Paul Stewart
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3673610 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Stewart |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Stewart |
| ASSINATURA | STEWART P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8902-1497 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Michael Burawoy (1947-2025)
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Radical research perspectives, network and collective
Critical Labour Studies (CLS) was established in 2004 as a collective to provide a platform for co-operative and radical research and education. Within the academy the network spans the social sciences in the field of work and employment, but this is only one of its characteristic features. It also includes a range of activists well beyond the academy in both traditional and alternative social and labour movements. The meetings also bring togethe…
Employment regulation as the warm house for neoliberalism? Comparing higher education in France and the UK
In this article we consider the assumption that representative institutions within the workplace, like such as those existing in France, allow for a sustainable opposition to the employer. The article draws on data from a comparative employment relations project exploring variants of the institutionalisation of labour and the space for alternative forms of engagement with capital. We draw on data and casework in higher education institutions in F…
From securitisation to martialisation
The association between logistics and militarised humanitarianism is expanding as a strategy for managing migrants' productive and reproductive lives. In Brazil, despite a progressive humanitarian visa policy, the national army remains responsible for the logistics of a severely underfunded humanitarian operation in Brazil's Amazon. This study, based on participatory action research with 300 migrants, introduces the notion of martialisation to sh…
Future Swedish 3D City Models—Specifications, Test Data, and Evaluation
Three-dimensional city models are increasingly being used for analyses and simulations. To enable such applications, it is necessary to standardise semantically richer city models and, in some cases, to connect the models with external data sources. In this study, we describe the development of a new Swedish specification for 3D city models, denoted as 3CIM, which is a joint effort between the three largest cities in Sweden—Stockholm, Gothenburg,…
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century
Emerging patterns of south-south migration and rapid economic growth in developing countries have highlighted the need for new conceptual contributions accounting for the experiences of migrant workers in the Global South. The concept of super-exploitation has been among those contributions with reference to appalling working conditions and the dependence of developing countries on the export of commodities. However, this article argues that the …
Who won the war in an Irish town? From the tyranny of fear to fear of freedom
Amazonian destruction, Bolsonaro and Covid-19
During the current pandemic, forest loss in 2020 has dwarfed the devastation of the previous year. The scale of environmental crimes and aggression towards indigenous peoples and people of African-descendent has been a characteristic of the Bolsonaro administration in the Amazon region. As cases of COVID-19 rise daily in remote areas of the Amazon, a recent study indicates that indigenous lands that aren't formally demarcated are more vulnerable …
Individualism and Collectivism at Work in an Era of Deindustrialization
Supposedly emblematic of digital capitalism, the rise of the gig economy is frequently taken as a cipher for the developing deindustrialisation of western societies. It is tempting to interpret the shift of manufacturing jobs to the global south and their replacement with service sector jobs as a one-way street, leading to the demise of decent work and the rise of work characterized by precarity, low pay, low skill and a non-unionized workforce. …
Irish Studies in Cyprus
Ireland and Cyprus: Parallels and Differences After years of colonial domination by Britain, the island is partitioned. Approximately two-thirds of the island is under the administration of the Republic, whilst the remaining third is under the sway of another country. The basic facts of Cyprus are, therefore, not dissimilar to those pertaining in the island of
Safety and health before and after Marikana
Mine and worker Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) remains crucial given the historically dismal record of fatalities and accidents in mining in South Africa. OHS also played a central role in the resurgence of trade unionism of black South African mineworkers in the 1980s. While the OHS literature has the workplace as its predominant focus, this article explores three factors relating to conditions external to and beyond mining production: sub…
Do Research Participants Trust Researchers or Their Institution
Relationships of trust between research participants and researchers are often considered paramount to successful research; however, we know little about participants' perspectives. We examined whom research participants trusted when taking part in research. Using a qualitative approach, we interviewed 36 research participants, including eight Indigenous participants. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. This article focuses on finding…
From fatalism to mass action to incorporation to neoliberal individualism
