William B Gould
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 215244 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William B Gould |
| PRENOMES | William B |
| SOBRENOME | Gould |
| ASSINATURA | GOULD W B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5774-3006 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1962 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The New Hindu Normal
The South Asia Gallery, Manchester Museum
In February 2023, the Manchester Museum opened its new South Asia Gallery. Co-curated by a collective - 'individuals from British Asian communities in and around Manchester and fellow experts', the gallery encapsulates a unique curatorial spirit, and challenges traditional spatial juxtapositions in museum spaces. This review explores the collection and spatial experience of the gallery, examining the relationship between content and curatorial pr…
Sociology and the Vagrant
Exploring the work of M.S. Gore and the Delhi School of Social Work on Delhi's 'Beggar Problem', which was published in 1959, this article shows how the ostensibly 'secular' solutions to the phenomenon were premised on a series of assumptions about caste-oriented mores and traditions of religious gifting, suggesting normative categories of citizenship based around these forms of identity. The article explores, in depth, the sociological approache…
Introduction
This special section brings together the work of historians, anthropologists and museologists, exploring how anthropological and sociological knowledge has been produced, consumed and reproduced in India. In particular, the special section is interested in analysing how these academic disciplines consolidated themselves as sciences informing the way a newly independent nation-state was to define its future, present and past in social and cultural…
Measuring Race, Space and the Citizen
This article explores how Indian anthropologists employed abstract concepts of 'space' and 'distance' in the mid twentieth century to reconfigure the racial scientific approaches to caste and community. Looking at the relationship between statistics and physical anthropology via the work of P.C. Mahalanobis and D.N. Majumdar in the United Provinces in the mid to late 1940s, the article explores how conceptual (or Euclidian) space interacted with …
Labour and Penal Control in the Criminal Tribes ‘Industrial’ Settlements in Early Twentieth Century Western India
One of the key problems with the official archival sources for India’s so-called ‘Criminal Tribes’ is that there is very little that captures the everyday lives of communities who were subjected to the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA), beyond the penal institution. This article explores how we can tease out new material on the work, politics and movements of erstwhile Criminal Tribes by looking at reformatory ‘industrial’ settlements, established betwee…
Introduction
This introduction outlines some of the key historiographical debates concerning caste, ‘tribe’ and criminality, and their relationship to the modern state, in South Asia. Although these social categories have long, complex and often inter-related histories rooted in indigenous and precolonial ideas and institutions, they emerged most forcefully as categories of governance in the legal-political system of the colonial and postcolonial states. Thes…
Settling the Citizen, Settling the Nomad
This article explores the politics of civic engagement during India's long decolonization between 1938 and 1952 for communities-the erstwhile 'criminal tribes'-whose lifestyles were complicated by controls on their movement before and shortly following India's independence. It argues that their varied and contingent strategies of mobilization increasingly identified community particularities-notably, their marking as 'criminals' and a history of …
Citizens and the City
Focussing in particular on urban centres in present-day Sindh and UP, Chapter 3 explores key dynamics involved in the development of citizenship that connected with this control of 'public goods', including food and civil supply, in relation to both the politics of prices and price controls and debates about food and civil supply administration. It highlights the extent to which supply and control of goods became an important means through which …
Union Security, Race, and the Political Process
The article focuses upon developments in (1) so-called union security and fair share laws through which financial support of unions is obliged; (2) the cases and practices involving both union democracy and discrimination that have emerged with considerable frequency, particularly in the wake of comprehensive fair employment practices legislation; (3) involvement of the unions in the political process and the ways in which this has altered over t…
Hindu Militarism and Partition in 1940s United Provinces
The United Provinces and its urban centres were not in Partition’s immediate hinterland or a key subject of its high politics, but were pivotal, this paper argues, at an alternative scale of political mobilisation around volunteer movements. Central to this process were the spatial dynamics of organised violence in the early to mid 1940s, not least because of how pivotal organised killings were by 1947. By exploring the provincial patterns of the…
Spaces before Partition
This introduction frames a selection of papers that encourage a richer spatial understanding of the years before the Partition of India. The papers respond to two types of questions. One type is spatial (at what scale do we approach Partition? Through which spaces should we attempt to understand both micro and macro processes? Movements across what distances constituted Partition?). The second type is temporal (what timescales do we invoke when a…
Boundaries of Belonging
