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Christopher Wright

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ID3609615
NOMEChristopher Wright
PRENOMESChristopher
SOBRENOMEWright
ASSINATURAWRIGHT C
AFILIAÇÕESDrexel University
ORCID0000-0003-1296-1477
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TOTAL DE OBRAS51
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES207
TOTAL COMO AUTOR49
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1967
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H6
  • Obstructing change

    Open Access•Vanessa Bowden, Daniel Nyberg et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Politics•2026

    Despite widespread public concern and mounting climate impacts, Australia’s climate policy remains stalled. This paper investigates how political, industrial, and environmental actors narrate climate change and each other, contributing to persistent inaction. Drawing on 62 interviews with key stakeholders, we identify three mechanisms – division, paralysis, and displacement – that sustain political inertia. These mechanisms operate through compet…

  • Racialized spatial imaginaries

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Monet Harbison et al.•ARTICLE•Science Education•2025•Citada por: 2•Referências: 38

    Engineering education research has highlighted the importance of examining, understanding, and supporting teacher learning and identity development, particularly for those that hold marginalized identities. As part of the special issue on Teacher Learning and Organizational Contexts, this study examines the intricate relationship between powered boundaries of race, culture, and space for two Black women teachers in organizational contexts within …

  • In the Thick of It

    Christopher Wright•CHAPTER•Between Art and Anthropology•2021

    The work of the artist Cameron Jamie has been referred to as &s;backyard anthropology&s; for the way it documents aspects of popular culture such as amateur backyard wrestling, Halloween decorations in the suburban US, and the annual Krampus ritual in Austria. When the work was exhibited in the UK under the auspices of ArtAngel, who commissioned the piece as part of a trilogy of films, it was shown on a giant screen in large venues accompanied by…

  • Between Art and Anthropology

    Arnd Schneider, Christopher Wright•CHAPTER•Between Art and Anthropology•2021

    This book is a new exploration of the border zones between art and anthropology practices in recent decades. It is concerned with the movements in between these fields and with the possible locations of these practices. The book argues that primary divisions between the fields, from either of the two disciplines, often mask an ensemble of heterogeneous discourses that in fact have much common ground. The kinds of insistence on colour that are a f…

  • “I am able to have a different lens and different approach

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Rasheda Likely et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of African American Women…•2021

    This research highlights the educational and professional experiences of three Black female secondary teachers of engineering. Using a lens of community cultural wealth, this research calls attention to the resources these teachers called upon during their navigation of engineering pathways and currently utilize to challenge their school’s normative perceptions of engineering and engineers. Findings of this work discuss how aspirational capital f…

  • “We’re Going Under”

    Vanessa Bowden, Daniel Nyberg et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2021

    As carbon emissions continue to rise, the need to adapt to climate impacts has become increasingly urgent. Planning and implementing climate adaptation is often left to local authorities and is fraught with the challenge of negotiating with multiple stakeholders holding differing interpretations of climate change. In such a space, local media has a critical role in communicating these differing perspectives within communities. In this article we …

  • Between Art and Anthropology

    A Schneider, Christopher Wright•BOOK•Between Art and Anthropology•2021

  • I don't think anybody really knows

    Open Access•Vanessa Bowden, Daniel Nyberg et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 29

    Responding to the existential threat of climate change is often seen as requiring greater reflexivity. Imbued with notions of resilience and reflection, reflexivity is assumed to contribute to pro-environmental change. However, as the need to manage climate impacts becomes more immediate, political struggles over climate adaptation have become increasingly apparent. These impacts occur most often within local communities, in the context of compet…

  • Dialogues

    Arnd Schneider, Christopher Wright•CHAPTER•Contemporary Art and Anthropology•2020

    Dave Lewis’s photographs frequently challenge the viewer to ask certain questions; questions that can be difficult and uncomfortable but which reveal otherwise obscured histories. 1 His work appears often in major surveys of black British photography. 2 A recent series of photographs based on the Stephen Lawrence case – a notorious murder case that instigated a large-scale examination of institutional racism in the British police – focused on the…

  • The Challenge of Practice

    Arnd Schneider, Christopher Wright•CHAPTER•Contemporary Art and Anthropology•2020

    The borders between anthropology and art have never been completely or rigidly demarcated and, despite much indifference, at specific historical conjunctures, each has in some sense required the other as a necessary foil to work against. Polarized models, such as mind/body and objective/subjective, are as likely to be interrogated by artists like Gormley, who studied anthropology, as they are by anthropologists. He argues that &s;ethnographic sur…

