Publications

• (2012) The Sociology of Work: Critical Concepts in Sociology, (ed.) (4 Vols.) London, Routledge
• (2008) Work and Society: Sociological Approaches, Themes and Methods, with Tracey Warren, London, Routledge.

  Reviews

  Reviews for Work and Society: Sociological Approaches As both the nature and organization of work changes, so does sociology as it becomes more interdisciplinary. At this defining moment, Work and Society provides a thoughtful and accessible study that helps us rethink and expand sociological approaches to the study of modern workplaces.

  John Russo and Sherry Linkon Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The authors draw upon an impressive array of material to create a clear, engaging and well-structured examination of the major sociological analyses of work. Written with a strong and welcome sense of the historical development of the discipline, Work and Society will be a key resource for students and lecturers for many years to come.

  Marek Korczynski, Professor of Sociology of Work, Loughborough Business School ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ‘A respectful and reflexive intervention, offering substantial overviews of key areas in the sociology of work, along with new insights to established traditions, developing the authors' own theoretical and empirical agenda for re-invigorating a field they are passionate about. This book offers a clearly sociological approach whilst integrating the affordances of multi-disciplinarity and a sustained focus on work that draws the boundaries beyond the workplace. Highly recommended!’

  Susan Halford Professor of Sociology University of Southampton --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strangleman and Warren have admirably achieved their aim to celebrate the sociological study of work in this state-of-the-art volume. Their overview is both lucid and comprehensive, up to date and historical, and wide-ranging and focused. The attention to representations and cultures of work is particularly refreshing. The authors have produced a much needed contribution to the field which will do much to enthuse students and specialists alike.

  Professor Miriam A. Glucksmann, FBA Department of Sociology University of Essex
• (2004) Work Identity at the End of the Line Privatisation and Culture Change in the UK Rail Industry, Basingstoke, Palgave.

  Reviews

  Reviews for Work Identity at the End of the Line? Privatisation and Culture Change in the UK Rail Industry This is an outstanding analysis of changing work cultures in the railway industry. In developing his arguments, Strangleman draws on the best traditions within the sociology of work and occupations, but also utilises a remarkable range of contemporary cultural and organisational theory, and above all puts the voice and feelings of the railway workers themselves centre stage. This will be a benchmark work for understanding the changing nature of work in contemporary Britain.

  Mike Savage Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester UK

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anybody who has been privatized, re-engineered or “right-sized” in the past two decades will recognize themselves in the comic-tragic fate of the British Rail workers in Tim Strangleman’s Work Identity at the End of the Line. Older workers will recognize the cruel insult of the assumption that what they do, know, think and feel is the problem in their workplace. Younger workers will recognize the dilemma of being caught between the bloodless superficiality of a forward-looking managerial vision and the dense, complicated tacit knowledge, the guidance and occasional misguidance, of their older workmates. But they will also learn from the epic, everything-matters approach Strangleman brings to his dialectical analysis of the disastrous denationalization of the British rail system. Written in a lean, accessible style, Work Identity moves effortlessly from the big picture of British national politics and multinational corporate philosophy to the man in the shed whose commitment to the work and his workmates is both destructive of corporate policy and somehow gets the job done. At once a cautionary tale about the perils of privatization and a sociological paean to the stubborn resilience of both blue- and white-collar agency, Work Identity is industrial sociology that understands that workers matter, not just for ethical or humanitarian reasons but because their social ingenuity is what makes our world work as well as it does. Jack Metzgar Professor of Humanities at Roosevelt University Chicago Author of Striking Steel

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  Strangleman documents how the process of privatisation, and the restructuring that led up to it, damaged the skills base in the industry not only because so many people were laid off but also through the systematic undermining of relevant experience through the loss of what he calls ‘railway sense’ that cannot be replaced by formal training. This refusal to look at, let alone learn from, the past is a modern phenomenon that is at the root of many basic policy errors. That makes the message of this book of far wider relevance than simply to the railways and those interested in them. These processes are taking place throughout the world of work and while the railways are a particularly poignant and relevant example, there are obvious lessons elsewhere. The rail industry is a salutary lesson to those who go into this process without sufficient recognition of the value of the past and this book is a warning to them to tread carefully before breaking up a culture simply because they do not understand it.

  Christian Wolmar is author of Broken Rails, how privatisation wrecked Britain’s railways, and Down the Tube, the battle for London’s Underground, both published by Aurum.

Journal editing

• (2009) Sociology Special Issue on Re-thinking Sociologies of Work: Past, Present and Future, Sociology, 43, 5, with Susan Halford.

