Huw Beynon
Biographic Data
| ID | 93777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Huw Beynon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Huw |
| FAMILY NAME | Beynon |
| SIGNATURE | BEYNON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Michael Burawoy, 1947-2025
The Politics of Representation
Living with Capitalism
Part 1. Labour for Capital 1. ChemCo 2. The Labour of Labouring Men 3. The Labour of Superintendence: Managers 4. The Labour of Superintendence: Foremen 5. Capital’s Division of Labour Part 2. Individuals in a Class Society 6. Lives in Process Part 3. The Politics of the Factory 7. The Management Strategy 8. The Worker’s Struggle 9. The Politics of Representation 10. Trade Unionism, Corporate Capitalism and the Working Class Part 4. Living with C…
Por Que Os Trabalhadores De Antigas Regiões Industriais Da Grã-Bretanha Votaram Pelo Brexit
O texto discute a posição política dos mineiros, em particular, e da classe trabalhadora da Grã-Bretanha, em geral, diante das escolhas políticas com as quais se defrontaram nos últimos anos: o Brexit (2016) e as eleições gerais de 2019, com a derrota do Partido Trabalhista. Procura adotar uma postura compreensiva, ancorada na história social e na cultura operária nativa, a fim de relativizar o juízo superficial que a classe trabalhadora teria ef…
As novas realidades do trabalho
Este artigo examina as novas realidades do trabalho no século XXI, argumentando que a tecnologia e a globalização estão remodelando profundamente a natureza do emprego. Beynon discute a ascensão da "gig economy", o aumento da precarização do trabalho e o impacto dessas mudanças nas relações de trabalho e na identidade dos trabalhadores. O autor explora como a promessa de flexibilidade e autonomia, frequentemente associada a essas novas formas de …
Patterns of Social Inequality
Preface. Introduction: History and Genre: The Periodical Essay. Part One: Prose of Discovery. 1. Scientific Writing. 2. Travel and Exploration Literature. 3. Social Reportage. Part Two: Life Stories. 4. Biography. 5. Autobiography. 6. Journals and Letters. Part Three: Discourses of Culture. 7. Intellectual Formations. 8. Writing Culture. 9. Criticism. Chronology. General Bibliographies. Individual Authors. Index
People, place and politics
This article reflects on my 35 years of friendship and collaboration with Ray Hudson. It focusses on his studies of the north east of England and the processes of state-regulated deindustrialisation that have threatened to transform its social and political fabric. The area was once identified with the heartland of “Labourism” – a commitment to the gradual reform of capitalism through local and national government intervention. Hudson’s work has …
The Performance of Power
This paper draws on the biography of Sam Watson, a miners' leader in the North East of England, to examine the ways in which power relations operated within the British labour movement in the forties and fifties. At that time the Marshall Plan and the concern by the US government to control the spread of communism in Europe provided a critical backdrop with the CIA's labor attaché programme providing links between the AFL and the CIOand the Briti…
Patterns of Social Inequality
Engaging Labour
This paper traces the interrelationship between changes in the British trade union and labour movement and the development of sociology in Britain since the war. It considers the ways in which both have been affected by economic and political changes and how different patterns of engagement have emerged in times of crisis
In Memorium
The negotiation of minority ethnic identities in virtually all-white communities
This paper draws on qualitative interviews with 19 children and nine of their parents or carers in the South Wales valleys to discuss the effect on the social identities of minority ethnic children of living in virtually all-white communities. There is discussion of minority ethnic identities, local identities and Welshness, and the paper concludes with consideration of the theoretical and policy implications of the research. Interviews with the …
Working Time, Industrial Relations and the Employment Relationship
This article explores the erosion of the standard working-time model associated with the UK's voluntarist system of industrial relations, and argues that its renegotiation is likely to be a critical factor in shaping the employment relationship of the future. As numerous studies over the last two decades have revealed, organizations have increasingly seen 'time' as a variable that can be manipulated to increase productivity or expand service prov…
Responding to the experiences of minority ethnic children in virtually all‐white communities
This paper aims to contribute to the relatively small body of literature on the minority ethnic experience in almost entirely white communities, by reporting the findings of qualitative research into the experiences of minority ethnic children living in the South Wales valleys. Twenty‐eight interviews were conducted with children and their parents/carers. Interviews with children also included sentence completion and card‐sorting tasks. The paper…
