Matt Cole
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4014460 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matt Cole |
| PRENOMES | Matt |
| SOBRENOME | Cole |
| ASSINATURA | COLE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0639-9767 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Automation and the Present of Work
Much popular discourse on automation is deterministic, engages at only a high level of abstraction, and assumes that technologies are neutral and autonomous rather than socially shaped. This popular discourse blames technology for worsening working conditions. A critique of this ‘automation discourse’ by Aaron Benanav maintains that low-paid work is growing not due to technology, but because of manufacturing overcapacity and underinvestment, whic…
Trusted Information Sources About the Covid-19 Vaccine Vary in Underserved Communities
The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the deadliest global public health events. In the United States, over 1.1 million individuals have died, and now COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death (CDC, 2023). Vaccine uptake has stalled among different demographics. Vaccine hesitancy, a delay in accepting or refusing vaccines, poses a significant challenge regardless of the availability of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. This study aimed to ident…
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work
Drawing on Marxist political economy, this article examines wage theft in hospitality work. Through a detailed, qualitative study of workers' experiences in London hotels, a novel typology is developed that reveals how managers extract additional unpaid labour time through wage theft. The article argues that both the legal definition and existing academic formulations of wage theft fail to encompass the full range of ways that employers extract u…
(Infra)structural Discontinuity
The so‐called age of AI, industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, etc. all attempt to conjure into existence a new technological paradigm. Should we believe the hype? This paper draws on neo‐Schumpeterian and régulation theory to widen the scope of this debate and examine techno‐economic and institutional discontinuities. In exploring these discontinuities, this paper argues, first, that growth regimes are not necessarily tenable as indica…
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks
Production in knowledge and data-intensive industries is powered by work that can, in theory, be done from anywhere, via cloudwork platforms. Cloudwork platforms govern data value chains in distinct ways to concentrate power and extract value at the global scale. We argue that unpaid labour is a systemic mechanism of accumulation in these digital value networks. In this paper we demonstrate how it is tied to platform business models and facilitat…
Derrière le masque
Les plateformes de travail numériques ont souvent été présentées comme une solution au chômage engendré par la pandémie. Cependant, la crise a mis en lumière la vulnérabilité des collaborateurs des plateformes, notamment des travailleurs essentiels parmi eux. Les auteurs examinent le comportement de 191 plate‐formes de 43 pays pendant la pandémie pour savoir si celle‐ci a fait évoluer la branche. Sur la base de critères relatifs à l'équité au tra…
Implementation of Just Culture Policy in Nursing Programs to Support Quality Safety Competency
Background: Despite the shift to a just culture (JC) in health care systems more than a decade ago, many nursing programs continue to lack a JC environment, which may result in students entering the workforce without adequate preparation. This study evaluated prelicensure nursing students' perceptions of JC at baseline and 4 months after policy implementation. Method: The JC Assessment Tool for Nursing Education (JCAT-NE) was used to measure nurs…
The Local Version
The development of lawn tennis has often been associated with London and, with other racquet sports, been seen as dominated by elites and social tradition. This is challenged in some recent scholarship, which points to variations of support across time and place. Using club records, press reports and testimony from players, officials and members, it is argued here that lawn tennis in the West Midlands was both a more significant and somewhat less…
Critical animal and media studies
Critical and communication studies have traditionally neglected the oppression conducted by humans towards other animals. However, our (mis)treatment of other animals is the result of public consent supported by a morally speciesist-anthropocentric system of values. Speciesism or anthroparchy, as much as any other mainstream ideologies, feeds the media and at the same time is perpetuated by them. The goal of this article is to remedy this neglect…
Natural disasters and spatial heterogeneity in damages
In this paper, we use the 1995 Kobe earthquake as a natural experiment to examine the impact of a large exogenous physical shock on local economic activity. For the first time we are able to control for local spatial heterogeneity in the damage caused by a natural disaster using geo-coded plant location and unique building-level surveys. In a survival analysis of manufacturing plants, our results show that building-level damage significantly affe…
A new life in the countryside awaits
This paper critically analyses the legitimation of exploitative human–nonhuman animal relations in online ‘farming’ simulation games, especially the game Hay Day. The analysis contributes to a wider project of critical analyses of popular culture representations of nonhuman animals. The paper argues that legitimation is effected in Hay Day and cognate games through: the construction of idyllic rural utopias in gameplay, imagery, and soundscape; t…
Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910–2010
Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910–2010: A Study of Inter-Party Relations." Contemporary British History, 29(2), pp. 286–287
The Fissured Workplace
Climate Change, Hydro-Dependency, and the African Dam Boom
Local exposure to toxic releases
The Political Starfish