  • Contemporary Art and Anthropology

    Stéphane Malysse, Arnd Schneider et al.•BOOK•Contemporary Art and Anthropology•2020•Citada por: 57

    Contemporary Art and Anthropology takes a new and exciting approach to representational practices within contemporary art and anthropology. Traditionally, the anthropology of art has tended to focus on the interpretation of tribal artifacts but has not considered the impact such art could have on its own ways of making and presenting work. The potential for the contemporary art scene to suggest innovative representational practices has been simil…

  • Informal STEM

    Kristie J Newton, Jacqueline Leonard et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research on Technology…•2020

    This mixed methods study examined how engagement in robotics and game design influenced students’ self-efficacy, STEM attitudes, and computational thinking (CT) skills. Predominantly African-American students engaged in engineering and computer science tasks during informal learning environments. Results revealed students’ self-efficacy scores on computer gaming increased significantly. Focus group data supported these findings, revealing that co…

  • The Echo of Things

    Christopher Wright•BOOK•Echo of Things•2020

    The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs made by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Roviana people, photographs are unique objects; they are not reproducib…

  • Truth and power

    Vanessa Bowden, Daniel Nyberg et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Politics•2020•Citada por: 2•Referências: 38

    As the polarisation of climate politics feeds into ‘post-truth’ politics, one response has been a call for the reassertion of a previously agreed upon ‘reality’. However, it is important to recognise that knowledge has always been contested and contingent. This is particularly salient concerning climate change, where multiple truth claims compete in the media, politics, and social movements. One means of addressing this is through deliberation, w…

  • Constructing a Collaborative Critique-Learning Environment for Exploring Science Through Improvisational Performance

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Christopher G Wright•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2019•Citada por: 6•Referências: 45

    This exploratory design experiment investigates Black male youth’s participation in a science-learning environment designed to conceptualize the practice of critique as improvisational performance. The research highlights the young men’s deployment of a linguistic practice, signifying, used to co-construct and enact the practice of collaborative critique. Implications include calling for the continued reimagining of teaching and learning science …

  • Photo‐Ethnography

    Open Access•Christopher Wright•OTHER•The International Encyclopedia of…•2018

    Photo‐ethnography—the use of still photography as a means of gathering and presenting ethnographic information and insight—has always been a feature of many anthropologists' fieldwork, although to a greater or lesser degree. Through considering the history of photo‐ethnography within the discipline, this entry tackles several central questions around the differences between photography's use as an ethnographic methodology and publishing photograp…

  • Anthropology of the Arts

    Open Access•Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology Review•2017

  • Professor Michael Thompson

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Richard A Gaunt et al.•ARTICLE•Parliamentary History•2017

  • Beyond text?

    R Cox, Andrew Irving et al.•BOOK•Beyond Text?•2016

    Edited volume with DVD from the conference of the same name. 'Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology' is about the relationship between anthropological understandings of the world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices. It suggests that if different sensory experiences embody and facilitate different kinds of knowledge, then we need to develop new methods and more creative forms of representation that are not based solely a…

  • Beyond Text

    Cox Rupert, Irving Andrew et al.•BOOK•Beyond Text?•2016

    This title addresses a series of questions concerning the relationship between anthropological understandings of the world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices. An accompanying DVD explores the potential for a more sensorially-grounded, critically aware and creative approach to cultural analysis, media production and field research

  • Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg•BOOK•Climate Change, Capitalism, and…•2015

    Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite the need for dramatic economic and political chan…

  • A Mediterranean World of Separation or Connection? Recent Research on Late Medieval Cyprus

    Open Access•Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2015

    The history of the medieval Kingdom of Cyprus lies in the shadow of the crusades, and more particularly that of the crusader states. Conquered from its Byzantine ruler by Richard I of England during the Third Crusade and sold to the former King of Jerusalem, Guy de Lusignan, the island became an offshore appendage to the crusader states of the Holy Land. Among the variegated colonies and polities established by medieval Latin Christians in the Ea…

  • The Book of Michael of Rhodes

    Open Access•Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•The English Historical Review•2013