The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia's Partition 'hotspots' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition's 'hinterlands' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and…
From Gandhi to Modi
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Rethinking “Diaspora”
This review essay explores the key themes of Chatterji, Alexander and Jallais’s Bengal Muslims in terms of how it develops new possibilities for thinking about diasporas more generally. The essay argues that the book potentially presents new ways of exploring the following: migrant agency, the relationship between different spatial and cultural forms of migration, and the importance of “mobility capital”. The essay suggests that some of these mor…
Desiring a Better Country
Paper, public works and politics
In moving away from older linear narratives around the costs and benefits of ‘corruption’ to development and democratic processes, social scientists have tended to downplay temporality in their work on the phenomenon in the global South. Historical research, however, offers a different kind of nuance around moments in which corruption becomes important in political and administrative discourse. Examining archives on corruption in detail and compa…
Struggle, Condemnation, Vindication
is well known both for his work as a public philosopher, as exemplified in his celebrated book We Hold These Truths, and as a leading architect of the church's "Declaration on Religious Freedom" (Dignitatis humanae) at Vatican ii, which affirmed religious freedom as a
At Freedom’s Door, by Malcolm Lyall Darling
Malcolm Darling’s 1,400-mile tour through north India between November 1946 and March 1947 captures one of the most important periods in South Asia’s political transition. This was the last year of British power in her greatest overseas colony—a phase in which decisions about India’s freedom were still balanced between two broad possibilities: a larger unitary state, or division between Hindustan and Pakistan. The book immerses the reader in this…
India and the Olympics
Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta, India and the Olympics (London: Routledge, 2009). Pp. i–xx + 379 + Appendix, £85.00 (hb), ISBN 978-0-415-80497-3 Between 1928 and 2004, India won a total of 15 Olymp
The construction of history and nationalism in India
Exploring the controversies surrounding the history textbooks of India's National Council of Educational Research Training between 1998 and 2004, this book traces the confrontation of two conceptio
The Flux of the Matter
This article explores the new levels of uncertainty and fluidity produced by independence, partition and the integration of the princely states in India and Pakistan, and it investigates the impact of these events on the ‘everyday state’ in the years immediately following 1947. The flux witnessed in this period brought forth new questions about how to define loyalty in government service, and stirred new suspicions about the presence of minoritie…
Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
From Subjects to Citizens? Rationing, refugees and the publicity of corruption over Independence in UP
Building on recent work on the 'everyday state' and citizenship in 1947-1948, this paper examines changing practices and representations of 'corruption' in Uttar Pradesh, India over independence. The management and publicity of 'corruption', particularly in the food supply and rationing bureaucracy from the mid-1940s to the 1960s captures changing discussions about public expectations of government and narrates everyday urban experiences of the l…
From Subjects to Citizens
This special issue ofModern Asian Studiesexplores the shift from colonial rule to independence in India and Pakistan, with the aim of unravelling the explicit meanings and relevance of 'independence' for the new citizens of India and Pakistan during the two decades after 1947. While the study of postcolonial South Asia has blossomed in recent years, this volume addresses a number of imbalances in this dynamic and highly popular field. Firstly, th…
From Subjects to Citizens
This special issue ofModern Asian Studiesexplores the shift from colonial rule to independence in India and Pakistan, with the aim of unravelling the explicit meanings and relevance of 'independence' for the new citizens of India and Pakistan during the two decades after 1947. While the study of postcolonial South Asia has blossomed in recent years, this volume addresses a number of imbalances in this dynamic and highly popular field. Firstly, th…
From Subjects to Citizens? Rationing, refugees and the publicity of corruption over Independence in UP
Building on recent work on the 'everyday state' and citizenship in 1947-1948, this paper examines changing practices and representations of 'corruption' in Uttar Pradesh, India over independence. The management and publicity of 'corruption', particularly in the food supply and rationing bureaucracy from the mid-1940s to the 1960s captures changing discussions about public expectations of government and narrates everyday urban experiences of the l…
Congress Radicals and Hindu Militancy
A recent trend in the historiography of north India has involved analyses of 'Hindu nationalist' motifs and ideologies within both mainstream nationalist discourses and subaltern politics. A dense corpus of work has attempted to provide historical explanations for the rise of Hindutva in the subcontinent, and a great deal of debate has surrounded the implications of this development for the fate of secularism in India. Some of this research has e…
Settling the Citizen, Settling the Nomad
This article explores the politics of civic engagement during India's long decolonization between 1938 and 1952 for communities-the erstwhile 'criminal tribes'-whose lifestyles were complicated by controls on their movement before and shortly following India's independence. It argues that their varied and contingent strategies of mobilization increasingly identified community particularities-notably, their marking as 'criminals' and a history of …