The fate of the Liberal Party in West Yorkshire is seen by some as a microcosm of its inevitable decline nationally, because of its inability to appeal to the newly enfranchised working class with its values too close to the Conservatives. Dutton has contended conversely that West Yorkshire Liberalism demonstrated the varied pattern of the Party's development in different regions, and the way in which its association with the Conservatives signif…
Corruption, Governance and FDI Location in China
China's recent rapid growth has been matched by large increases in exports and foreign direct investment (FDI), but considerable regional disparities in FDI flows exist. We use detailed province level data for China to examine the determinants of intra-country FDI flows. Specifically, we investigate whether FDI is attracted to those regions that exhibit good governance and are most strongly engaged in the fight against corruption, constructing pr…
Growing without Pains? Explaining Liberal Democrat MPs' Behaviour
Recent academic studies and wider commentary on the behaviour of Liberal Democrat MPs have recognised their relatively high level of cohesiveness on whipped votes when compared to that of Labour and the Conservatives, and to the Liberal Democrats' own reputation; but while this trend continues, few studies have focused upon its causes. This article uses the MPs' voting records, personal papers, interviews and wider contextual data to chart the ex…
The environmental performance of firms
Sociology contra government? The contest for the meaning of unemployment in UK policy debates
The 1980s witnessed an intense political and ideological struggle over unemployment in Britain, which often involved sociologists defending the unemployed against real or perceived governmental attacks on their work ethic. Notwithstanding valid criticisms of the practical efficacy of supply-side unemployment policies, this rebuttal of governmental'victim-blaming'tactics restricted a deeper critique of the meaning and purpose of work, and perverse…
Latent Class Analysis of Risk Behaviors Among Bahamian Young Adolescents
To explore an association between values and risk behaviors among early adolescents, baseline data from 689 Bahamian youth (median age = 10) were collected from the Portrait Values Questionnaire (Schwartz et al., 2001) and The Bahamian Youth Health Risk Behavioral Inventory. Latent class analysis identified three classes of youth in differing patterns of risk behavior: (7.8%) high levels of drug and delinquency risk behaviors; (2.8%) high levels …
From employment exchange to Jobcentre Plus
The importance of employment exchanges in the governance of mass unemployment in the 1930s presented social researchers with a rich site for the investigation of the meaning of unemployment from a governmental perspective, or more precisely, of how that meaning is encoded into social spaces. Comparing writing from the 1930s and earlier with my own contemporary research in Jobcentres, Benefits Agencies and Jobcentre Plus offices facilitates an und…
Re-Thinking Unemployment
The research of Jahoda et al. in the Austrian town of Marienthal in the 1930s had a formative influence over the future of unemployment research in the social sciences. This article contends that that research was predicated on a tacit set of beliefs about a gendered relationship between 'human nature' and 'work'. One consequence of this was that a moral discourse of human nature as fundamentally a working or labouring nature firmly anchored the …
Endogenous Pollution Havens
We suggest a novel perspective on the relationship between the stringency of environmental policies and foreign direct investment (FDI). We develop a political economy model with imperfect product market competition where local and foreign firms jointly lobby the local government for a favorable pollution tax. FDI is found to affect environmental policy, and the effect is conditional on the local government's degree of corruptibility. If the degr…
Globalization, firm-level characteristics and environmental management
Sociology contra government? The contest for the meaning of unemployment in UK policy debates
The 1980s witnessed an intense political and ideological struggle over unemployment in Britain, which often involved sociologists defending the unemployed against real or perceived governmental attacks on their work ethic. Notwithstanding valid criticisms of the practical efficacy of supply-side unemployment policies, this rebuttal of governmental'victim-blaming'tactics restricted a deeper critique of the meaning and purpose of work, and perverse…
Re-Thinking Unemployment
The research of Jahoda et al. in the Austrian town of Marienthal in the 1930s had a formative influence over the future of unemployment research in the social sciences. This article contends that that research was predicated on a tacit set of beliefs about a gendered relationship between 'human nature' and 'work'. One consequence of this was that a moral discourse of human nature as fundamentally a working or labouring nature firmly anchored the …
(Infra)structural Discontinuity
The so‐called age of AI, industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, etc. all attempt to conjure into existence a new technological paradigm. Should we believe the hype? This paper draws on neo‐Schumpeterian and régulation theory to widen the scope of this debate and examine techno‐economic and institutional discontinuities. In exploring these discontinuities, this paper argues, first, that growth regimes are not necessarily tenable as indica…
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks
Production in knowledge and data-intensive industries is powered by work that can, in theory, be done from anywhere, via cloudwork platforms. Cloudwork platforms govern data value chains in distinct ways to concentrate power and extract value at the global scale. We argue that unpaid labour is a systemic mechanism of accumulation in these digital value networks. In this paper we demonstrate how it is tied to platform business models and facilitat…
Climate Change, Hydro-Dependency, and the African Dam Boom
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work