The article resurfaces ‘tacit knowledge’ to periodise developments in worker safety in South African mines. ‘Tacit knowledge’ evolved over time, is orally transmitted, learned on the job, and is central to worker safety; it lay behind acts of resistance and demands for a safer mining workplace which underpinned unionisation, and which won worker safety representation under apartheid. Under democracy, a modern consultative tripartite legislative s…
Consenting to Labour Appropriation? The Mineworker on South African Gold and Coalmines, 1951 to 2011
The argument of the moral economy of mines claims to illuminate the consent and associational power of mineworkers, and thereby the real foundation of social exchanges between management and black mineworkers. Our collection of life histories shows how the moral economy was fragile and its codes not widely accepted. As a tool of analysis it does not include certain facets of the workers' experience, feeling and human essence. The moral-economic r…
We’re checking them out”
Understanding research participants' motivations about taking part in research is important. This is particularly relevant for Indigenous communities where there is a reported history of research abuse leading to mistrust. This understanding can lead to research practice that is more respectful and responsive to the needs of Indigenous communities and abides by the values of Indigenous communities. Moreover it can lead to more ethical and respect…
Doing Trust”
Trust in research is important but not well understood. We examine the ways that researchers understand and practice trust in research. Using a qualitative research design, we interviewed 19 researchers, including eight researchers involved in Australian Indigenous research. The project design focused on sensitive research including research involving vulnerable participants and sensitive research topics. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the…
The centrality of labor time in South African gold mining since 1886
Labor time, as a dimension of South African mining labor history, has been ignored, both conceptually and historically. This article remedies this yawning gap by presenting primary and secondary evidence which demonstrates the centrality of labor time in South African gold mines since the discovery of gold in 1886. To this end, labor time is traced in two ways. Part I tracks industrial working time by tracing the length of the working day and wee…
Mining and Paternalism in Colonial Angola
The Material Basis of Worker Subjectivity
This article presents an historical overview of the occupation of rock drillers in South African mines. It is argued that the critical productive role this occupation plays in the underground production process must be central to understanding why the rock drill operators (RDOs) initiated a major strike wave on South African platinum mines in 2012, what transpired at Marikana in August of that year and the 2014 industry-wide strike. Long establis…
‘Wages are but an expression of time’
This article alludes to historical evidence that traces working time arrangements in South African mining since 1886. It does so by very briefly summarising detailed narratives of both working hours (which remain remarkably stable) since 1911 and the length of the migrant labour contract (which progressively lengthens) until the collapse of the controls of the migrant labour supply system in the 1980s. At this point the labour contract aligns wit…
Accelerated mechanisation and the demise of a mass-based labour force? Platinum mines in South Africa
There is renewed talk of mechanisation on South African platinum mines. By tracking attempts to mechanise the labour process in platinum mines, this briefing explains why mechanisation has not yet
Migrant workers and the north of Ireland
In 1998, the north of Ireland emerged from a protracted civil insurgency sustained by a socio-political infrastructure comprising an expanded Keynesian welfare state and a developing neo-liberal economy. This provided the context for significant migration to the North after 2004. While research highlights migrant experiences not dissimilar to those in other parts of the UK and Ireland after 2004 it also suggests that a number of reported experien…
The Independent Workers Union
This article examines the rise of the Independent Workers Union (IWU) in Ireland, North and South, in relation to the bifurcation of trade unionism on the Island, from 1900 until the demise of the so-called Celtic tiger in the early years of the twenty-first century. It is argued that two competing ideological and political trajectories defined the major divisions in the Irish labour movement and where given added impetus with the formation of tw…
The birth of French labour sociology after the War
The controversies in French sociology of labour between 1945 and the early 60s sometimes overlook its place in the period of national reconstruction. As part of the social consensus marking reconstruction sociologists, encouraged by state fonctionnaires, sustained a research agenda perceived as 'useful' for national renewal: the focus would be on questions that sociologist-practitioners would share with France's political class. While the state's…
Racism and health among urban Aboriginal young people
Researching Aboriginal health
Collective narratives and politics in the contemporary study of work
