Work, Employment and Economic Life

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)

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Routledge International Handbook of Working-Class Studies 

Edited by Michele Fazio, Christie Launius and Tim Strangleman (Routledge, 2020)