Drawing on Marxist political economy, this article examines wage theft in hospitality work. Through a detailed, qualitative study of workers' experiences in London hotels, a novel typology is developed that reveals how managers extract additional unpaid labour time through wage theft. The article argues that both the legal definition and existing academic formulations of wage theft fail to encompass the full range of ways that employers extract u…
Critical animal and media studies
Critical and communication studies have traditionally neglected the oppression conducted by humans towards other animals. However, our (mis)treatment of other animals is the result of public consent supported by a morally speciesist-anthropocentric system of values. Speciesism or anthroparchy, as much as any other mainstream ideologies, feeds the media and at the same time is perpetuated by them. The goal of this article is to remedy this neglect…
The Fissured Workplace
Natural disasters and spatial heterogeneity in damages
In this paper, we use the 1995 Kobe earthquake as a natural experiment to examine the impact of a large exogenous physical shock on local economic activity. For the first time we are able to control for local spatial heterogeneity in the damage caused by a natural disaster using geo-coded plant location and unique building-level surveys. In a survival analysis of manufacturing plants, our results show that building-level damage significantly affe…
A new life in the countryside awaits
This paper critically analyses the legitimation of exploitative human–nonhuman animal relations in online ‘farming’ simulation games, especially the game Hay Day. The analysis contributes to a wider project of critical analyses of popular culture representations of nonhuman animals. The paper argues that legitimation is effected in Hay Day and cognate games through: the construction of idyllic rural utopias in gameplay, imagery, and soundscape; t…
From employment exchange to Jobcentre Plus
The importance of employment exchanges in the governance of mass unemployment in the 1930s presented social researchers with a rich site for the investigation of the meaning of unemployment from a governmental perspective, or more precisely, of how that meaning is encoded into social spaces. Comparing writing from the 1930s and earlier with my own contemporary research in Jobcentres, Benefits Agencies and Jobcentre Plus offices facilitates an und…
Party policy and electoral reform
(1999). Party policy and electoral reform: A survey of developments, motives and prospects. British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 72-86
The Role of the Deposit in British Parliamentary Elections
The Role of the Deposit in British Parliamentary Elections Get access MATTHEW COLE MATTHEW COLE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 1992, Pages 77–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052344 Published: 01 January 1992
The Political Starfish
The fate of the Liberal Party in West Yorkshire is seen by some as a microcosm of its inevitable decline nationally, because of its inability to appeal to the newly enfranchised working class with its values too close to the Conservatives. Dutton has contended conversely that West Yorkshire Liberalism demonstrated the varied pattern of the Party's development in different regions, and the way in which its association with the Conservatives signif…
The Role of the Deposit in British Parliamentary Elections
The Role of the Deposit in British Parliamentary Elections Get access MATTHEW COLE MATTHEW COLE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 1992, Pages 77–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052344 Published: 01 January 1992
Party policy and electoral reform
(1999). Party policy and electoral reform: A survey of developments, motives and prospects. British Elections & Parties Review: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 72-86
Industrial characteristics, environmental regulations and air pollution
Endogenous Pollution Havens
We suggest a novel perspective on the relationship between the stringency of environmental policies and foreign direct investment (FDI). We develop a political economy model with imperfect product market competition where local and foreign firms jointly lobby the local government for a favorable pollution tax. FDI is found to affect environmental policy, and the effect is conditional on the local government's degree of corruptibility. If the degr…
Globalization, firm-level characteristics and environmental management
Latent Class Analysis of Risk Behaviors Among Bahamian Young Adolescents
To explore an association between values and risk behaviors among early adolescents, baseline data from 689 Bahamian youth (median age = 10) were collected from the Portrait Values Questionnaire (Schwartz et al., 2001) and The Bahamian Youth Health Risk Behavioral Inventory. Latent class analysis identified three classes of youth in differing patterns of risk behavior: (7.8%) high levels of drug and delinquency risk behaviors; (2.8%) high levels …
From employment exchange to Jobcentre Plus
The importance of employment exchanges in the governance of mass unemployment in the 1930s presented social researchers with a rich site for the investigation of the meaning of unemployment from a governmental perspective, or more precisely, of how that meaning is encoded into social spaces. Comparing writing from the 1930s and earlier with my own contemporary research in Jobcentres, Benefits Agencies and Jobcentre Plus offices facilitates an und…
Re-Thinking Unemployment
The research of Jahoda et al. in the Austrian town of Marienthal in the 1930s had a formative influence over the future of unemployment research in the social sciences. This article contends that that research was predicated on a tacit set of beliefs about a gendered relationship between 'human nature' and 'work'. One consequence of this was that a moral discourse of human nature as fundamentally a working or labouring nature firmly anchored the …
The environmental performance of firms
Sociology contra government? The contest for the meaning of unemployment in UK policy debates