Boundaries of Belonging
The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia's Partition 'hotspots' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition's 'hinterlands' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and…
Introduction
This introduction outlines some of the key historiographical debates concerning caste, ‘tribe’ and criminality, and their relationship to the modern state, in South Asia. Although these social categories have long, complex and often inter-related histories rooted in indigenous and precolonial ideas and institutions, they emerged most forcefully as categories of governance in the legal-political system of the colonial and postcolonial states. Thes…
Spaces before Partition
This introduction frames a selection of papers that encourage a richer spatial understanding of the years before the Partition of India. The papers respond to two types of questions. One type is spatial (at what scale do we approach Partition? Through which spaces should we attempt to understand both micro and macro processes? Movements across what distances constituted Partition?). The second type is temporal (what timescales do we invoke when a…
The Flux of the Matter
This article explores the new levels of uncertainty and fluidity produced by independence, partition and the integration of the princely states in India and Pakistan, and it investigates the impact of these events on the ‘everyday state’ in the years immediately following 1947. The flux witnessed in this period brought forth new questions about how to define loyalty in government service, and stirred new suspicions about the presence of minoritie…
The Dual State
This paper explores the nature of the everyday state in historical perspective in colonial and postcolonial Uttar Pradesh, north India, through the lens of civil service recruitment. It argues that social relationships between different cadres of the revenue and police services effectively created a bureaucratic space in which citizens' approaches to the state recreated forms of ambiguity in the reach and authority of state power. In this sense, …
Paper, public works and politics
In moving away from older linear narratives around the costs and benefits of ‘corruption’ to development and democratic processes, social scientists have tended to downplay temporality in their work on the phenomenon in the global South. Historical research, however, offers a different kind of nuance around moments in which corruption becomes important in political and administrative discourse. Examining archives on corruption in detail and compa…
Some Reflections on Fifty Years of the National Labor Relations Act
Many of the characteristics of American labor-management relationships are identical to those of the 1920s and early 1930s-the eve of the New Deal and the Wagner Act. There are numerous similarities between the two periods. One difference is that the post-World War II period has fostered multi-employer and industrywide pattern bargaining relationships that are now being eroded or dissolved. Another is that the advent of multinational corporations…
Black Workers Inside the House of Labor
While both construction and industrial unions have made some efforts to remedy racial discrimination in employment, their failure to come to grips with systematic practices of discrimination has made the federal judiciary the main forum for the resolution of such disputes. Institutional practices that can have a discriminatory impact upon black workers and racial minorities remain in effect. Contrary to public belief about rank and file and local…
Labour and Penal Control in the Criminal Tribes ‘Industrial’ Settlements in Early Twentieth Century Western India
One of the key problems with the official archival sources for India’s so-called ‘Criminal Tribes’ is that there is very little that captures the everyday lives of communities who were subjected to the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA), beyond the penal institution. This article explores how we can tease out new material on the work, politics and movements of erstwhile Criminal Tribes by looking at reformatory ‘industrial’ settlements, established betwee…
Contesting secularism in colonial and postcolonial north India between the 1930 and 1950s
This article re-positions debates about the apparent ‘crisis’ of Indian secularism in relation to political events in the important phase of state transformation between the 1930s and 1950s. By looking at how the meaning of secularism was contested by political actors themselves in Uttar Pradesh, it argues that the ideological ambiguity of Indian secularism was the product of political debates and conflicts in these critical years. It suggests fu…
Books reviewed
The Machinists. By Mark Perlman, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961, 325 pp. $7.50. The Triangle Fire. By Leon Stein. J. B. Lippincott Co. Philadelphia & New York, 1962. 224 pp. $4.50. The Promised City. By Moses Rischin, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962, 342 pp. $7.50. Chicago and the Labor Movement. By Barbara Warne Newell, Champaign, 1ll., University of Illinois Press, 1961, 288 pp. $6.00
Black Workers Inside the House of Labor
While both construction and industrial unions have made some efforts to remedy racial discrimination in employment, their failure to come to grips with systematic practices of discrimination has made the federal judiciary the main forum for the resolution of such disputes. Institutional practices that can have a discriminatory impact upon black workers and racial minorities remain in effect. Contrary to public belief about rank and file and local…
The Seattle Building Trades Order
William B. Gould, The Seattle Building Trades Order: The First Comprehensive Relief against Employment Discrimination in the Construction Industry, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Apr., 1974), pp. 773-813