    The Book of Michael of Rhodes is a compilation of material on multifarious subjects, mostly of an ostensibly practical character, assembled and illustrated by a Venetian seaman of Greek origin in the mid-fifteenth century. Its contents include information on mathematics, shipbuilding, navigation, and calendrical and astrological reckoning, as well as a summary of the author’s own career. It gives a glimpse into the maritime world of medieval Veni…

  • Corporate corruption of the environment

    Open Access•Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2013•Citada por: 29•Referências: 34

    A key response to environmental degradation, climate change and declining biodiversity has been the growing adoption of market principles in an effort to better value the social good of nature. Through concepts such as 'natural capitalism' and 'corporate environmentalism', nature is increasingly viewed as a domain of capitalist endeavour. In this article, we use convention theory and a pluralist understanding of social goods to investigatehowthe …

  • Blurred Visions

    R Cox, Christopher Wright•CHAPTER•The Sage Handbook of Social…•2012

    Blurred visions: Reflecting visual anthropology In 2001, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) set out guidelines for an evaluation of the field of visual anthropology in terms of its contribution to ethnographic knowledge, its methods and theory, its importance as a form of pedagogy, and its application in anthropological research. The short statement of less than 1,000 words was produced by the Society for Visual Anthropology to addres…

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  • Contemporary Art and Anthropology

    Stéphane Malysse, Arnd Schneider et al.•BOOK•Contemporary Art and Anthropology•2020•Citada por: 57

    Contemporary Art and Anthropology takes a new and exciting approach to representational practices within contemporary art and anthropology. Traditionally, the anthropology of art has tended to focus on the interpretation of tribal artifacts but has not considered the impact such art could have on its own ways of making and presenting work. The potential for the contemporary art scene to suggest innovative representational practices has been simil…

  • Working with passion

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2012•Citada por: 30•Referências: 50

    In responding to climate change, organizations navigate in an increasingly volatile emotional milieu in which feelings of fear, anxiety, hostility and anger shape public debate. In this article, we explore how corporations have responded to the broader ‘emotionology’ surrounding climate change. Our focus is on the role of corporate sustainability specialists as intermediaries, or ‘emotionology workers’, acting between broader social debates and l…

  • Corporate corruption of the environment

    Open Access•Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2013•Citada por: 29•Referências: 34

    A key response to environmental degradation, climate change and declining biodiversity has been the growing adoption of market principles in an effort to better value the social good of nature. Through concepts such as 'natural capitalism' and 'corporate environmentalism', nature is increasingly viewed as a domain of capitalist endeavour. In this article, we use convention theory and a pluralist understanding of social goods to investigatehowthe …

  • From prophets to profits

    Open Access•Jim Kitay, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2007•Citada por: 17•Referências: 42

    In this article we explore the construction of occupational identity amongst a new and significant occupation: management consultants. Extending a conceptual framework developed by Fine (1996), we argue that occupational identity is not a consistent whole, but constructed from imagery to interpret and manage situations commonly experienced by occupational members. We argue that consultants, as an occupation, face three key structural constraints …

  • Reinventing human resource management

    Open Access•Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2008•Citada por: 15•Referências: 32

    The status of human resource management (HRM) and its standing as a managerial profession has been a recurring concern for practitioners over time. In recent years, a normative discourse has developed which asserts that the path to improved status for HR `professionals' involves reinvention of their role as `business partners' and `internal consultants' promoting enterprise competitiveness. This article examines how HR managers interpret this new…

  • The false promise of technological determinism

    Open Access•David Grant, Richard W Hall et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2006•Citada por: 11•Referências: 24

    According to software vendors and consultants, Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) transform the nature, structure and management of work regardless of organisational context. This paper contests this technologically deterministic view of organisational change by demonstrating the role that discourse plays in the social construction of ERPs

  • Constructing a Collaborative Critique-Learning Environment for Exploring Science Through Improvisational Performance

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Christopher G Wright•ARTICLE•Urban Education•2019•Citada por: 6•Referências: 45

    This exploratory design experiment investigates Black male youth’s participation in a science-learning environment designed to conceptualize the practice of critique as improvisational performance. The research highlights the young men’s deployment of a linguistic practice, signifying, used to co-construct and enact the practice of collaborative critique. Implications include calling for the continued reimagining of teaching and learning science …

  • Justifying Business Responses to Climate Change

    Open Access•Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2012•Citada por: 6•Referências: 26