The 1980s witnessed an intense political and ideological struggle over unemployment in Britain, which often involved sociologists defending the unemployed against real or perceived governmental attacks on their work ethic. Notwithstanding valid criticisms of the practical efficacy of supply-side unemployment policies, this rebuttal of governmental'victim-blaming'tactics restricted a deeper critique of the meaning and purpose of work, and perverse…
Corruption, Governance and FDI Location in China
China's recent rapid growth has been matched by large increases in exports and foreign direct investment (FDI), but considerable regional disparities in FDI flows exist. We use detailed province level data for China to examine the determinants of intra-country FDI flows. Specifically, we investigate whether FDI is attracted to those regions that exhibit good governance and are most strongly engaged in the fight against corruption, constructing pr…
Growing without Pains? Explaining Liberal Democrat MPs' Behaviour
Recent academic studies and wider commentary on the behaviour of Liberal Democrat MPs have recognised their relatively high level of cohesiveness on whipped votes when compared to that of Labour and the Conservatives, and to the Liberal Democrats' own reputation; but while this trend continues, few studies have focused upon its causes. This article uses the MPs' voting records, personal papers, interviews and wider contextual data to chart the ex…
The Political Starfish
The fate of the Liberal Party in West Yorkshire is seen by some as a microcosm of its inevitable decline nationally, because of its inability to appeal to the newly enfranchised working class with its values too close to the Conservatives. Dutton has contended conversely that West Yorkshire Liberalism demonstrated the varied pattern of the Party's development in different regions, and the way in which its association with the Conservatives signif…
Local exposure to toxic releases
Climate Change, Hydro-Dependency, and the African Dam Boom
Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910–2010
Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910–2010: A Study of Inter-Party Relations." Contemporary British History, 29(2), pp. 286–287
The Fissured Workplace
Natural disasters and spatial heterogeneity in damages
In this paper, we use the 1995 Kobe earthquake as a natural experiment to examine the impact of a large exogenous physical shock on local economic activity. For the first time we are able to control for local spatial heterogeneity in the damage caused by a natural disaster using geo-coded plant location and unique building-level surveys. In a survival analysis of manufacturing plants, our results show that building-level damage significantly affe…
A new life in the countryside awaits
This paper critically analyses the legitimation of exploitative human–nonhuman animal relations in online ‘farming’ simulation games, especially the game Hay Day. The analysis contributes to a wider project of critical analyses of popular culture representations of nonhuman animals. The paper argues that legitimation is effected in Hay Day and cognate games through: the construction of idyllic rural utopias in gameplay, imagery, and soundscape; t…
Critical animal and media studies
Critical and communication studies have traditionally neglected the oppression conducted by humans towards other animals. However, our (mis)treatment of other animals is the result of public consent supported by a morally speciesist-anthropocentric system of values. Speciesism or anthroparchy, as much as any other mainstream ideologies, feeds the media and at the same time is perpetuated by them. The goal of this article is to remedy this neglect…
The Local Version
The development of lawn tennis has often been associated with London and, with other racquet sports, been seen as dominated by elites and social tradition. This is challenged in some recent scholarship, which points to variations of support across time and place. Using club records, press reports and testimony from players, officials and members, it is argued here that lawn tennis in the West Midlands was both a more significant and somewhat less…
Derrière le masque
Les plateformes de travail numériques ont souvent été présentées comme une solution au chômage engendré par la pandémie. Cependant, la crise a mis en lumière la vulnérabilité des collaborateurs des plateformes, notamment des travailleurs essentiels parmi eux. Les auteurs examinent le comportement de 191 plate‐formes de 43 pays pendant la pandémie pour savoir si celle‐ci a fait évoluer la branche. Sur la base de critères relatifs à l'équité au tra…
Implementation of Just Culture Policy in Nursing Programs to Support Quality Safety Competency
Background: Despite the shift to a just culture (JC) in health care systems more than a decade ago, many nursing programs continue to lack a JC environment, which may result in students entering the workforce without adequate preparation. This study evaluated prelicensure nursing students' perceptions of JC at baseline and 4 months after policy implementation. Method: The JC Assessment Tool for Nursing Education (JCAT-NE) was used to measure nurs…
(Infra)structural Discontinuity
The so‐called age of AI, industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, etc. all attempt to conjure into existence a new technological paradigm. Should we believe the hype? This paper draws on neo‐Schumpeterian and régulation theory to widen the scope of this debate and examine techno‐economic and institutional discontinuities. In exploring these discontinuities, this paper argues, first, that growth regimes are not necessarily tenable as indica…
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks
Production in knowledge and data-intensive industries is powered by work that can, in theory, be done from anywhere, via cloudwork platforms. Cloudwork platforms govern data value chains in distinct ways to concentrate power and extract value at the global scale. We argue that unpaid labour is a systemic mechanism of accumulation in these digital value networks. In this paper we demonstrate how it is tied to platform business models and facilitat…
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