HASS Penryn: Recent submissions
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Value struggles in digital Taylorism: Scientific management and social mediation
(SAGE Publications, 2025)In the famous mantra of McKinsey, ‘what gets measured gets managed’. Drawing on previous work (Pitts 2021, 2022a, 2022b), the point of this chapter is to suggest that what gets measured gets mediated, too, and that labour ... -
Reckoning with responsibility: The Mesopotamia Commission into British military failings during a moment of imperial transformation, 1916-1919
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 23 March 2024)In August 1916, in the aftermath of significant defeats in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War, the British government faced a crisis of confidence in its military power. In Mesopotamia, it was under ... -
Politics and the future of work: Routine work, automation risk and redistributive preferences in the age of populism
(Routledge, 26 December 2024)This chapter surveys political science literature and evidence on the relationship between automation risk among those conventionally defined as ‘routine workers’ and the political behaviour of this vital part of the voting ... -
Class and gender as structural inequalities in the UK: The politics of production and social reproduction
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Waiting to be discovered? Community partnerships, the facilitation of diverse memory, and reflections on academic success and failure
(MDPI, 17 May 2024)Community partnerships, based on ‘the collaborative turn’ in academic research, are an increasingly common framework through which ‘bottom-up’ histories, particularly of diverse and/or more marginalised communities, are ...