FACULTY STAFF

Profile

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Leeds
MA Economics, University of Leeds
BA (Hons) Economics, CNAA

Experience

2004 to date: Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds
1998 - 2004: Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds

Responsibilities

Taught Masters Programme Director for MA Economics, MA Economics & Development, and MA Economics & Finance

Research

My general interests lie in the economics of work, employment relations / work studies, the history of economic thought, and political economy. My approach to research and teaching encompasses ideas and insights from different disciplines and I retain an interest in promoting forms of interdisciplinary research and teaching. Current research focuses on a number of interconnected areas, including the conceptualisation of work, the changing boundaries between labour economics and other areas of labour research, and the study of the quality of work and of worker well-being.

I am also a member of the coordination team of the €8.000.000 funded project, Financialisation, Economy, Society, and Sustainable Development (FESSUD), 2011-2016.

Teaching

LUBS1585 Economic Institutions: Industry
LUBS2040 Theories of Growth, Value and Distribution
LUBS3925 The Political Economy of Work
Economics Dissertation Supervision at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Level

Publications

Books

The Political Economy of Work, Routledge, London, 2009. [paperback and kindle version published in 2010]


Refereed Journal Articles

‘Getting Personnel: Contesting and Transcending the ‘New Labour Economics’’, Work, Employment, and Society, vol. 25, no. 1, 118-131, 2011.

‘Work is a Four Letter Word: The Economics of Work in Historical and Critical Perspective’, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol.70, issue 3, 563-586, 2011.

‘Labour Supply, Employment and Unemployment in Macroeconomics: A Critical Appraisal of Orthodoxy and a Heterodox Alternative’, Review of Political Economy, vol.22, issue 2, 263-279, 2010, (with Malcolm Sawyer)

‘Work in Utopia: Pro-work Sentiments in the Writings of Four Critics of Classical Economics’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol.16, no.1, 97-122, 2009.

‘The ‘Work as Bad’ Thesis in Economics: Origins, Evolution, and Challenges’, Labor History, vol.50, no.1, 39-57, 2009.

‘On the Definition of Involuntary Unemployment’, Journal of Socio-Economics, vol.37, issue 2, 718-735, 2008, (with Malcolm Sawyer)

‘Changes in HRM and Job Satisfaction, 1998–2004: Evidence from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey’, Human Resource Management Journal, vol.18, no.3, 237–56, 2008, (with Andrew Brown, Andy Charlwood, and Chris Forde)

‘Job Quality and the Economics of New Labour: A Critical Appraisal Using Subjective Survey Data’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol.31, no.6, 941-971, 2007, (with Andrew Brown, Andy Charlwood, and Chris Forde)

‘Fearing the Worst? The Threat of Job Loss, Participation and Productivity’, Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol.27, no.3, 369-398, 2006, (with Chris Forde and Gary Slater)

‘It’s the Taking Part that Counts? Participation, Performance and External Labour Market Conditions’, Relations Industrielles/ Industrial Relations, vol.61, no.2, 296-320, 2006, (with Chris Forde and Gary Slater).

‘Work for all those who want it? Why the neoclassical labour supply curve is an inappropriate foundation for the theory of employment and unemployment’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol.30, no.3, 459-472, 2006.

‘A Question of Incentive? Lionel Robbins and Dennis H. Robertson on the Nature and Determinants of the Supply of Labour’, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol.12, no.2, 261-278, 2005.

‘Rejoinder on Laurent Derobert’s ‘The Labor-less Labor Supply Model: A Little Further’, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 27, 105-106, 2005.

‘Deconstructing the Labour Supply Curve’, Metroeconomica, vol.55, no.4, 442-458, 2004.

‘From Pain Cost to Opportunity Cost: The Eclipse of the Quality of Work as a Factor in Economic Theory’, History of Political Economy, vol.36, no.2, 387-401, 2004.

‘Love’s Labour’s Lost? The Disutility of Work and Work Avoidance in the Economic Analysis of Labour Supply’, Review of Social Economy, vol.61, no.2, 235-60, 2003.

‘The Labour-less Labour Supply Model in the Era Before Phillip Wicksteed’, The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol.25, no.4, 505-513, 2003.

‘Driven to Abstraction? Critical Realism and the Search for the ‘Inner Connection’ of Social Phenomena’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol.26, no.6, 773-78, 2002 (with Andrew Brown and Gary Slater).

‘Shirking the Issue? Efficiency Wages, Work Discipline, and Full Employment’, Review of Political Economy, vol.14, no.3, 313-327, 2002.

‘All Work and No Play? A Comment on Prasch’s ‘Reassessing the Labor Supply Curve’’, Journal of Economic Issues, vol.35, no.4, 995-1000, 2001.

‘The Uncertain Foundations of Transaction Costs Economics’, Journal of Economic Issues, vol. 34, no.1, 61-87, 2000, (with Gary Slater).

‘Braverman and the Contribution of Labour Process Analysis to the Critique of Capitalist Production – Twenty- Five Years On’, Work Employment and Society, vol.14, no.2, 223-243, 2000.

‘The Demise of Radical Political Economics? An Essay on the Evolution of a Theory of Capitalist Production’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol.24, no.5, 543-564, 2000.


Book Chapters

‘Unemployment, Power Relations, and the Quality of Work’, in P. Arestis (ed.), Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Economic Policy, Palgrave macmillan: London, 38-53, 2011.

‘Investment and Capital Accumulation’, in G. Dawson et.al. (eds.), Economics and Economic Change. Macroeconomics, Open University: Milton Keynes, 487-511, 2003.


Book Reviews

The Precariat. G. Standing, Bloomsbury: London, 2011, Work, Employment, and Society, forthcoming

Working Hours and Job Sharing in the EU and the USA. Edited by T. Boeri, M. Burda, and F. Kramarz, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2008, Economica, forthcoming.

Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise edited by Edmund S. Phelps, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2003, British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol.42, no.4, 759-60, 2004.

Social and Economic Motivation at Work. Theories of Motivation Reassessed, by Steen Scheuer. Handelshøjskolens Forlag: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2000, pp.218, Contemporary Sociology, vol.31, no.3, 283-84. 2002.

‘Empowering Economics’ (review article of Jim Stanford, Lance Taylor, and Ellen Houston, eds. Power, Employment, and Accumulation. Social Structures in Economic Theory and Practice), International Review of Applied Economics, vol.15, 465-470, 2001.


Reports and Other Publications

‘Cost and the ‘Means-Ends’ Definition of Economics in Lionel Robbins’s Essay: Analysis and Contemporary Implications’, In Lionel Robbins’s Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, 75th anniversary conference proceedings, edited by F. Cowell and A. Witztum, STICERD LSE, 2009 (with Andrew Brown)

‘Changing Job Quality in Great Britain 1998 – 2004’, pp.70, DTI Employment Relations Research Series, No. 70, 2006 (with Andrew Brown, Andy Charlwood, and Chris Forde)