    Despite increasing interest in corporate environmentalism, less attention has been directed to how corporations justify and defend their initiatives in this area. This is important in understanding how corporate environmentalism is legitimized in the face of crises, such as climate change, and the ongoing criticism of corporations' deleterious impacts upon the environment. Based on qualitative data from Australian corporations, we illustrate how …

  • Supply Chain Rationalization

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Joshua Lund et al.•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2003•Citada por: 6•Referências: 12

    This article reviews the implementation of supply chain management within the Australian food and grocery industry and examines the workplace implications of this new form of industry rationalization within the manufacturing, distribution and retailing components of the grocery supply chain. Based upon documentary sources and interviews with employers, consultants and trade union officials, we find the dominant workplace trend involves a focus on…

  • Under the Clock’

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Joshua Lund et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•1998•Citada por: 6

    In contrast to optimistic interpretations of contemporary work reorganisation, the example of computerised work monitoring in US and Australian grocery warehousing highlights a far more negative picture of work intensification, job stress and low trust relations. Despite significant variation in trade union response, the article argues such examples reinforce the need for strong and independent trade union regulation to limit the worst excesses o…

  • A Devil's Engine

    Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology•2008•Citada por: 5•Referências: 5

    This article looks at photographic practices in Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands of the South Pacific. It argues that the efficacy or affective power of photographs in this context must be understood in terms of what is locally called maqomaqo (soul or shadow). Photographs contain a material trace of the essence of what they portray, which enables them to “touch” their viewers. This case study allows us to think about the innate meta…

  • Rural and Urban Labour Processes

    Jacques A Ferland, Jacques Ferland et al.•ARTICLE•Labour / Le Travail•1996•Citada por: 3

    This paper examines labour process developments within Canada and Australia during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. In contrast to traditional labour process studies, which have focused upon the development of sophisticated forms of managerial control within modern industry, this comparative analysis stresses the much simpler forms of labour control that existed within Canadian and Australian rural and urban workplaces. The paper explores…

  • Racialized spatial imaginaries

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Monet Harbison et al.•ARTICLE•Science Education•2025•Citada por: 2•Referências: 38

    Engineering education research has highlighted the importance of examining, understanding, and supporting teacher learning and identity development, particularly for those that hold marginalized identities. As part of the special issue on Teacher Learning and Organizational Contexts, this study examines the intricate relationship between powered boundaries of race, culture, and space for two Black women teachers in organizational contexts within …

  • Truth and power

    Vanessa Bowden, Daniel Nyberg et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Politics•2020•Citada por: 2•Referências: 38

    As the polarisation of climate politics feeds into ‘post-truth’ politics, one response has been a call for the reassertion of a previously agreed upon ‘reality’. However, it is important to recognise that knowledge has always been contested and contingent. This is particularly salient concerning climate change, where multiple truth claims compete in the media, politics, and social movements. One means of addressing this is through deliberation, w…

  • Work, organisation and Enterprise Resource Planning systems

    Open Access•Kristine Dery, David Grant et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2006•Citada por: 2•Referências: 57

    This paper reviews literature that examines the design, implementation and use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs). It finds that most of this literature is managerialist in orientation, and concerned with the impact of ERPs in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and business performance. The paper seeks to provide an alternative research agenda, one that emphasises work‐ and organisation‐based approaches to the study of the implementat…

  • Language and Power in Japanese Transplants in Scotland

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Fumie Kumagai et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2001•Citada por: 2•Referências: 26

    Previous research into Japanese owned and managed enterprises in western countries has been alert to problems in cross-cultural communication but there has been little research into the linguistic patterns accompanying these activities. This study of seven such plants in Scotland illustrates key features of the linguistic patterns evident in them. Forms of pidgin develop in co-operative working environments but unusually they are based on the lan…

  • I don't think anybody really knows

    Open Access•Vanessa Bowden, Daniel Nyberg et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 29

    Responding to the existential threat of climate change is often seen as requiring greater reflexivity. Imbued with notions of resilience and reflection, reflexivity is assumed to contribute to pro-environmental change. However, as the need to manage climate impacts becomes more immediate, political struggles over climate adaptation have become increasingly apparent. These impacts occur most often within local communities, in the context of compet…

  • Historical Interpretations of the Labour Process

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Christopher Wright Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Labour History•2011•Citada por: 1•Referências: 10

    Labour process research has had a profound impact on the study of work by highlighting the central role of management in controlling labour cost and application. It is also an approach that is strongly grounded in an historical and empirical methodology. This article reviews the contribution of labour process theory and research over the last forty years to the study of Australian labour and business history. While interest in the labour process …

