Current interests
- Labour market policies
- Cross-national comparison of employment regimes
- Insecurity and precarity in work
- Work-autonomy and working-time flexibility
- Socio-economic processes
- Deindustrialisation and the changing nature of work
- Loss, nostalgia and the social impact of the post-industrial shift
- Working conditions
- Health, well-being and disability at work
- The working body and the deployment of the senses in work
- Young people’s imagination of working futures
- Older workers extended working life and transitions into retirement
- Gender, careers and professions
- Work identity and the construction of meaning in everyday working life
- Work-life balance, work-family conflict and gender
- Spaces of work
- Representations of work (photography and film)
Methods
- Historical archive research in work organisations
- Policy analysis of government documents
- Organisational case studies
- In-depth qualitative and oral/life history interviews
- Secondary qualitative data analysis
- Analysis of large-scale survey data
- Analysis of cross-national (European, International) survey data
- Comparative analysis (surveys, case studies, interviews)
- Ethnography
- Visual methods, including collaboration with photographers, film-makers and artists
- Sensory methods
Publications
Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Royal Park Brewery
By Tim Strangleman (OUP, 2019)
Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies
Edited by Michele Fazio, Christie Launius and Tim Strangleman (Routledge, 2020)
