Philip Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 85859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federation University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1736-8137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 296 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The enduring myth of endemic age discrimination in the Australian labour market
It has often been stated by older people's advocates that discrimination affecting older people is commonplace and ongoing in the Australian labour market. In this article, we contrast such rhetoric with a review of evidence from recent large-scale surveys which demonstrates that low and declining numbers of Australians experience age discrimination, while highlighting the complexity of the phenomenon. We identify the emergence of a fake ‘age’ ad…
In Memoriam
Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam
Since the early 1990s, the shrine of Ba Chua Xu, the Lady of the Realm, has become the most visited religious site in southern Vietnam, receiving more than a million visitors annually. Mother, benevolent creditor, healer, relationship advisor, business consultant, the Lady of the Realm is one of a group of goddesses whose shrines attract devotees from all corners of rural and urban society. Goddess on the Rise follows these pilgrims' pathways, ta…
Regardless of Age”: Australian University Managers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Older Academics
As with other industrialized nations Australia’s population is aging and older workers are encouraged to work for longer. At the same time, Australia’s university sector, which is aging, is being reconfigured through changes that potentially marginalize its older workers as higher education institutions try to become more competitive in a global market. In this context, youthfulness appears to embody competitiveness and academic institutions are …
Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam: Remaking Social Relations in a Post-socialist Nation
Vietnam’s shift to a market-based society has brought about profound realignments in its people’s relations with each other. As the nation continues its retreat from the legacies of war and socialism, significant social rifts have emerged that divide citizens by class, region and ethnicity. By drawing on social connections as a traditional resource, Vietnamese are able to
Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam: Remaking Social Relations in a Post-socialist Nation
Vietnam’s shift to a market-based society has brought about profound realignments in its people’s relations with each other. As the nation continues its retreat from the legacies of war and socialism, significant social rifts have emerged that divide citizens by class, region and ethnicity. By drawing on social connections as a traditional resource, Vietnamese are able to accumulate wealth, overcome marginalisation and achieve social mobility. Ho…
The Older Worker: Identifying a Critical Research Agenda
The roles that older workers play in labour markets has received a great deal of policy and academic scrutiny in response to economic crises and demographic change. As a starting point, this focus has paradoxically resulted in insufficient attention to older workers themselves. The article is thus concerned with refocusing the agenda for research onto the older worker. Building on an extensive literature review, four gaps in knowledge are identif…
Frontier commoditisation in post‐socialist Southeast Asia
The articles in this special issue examine processes of commoditisation in the frontiers of post‐socialist Southeast Asia. Focusing on livelihood transformations in the borderlands of Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, the case studies reveal how relatively understudied actors, networks, flows and conjunctures initiate and shape commodity booms. Exploring how borderlanders engage, resist, cope with and survive commoditisation, the articles cha…
Bridging the grey divide: An international perspective on the ageing workforce and longer working lives
Rapid global population ageing is considered to be one of the major social and economic challenges of our time. Numerous committees, scores of official reports, and vast amounts of academic literature internationally have been devoted to the topic in recent years. In Australia the economic challenges associated with an ageing population have long been recognised. Alongside concerns about a growing welfare burden there is much commentary about the…
Recent public policy and Australian older workers
This article considers the characteristics and utility of pro‐work policies targeting Australian older workers that have emerged in the context of population ageing, amid concerns that this will lead to labour shortages and an increasing social welfare burden. There has been a recent surge in public policy regarding the ageing workforce, the efficacy of which has not been tested by evaluation studies. After considering the conceptual foundations …
Pockets of resistance: British news media, war and theory in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Introduction 2. Mobilising for battle: The news media and war from Vietnam to Iraq 3. Theorising and analysing media performance in wartime 4. Placing coverage of the invasion in context 5. 'Supporting our boys in battle': Evidence for supportive coverage and the elite-driven model 6. 'Independence, diversity and professional autonomy': Evidence for negotiated and oppositional coverage 7. Case studies from the invasion of Iraq: Jessica Lynch, Ali…
Making Primatology Vietnamese
The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourse of Working Longer - Corrigendum
