Andrew L Friedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 79845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew L Friedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew L |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedman |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDMAN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2188-3821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 248 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Byggmeister Solness by Henrik Ibsen (review)
Fascism, Reality, Shit, and the German Stage
The controversial performances of Jonathan Meese and the duo Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller uncouple the presumed alliance between fascist politics and aesthetics. Provocatively repurposing fascist iconography and thought, Meese and Vinge/Müller defend art’s autonomy against the contamination of reality and reimagine how contemporary artists grapple with Germany’s past
Continuing professional development as lifelong learning and education
Continuing professional development (CPD) is a substantial, but hitherto largely unappreciated component of lifelong learning and education (LLL/LLE). CPD encourages analysis of the LLL/LLE of those with high education in early years. It draws attention to the influence of particular organisations, professional associations and regulatory bodies, not only as suppliers of LLL/LLE, but also as facilitators of perpetual cycles of learning and in so …
Juxtapositioning Populism and Professionalism
By denigrating expertise and challenging the value of evidence-based statements, advice and policies, populism challenges professions and professionalism. Arguably it is imperative for the professions to meet the challenge: but how? Here we provide an approach by juxtaposing populism and professionalism; two complex, ambiguous and contested phenomena with different and rarely connected literatures. Ontic and ontological definitions of each are co…
Decolonization's Diplomats: Antiracism and the Year of Africa in Washington, D.C
In 1960, the “year of Africa,” seventeen African nations won independence and began sending their diplomats to Washington, D.C. The story of these black national representatives in a newly black majority city that was also the capital of the segregated United States has drawn significant scholarly attention. Historians agree that the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations recognized that alienating African diplomats with evidence of American raci…
Empire on the Mississippi
For more than a century, St. Louis has imagined itself as at the geographical center of an imperial nation. Henry Berger’s wide-spanning St. Louis & Empire explains how that imagined geography put pressure on the rest of the world. An innovative account of scalar relations moving from city to globe, it delineates a category of inquiry commonly invisible to both urban history and diplomatic history—that is, an individual U.S. city’s foreign relati…
Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia
This spatial and cultural history chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions that defined US foreign policy in the era of global decolonization created domestic space around their own headquarters and abroad. The book argues for an alternate genealogy for US migration by tracing social and family relationships formed during violent US endeavors, which carried American agents abroad and migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran…
John Gabriel Borkman (review)
Reviewed by: John Gabriel Borkman Andrew Friedman John Gabriel Borkman. By Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Vegard Vinge, Ida Müller, and Trond Reinholdtsen. Volksbühne-im-Prater, Berlin. 29 October 2011. Since 2006, the Ibsen-Saga, created by Vegard Vinge (director, performer) and Ida Müller (director, [End Page 430] scenographer, performer), has sent shockwaves through continental Europe’s experimental theatre scene. The uncompromising artists’ durati…
The Global Postcolonial Moment and the American New Town: India, Reston, Dodoma
As with many of the 1960s new towns, scholars place Reston, Virginia, in the garden city tradition. This essay argues instead that Reston brought to the United States a unique midcentury architectural vernacular, born not in Britain but in the postcolonial world. The war effort spirited American architects abroad. Some stayed to advise governments building independent nations. One of them was the New Yorker Albert Mayer, along with members of his…
Let Our Freak Flags Fly: Shrek the Musical and the Branding of Diversity
Let Our Freak Flags Fly': Shrek the Musical and the Branding of Diversity" argues that DreamWorks used Shrek the Musical to exploit a generic theme of multiculturalism to extend the reach of the Shrek franchise and challenge Disney's domination of the Broadway market. By bringing a political-economic analysis to bear on the study of commercial theatre, the essay shows that DreamWorks's marketing strategy-diversification-provided the theme-diversi…
Stakeholders: Theory and Practice
The research on social discourse in societies, firms, and organizations written by researchers working in fields such as Management, Corporate Governance, Accounting and Finance, Strategy, Sociology, and Politics often make reference to the term 'stakeholder'. Yet the concept of the 'stakeholder' is unclear, and research around it often muddled. This book provides an analysis, classification, and critique of the various strands of theory about st…