  • Enabling ‘managed activism’

    Open Access•Joshua Lund, John Lund et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2009•Citada por: 1•Referências: 17

    This article examines how trade unions in different country settings have utilised call centre technologies. Rather than viewing union call centres as simply a means of service delivery, our research suggests they can also enable a more strategic approach to workplace organising. We explore the implications of union call centres for debates on servicing and organising models of trade unionism

  • Variations on a lean theme

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Joshua Lund et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2006•Citada por: 1•Referências: 24

    This paper explores changes in work organisation in the distribution operations of large Australian retailers. While popularised by consultants as a ‘lean logistics’ approach, the research findings suggest increasing variation in both the technical and social organisation of work. Differences in work organisation reflect variations in management choice, as well as the negotiated nature of workplace change

  • Managing Labour

    Open Access•Arthur Mcivor, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Labour History•2005•Citada por: 1

    The exceptionalism of Australian industrial relations has long been asserted. In particular, the Australian system of industrial arbitration has been argued to contrast markedly with other countries, such as Britain, which developed a more 'voluntarist' model of industrial regulation. However this distinction relies upon limited historical research of workplace-level developments. In this paper, we focus on a comparative analysis of employer prac…

  • Integrating the supply chain

    Open Access•Joshua Lund, John Lund et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2003•Citada por: 1•Referências: 18

    Recent technological innovations have emphasised increasing integration between enterprises across the supply chain. This article reviews these developments within US grocery distribution and highlights the potential for supply chain integration to increase union bargaining power, as well as employer strategies aimed at reducing the threat of industrial vulnerability resulting from cross‐enterprise interdependence

  • From Shop Floor to Boardroom

    Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Business History•2000•Citada por: 1

    This article traces the historical development of management consulting in Australia. While some observers have argued the origins of management consulting involved primarily executive and board-level advice over corporate strategy and structure, as was the case in the United Kingdom, Australian management consulting began with a dominantly Taylorist focus on shop-floor productivity before diversifying into the broader range of general management…

  • Quincy Wright on war and peace

    Open Access•Clinton F Fink, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•1970•Citada por: 1•Referências: 26

    National Supremacy, and ending with five articles and a monograph appearing in 1970.Even this is incomplete, since it includes only a handful of Wright's numerous letters pub- lished in newspapers, magazines, and schol- arly journals.' 1 Space limitations preclude reproducing here the entire bibliography.Instead, a list of about 145 items, selected for their relevance to the main research interests of the Journal of Con- flict Resolution, is pres…

  • The Scientific Challenge

    Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•1967

    The Scientific Challenge Get access International Studies Quarterly, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 1967, Pages 284–287, https://doi.org/10.2307/3013954 Published: 01 September 1967

  • Quincy Wright on war and peace

    Open Access•Clinton F Fink, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•1970•Citada por: 1•Referências: 26

    National Supremacy, and ending with five articles and a monograph appearing in 1970.Even this is incomplete, since it includes only a handful of Wright's numerous letters pub- lished in newspapers, magazines, and schol- arly journals.' 1 Space limitations preclude reproducing here the entire bibliography.Instead, a list of about 145 items, selected for their relevance to the main research interests of the Journal of Con- flict Resolution, is pres…

  • Cultural continuity and the growth of West Indian religion in Britain

    Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Religion•1984•Referências: 7

    The change in patterns of religious adherence and ritual activity among migrants from peasant to urban industrial societies has been frequently noted by social scientists. However, tile pattern of religious adherence among West Indian migrants to Britain poses certain anomalies for the standard view of the nature and causes of such changes, going far beyond the commonly cited exception of the growth of Ras Tafari among black youth in Britain. At …

  • The Formative Years of Management Control at the Newcastle Steelworks, 1913-1924

    Open Access•Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Labour History•1988

    Australia's transformation from a rural economy to an industrial nation hinged upon the establishment of a viable steel industry. As a result, the opening of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's (BHP) Newcastle Steelworks in 1915 was one of the critical events in the development of Australian industrial capitalism. Although the history of the steel industry is well documented, the nature of management strategy and labour response has been largel…

  • Rural and Urban Labour Processes

    Jacques A Ferland, Jacques Ferland et al.•ARTICLE•Labour / Le Travail•1996•Citada por: 3