In the April 2016 issue of the Journal of Social Policy (vol 45, part 2 pp251-268), there was an article by Philip Taylor and Catherine Earl entitled 'The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourse of Working Longer' which contains the following statement: 'The case for early exit was argued, in part, on the back of efforts to re-distribute work to the young. Macnicol (2008) describes this as 'misguided short-termism' attempt…
The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourse of Working Longer
This article is concerned with the evolving social construction of older workers and retirement. Evolving and competing 'world-views' from public policy, and social advocacy of productive and vulnerable older workers, are described and critiqued. Contradictions and disjunctions, in terms of public policies aimed at changing employer behaviour towards older workers, are identified. It is argued that present representations of older workers have se…
Putting Labour in its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains
Is Workplace Flexibility Good Policy? Evaluating the Efficacy of Age Management Strategies for Older Women Workers
A combination of age and gender factors shape older women’s workplace experiences. Age advocacy groups, together with many academic commentators, argue in favor of workplace flexibility, pointing to benefits for both older workers and their employers. But knowledge about the policies of organizations and how they are enacted by managers is still rudimentary. What do managers understand flexibility to mean and how do they implement flexible workin…
The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty
The indigenous people of Southern Vietnam, the Khmer Krom, live in a region over which Vietnam and Cambodia have contesting claims. Regarded by nationalists in both countries with ambivalence and under pressure to change their way of life, they have coped with destructive wars, environmental re-engineering and nation-building policies by selectively engaging the world beyond, while continuing to draw upon local resources, self-help networks and u…
The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty
Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization: Inside the Factory of the Future
This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased freedom Motorola promoted amongst its employees, how employees adapted to managerial changes, specifically the elimination of large-scale management, and where t…
Water in the Shaping and Unmaking of Khmer Identity on the Vietnam-Cambodia Frontier
This paper attempts an explanation for the persistence of Khmer cultural identifications on the Ca Mau Peninsula of Vietnam. This low-lying peninsula is a unique human environment, where Khmer villages, Buddhist temple festivals and livelihood activities are centred on a network of saline-infested rivers. The presence of Khmer communities along these waterways is noteworthy, for much scholarship suggests that the waterways of the multi-ethnic low…
Coercive Localization in Southwest Vietnam
This paper describes the protracted struggles by ethnic Khmers in An Giang Province to regain farmland taken from them by ethnic Vietnamese migrants during their forced absence from the Vietnam-Cambodian border during and after the Third Indochina War. Efforts by the original landowners to organize collectively to seek justice from national authorities were stifled by local officials motivated to preserve the new status quo and were ideologically…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This essay explores the contestatory nature of land disputes in rural Vietnam. It builds on the findings of the research essays in this special issue and on recent scholarship to identify what is politically significant about contemporary land conflicts. Rural land disputes implicate a multiplicity of state, quasi-state and non-state actors in public, sometimes violent, contestations over the values attached to land. Their overt, discursive and c…
Managing older workers during a period of tight labour supply
This article reports on a recent survey of employer attitudes and policies towards older workers in Australia at a time of sustained economic growth and ongoing concerns about labour shortages. Findings from a survey of 590 employers with more than 50 employees in the State of Queensland point to an unusually strong orientation towards the recruitment of older workers among respondents, although the retraining of older workers is not prioritised …
Everyday discrimination in the workplace, job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing: Age differences and moderating variables
In this article we explore the importance of ‘everyday discrimination’ and other psycho-social variables for psychological wellbeing, considering differences according to age, gender and socio-economic position. Using employee survey data collected within Australian organisations we explore a statistically reliable model of the relationship between aspects of the psycho-social work environment, psychological wellbeing and job satisfaction. The em…
Managing the working body: Active ageing and limits to the ‘flexible’ firm
Workforce ageing is considered in the context of four Australian employing organisations which are each in the process of change. In these organisations, perceptions regarding the relationship between the declining body and productivity led to a depreciation of the value of older workers and their consignment to less productive edges of organisations. While this was viewed as benefiting older workers, it was also acknowledged that workforce agein…
The Ageing Workforce: Employers' Attitudes Towards Older People
This article reports the results of a national postal survey of employers' attitudes and policies towards older workers supported by the ESRC. The survey's key findings are discussed in the context of the declining labour force participation of older people over the last twenty years and the recent turnaround in official and some employer attitudes towards this group. Findings of particular importance are those relating to the sectoral difference…