In this article we explore the question of how as sociologists of work we might research those who constitute the substance of our labour process. We approach this question through an examination of the new management practices debate, principally in the labour movement where a distinctive and critical view of NMP developed in the late 1980s. Second, we argue that there is a link between this debate and the wider politics of labour process discus…
Individualism and Collectivism at Work in an Era of Deindustrialization
Supposedly emblematic of digital capitalism, the rise of the gig economy is frequently taken as a cipher for the developing deindustrialisation of western societies. It is tempting to interpret the shift of manufacturing jobs to the global south and their replacement with service sector jobs as a one-way street, leading to the demise of decent work and the rise of work characterized by precarity, low pay, low skill and a non-unionized workforce. …
The Whispering Shadow
Despite recent interest in the character of individual dissonance in the workplace less attention has been given to the nature of collectivism in the context of restricted trade union behaviour. While findings on conflicts associated with collective practices have been given reasonable space these have tended to focus on the association between collectivism qua trade unions and the presence or absence of conflict. Moreover, where the relationship…
Manufacturing Dissent? Burawoy in a Franco-Japanese Workshop
Employee Responses to New Management Techniques in the Auto Industry
New management techniques (NMTs) associated with `lean production' - teamworking; just-in-time (JIT) systems; continuous improvement (kaizen); zero defects and so on - have become increasingly influential, particularly in the car industry. This paper reports on case studies and a questionnaire survey of workers in UK and US auto firms operating in Britain. Trade unions have had a significant, albeit variable, impact on the introduction of NMTs. H…
Amazonian destruction, Bolsonaro and Covid-19
During the current pandemic, forest loss in 2020 has dwarfed the devastation of the previous year. The scale of environmental crimes and aggression towards indigenous peoples and people of African-descendent has been a characteristic of the Bolsonaro administration in the Amazon region. As cases of COVID-19 rise daily in remote areas of the Amazon, a recent study indicates that indigenous lands that aren't formally demarcated are more vulnerable …
Work, Employment & Society Today
The state-sponsored and centralised institutionalisation of an academic discipline
This paper is the first of a two-part article. It is an exploratory attempt to expand our understanding of the organization of sociological knowledge within both the university and extra-university sectors in South Africa and the state's key role in that process. It tracks the institutional development of the discipline within the state's universities, as well as the centralised bureaucratic mechanisms of state power through which social research…
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century
Emerging patterns of south-south migration and rapid economic growth in developing countries have highlighted the need for new conceptual contributions accounting for the experiences of migrant workers in the Global South. The concept of super-exploitation has been among those contributions with reference to appalling working conditions and the dependence of developing countries on the export of commodities. However, this article argues that the …
Do Research Participants Trust Researchers or Their Institution
Relationships of trust between research participants and researchers are often considered paramount to successful research; however, we know little about participants' perspectives. We examined whom research participants trusted when taking part in research. Using a qualitative approach, we interviewed 36 research participants, including eight Indigenous participants. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. This article focuses on finding…
Doing Trust”
Trust in research is important but not well understood. We examine the ways that researchers understand and practice trust in research. Using a qualitative research design, we interviewed 19 researchers, including eight researchers involved in Australian Indigenous research. The project design focused on sensitive research including research involving vulnerable participants and sensitive research topics. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the…
Partnership, high performance work systems and quality of working life
The paper measures the effects of workplace partnership and selected high performance work practices on four different dimensions of employee experience. Whilst the partnership– high performance work systems nexus seems to have little impact on employees’ job satisfaction or sense of attachment, it does, however, have a negative impact on both workplace stress and employee evaluations of union performance. The analysis thus questions common assum…
L'avenir du travail à la chaîne. Une comparaison internationale dans l'industrie automobile
Migrant workers and the north of Ireland
In 1998, the north of Ireland emerged from a protracted civil insurgency sustained by a socio-political infrastructure comprising an expanded Keynesian welfare state and a developing neo-liberal economy. This provided the context for significant migration to the North after 2004. While research highlights migrant experiences not dissimilar to those in other parts of the UK and Ireland after 2004 it also suggests that a number of reported experien…
Workers in Food Distribution