    This paper examines labour process developments within Canada and Australia during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. In contrast to traditional labour process studies, which have focused upon the development of sophisticated forms of managerial control within modern industry, this comparative analysis stresses the much simpler forms of labour control that existed within Canadian and Australian rural and urban workplaces. The paper explores…

  • The Management of Labour

    Open Access•Duncan Macdonald, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Labour History•1996

    The Management of Labour provides a detailed account of changes in the policies and practices of Australian employers in the twentieth century. In contrast to the plethora of overseas-inspired managements texts, this book highlights the rich and varied history of Australian employers and the various ways and means by which they have attempted to maximise their control over labour costs and work effort. Particular emphasis is placed on development…

  • Under the Clock’

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Joshua Lund et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•1998•Citada por: 6

    In contrast to optimistic interpretations of contemporary work reorganisation, the example of computerised work monitoring in US and Australian grocery warehousing highlights a far more negative picture of work intensification, job stress and low trust relations. Despite significant variation in trade union response, the article argues such examples reinforce the need for strong and independent trade union regulation to limit the worst excesses o…

  • From Shop Floor to Boardroom

    Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Business History•2000•Citada por: 1

    This article traces the historical development of management consulting in Australia. While some observers have argued the origins of management consulting involved primarily executive and board-level advice over corporate strategy and structure, as was the case in the United Kingdom, Australian management consulting began with a dominantly Taylorist focus on shop-floor productivity before diversifying into the broader range of general management…

  • Language and Power in Japanese Transplants in Scotland

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Fumie Kumagai et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2001•Citada por: 2•Referências: 26

    Previous research into Japanese owned and managed enterprises in western countries has been alert to problems in cross-cultural communication but there has been little research into the linguistic patterns accompanying these activities. This study of seven such plants in Scotland illustrates key features of the linguistic patterns evident in them. Forms of pidgin develop in co-operative working environments but unusually they are based on the lan…

  • Integrating the supply chain

    Open Access•Joshua Lund, John Lund et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2003•Citada por: 1•Referências: 18

    Recent technological innovations have emphasised increasing integration between enterprises across the supply chain. This article reviews these developments within US grocery distribution and highlights the potential for supply chain integration to increase union bargaining power, as well as employer strategies aimed at reducing the threat of industrial vulnerability resulting from cross‐enterprise interdependence

  • Building Union Power Through the Supply Chain

    Open Access•Joshua Lund, John Lund et al.•ARTICLE•Labor Studies Journal•2003•Referências: 4

    The trend towards increasing integration within the grocery sup ply chain is identified and its implications for trade union organiz ing explored. While offering greater efficiencies and reduced costs for employers, supply chain integration may also offer unions a new lever for organizing. The article outlines a methodology for mapping union coverage and highlights potential impediments to union organizing such as contracting out and jurisdiction…

  • Supply Chain Rationalization

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Joshua Lund et al.•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2003•Citada por: 6•Referências: 12

    This article reviews the implementation of supply chain management within the Australian food and grocery industry and examines the workplace implications of this new form of industry rationalization within the manufacturing, distribution and retailing components of the grocery supply chain. Based upon documentary sources and interviews with employers, consultants and trade union officials, we find the dominant workplace trend involves a focus on…

  • More Pain, Less Gain

    Open Access•Joshua Lund, John Lund et al.•ARTICLE•Labor Studies Journal•2004•Referências: 9

    Variable-compensation systems are increasingly common in the trucking industry. This paper examines the growing use of variable compensation for grocery truckers and highlights the links between the replacement of standard hourly pay, the industry's adoption of supply-chain management, and the outsourcing of the logistics func tion. A case study of "activity-based compensation" for grocery truckers illustrates how such alternative pay systems imp…

  • Employing Bureaucracy

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Sanford M Jacoby•ARTICLE•Labour History•2004

    Contents: J.P. Walsh, A.P. Brief, Series Foreword. Introduction to the Revised Edition. The Way it Was: Factory Labor Before 1915. Systematic Management and Welfare Work. Vocational Guidance. Problems, Problem-Solvers, and a New Profession. Crisis and Change During World War I. A Different Decade: Moderation in the 1920s. The Response to Depression. Another Great Transformation, 1936-1945. From the 1950s to the Present

  • Managing Labour

    Open Access•Arthur Mcivor, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Labour History•2005•Citada por: 1