Age and Participation in Vocational Education and Training
In recent years increasing attention has been paid to the problems faced by older workers in the UK labour market. In this paper we examine the issue of older workers' participation in vocational training and education, drawing upon data from the Labour Force Survey. Our initial analysis identifies how rates of participation in workrelated education and training differ between age groups. Further exploratory analysis attempts to identify possible…
Employers and older workers: Attitudes and employment practices
The research on which this article is based examined the relationship between attitudes towards older workers held by personnel managers and directors in large organisations (500 or more employees) across virtually the whole range of industrial sectors (excluding agriculture), and their employment practices. The aims of the research were to explore the operation of workplace social closure and the social construction of age in organisations, and …
Older workers and employment: Managing age relations
This article reports the findings of research into the functioning of companies' and organisations' internal labour markets. Four case studies of Australian and United Kingdom public and private sector organisations have been undertaken with two principal aims: to elucidate the challenges and barriers to the employment of older workers, and to demonstrate the benefits to business and to older workers of age-aware human resource management policie…
The Older Worker: Identifying a Critical Research Agenda
The roles that older workers play in labour markets has received a great deal of policy and academic scrutiny in response to economic crises and demographic change. As a starting point, this focus has paradoxically resulted in insufficient attention to older workers themselves. The article is thus concerned with refocusing the agenda for research onto the older worker. Building on an extensive literature review, four gaps in knowledge are identif…
Factors Associated with Employment Status in Later Working Life
This article reports on factors affecting the withdrawal of older workers from the labour market associated with unemployment, premature retirement and retirement at 65 years of age. Longitudinal data from three interviews with 175 adult males are examined; and findings show a process of psychological withdrawal from the labour market reflecting changes in personal identity which occur prior to reaching the formal retirement age, most strongly fo…
Minorities at Large: New Approaches to Minority Ethnicity in Vietnam
Reviewing the scholarship on ethnic minorities in Vietnam, this essay identifies problems with the prevailing "carceral" approach that regards ethnic minorities as deprived of agency and as territorially circumscribed, disciplined subjects. New ethnographic and historical research demonstrates, to the contrary, that ethnic minorities have been active in the transformations of their worlds. The new scholarship situates contemporary minority transn…
Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organisation of Elections
Poor Policies, Wealthy Peasants: Alternative Trajectories of Rural Development in Vietnam
Examining recent momentous changes in rural Vietnam, this article contends that many rural development policies implemented by the state and international development agencies adopt criteria of progress that are inappropriate to the situation and needs of rural people. However, far from being left entirely bereft by the failures of official development schemes, rural people in Vietnam have access to an alternative set of resources and strategies …
Frontier commoditisation in post‐socialist Southeast Asia
The articles in this special issue examine processes of commoditisation in the frontiers of post‐socialist Southeast Asia. Focusing on livelihood transformations in the borderlands of Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, the case studies reveal how relatively understudied actors, networks, flows and conjunctures initiate and shape commodity booms. Exploring how borderlanders engage, resist, cope with and survive commoditisation, the articles cha…
The Social Construction of Retirement and Evolving Policy Discourse of Working Longer
This article is concerned with the evolving social construction of older workers and retirement. Evolving and competing 'world-views' from public policy, and social advocacy of productive and vulnerable older workers, are described and critiqued. Contradictions and disjunctions, in terms of public policies aimed at changing employer behaviour towards older workers, are identified. It is argued that present representations of older workers have se…
Is Workplace Flexibility Good Policy? Evaluating the Efficacy of Age Management Strategies for Older Women Workers
A combination of age and gender factors shape older women’s workplace experiences. Age advocacy groups, together with many academic commentators, argue in favor of workplace flexibility, pointing to benefits for both older workers and their employers. But knowledge about the policies of organizations and how they are enacted by managers is still rudimentary. What do managers understand flexibility to mean and how do they implement flexible workin…
Pockets of resistance: British news media, war and theory in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Introduction 2. Mobilising for battle: The news media and war from Vietnam to Iraq 3. Theorising and analysing media performance in wartime 4. Placing coverage of the invasion in context 5. 'Supporting our boys in battle': Evidence for supportive coverage and the elite-driven model 6. 'Independence, diversity and professional autonomy': Evidence for negotiated and oppositional coverage 7. Case studies from the invasion of Iraq: Jessica Lynch, Ali…