The Restructuring of Career Paths in Large Service Sector Organizations
Drawing on detailed case studies of four large service sector organizations this paper finds little evidence of training provision that links skills development with incremental career progression. Past policies of 'delayering' have opened up a 'gap' in the job ladder and this has both increased the organizational costs of formal training and reduced the likelihood of informal on-the-job training being seen as the basis for promotion to the next …
Organisations and the Transformation of the Internal Labour Market
This paper explores changes in employment policies and practices that are typically associated with the classical `model' of the internal labour market. Drawing on documentary information and interviews with managers in four large organisations in the UK, the evidence suggests that many of the `traditional' pillars of the internal labour market have been dismantled. New policies around training, recruitment, pay, job security and career progressi…
The Dream Factory
This paper draws upon on-going research into the changes taking place in the Brazilian vehicle assembly industry with particular reference to the state of Rio de Janeiro. It focuses upon a case study of Volkswagen's bus and truck assembly plant at Resende. The plant opened in 1996 on a green-field site and was presented as a major development in vehicle assembly. The unique feature of the plant's production system rests on the relationship betwee…
Protesto ambiental e mudança social no Reino Unido
Os estudos sobre protesto e conflito no Reino Unido são dominados há décadas pelas pesquisas sobre o local de trabalho e as atividades sindicais. Nos anos 80 e 90, o declínio dos antigos setores industriais combinou-se com a crescente insegurança econômica e com a legislação governamental, causando um enfraquecimento das organizações de trabalhadores. A greve dos mineiros em 1984-1985 é vista como a última das grandes lutas dos sindicatos. Surgir…
Heritage Work
This paper aims to discover how, with the decline and ending of the deep coal mining industry in many parts of the UK its legacy is being re-evaluated by those involved in various aspects of economic and social regeneration. It opens by exploring the way coal mine workers and their communities have been seen within popular and academic accounts, and in particular the way this group has been subject to ideal typification and stereo-typing. The mai…
Masters and Servants
Place and Space in Contemporary Europe
The “localities debate,” stimulated by the Economic and Social Research Council's “Changing Urban and Regional Systems” initiative, was conducted in the pages of Antipode and Society and Space at a length that showed scant regard for emerging environmental sensitivities. Much of it involved politically contentious claims and increasingly exhausted theory; it resolved very little and in that sense was little more than a storm in a pretty familiar …
A Tale of Two Industries
Part 1 The context - coal and steel 1970-85 expansion and contraction - two sides of state planning international markets a privatizing tendency Part 2 The closure of Horden colliery the colliery and its reserves closure Part 3 Themes, issues, problems rationalization, privatization and the market halting economic decline
Opencast coalmining and the politics of coal production
Focusing on the general picture, as well as the specific changes in the Northeast, the authors consider the ramifications of an expanding opencast sector in British coal mining. They draw attention to the intersecting politics of employment and environment and suggest that a basis for opposition campaigns may be constructed
The Iconography of the Durham Miners' Gala
The Durham Miners Gala has taken place annually for over a hundred years. In its heyday it was an immensely popular occasion. In the post-war period it became an established part of the British Labour calendar, being attended regularly by Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers and foreign ambassadors. The Gala can be understood as a ceremony which links twentieth century class politics with the more spontaneous and religious forms of political activi…
Dealing with Icebergs
Working Time, Industrial Relations and the Employment Relationship
This article explores the erosion of the standard working-time model associated with the UK's voluntarist system of industrial relations, and argues that its renegotiation is likely to be a critical factor in shaping the employment relationship of the future. As numerous studies over the last two decades have revealed, organizations have increasingly seen 'time' as a variable that can be manipulated to increase productivity or expand service prov…
Organisations and the Transformation of the Internal Labour Market