Strawmanning and Labour Process Analysis
The practice of building and knocking down straw men, or Strawmanning, is elaborated here by describing a number of different variants of this phenomenon through analysis of a recent article in this journal (O'Doherty and Willmott, 2001). Four types of Strawmanning are identified. In addition, three tools which can be used to generate straw men are identified: monism, deconstruction and disciplinary media. Concepts are offered that may help devel…
Developing Stakeholder Theory
Previous literature has led to a lack of appreciation of: the range of organization/stakeholder relations that can occur; the extent to which such relations change over time; as well as how and why such changes occur. In particular, extremely negative and highly conflicting relations between organizations and stakeholders have been ignored. Due to this lack of appreciation it is argued that current attempts at integrating the separate strands of …
The role of mentoring in the CPD programmes of professional associations
This paper seeks to position the current role of mentoring within the continuing professional development (CPD) programmes of UK professional associations and to examine its potential for developing reflective practice. Following a review of mentoring and CPD in terms of their relationship to the ethos of lifelong learning, it indicthes the extent to which mentoring has been embraced by professional associations. Here, reference is made to a wide…
Microregulation and Post-Fordism: Critique and Development of Regulation Theory
(2000). Microregulation and Post-Fordism: Critique and Development of Regulation Theory. New Political Economy: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 59-76
The Information Technology Field: Using Fields and Paradigms for Analyzing Technological Change
The technology field is proposed as a concept which will allow us to analyze the history of substantial technologies and to make predictions about future developments. The history of information technology is analyzed as an example of a technology field. The technology field gives place both to "supply-side," "natural," technological trajectories, and to "demand-side" socioeconomic factors. Unlike the recently developed concept of technological p…
Four phases of information technology
The Means of Management Control and Labour Process Theory: A Critical Note on Storey
John Storey has criticised the labour process literature for its `monist' presumptions; that is, for developing simple generalisations which cannot deal with the diversity and complexity of social control processes within work organisations. His argument is weak in three ways. First, he misrepresents the labour process literature by treating it as homogeneous. Monism may be a valid criticism of Braverman, but it is not a valid criticism of certai…
Developing the managerial strategies approach to the labour process
Economics and Marxism. Vol. 1: The Renaissance of the Marxian System
Journal Article Economics and Marxism. Vol. 1: The Renaissance of the Marxian System. Vol. 2: The Dynamics of the Marxian System Get access Economics and Marxism. Vol. 1: The Renaissance of the Marxian System. Vol. 2: The Dynamics of the Marxian System. By Karl Kuhne. (London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xix + 413, ix + 371. -£40.00 the set.) Andrew L. Friedman Andrew L. Friedman University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Marxian Economics
Journal Article Marxian Economics Get access Marxian Economics. By Meghnad Desai. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979. Pp. xii + 265. £15.00 hardback, £4.95 paperback.) Andrew L. Friedman Andrew L. Friedman University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 358, 1 June 1980, Pages 425–426, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231818 Published: 01 June 1980
Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
The Silk Ribbon-Weaving Trade in Hillfields and Coventry Region
In 1451 Henry VI raised Coventry and the villages neighbouring it to the status of a county, (see Maps 11.1 and 11.2). For centuries the city and adjacent villages had formed a cohesive and largely self-sufficient economic unit. A cohesive unit, but not a homogeneous one. The villagers were far less prosperous than the inhabitants of Coventry city. Politically the villagers were barred from the corporate privileges of the city and in parliamentar…
The State and Relations between Countries
The subjects of this chapter are worked out in a very preliminary fashion. They have been included primarily because it is at the level of international relations that most Marxist analysis of unequal fortunes of different groups of workers is pitched (see Baran [1957]; Frank [1967]; Emmanuel [1972]; Wallerstein [1974]). I believe all these analyses suffer from a neglect of struggle within productive activity in each country. 1
Marx’s Framework
It will be useful to begin with Marx’s basic description or definition of the capitalist mode of production. The capitalist mode of production is peculiar to a limited period of history. It is distinguished from earlier modes of production 1 by the category of free labour. Labour is free under capitalism in two ways.
Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism.
Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
Microregulation and Post-Fordism: Critique and Development of Regulation Theory
(2000). Microregulation and Post-Fordism: Critique and Development of Regulation Theory. New Political Economy: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 59-76
Developing the managerial strategies approach to the labour process
Let Our Freak Flags Fly: Shrek the Musical and the Branding of Diversity
Let Our Freak Flags Fly': Shrek the Musical and the Branding of Diversity" argues that DreamWorks used Shrek the Musical to exploit a generic theme of multiculturalism to extend the reach of the Shrek franchise and challenge Disney's domination of the Broadway market. By bringing a political-economic analysis to bear on the study of commercial theatre, the essay shows that DreamWorks's marketing strategy-diversification-provided the theme-diversi…
Four phases of information technology
The Global Postcolonial Moment and the American New Town: India, Reston, Dodoma
As with many of the 1960s new towns, scholars place Reston, Virginia, in the garden city tradition. This essay argues instead that Reston brought to the United States a unique midcentury architectural vernacular, born not in Britain but in the postcolonial world. The war effort spirited American architects abroad. Some stayed to advise governments building independent nations. One of them was the New Yorker Albert Mayer, along with members of his…
The Information Technology Field: Using Fields and Paradigms for Analyzing Technological Change
The technology field is proposed as a concept which will allow us to analyze the history of substantial technologies and to make predictions about future developments. The history of information technology is analyzed as an example of a technology field. The technology field gives place both to "supply-side," "natural," technological trajectories, and to "demand-side" socioeconomic factors. Unlike the recently developed concept of technological p…
Strawmanning and Labour Process Analysis
The practice of building and knocking down straw men, or Strawmanning, is elaborated here by describing a number of different variants of this phenomenon through analysis of a recent article in this journal (O'Doherty and Willmott, 2001). Four types of Strawmanning are identified. In addition, three tools which can be used to generate straw men are identified: monism, deconstruction and disciplinary media. Concepts are offered that may help devel…
The role of mentoring in the CPD programmes of professional associations
This paper seeks to position the current role of mentoring within the continuing professional development (CPD) programmes of UK professional associations and to examine its potential for developing reflective practice. Following a review of mentoring and CPD in terms of their relationship to the ethos of lifelong learning, it indicthes the extent to which mentoring has been embraced by professional associations. Here, reference is made to a wide…
The Means of Management Control and Labour Process Theory: A Critical Note on Storey
John Storey has criticised the labour process literature for its `monist' presumptions; that is, for developing simple generalisations which cannot deal with the diversity and complexity of social control processes within work organisations. His argument is weak in three ways. First, he misrepresents the labour process literature by treating it as homogeneous. Monism may be a valid criticism of Braverman, but it is not a valid criticism of certai…
The Silk Ribbon-Weaving Trade in Hillfields and Coventry Region
In 1451 Henry VI raised Coventry and the villages neighbouring it to the status of a county, (see Maps 11.1 and 11.2). For centuries the city and adjacent villages had formed a cohesive and largely self-sufficient economic unit. A cohesive unit, but not a homogeneous one. The villagers were far less prosperous than the inhabitants of Coventry city. Politically the villagers were barred from the corporate privileges of the city and in parliamentar…
The State and Relations between Countries
The subjects of this chapter are worked out in a very preliminary fashion. They have been included primarily because it is at the level of international relations that most Marxist analysis of unequal fortunes of different groups of workers is pitched (see Baran [1957]; Frank [1967]; Emmanuel [1972]; Wallerstein [1974]). I believe all these analyses suffer from a neglect of struggle within productive activity in each country. 1
Marx’s Framework
It will be useful to begin with Marx’s basic description or definition of the capitalist mode of production. The capitalist mode of production is peculiar to a limited period of history. It is distinguished from earlier modes of production 1 by the category of free labour. Labour is free under capitalism in two ways.
The Motor-Car Product Cycle, Coventry and the Law of Value
Coventry’s industry-area long-run pattern may be usefully described by examining the pattern of new car registrations in the United Kingdom. In spite of the sudden rise in British car exports between 1945 and 1950 and the sudden rise in car imports after 1968, the basic health of the industry in Britain may be inferred from the long-run pattern of new car registrations in the United Kingdom (curve D on Graph 13.1). 1 New car registrations may be …
Firms and Workers
The five preceding chapters have demonstrated the importance of systematic differences among firms according to the degree of monopoly power they enjoy, and among workers according to the strength of their resistance and the pressure exerted on them by the reserve army. Marx recognised such differences, but he treated firms and workers as homogeneous categories for analytical purposes. The primary difference between Marx's analysis and the amende…
Hillfields, Coventry and the Car Industry
Coventry was a showpiece of British capitalism from the late 1880s until the late 1960s. First with bicycles and motor cycles, and most important with cars, Coventry workers have enjoyed a central position within fast-growing major industries. They have had central status within powerful firms which have for decades enjoyed the discretion of being able to use Responsible Autonomy strategies toward most of their workers. In consequence Coventry ha…
Management — Historical Development and Argument
Three major themes are demonstrated by the historical discussion of management which follows. First, the relative popularity of Direct Control or Responsible Autonomy strategies has changed markedly over the years. As with the strength of worker resistance, this has reflected conditions in both internal labour markets and external labour power markets. Second, different types of strategies have been used by top managers when dealing with differen…
Centre-Periphery Patterns in the U.K. Car Industry
Centre-periphery relations between firms in the U.K. car industry have been more noticeable than those within firms. Both sorts of relations are discussed in this chapter, though both have been examined earlier (Chapter 8, Section 4 and Chapter 14, Sections 4 and 5).