This paper examines warehouse workers' experiences of the labour process and employment relations in an ambient food distribution depot governed by a labour management system described as lean logistics. Lean logistics is seen by the sector as an aid to, and necessary development of, the globalisation of the sector's supply chain (global commodity chain). The focus is on how the restructuring of work as a result of lean logistics and the conseque…
High performance work systems and workplace partnership
This article provides case study analysis of the impact of high performance work practices and workplace partnership on skilled workers in the UK's aerospace industry. In contrast to assumptions that such practices increase empowerment and participation we find evidence of a democratic deficit in workplace decision‐making and deterioration in the quality of working life
From ‘embrace and change’ to ‘engage and change’
This article focuses on the relationship between the introduction of new management techniques (NMTs), trade union responses and employee attitudes in the automotive industry in the UK. In contrast to a prevailing pessimistic prognosis for the survival of traditional industrial relations in the ‘new management’ environment, unions remain as an independent and dissenting force. Paradoxically, one of the significant features driving union recovery …
The Paradox of Contemporary Labour Process Theory
Recent commentators on the Labour Process Debate have addressed the relationship between individualism, collectivism and broader changes in management strategies through a focus upon the absence of labour and the demise of collectivism. In this critical response the authors argue that almost invariably, while labour in some guise is rediscovered, this occurs at the expense of collectivism
From fatalism to mass action to incorporation to neoliberal individualism
The article resurfaces ‘tacit knowledge’ to periodise developments in worker safety in South African mines. ‘Tacit knowledge’ evolved over time, is orally transmitted, learned on the job, and is central to worker safety; it lay behind acts of resistance and demands for a safer mining workplace which underpinned unionisation, and which won worker safety representation under apartheid. Under democracy, a modern consultative tripartite legislative s…
The Material Basis of Worker Subjectivity
This article presents an historical overview of the occupation of rock drillers in South African mines. It is argued that the critical productive role this occupation plays in the underground production process must be central to understanding why the rock drill operators (RDOs) initiated a major strike wave on South African platinum mines in 2012, what transpired at Marikana in August of that year and the 2014 industry-wide strike. Long establis…
Bureaucracy transcended? New patterns of employment regulation and labour control in the international automotive industry
Contemporary changes in patterns of work and management are alleged to have given rise to the post-modern organisation and the diminishing importance of traditional bureaucracy. This paper is concerned with the changing nature of labour control in new ‘multi-enterprise’ settings in the international automotive sector. Rather than eliminating bureaucracy, the tools of industrial bureaucracy are becoming more sophisticated
Quality of working life in the automobile industry
The paper examines the impact of lean production on indicators of the quality of life at work in the automotive industry and finds that it varies across companies and to a lesser extent between countries. The paper explains this by arguing that lean production seeks to impose new employment standards. This is a contested process where management's capacity to shift to new standards and labour's ability to protect its interests vary across workpla…
Safety and health before and after Marikana
Mine and worker Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) remains crucial given the historically dismal record of fatalities and accidents in mining in South Africa. OHS also played a central role in the resurgence of trade unionism of black South African mineworkers in the 1980s. While the OHS literature has the workplace as its predominant focus, this article explores three factors relating to conditions external to and beyond mining production: sub…
New Zealand and the Pacific Labor Traffic, 1870-1874
Research Article| February 01 1961 New Zealand and the Pacific Labor Traffic, 1870-1874 P. J. Stewart P. J. Stewart Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1961) 30 (1): 47–59. https://doi.org/10.2307/3636331 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite…
Spain and the Western Tradition
Spain and the Western Tradition
Unamuno y América
The Soldier, the Bureaucrat, and Fiscal Records in the Army of Ferdinand and Isabella
HE SHREWDEST of Renaissance observers recognized that Ferdinand the Catholic could achieve his ambitious military and diplomatic goals only by carefully husbanding his resources-here lay the explanation of his proverbial parsimony.' In this royal economy the value of fiscal records seems obvious. Their role in the army's growth from feudal horde to something like a department of state may be less obvious, but it is only a little less important. B…
The Santa Hermandad and the First Italian Campaign of Gonzalo de Córdoba, 1495-1498