This paper explores changes in employment policies and practices that are typically associated with the classical `model' of the internal labour market. Drawing on documentary information and interviews with managers in four large organisations in the UK, the evidence suggests that many of the `traditional' pillars of the internal labour market have been dismantled. New policies around training, recruitment, pay, job security and career progressi…
Living with Capitalism
Part 1. Labour for Capital 1. ChemCo 2. The Labour of Labouring Men 3. The Labour of Superintendence: Managers 4. The Labour of Superintendence: Foremen 5. Capital’s Division of Labour Part 2. Individuals in a Class Society 6. Lives in Process Part 3. The Politics of the Factory 7. The Management Strategy 8. The Worker’s Struggle 9. The Politics of Representation 10. Trade Unionism, Corporate Capitalism and the Working Class Part 4. Living with C…
Place and Space in Contemporary Europe
The “localities debate,” stimulated by the Economic and Social Research Council's “Changing Urban and Regional Systems” initiative, was conducted in the pages of Antipode and Society and Space at a length that showed scant regard for emerging environmental sensitivities. Much of it involved politically contentious claims and increasingly exhausted theory; it resolved very little and in that sense was little more than a storm in a pretty familiar …
The Dream Factory
This paper draws upon on-going research into the changes taking place in the Brazilian vehicle assembly industry with particular reference to the state of Rio de Janeiro. It focuses upon a case study of Volkswagen's bus and truck assembly plant at Resende. The plant opened in 1996 on a green-field site and was presented as a major development in vehicle assembly. The unique feature of the plant's production system rests on the relationship betwee…
Heritage Work
This paper aims to discover how, with the decline and ending of the deep coal mining industry in many parts of the UK its legacy is being re-evaluated by those involved in various aspects of economic and social regeneration. It opens by exploring the way coal mine workers and their communities have been seen within popular and academic accounts, and in particular the way this group has been subject to ideal typification and stereo-typing. The mai…
Perceptions of Work. Variations within a Factory
Journal Article Perceptions of Work. Variations within a Factory Get access Perceptions of Work. Variations within a Factory. By H. Beynon and R. M. Blackburn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. 179. 3.60 cloth, £1.80 paper.) Dorothy Wedderburn Dorothy Wedderburn Imperial College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 330, 1 June 1973, Pages 627–629, h…
Nationalised industry policies and the destruction of communities
This article examines the operation of three nationalised industries—coal, steel and water—in the North East of England. It looks at the links between them and assesses the impact of their policies on the economy and the environment of the local communities. In addition, it explores the relationship between the private and public sectors by examining the effects of private sector open cast coal production upon the National Coal Board's deep-mined…
Protesto ambiental e mudança social no Reino Unido
Os estudos sobre protesto e conflito no Reino Unido são dominados há décadas pelas pesquisas sobre o local de trabalho e as atividades sindicais. Nos anos 80 e 90, o declínio dos antigos setores industriais combinou-se com a crescente insegurança econômica e com a legislação governamental, causando um enfraquecimento das organizações de trabalhadores. A greve dos mineiros em 1984-1985 é vista como a última das grandes lutas dos sindicatos. Surgir…
Responding to the experiences of minority ethnic children in virtually all‐white communities
This paper aims to contribute to the relatively small body of literature on the minority ethnic experience in almost entirely white communities, by reporting the findings of qualitative research into the experiences of minority ethnic children living in the South Wales valleys. Twenty‐eight interviews were conducted with children and their parents/carers. Interviews with children also included sentence completion and card‐sorting tasks. The paper…
The Performance of Power
This paper draws on the biography of Sam Watson, a miners' leader in the North East of England, to examine the ways in which power relations operated within the British labour movement in the forties and fifties. At that time the Marshall Plan and the concern by the US government to control the spread of communism in Europe provided a critical backdrop with the CIA's labor attaché programme providing links between the AFL and the CIOand the Briti…
The Restructuring of Career Paths in Large Service Sector Organizations