Argument and Consequence
In Chapter 1, I suggested that the main theoretical barrier against analysis of concrete micro situations within the Marxian framework has been the absence of explicit consideration of class struggle, particularly struggle within productive activity. Once class struggle is incorporated fundamentally and explicitly into a Marxian framework, two types of consequences follow. First, it becomes clear that a number of new categories and concepts shoul…
The Hosiery Industry in Leicester in the Late Nineteenth Century
Like Coventry, Leicester was the centre of a thriving industry during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. But the difference in conditions between Leicester’s domestic hosiery knitters and those of the surrounding villages, while noticeable, was not nearly so great as the difference in conditions between weavers in Coventry and its surrounding villages. This was due to the relatively poor conditions of knitters in Leicester rather than prosp…
Historical Development of the Car Industry in Coventry: Monopoly Power and Struggle
In this chapter monopoly power, worker resistance and managerial counter-pressure are examined as they developed during the history of the car industry in Coventry. The product cycle pattern set up in Chapter 13 is used to distinguish phases with different competitive conditions.
Background and Argument
This book arose out of two problems, one empirical and one theoretical. The empirical concern of the book is the problem of the persistence of areas of deprivation alongside areas of prosperity within cities or regions in spite of general prosperity in advanced capitalist countries from the late 1940s (at least until very recently), and in spite of government efforts to alleviate these disparities.
Worker Resistance—Argument
Struggle within the labour process over valorisation has occupied radicals throughout capitalism’s history, but this struggle has been sorrowfully neglected by Marxist theoreticians. The schism between theory and practice concerning the daily struggle which occurs within productive activity has seriously weakened both. During the next four chapters this struggle is examined, concentrating on worker resistance first, and then on managerial counter…
Worker Resistance — Historical Development
Workers have always resisted exploitation in the capitalist mode of production. This resistance has taken on many different forms, but both particular forms of resistance and general resistance itself have been unevenly distributed among different groups of workers throughout capitalism’s history. During Modern Industry high skills and well-organised resistance were strongly correlated. With the spread of trade unionism among less skilled workers…
Management — Preliminary Argument
Management 1 under the capitalist mode of production has always involved two rather different, but closely related functions.
Long-run Patterns for Industries and Areas
Centre-periphery patterns distinguished in the previous two chapters are related in Section 1 to the persistence of areas of deprivation alongside areas of prosperity. In Section 2 the fragility of central workers’ status in the long run is discussed, along with the consequences of this fragility for area patterns. While centre-periphery patterns have always marked capitalist societies, the particular groups of workers with central status have be…
Monopoly Capitalism
The first step for altering Marx’s framework concerns the power of competitive forces on firms and Marx’s Law of Value. For Marx ‘competition makes the immanent laws of capitalist production to be felt by each individual capitalist, as external coercive laws’ (Capital, vol. 1, p. 555). But from the outset competitive pressures were not felt with the same force by all individual capitalists. Some firms were large and strong, some weak. For the wea…
Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism.
Economics and Marxism. Vol. 1: The Renaissance of the Marxian System
Journal Article Economics and Marxism. Vol. 1: The Renaissance of the Marxian System. Vol. 2: The Dynamics of the Marxian System Get access Economics and Marxism. Vol. 1: The Renaissance of the Marxian System. Vol. 2: The Dynamics of the Marxian System. By Karl Kuhne. (London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xix + 413, ix + 371. -£40.00 the set.) Andrew L. Friedman Andrew L. Friedman University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Marxian Economics
Journal Article Marxian Economics Get access Marxian Economics. By Meghnad Desai. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979. Pp. xii + 265. £15.00 hardback, £4.95 paperback.) Andrew L. Friedman Andrew L. Friedman University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 358, 1 June 1980, Pages 425–426, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231818 Published: 01 June 1980
Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
Developing the managerial strategies approach to the labour process
The Means of Management Control and Labour Process Theory: A Critical Note on Storey
John Storey has criticised the labour process literature for its `monist' presumptions; that is, for developing simple generalisations which cannot deal with the diversity and complexity of social control processes within work organisations. His argument is weak in three ways. First, he misrepresents the labour process literature by treating it as homogeneous. Monism may be a valid criticism of Braverman, but it is not a valid criticism of certai…
Four phases of information technology
The Information Technology Field: Using Fields and Paradigms for Analyzing Technological Change
The technology field is proposed as a concept which will allow us to analyze the history of substantial technologies and to make predictions about future developments. The history of information technology is analyzed as an example of a technology field. The technology field gives place both to "supply-side," "natural," technological trajectories, and to "demand-side" socioeconomic factors. Unlike the recently developed concept of technological p…
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