Journal articles

• (2012) ‘Work Identity in Crisis?: Rethinking the problem of attachment and loss at work’, Sociology, (Forthcoming)
• (2012) Picturing Work in an Industrial Landscape: Visualising Labour, Place and Space’, Sociological Research Online, (Forthcoming)
• (2011) ‘Writing Workers: Re-reading Workplace Autobiography’, Scottish Labour History, 46, 26-37,
• (2010) ‘Food drink and the cultures of work: Consumption in the life and death of an English factory’, Food, Culture and Society 13,1, 257-278
• (2009) ‘In Search of the Sociology of Work: Past Present and Future’, Sociology, 43, 5, 811-828, with Susan Halford.
• (2009) ‘New Divisions of labour?: Comparative Thoughts on the Current Recession’, Sociological Research Online, 14, 2/3, With, Crow, G. Hatton, P. and Lyon, D.
• (2008) ‘Sociology, Social Class and New Working Class Studies’, Antipode, 40: 1, 15-19, 
• (2008) ‘Representations of labour: Visual sociology and work’, Sociology Compass, 2, 5, 1491-1505, 
• (2007) ‘The nostalgia for permanence at work?: The end of work and its commentators’, The Sociological Review, 55, 1: 81-103 
• (2006) ‘Dignity, respect and the cultures of work’, Work, Employment and Society 20, 1, 181-189,
• (2006) ‘Risk Society and the NHS: From traditional to the new citizen?’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol, 17, 2/3: 270-282, with Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D., Luff, D. & O'Cathian, A.
• (2005) ‘Sociological Futures and the Sociology of Work’, Sociological Research Online, Volume 10, Issue 4
• (2005) 'Knowledge, technology and nursing: The case of NHS Direct', Human Relations 58: 2: 147-171, with Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D., Luff, D. & O'Cathian, A.
• (2005) ‘Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 27, 6: 802-83, with Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D., Luff, D. & O'Cathian, A.
• (2004) ‘ Ways of (not) seeing work: The visual as a blind spot in WES?' , Work, Employment and Society, 18, 1: 179-192 
• (2004) ‘Risk and the responsible health consumer: the problematics of entitlement among callers to NHS Direct’, Critical Social Policy, 24, 2, 210-232, with Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D., Luff, D. & O'Cathian, A.
• (2004) ‘Male callers to NHS Direct: The assertive carer, the new dad, and the reluctant patient', Health, 8, 3, 311-328 with Goode, J., Hanlon, G., Greatbatch, D., Luff, D. & O'Cathian, A. 
• (2002) ‘Constructing the past: railway history from below or a study in Nostalgia?', Journal of Transport History, 23, 2. 
• (2002) ‘Nostalgia for nationalisation? – The politics of privatisation', Sociological Research Online, 7, 1. ( [22]) 
• (2001) ‘ Networks, Place and Identities in Post-Industrial Mining Communities' , International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, special issue on Class, Networks and Place, 25, 2, 253-267, 
• (2001) ‘I was a docker, I was a railwayman', Work, Employment and Society, 15, 3, 645-651, 
• (1999) ‘The nostalgia of organisations and the organisation of nostalgia: Past and present in the contemporary railway industry’, Sociology, 33, 4, 725-746, 
• (1999) ‘Looking through the window of opportunity: The cultural cleansing of workplace identity’, Sociology, 33,1, 47-67, With Roberts, I.
• (1999) ‘Heritage work: Re-representing the work ethic in the coalfields’, Sociological Research Online, 4, 1,, with Hollywood, E., Beynon, H,, Hudson, R. & Bennett, K.
• (1999) ‘Making the difference in the different places?’, Northern Economic Review, 5,2, 10
• (1998) ‘Managing culture and the manipulation of difference: A case study of second generation transplants’, Asia Pacific Business Review, 5, 2, 161-182, with Roberts, I.
  
  Book chapters
• (2013) ‘Work’ in Holborn, M. (ed.) Contemporary Sociology, Cambridge, Polity
• (2012) ‘Work as a Social Division’, in Payne, G. (ed.) Social Divisions, Basingstoke, Palgrave (3rd ed. forthcoming).
• (2012) ‘Visual Sociology and Work Organization: An Historical Approach’, in Bell, E,, Warren, S. & Schroeder. J. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Visual Organization, London, Routledge.
• (2011) ‘Working Class Autobiography as Cultural Heritage’, in Smith, L. et. al. (eds.) Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes, London: Routledge.
• (2008) ‘The remembrance to a lost work: Nostalgia, labour, and the visual’, in Mingiue by Stuart Whipps,
• (2006) ‘Work, Sociology and the Visual' in Vroege, B. (ed.) Changing Faces/WORK in Progress, Göttinggen, Steidl. 
• (2006) ‘The nostalgia of organisations and the organisation of nostalgia: Past and present in the contemporary railway industry', in Smith, L. (ed.) Cultural Heritage: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, London, Routledge. 
• (2006) ‘Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise', with Greatbatch, D., Hanlon, G., Goode, J,, Luff, D. & O'Cathain, A,, in Allen, D. & Pilnick, A. (eds.) The Social Organisation of Healthcare Work , Oxford, Blackwell. 
• (2005) ‘Class memory: Working-class autobiography and the art of forgetting', in Russo, J. & Linkon, S. (eds.) New Working-Class Studies, Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
• (2005) ‘Organisational cultures in the public sector’, in Ferlie, E,, Lynn, L. & Pollitt, C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Public Management, Oxford University Press, with Dingwall, R.
• (2001) ‘Building again? Trade Unions and the threats and opportunities of formalisation in a market economy’, in Van Gyes, G. & De Witte, H. (eds.) Can class still unite? The differentiated workforce, class solidarity and trade unions, Ashgate, with Roberts, I.
• (1998) ‘Managing culture and the manipulation of difference: A case study of second generation transplants’, republished in East Asia direct investment in Britain, Frank Cass, with Roberts, I.
• 1997) ‘Social reproduction, social dislocation and the labour market’, in Kristensen, C. (ed.) The meeting of the waters - Individuality and community, work and solidarity in high modernity, Scandinavian University Press, with Roberts, I.

Professor Tim Strangleman talks on BBC1's One Show about time and motion studies in the workplace