Drawing on detailed case studies of four large service sector organizations this paper finds little evidence of training provision that links skills development with incremental career progression. Past policies of 'delayering' have opened up a 'gap' in the job ladder and this has both increased the organizational costs of formal training and reduced the likelihood of informal on-the-job training being seen as the basis for promotion to the next …
The Iconography of the Durham Miners' Gala
The Durham Miners Gala has taken place annually for over a hundred years. In its heyday it was an immensely popular occasion. In the post-war period it became an established part of the British Labour calendar, being attended regularly by Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers and foreign ambassadors. The Gala can be understood as a ceremony which links twentieth century class politics with the more spontaneous and religious forms of political activi…
As novas realidades do trabalho
Este artigo examina as novas realidades do trabalho no século XXI, argumentando que a tecnologia e a globalização estão remodelando profundamente a natureza do emprego. Beynon discute a ascensão da "gig economy", o aumento da precarização do trabalho e o impacto dessas mudanças nas relações de trabalho e na identidade dos trabalhadores. O autor explora como a promessa de flexibilidade e autonomia, frequentemente associada a essas novas formas de …
Engaging Labour
This paper traces the interrelationship between changes in the British trade union and labour movement and the development of sociology in Britain since the war. It considers the ways in which both have been affected by economic and political changes and how different patterns of engagement have emerged in times of crisis
Authority and Change in the Coalfields
Miners who went on strike in 1984 were clear about one thing. They knew that McGregor was out to close collieries and that only industrial action would prevent 'hit list' from taking rapid effect. For many of them experience of 1972 and 1974 was an important one. To those who had gone through it, 1972 dispute seemed to represent a turning point in history of union and coal industry. In densely concentrated mining communities of North of England, …
The Sociology of Education
Industrial Democracy
Perceptions of Work. Variations within a Factory
Journal Article Perceptions of Work. Variations within a Factory Get access Perceptions of Work. Variations within a Factory. By H. Beynon and R. M. Blackburn. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. 179. 3.60 cloth, £1.80 paper.) Dorothy Wedderburn Dorothy Wedderburn Imperial College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 330, 1 June 1973, Pages 627–629, h…
Exploring the Industrial Subculture
Perceptions of Work
Where Have All the Robots Gone
Perceptions of Work
Authority and Change in the Coalfields
Miners who went on strike in 1984 were clear about one thing. They knew that McGregor was out to close collieries and that only industrial action would prevent 'hit list' from taking rapid effect. For many of them experience of 1972 and 1974 was an important one. To those who had gone through it, 1972 dispute seemed to represent a turning point in history of union and coal industry. In densely concentrated mining communities of North of England, …
Nationalised industry policies and the destruction of communities
This article examines the operation of three nationalised industries—coal, steel and water—in the North East of England. It looks at the links between them and assesses the impact of their policies on the economy and the environment of the local communities. In addition, it explores the relationship between the private and public sectors by examining the effects of private sector open cast coal production upon the National Coal Board's deep-mined…
Dealing with Icebergs
The Iconography of the Durham Miners' Gala
The Durham Miners Gala has taken place annually for over a hundred years. In its heyday it was an immensely popular occasion. In the post-war period it became an established part of the British Labour calendar, being attended regularly by Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers and foreign ambassadors. The Gala can be understood as a ceremony which links twentieth century class politics with the more spontaneous and religious forms of political activi…
Opencast coalmining and the politics of coal production
Focusing on the general picture, as well as the specific changes in the Northeast, the authors consider the ramifications of an expanding opencast sector in British coal mining. They draw attention to the intersecting politics of employment and environment and suggest that a basis for opposition campaigns may be constructed
A Tale of Two Industries
Part 1 The context - coal and steel 1970-85 expansion and contraction - two sides of state planning international markets a privatizing tendency Part 2 The closure of Horden colliery the colliery and its reserves closure Part 3 Themes, issues, problems rationalization, privatization and the market halting economic decline
