Janet Greenlees
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1203237 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Janet Greenlees |
| PRENOMES | Janet |
| SOBRENOME | Greenlees |
| ASSINATURA | GREENLEES J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2101-6653 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Getting by or getting on
This article explores how British working-class households have navigated deindustrialisation, rising economic inequality and the changing provision of public services since the mid-twentieth century. It examines how these changes have been interpreted using oral history testimonies from people born between the 1940s and the 1970s who have lived and worked their entire lives in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Two juxtaposed narratives of ‘getting on’ and …
On the Margins of Maternity
The healthcare provided to expectant mothers impacts the health outcomes of the mother and infant, or infants, and reflects current social and political priorities which mirror middle-class values and leave poorer women feeling socially isolated. Utilising focus group interviews with nineteen women who were living on low-incomes in Glasgow, Scotland, when they delivered their first child between the 1970s and early 2000s, this article analyses th…
They didnae tell you nothin’
Utilizing group oral histories from nineteen women who were pregnant and living in areas of social and economic deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland, between the late 1970s and early 2000s, this article analyses the difficulties the women faced in accessing information about pregnancy and welfare entitlements. It reveals a disconnect between women's knowledge about reproduction and maternal health and welfare benefits and the political initiatives de…
Mapping Aids
Reviewed by: Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic by Lukas Engelmann Janet Greenlees (bio) Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic By Lukas Engelmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 254. Lukas Engelmann's intensely theoretical book addresses the changing visualization of HIV/AIDS with a focus on AIDS atlases. He locates his narrative within the historiography of both the theory and visual element…
Janet Golden, Babies Made Us Modern
This absorbing book places babies at the centre of the narrative, providing a new perspective on the development of American culture and society. It is well worth the attention of those interested in the history of childhood, consumerism, parenting, public health and medicine. Janet Golden’s core argument highlights how babies played a critical role in joining ordinary Americans with the rapidly changing society from the 1890s through the post-Wo…
Workplace Health and Gender among Cotton Workers in America and Britain, c.1880s–1940s
This article clarifies the differences between occupational health and workplace health and reveals how the two overlap. It unravels a multi-layered narrative about cotton textile workers’ understandings and experiences of ill-health at work in America and Britain, utilizing a combination of oral histories, government documents, company and union records, and the trade press. It aims to identify the multiple influences on contemporary debates abo…
Pat Thane and Tanya Evans, Sinners? Scroungers? Saints
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? provides a captivating history of unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England. This fascinating study traces the history of the National Council of the Unmarried Mother and Her Child and its later formulations (currently Gingerbread). This benevolent organisation was established in 1918 to help unmarried mothers and their children. By carefully weaving the history of the organisation with the development of the …
The Rise and Fall of Great Companies
Over the last thirty years the global market has become increasingly competitive. Companies have had to change both their structure and strategy rapidly in order to survive. Even then, many firms have failed. The textile industry provides a classic example of these changes as the industry has relocated from its epicentres in America, Europe and Japan to low-cost countries, primarily in Asia. Using one of the biggest man-made fibre companies for a…
The dangers attending these conditions are evident
This article examines the position of the working environment within public health priorities and as a contributor to the health of a community. Using two Lancashire textile towns (Burnley and Blackburn) as case studies and drawing on a variety of sources, it highlights how, while legislation set the industry parameters for legal enforcement of working conditions, local public health priorities were pivotal in setting codes of practice. The compl…
The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914
The wealth of literature on the Lancashire and New England cotton manufacturing industries makes it easy to forget that there was also a significant Scottish industry. Surprisingly, the latter has received little historical attention. Anthony Cooke’s volume begins to fill this gap. It builds on his previous studies of Scottish textile history and heritage to provide a detailed history of the Scottish cotton industry from its growth in the late ei…
Linda Bryder, Women's Bodies and Medical Science
In June 1987, New Zealand's Metro magazine published an article that became a watershed in medical history. The article, ‘An Unfortunate Experiment at National Women's’, written by the journalist and feminist activist Sandra Coney and sociologist Philida Bunkle, alleged that Dr Herbert Green, associate professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Auckland Medical School, had withheld treatment from women with abnormal cells in the…
King Cotton
Professor Douglas Farnie made a lasting impression on everybody who was fortunate enough to meet him. His enthusiasm for, and his encyclopaedic knowledge of, Lancashire's industrial and regional history (and specifically the region's hallmark, the cotton textile industry) was unprecedented. As the pre-eminent historian of the Lancashire cotton industry, his best known work was The English Cotton Industry and the World Market, 1815–1896 (1979; rev…
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Journal Article Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain Get access Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain, by Joyce Burnette (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2008; pp. 377. £55). Janet Greenlees Janet Greenlees Glasgow Caledonian University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 516, October 2010, Pages 1256–1257, https://doi.org/10.109…
Kissing Can Be Dangerous
Despite the large volume of research into the history of tuberculosis, its pathology, and the responses of physicians, the public and governments, the tuberculosis campaign and the experiences of those involved have been largely untouched for Australia. Criena Fitzgerald has combined the oral histories of doctors and patients with archival research to explore the strategies adopted by public health officials in Western Australia to prevent and co…
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology
Journal Article Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium Get access Helen King, Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 240. £55 (hbk). ISBN 978-0-7546-5396-7. Janet Greenlees Janet Greenlees Glasgow Caledonian University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social His…
The kiss of death or a flight of fancy? Workers' health and the campaign to regulate shuttle kissing in the British cotton industry, c . 1900–52 1
This article examines workers' health in the British cotton industry c.1900-1952
Polio
David Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 352. £18.99. ISBN 0–19–515294–8. On the fiftieth anniversary of the licensure of the Salk vaccine against poliomyelitis, it is perhaps both unsurprising and fitting that several new books about polio have been published. In an extremely readable narrative, David Oshinsky tells a gripping story about the widespread fear of poliomyelitis in mid-twentieth-century A…
Stop kissing and steaming!’
