Main theoretical interests relate to sociology and organisational change with particular reference to occupational change and issues of regional regeneration.  Main substantive research interests relate to:

– Questions of labour organization, forms of social solidarity; individualism and collectivism; trade unionism; labour politics.

– Questions raised by “globalisation”, de-industrialisation and post-industrial societies and regions especially issues raised in programmes of “regeneration”.

– Historical sociology and the use of biographical methods in relation to issues of labour organisation and social class.

– Environmental questions and changing patterns of social protest.

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