Managing the working body: Active ageing and limits to the ‘flexible’ firm
Workforce ageing is considered in the context of four Australian employing organisations which are each in the process of change. In these organisations, perceptions regarding the relationship between the declining body and productivity led to a depreciation of the value of older workers and their consignment to less productive edges of organisations. While this was viewed as benefiting older workers, it was also acknowledged that workforce agein…
Regardless of Age”: Australian University Managers’ Attitudes and Practices Towards Older Academics
As with other industrialized nations Australia’s population is aging and older workers are encouraged to work for longer. At the same time, Australia’s university sector, which is aging, is being reconfigured through changes that potentially marginalize its older workers as higher education institutions try to become more competitive in a global market. In this context, youthfulness appears to embody competitiveness and academic institutions are …
Managing older workers during a period of tight labour supply
This article reports on a recent survey of employer attitudes and policies towards older workers in Australia at a time of sustained economic growth and ongoing concerns about labour shortages. Findings from a survey of 590 employers with more than 50 employees in the State of Queensland point to an unusually strong orientation towards the recruitment of older workers among respondents, although the retraining of older workers is not prioritised …
Economy in Motion: Cham Muslim Traders in the Mekong Delta
The Cham Muslims of the Mekong delta address the problems and opportunities of Vietnam's liberal reform era with strategies of trade and mobility. This paper situates Cham trading activities in an ongoing history of movement and examines the spatial and cultural singularities of Cham economic life
The Ethnicity of Efficacy: Vietnamese Goddess Worship and the Encoding of Popular Histories
This article examines the reasons for the popularity of spirits of different ethnic backgrounds in the southern Vietnamese plain. The official approach is to induct the cults to these spirits into defence of the nation and its culture, a construct which privileges ethnic Kinh views of history. However, the 'Lady of the Realm', a goddess in the Mekong delta, illustrates the more complex ethnicity of this symbolism. Popular views denying her Khmer …
A Fresh Look at the Parliamentary Boundary Commissions
Journal Article A FRESH LOOK AT THE PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS Get access Peter J. Taylor, Peter J. Taylor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Graham Gudgin Graham Gudgin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1975jun, June 1975, Pages 405–415, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051724 Published: 01 June 1975
Everyday discrimination in the workplace, job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing: Age differences and moderating variables
In this article we explore the importance of ‘everyday discrimination’ and other psycho-social variables for psychological wellbeing, considering differences according to age, gender and socio-economic position. Using employee survey data collected within Australian organisations we explore a statistically reliable model of the relationship between aspects of the psycho-social work environment, psychological wellbeing and job satisfaction. The em…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This essay explores the contestatory nature of land disputes in rural Vietnam. It builds on the findings of the research essays in this special issue and on recent scholarship to identify what is politically significant about contemporary land conflicts. Rural land disputes implicate a multiplicity of state, quasi-state and non-state actors in public, sometimes violent, contestations over the values attached to land. Their overt, discursive and c…
Losing the Waterways: The Displacement of Khmer Communities from the Freshwater Rivers of the Mekong Delta, 1945-2010
In the latter half of the twentieth century thousands of Khmer people were displaced from their homes along the freshwater rivers of Vietnam's Mekong delta. Their pattern of settlement along freshwater tidal rivers was an ecological adaptation unique in the Khmer-speaking world, of which only vestiges remain. Drawing upon oral histories and ethnographic observations of O Mon, a district in the central Mekong delta, this paper reconstructs a pictu…
The Goddess, the Ethnologist, the Folklorist and the Cadre: Situating Exegesis of Vietnam's Folk Religion in Time and Place1
Vietnamese anthropology has been portrayed as a project in close alignment with the goals of a progressivist, culturally assimilationist and security‐oriented state. This paper explores unexpectedly positive assessments by anthropologists and folklorists of a recent popular upsurge in goddess worship, which many local scholars deem an example of local, time‐honoured and integrative cultural practice. Such assessments may be viewed in the context …
Recent public policy and Australian older workers
This article considers the characteristics and utility of pro‐work policies targeting Australian older workers that have emerged in the context of population ageing, amid concerns that this will lead to labour shortages and an increasing social welfare burden. There has been a recent surge in public policy regarding the ageing workforce, the efficacy of which has not been tested by evaluation studies. After considering the conceptual foundations …
The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty
The indigenous people of Southern Vietnam, the Khmer Krom, live in a region over which Vietnam and Cambodia have contesting claims. Regarded by nationalists in both countries with ambivalence and under pressure to change their way of life, they have coped with destructive wars, environmental re-engineering and nation-building policies by selectively engaging the world beyond, while continuing to draw upon local resources, self-help networks and u…
The Standing Conference
Calendar of Meetings
The committee met to review the activities of the Pan American Health Organization in the field of health and population dynamics. An analysis was made of programs of research in reproduction, contraception, and demography, efforts in evaluation, service programs, operational research, and education and training. The committee established that the PAHO should give priority to health programs related to population dynamics. The director appointed …
The Distant Magnet, European Emigration to the U.S.A
The Distant Magnet: European Emigration to the U.S.A
Journal Article The Distant Magnet: European Emigration to the U.S.A. By Philip Taylor. (New York: Harper & Row, 1971. xvi + 326 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.00.) Get access Rowland Berthoff Rowland Berthoff Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 395–396, https://doi.org/10.…
Latin American Politics: A Primer
A Fresh Look at the Parliamentary Boundary Commissions
Journal Article A FRESH LOOK AT THE PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS Get access Peter J. Taylor, Peter J. Taylor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Graham Gudgin Graham Gudgin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1975jun, June 1975, Pages 405–415, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051724 Published: 01 June 1975
New Directions in Curriculum Studies
Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organisation of Elections
Geography of Elections
Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organization of Elections
New Introduction: Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organisation of Elections Revisited by Ron Johnston III Preface 1 Translating votes into seats 2 A modelling framework for the seats-votes relationship 3 Explaining the cube law 4 Malapportionment, nonuniform swing, and nonnormality 5 Three-party elections
Education and anthropology
The Changing Electoral Geography of the Netherlands: 1946–1981
The relative strengths of the [Dutch] parties have remained remarkably constant since the first elections under universal manhood suffrage in 1918. Party loyalties have usually been strong and the popular vote very stable. A. Lijphart 1967 The year 1967 proved to be a watershed. Although it is perhaps too soon to say whether this has been a period of ‘realignment’, it was most certainly one of ‘dealignment’. G. A. Irwin 1980
All Organization Is Bias: The Political Geography of Electoral Reform
Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality
Developments in Electoral Geography
1. Developments in Electorial Geography F.M. Shelley, R.J. Johnston and P.J. Taylor Part I: The State of Electoral Geography 2. From Political Methodology to Geographical Social Theory? A Critical Review of Electoral Geography, 1960-1987 John A. Agnew 3. Wither Electoral Geography?: A Critique David R. Reynolds Part II: The Cleavage Model and Electoral Geography 4. The Electoral Geographies of the Netherlands in the Era of Mass Politics, 1888-198…
Connectivity Is a Vital Element of Landscape Structure
In a recent FORUM article, Dunning et al. (1992) put forward a framework of landscape processes that stimulated considerable discussion amongst us. We are in general agreement with their ideas, but feel that a more explicit recognition of the importance of movement as a component of landscape structure would add clarity and utility to the framework. We wish to build on their foundation by presenting some additional ideas. Dunning et al. (1992) ou…
A phenomenographic study of academics' conceptions of science learning and teaching
Political Geography: World Economy, Nation-State and Locality
Past, present and future Geopolitical codes and world orders Situating geopolitical codes and theories The War on Terrorism: Geopolitical transition and world order 3 Geography of imperialisms The revolutionary heritage Formal imperialism: the creation of empires Informal imperialism: dominance without empire Empirein the twenty-first century 4 Territorial states The making of the world political map The nature of the states Territorial states un…
The Ageing Workforce: Employers' Attitudes Towards Older People
This article reports the results of a national postal survey of employers' attitudes and policies towards older workers supported by the ESRC. The survey's key findings are discussed in the context of the declining labour force participation of older people over the last twenty years and the recent turnaround in official and some employer attitudes towards this group. Findings of particular importance are those relating to the sectoral difference…
Factors Associated with Employment Status in Later Working Life
This article reports on factors affecting the withdrawal of older workers from the labour market associated with unemployment, premature retirement and retirement at 65 years of age. Longitudinal data from three interviews with 175 adult males are examined; and findings show a process of psychological withdrawal from the labour market reflecting changes in personal identity which occur prior to reaching the formal retirement age, most strongly fo…
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Political science (51 works) · Sociology (39 works) · Economics (29 works) · Law (28 works) · Geography (23 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (23 works) · Business (19 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (16 works)