Historians have argued that American social welfare reformers looked to Europe for examples of successful programmes. This article provides a counter-case where a progressive American state, Massachusetts, developed public health reforms prior to their British counterparts. Social concerns about reducing cases of tuberculosis in Massachusetts' cotton manufacturing cities led to the transference of the public health discourse from the urban living…
Health and labor force participation over the life cycle
Workplace Health and Gender among Cotton Workers in America and Britain, c.1880s–1940s
This article clarifies the differences between occupational health and workplace health and reveals how the two overlap. It unravels a multi-layered narrative about cotton textile workers’ understandings and experiences of ill-health at work in America and Britain, utilizing a combination of oral histories, government documents, company and union records, and the trade press. It aims to identify the multiple influences on contemporary debates abo…
Stop kissing and steaming!’
Historians have argued that American social welfare reformers looked to Europe for examples of successful programmes. This article provides a counter-case where a progressive American state, Massachusetts, developed public health reforms prior to their British counterparts. Social concerns about reducing cases of tuberculosis in Massachusetts' cotton manufacturing cities led to the transference of the public health discourse from the urban living…
King Cotton
Professor Douglas Farnie made a lasting impression on everybody who was fortunate enough to meet him. His enthusiasm for, and his encyclopaedic knowledge of, Lancashire's industrial and regional history (and specifically the region's hallmark, the cotton textile industry) was unprecedented. As the pre-eminent historian of the Lancashire cotton industry, his best known work was The English Cotton Industry and the World Market, 1815–1896 (1979; rev…
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Journal Article Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain Get access Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain, by Joyce Burnette (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2008; pp. 377. £55). Janet Greenlees Janet Greenlees Glasgow Caledonian University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 516, October 2010, Pages 1256–1257, https://doi.org/10.109…
The kiss of death or a flight of fancy? Workers' health and the campaign to regulate shuttle kissing in the British cotton industry, c . 1900–52 1
This article examines workers' health in the British cotton industry c.1900-1952
Stop kissing and steaming!’
Historians have argued that American social welfare reformers looked to Europe for examples of successful programmes. This article provides a counter-case where a progressive American state, Massachusetts, developed public health reforms prior to their British counterparts. Social concerns about reducing cases of tuberculosis in Massachusetts' cotton manufacturing cities led to the transference of the public health discourse from the urban living…
Health and labor force participation over the life cycle
Polio
David Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 352. £18.99. ISBN 0–19–515294–8. On the fiftieth anniversary of the licensure of the Salk vaccine against poliomyelitis, it is perhaps both unsurprising and fitting that several new books about polio have been published. In an extremely readable narrative, David Oshinsky tells a gripping story about the widespread fear of poliomyelitis in mid-twentieth-century A…
The kiss of death or a flight of fancy? Workers' health and the campaign to regulate shuttle kissing in the British cotton industry, c . 1900–52 1
This article examines workers' health in the British cotton industry c.1900-1952
Kissing Can Be Dangerous
Despite the large volume of research into the history of tuberculosis, its pathology, and the responses of physicians, the public and governments, the tuberculosis campaign and the experiences of those involved have been largely untouched for Australia. Criena Fitzgerald has combined the oral histories of doctors and patients with archival research to explore the strategies adopted by public health officials in Western Australia to prevent and co…
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology
Journal Article Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium Get access Helen King, Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 240. £55 (hbk). ISBN 978-0-7546-5396-7. Janet Greenlees Janet Greenlees Glasgow Caledonian University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social His…
King Cotton
Professor Douglas Farnie made a lasting impression on everybody who was fortunate enough to meet him. His enthusiasm for, and his encyclopaedic knowledge of, Lancashire's industrial and regional history (and specifically the region's hallmark, the cotton textile industry) was unprecedented. As the pre-eminent historian of the Lancashire cotton industry, his best known work was The English Cotton Industry and the World Market, 1815–1896 (1979; rev…
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Journal Article Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain Get access Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain, by Joyce Burnette (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2008; pp. 377. £55). Janet Greenlees Janet Greenlees Glasgow Caledonian University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 516, October 2010, Pages 1256–1257, https://doi.org/10.109…