Place and Space in Contemporary Europe
The “localities debate,” stimulated by the Economic and Social Research Council's “Changing Urban and Regional Systems” initiative, was conducted in the pages of Antipode and Society and Space at a length that showed scant regard for emerging environmental sensitivities. Much of it involved politically contentious claims and increasingly exhausted theory; it resolved very little and in that sense was little more than a storm in a pretty familiar …
Masters and Servants
Protesto ambiental e mudança social no Reino Unido
Os estudos sobre protesto e conflito no Reino Unido são dominados há décadas pelas pesquisas sobre o local de trabalho e as atividades sindicais. Nos anos 80 e 90, o declínio dos antigos setores industriais combinou-se com a crescente insegurança econômica e com a legislação governamental, causando um enfraquecimento das organizações de trabalhadores. A greve dos mineiros em 1984-1985 é vista como a última das grandes lutas dos sindicatos. Surgir…
Heritage Work
This paper aims to discover how, with the decline and ending of the deep coal mining industry in many parts of the UK its legacy is being re-evaluated by those involved in various aspects of economic and social regeneration. It opens by exploring the way coal mine workers and their communities have been seen within popular and academic accounts, and in particular the way this group has been subject to ideal typification and stereo-typing. The mai…
The Dream Factory
This paper draws upon on-going research into the changes taking place in the Brazilian vehicle assembly industry with particular reference to the state of Rio de Janeiro. It focuses upon a case study of Volkswagen's bus and truck assembly plant at Resende. The plant opened in 1996 on a green-field site and was presented as a major development in vehicle assembly. The unique feature of the plant's production system rests on the relationship betwee…
Organisations and the Transformation of the Internal Labour Market
This paper explores changes in employment policies and practices that are typically associated with the classical `model' of the internal labour market. Drawing on documentary information and interviews with managers in four large organisations in the UK, the evidence suggests that many of the `traditional' pillars of the internal labour market have been dismantled. New policies around training, recruitment, pay, job security and career progressi…
Responding to the experiences of minority ethnic children in virtually all‐white communities
This paper aims to contribute to the relatively small body of literature on the minority ethnic experience in almost entirely white communities, by reporting the findings of qualitative research into the experiences of minority ethnic children living in the South Wales valleys. Twenty‐eight interviews were conducted with children and their parents/carers. Interviews with children also included sentence completion and card‐sorting tasks. The paper…
The Restructuring of Career Paths in Large Service Sector Organizations
Drawing on detailed case studies of four large service sector organizations this paper finds little evidence of training provision that links skills development with incremental career progression. Past policies of 'delayering' have opened up a 'gap' in the job ladder and this has both increased the organizational costs of formal training and reduced the likelihood of informal on-the-job training being seen as the basis for promotion to the next …
The negotiation of minority ethnic identities in virtually all-white communities
This paper draws on qualitative interviews with 19 children and nine of their parents or carers in the South Wales valleys to discuss the effect on the social identities of minority ethnic children of living in virtually all-white communities. There is discussion of minority ethnic identities, local identities and Welshness, and the paper concludes with consideration of the theoretical and policy implications of the research. Interviews with the …
Working Time, Industrial Relations and the Employment Relationship
This article explores the erosion of the standard working-time model associated with the UK's voluntarist system of industrial relations, and argues that its renegotiation is likely to be a critical factor in shaping the employment relationship of the future. As numerous studies over the last two decades have revealed, organizations have increasingly seen 'time' as a variable that can be manipulated to increase productivity or expand service prov…
In Memorium
Engaging Labour
This paper traces the interrelationship between changes in the British trade union and labour movement and the development of sociology in Britain since the war. It considers the ways in which both have been affected by economic and political changes and how different patterns of engagement have emerged in times of crisis
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