"Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). "Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 287-303. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-07-2016-0013

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The purpose of this paper is to explore how organizations operate in the absence of a clear regulatory authority in a self-regulating environment. Significant moves towards self-regulation by various political administrations, together with... Read More about "Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry.

Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-07-2016-0013

Purpose: This paper seeks to explore how organizations operate in the absence of a clear regulatory authority in a self-regulating environment. Significant moves toward self-regulation by various political administrations, together with successive wa... Read More about Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now: Exploring the unintended consequences of self-regulation through enterprise in the Passive Fire Protection industry.

Book Review China at Work: A labour process perspective on the transformation of work and employment in China (2016)
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Cao. (2016). Book Review China at Work: A labour process perspective on the transformation of work and employment in China. Industrial Relations Journal, 397-399. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12144

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Police pay-contested and contestable: Police Pay (2016)
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Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2016). Police pay-contested and contestable: Police Pay. Industrial Relations Journal, 204 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12140

This article provides an analysis of developments in the determination of police pay since 1919. It reveals the contested nature of public sector pay setting where the government of the day pursues short-term economic goals rather than taking a long-... Read More about Police pay-contested and contestable: Police Pay.

Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry (2016)
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Pemberton, S., & Enright, B. (2016). Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry. Geoforum, 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.05.005

This paper examines the increasing complexity of interactions between temporary staffing agencies and their client firms within the local labour market of Birmingham, UK. Temporary Staffing Agencies have been identified as active and influential agen... Read More about Strategies and tactics for local market making in the Temporary Staffing Industry.

‘It’s Just a Job’: understanding emotion work, de-animalization and the compartmentalization of organized animal slaughter (2016)
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(2016). ‘It’s Just a Job’: understanding emotion work, de-animalization and the compartmentalization of organized animal slaughter. Organization, 330-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508416629448

This article contributes to an understanding of the nexus between humans and animals by drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a British chicken factory and, more particularly, by exploring the emotional subjectivity of Meat Inspectors employe... Read More about ‘It’s Just a Job’: understanding emotion work, de-animalization and the compartmentalization of organized animal slaughter.

Introduction to 'A Gendered Perspective on Learning to Labour' (2016)
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(2016). Introduction to 'A Gendered Perspective on Learning to Labour'. Culture and Organization, 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1151426

This paper presents an auto-ethnographic study of the personal experience of learning to labour. Heather Hopfl reflects on the prospects and opportunities presented to her as part of her life and experiences of learning to labour during the same peri... Read More about Introduction to 'A Gendered Perspective on Learning to Labour'.

Introduction to 'A Gendered Perspective on Learning to Labour' (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Introduction to 'A Gendered Perspective on Learning to Labour'. Culture and Organization, 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1151426

This paper presents an auto-ethnographic study of the personal experience of learning to labour. Heather Hopfl reflects on the prospects and opportunities presented to her as part of her life and experiences of learning to labour during the same peri... Read More about Introduction to 'A Gendered Perspective on Learning to Labour'.

Targeting leisure and business passengers with unsegmented pricing (2016)
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(2016). Targeting leisure and business passengers with unsegmented pricing. Tourism Management, 502-512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2015.12.014

We analyse the fare setting strategy of a leading European low-cost carrier, Ryanair, which, until recently, adopted an unsegmented pricing policy (all tickets belong to a single fare class). We show that, to account for different demand characterist... Read More about Targeting leisure and business passengers with unsegmented pricing.