On Labor Injunctions Pending Arbitration
Black Workers in White Unions
O Brother, Get Back, Get Back, Get Back
Public Policy toward Life Saving
Needless to say, people who face risks that entail a high probability of death are willing to pay extraordinarily large sums to reduce the probability. Those that face low risks are typically unwilling to pay anything at all to reduce those risks. Accordingly, a public policy that would allocate funds to maximize the number of lives saved conflicts sharply with the willingness-to-pay criterion. Information about their survival probabilities alway…
Earnings of Hispanic Men
The size and rapid growth of the Hispanic population in the United States raise many questions about the effects of language on the process of economic assimilation. This paper uses data on earnings for 1975 to explore the role of English language proficiency in the assimilation of Hispanic men into the U.S. labor market. The results are strong: differences associated with English language skills explain virtually all of the Hispanic wage differe…
A Primer on American Labor Law
Reality and Illusion in American Labor Law
Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law
Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law
This pioneering comparative study of Japanese and American labor law reveals a labor-relations system superficially resembling our own but shaped by an entirely different culture, and with a marked impact on Japan's economic success. Among Gould's findings are that the Japanese have adopted American labor law so as to create a relationship between labor and management that is lasting, harmonious, and productive; their system for dealing with job …
Some Reflections on Fifty Years of the National Labor Relations Act
Many of the characteristics of American labor-management relationships are identical to those of the 1920s and early 1930s-the eve of the New Deal and the Wagner Act. There are numerous similarities between the two periods. One difference is that the post-World War II period has fostered multi-employer and industrywide pattern bargaining relationships that are now being eroded or dissolved. Another is that the advent of multinational corporations…
Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law
Journal Article Japan’s Reshaping of American Labor Law Get access Japan’s Reshaping of American Labor Law By Gould William B.Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press., 1984.Pp. 166. Joseph W. Garbarino Joseph W. Garbarino * Professor, School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 34, Issue 1, Winter 1986,…
The Emergence of Black Unions in South Africa
The area of labor-management relationships in South Africa, particularly the development of trade unions, is one area in which the South African government can assert that it has made concessions of substance, albeit within carefully defined constraints. These concessions do not involve what is characterized as the so-called petty apartheid policies. They involve, instead, new legislation enacted in a series of statutes beginning in 1979. However…
Labor Relations in Professional Sports
For all the billions of dollars the sports industry generates, its labor laws and negotiations are still relatively new, and their impact is only beginning to be felt. Labor Relations in Professional Sports offers a step-by-step examination of how these new management-player relationships have come about and what they may portend for the future. In an engaging style that is rich in sports history and anecdotes, the authors examine the background …
Strikes, Dispute Procedures, and Arbitration
Strikes, Dispute Procedures, and Arbitration
This penetrating essay collection focuses on the development of dispute procedures in the United States and the legal rules surrounding them. Considered are such enduring matters as unauthorized and wildcat strikes, enforcement of the no-strike obligation, and strikes involving government and industries with an emergency potential. Many of the problems that have perplexed the Supreme Court in recent years, such as sympathy and political strikes, …
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics after Fourteen Years
This article considers the representativeness of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) over its 14-year history from 1968 to 1981 given the dynamics of entry and exit from the panel. By 1981, 40% of the original members had left the sample and were replaced by new entrants who joined either existing households or new households being formed by members of the original sample. We consider the distribution of demographic characteristics and earn…
A Primer on American Labor Law
A Tale of Two Discourses
Agenda for Reform
For years William Gould has argued for labor law reform that would facilitate trade union organization and collective bargaining. That position, which he expands upon in this latest book, is based on his belief in the value of pluralism, the importance of employee participation in the economy as well as the political process, and the effectiveness of unions in best advocating employee interests in the workplace. In the face of increased erosion i…
Agenda for Reform
Labored Relations
From 1994 to 1998, William B. Gould IV served as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. One of only three NLRB Chairmen to come from an academic background, he quickly realized that he was an outsider in a very political world. In this compelling memoir, Gould describes the tribulations of trying to assure impartial administration of federal labor laws while faced with a hostile, Republican Congress. He describes his difficult confirmati…
Inside Baseball at the NLRB
INTRODUCTION 1045 I. IN SIDE B A SEBALL 1046 II. T H E N L R B 1052 III. CHAIRMAN GOULD AND HIS CRITICS . .... 1060
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