of the Ludlow Massacre
This article is a review of the historiography of the Ludlow Massacre of 1914, beginning in the immediate aftermath of that tragedy and continuing to the present day. During the weeks and years following the massacre, union allies played up the deaths of innocent women and children to bring sympathy to their cause. Once historians began to place the tragedy in context, the victims at Ludlow ceased to be the center of the story. Jonathan Rees sugg…
Industrialization and the Transformation of American Life: A Brief Introduction
This book provides a descriptive, episodic yet analytical synthesis of industrialization in America. It integrates analysis of the profound economic and social changes taking place during the period between 1877 and the start of the Great Depression. The text is supported by 30 case studies to illustrate the underlying principles of industrialization that cumulatively convey a comprehensive understanding of the era.
Worker Voice: Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US, 1914-1939 by Greg Patmore
Reviewed by: Worker Voice: Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US, 1914–1939 by Greg Patmore Jonathan Rees Greg Patmore, Worker Voice: Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US, 1914–1939 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2016) Greg Patmore has spent more than fifteen years working on this comparative history of employee representation practice…
Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business by Susan Spellman
Reviewed by: Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business by Susan Spellman Jonathan Rees (bio) Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business. By Susan Spellman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 226. Hardcover $82. Cornering the Market is about "corner" grocery stores, the small independent markets that began in the late-nineteenth-century United States and g…
Refrigerator: The Story of Cool in the Kitchen by Helen Peavitt
Reviewed by: Refrigerator: The Story of Cool in the Kitchen by Helen Peavitt Jonathan Rees (bio) Refrigerator: The Story of Cool in the Kitchen. By Helen Peavitt. London: Reaction Books, 2017. Pp. 208. Hardcover £18. The history of refrigeration touches upon many different disciplines, subdisciplines, and subjects. It obviously includes the history of technology, but it also involves social history, business history, the history of food, and many…
Mapping the Oxford Shoulder Score onto the EQ-5D utility index
The developed models now allow accurate estimation of the EQ-5D health index when only the OSS responses are available as a measure of patient-reported health outcome
Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment ed. by Angela N. H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Reviewed by: Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment ed. by Angela N. H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière Jonathan Rees (bio) Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment Edited by Angela N. H. Creager and Jean-Paul Gaudillière. New York: Berghahn, 2021. Pp. 366. The technology of food production both involves machines that make more food faster, as well as various processes which make that food more de…
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