Linda Bryder, Women's Bodies and Medical Science
In June 1987, New Zealand's Metro magazine published an article that became a watershed in medical history. The article, ‘An Unfortunate Experiment at National Women's’, written by the journalist and feminist activist Sandra Coney and sociologist Philida Bunkle, alleged that Dr Herbert Green, associate professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Auckland Medical School, had withheld treatment from women with abnormal cells in the…
The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914
The wealth of literature on the Lancashire and New England cotton manufacturing industries makes it easy to forget that there was also a significant Scottish industry. Surprisingly, the latter has received little historical attention. Anthony Cooke’s volume begins to fill this gap. It builds on his previous studies of Scottish textile history and heritage to provide a detailed history of the Scottish cotton industry from its growth in the late ei…
The dangers attending these conditions are evident
This article examines the position of the working environment within public health priorities and as a contributor to the health of a community. Using two Lancashire textile towns (Burnley and Blackburn) as case studies and drawing on a variety of sources, it highlights how, while legislation set the industry parameters for legal enforcement of working conditions, local public health priorities were pivotal in setting codes of practice. The compl…
Pat Thane and Tanya Evans, Sinners? Scroungers? Saints
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? provides a captivating history of unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England. This fascinating study traces the history of the National Council of the Unmarried Mother and Her Child and its later formulations (currently Gingerbread). This benevolent organisation was established in 1918 to help unmarried mothers and their children. By carefully weaving the history of the organisation with the development of the …
The Rise and Fall of Great Companies
Over the last thirty years the global market has become increasingly competitive. Companies have had to change both their structure and strategy rapidly in order to survive. Even then, many firms have failed. The textile industry provides a classic example of these changes as the industry has relocated from its epicentres in America, Europe and Japan to low-cost countries, primarily in Asia. Using one of the biggest man-made fibre companies for a…
Workplace Health and Gender among Cotton Workers in America and Britain, c.1880s–1940s
This article clarifies the differences between occupational health and workplace health and reveals how the two overlap. It unravels a multi-layered narrative about cotton textile workers’ understandings and experiences of ill-health at work in America and Britain, utilizing a combination of oral histories, government documents, company and union records, and the trade press. It aims to identify the multiple influences on contemporary debates abo…
Janet Golden, Babies Made Us Modern
This absorbing book places babies at the centre of the narrative, providing a new perspective on the development of American culture and society. It is well worth the attention of those interested in the history of childhood, consumerism, parenting, public health and medicine. Janet Golden’s core argument highlights how babies played a critical role in joining ordinary Americans with the rapidly changing society from the 1890s through the post-Wo…
They didnae tell you nothin’
Utilizing group oral histories from nineteen women who were pregnant and living in areas of social and economic deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland, between the late 1970s and early 2000s, this article analyses the difficulties the women faced in accessing information about pregnancy and welfare entitlements. It reveals a disconnect between women's knowledge about reproduction and maternal health and welfare benefits and the political initiatives de…
Mapping Aids
Reviewed by: Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic by Lukas Engelmann Janet Greenlees (bio) Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic By Lukas Engelmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 254. Lukas Engelmann's intensely theoretical book addresses the changing visualization of HIV/AIDS with a focus on AIDS atlases. He locates his narrative within the historiography of both the theory and visual element…
On the Margins of Maternity
The healthcare provided to expectant mothers impacts the health outcomes of the mother and infant, or infants, and reflects current social and political priorities which mirror middle-class values and leave poorer women feeling socially isolated. Utilising focus group interviews with nineteen women who were living on low-incomes in Glasgow, Scotland, when they delivered their first child between the 1970s and early 2000s, this article analyses th…
Getting by or getting on
This article explores how British working-class households have navigated deindustrialisation, rising economic inequality and the changing provision of public services since the mid-twentieth century. It examines how these changes have been interpreted using oral history testimonies from people born between the 1940s and the 1970s who have lived and worked their entire lives in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Two juxtaposed narratives of ‘getting on’ and …
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