    The exceptionalism of Australian industrial relations has long been asserted. In particular, the Australian system of industrial arbitration has been argued to contrast markedly with other countries, such as Britain, which developed a more 'voluntarist' model of industrial regulation. However this distinction relies upon limited historical research of workplace-level developments. In this paper, we focus on a comparative analysis of employer prac…

  • Variations on a lean theme

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Joshua Lund et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2006•Citada por: 1•Referências: 24

    This paper explores changes in work organisation in the distribution operations of large Australian retailers. While popularised by consultants as a ‘lean logistics’ approach, the research findings suggest increasing variation in both the technical and social organisation of work. Differences in work organisation reflect variations in management choice, as well as the negotiated nature of workplace change

  • Work, organisation and Enterprise Resource Planning systems

    Open Access•Kristine Dery, David Grant et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2006•Citada por: 2•Referências: 57

    This paper reviews literature that examines the design, implementation and use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs). It finds that most of this literature is managerialist in orientation, and concerned with the impact of ERPs in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and business performance. The paper seeks to provide an alternative research agenda, one that emphasises work‐ and organisation‐based approaches to the study of the implementat…

  • The false promise of technological determinism

    Open Access•David Grant, Richard W Hall et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2006•Citada por: 11•Referências: 24

    According to software vendors and consultants, Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) transform the nature, structure and management of work regardless of organisational context. This paper contests this technologically deterministic view of organisational change by demonstrating the role that discourse plays in the social construction of ERPs

  • From prophets to profits

    Open Access•Jim Kitay, Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2007•Citada por: 17•Referências: 42

    In this article we explore the construction of occupational identity amongst a new and significant occupation: management consultants. Extending a conceptual framework developed by Fine (1996), we argue that occupational identity is not a consistent whole, but constructed from imagery to interpret and manage situations commonly experienced by occupational members. We argue that consultants, as an occupation, face three key structural constraints …

  • Reinventing human resource management

    Open Access•Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2008•Citada por: 15•Referências: 32

    The status of human resource management (HRM) and its standing as a managerial profession has been a recurring concern for practitioners over time. In recent years, a normative discourse has developed which asserts that the path to improved status for HR `professionals' involves reinvention of their role as `business partners' and `internal consultants' promoting enterprise competitiveness. This article examines how HR managers interpret this new…

  • A Devil's Engine

    Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Visual Anthropology•2008•Citada por: 5•Referências: 5

    This article looks at photographic practices in Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands of the South Pacific. It argues that the efficacy or affective power of photographs in this context must be understood in terms of what is locally called maqomaqo (soul or shadow). Photographs contain a material trace of the essence of what they portray, which enables them to “touch” their viewers. This case study allows us to think about the innate meta…

  • Enabling ‘managed activism’

    Open Access•Joshua Lund, John Lund et al.•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2009•Citada por: 1•Referências: 17

    This article examines how trade unions in different country settings have utilised call centre technologies. Rather than viewing union call centres as simply a means of service delivery, our research suggests they can also enable a more strategic approach to workplace organising. We explore the implications of union call centres for debates on servicing and organising models of trade unionism

  • Historical Interpretations of the Labour Process

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Christopher Wright Christopher Wright•ARTICLE•Labour History•2011•Citada por: 1•Referências: 10

    Labour process research has had a profound impact on the study of work by highlighting the central role of management in controlling labour cost and application. It is also an approach that is strongly grounded in an historical and empirical methodology. This article reviews the contribution of labour process theory and research over the last forty years to the study of Australian labour and business history. While interest in the labour process …

  • Blurred Visions

    R Cox, Christopher Wright•CHAPTER•The Sage Handbook of Social…•2012

    Blurred visions: Reflecting visual anthropology In 2001, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) set out guidelines for an evaluation of the field of visual anthropology in terms of its contribution to ethnographic knowledge, its methods and theory, its importance as a form of pedagogy, and its application in anthropological research. The short statement of less than 1,000 words was produced by the Society for Visual Anthropology to addres…

  • “Hippies on the third floor”

    Open Access•Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg et al.•ARTICLE•Organization Studies•2012

    Climate change discourse permeates political and popular consciousness, challenging the ecological sustainability of our economic system and the business models that underpin it. Not surprisingly climate change has become an increasingly divisive and partisan political issue. While a growing literature has sought to address how business organizations are responding to climate change, the subjective perceptions of managers on this issue have recei…

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