Historians have overlooked a significant aspect of Ferdinand and Isabella's Santa Hermandad. The canon of historical knowledge has long included the part played by the Hermandad army in royal efforts to establish control over Castile and to conquer Granada. However, the use made of these troops was equally important in the period after the victory over the Moors. After 1492 the record of the Hermandad army clearly demonstrates the continuing proc…
Catholic Colonialism
Empire in Transition
The Battle of Las Salinas, Peru, and Its Historians
The Nissan Enigma
The Nissan Enigma
Employee Responses to New Management Techniques in the Auto Industry
New management techniques (NMTs) associated with `lean production' - teamworking; just-in-time (JIT) systems; continuous improvement (kaizen); zero defects and so on - have become increasingly influential, particularly in the car industry. This paper reports on case studies and a questionnaire survey of workers in UK and US auto firms operating in Britain. Trade unions have had a significant, albeit variable, impact on the introduction of NMTs. H…
The Paradox of Contemporary Labour Process Theory
Recent commentators on the Labour Process Debate have addressed the relationship between individualism, collectivism and broader changes in management strategies through a focus upon the absence of labour and the demise of collectivism. In this critical response the authors argue that almost invariably, while labour in some guise is rediscovered, this occurs at the expense of collectivism
Urban Change and Renewal
Progress to decline?, Philip Garrahan and Paul Stewart something old, something new? the Great North in the 1990s, Fred Robinson Wearside in the new North East - long-term perspectives on industrial restructuring, Ian Stone continuity and change in urban governance - urban regeneration initiatives in the North East of England, Keith Shaw what's in a name? the invention of Wearside, Pete Rushton is Andy Capp dead? the enterprise culture and househ…
Striking Smarter and Harder at Vauxhall
We aim to] form a partnership between all the Vauxhall people, working together to win, by focusing on customer satisfaction through teamwork and continuous innovation and improvement" (Working Together To Win: Luton Plant Agreement, 1992) "They don't understand that we ore taking action because of the situation they have created. They can't see that its their lean production that has pushed the fads to if. I tell you this though, we are definite…
From ‘embrace and change’ to ‘engage and change’
This article focuses on the relationship between the introduction of new management techniques (NMTs), trade union responses and employee attitudes in the automotive industry in the UK. In contrast to a prevailing pessimistic prognosis for the survival of traditional industrial relations in the ‘new management’ environment, unions remain as an independent and dissenting force. Paradoxically, one of the significant features driving union recovery …
La transparence sociale dans une usine française à capitaux japonais
Cet article étudie l'organisation des rapports de travail dans une entreprise française de fabrication de deux-roues rachetée par un groupe japonais. Il s'interroge sur les conséquences des techniques de mise en transparence du travail ouvrier Total Productive Maintenance et règle des 5 S (ce qui est essentiel, l'ordre, le rangement, la propreté, la rigueur). Les auteurs établissent un parallèle avec une étude semblable conduite aux Etats-Unis et…
Manufacturing Dissent? Burawoy in a Franco-Japanese Workshop
Northern Ireland Between Peace and War
The Good Friday Agreement, the Decommissioning of IRA Weapons and the Unionist Veto
‘Tony Blair’s attempts to appease the Unionists on IRA decommissioning were always a waste of time. ... And the IRA was never ever going to hand over one bullet. ... To allow the Unionists to dominate the agenda with this one issue is to allow the Unionists a political veto. And allowing the Unionists a veto is just another way of collapsing the political negotiations about the future of Ireland. ... It is time for Tony Blair to put the squeeze o…
L'avenir du travail à la chaîne. Une comparaison internationale dans l'industrie automobile
Labour in Uncertain Worlds
J. Rinehart, J. Huxley and D. Robertson, Just Another Car Factory? Lean Production and its Discontents, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997, £11.95 paper,xi1+249 pp.K. Moody, Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy, London: Verso, 1997, £14.00 paper, viii+1342 pp.T. A. Kochan, R. D. Landsbury and J. P. MacDuffie, J. P. After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry, Ithaca: Cornell Universi…
Quality of working life in the automobile industry
The paper examines the impact of lean production on indicators of the quality of life at work in the automotive industry and finds that it varies across companies and to a lesser extent between countries. The paper explains this by arguing that lean production seeks to impose new employment standards. This is a contested process where management's capacity to shift to new standards and labour's ability to protect its interests vary across workpla…
Capital & Class Past and Present
The Whispering Shadow
Despite recent interest in the character of individual dissonance in the workplace less attention has been given to the nature of collectivism in the context of restricted trade union behaviour. While findings on conflicts associated with collective practices have been given reasonable space these have tended to focus on the association between collectivism qua trade unions and the presence or absence of conflict. Moreover, where the relationship…
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