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Tom Keenoy
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Department Member
Tropes, Discourse and Organizing Cliff Oswick, Linda L. Putnam and Tom Keenoy Good analysis rests not on just spotting...'which metaphor fits best', but in using metaphor to unravel multiple patterns of significance and their... more
Tropes, Discourse and Organizing Cliff Oswick, Linda L. Putnam and Tom Keenoy Good analysis rests not on just spotting...'which metaphor fits best', but in using metaphor to unravel multiple patterns of significance and their interrelations.(Morgan, 1986, p. 342) Tropes1 are an ...
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This chapter addresses the nature and limits of an alternative model of work organization in a UK coal mine. It charts the history and progress of the Tower Colliery coal mine in South Wales as an historic form of industrial democracy–the... more
This chapter addresses the nature and limits of an alternative model of work organization in a UK coal mine. It charts the history and progress of the Tower Colliery coal mine in South Wales as an historic form of industrial democracy–the worker-owned producer cooperative–across its 13-year existence as a productive mine under the ownership and direct control of its workers. It further explores the argument that workers' cooperatives are significantly different to typical work organizations, in that they are social movements, and that ...
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The paper will draw on four years research at Tower Colliery. This is the last deep mine in South Wales which, following closure in 1994 under a Conservative government's rationalisation programme, was reopened as a worker... more
The paper will draw on four years research at Tower Colliery. This is the last deep mine in South Wales which, following closure in 1994 under a Conservative government's rationalisation programme, was reopened as a worker co-operative on January 1st 1995. Since then, employment has expanded from 239 to 417 of whom some 350 are full members who are the collective owners of the mine. Production has increased by 43% during a period of continuous decline in the industry; there is 100% union membership; the 'employees' ...
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Alongside document analyses and numerous site visits to observe operations and talk informally with cooperative members across the organization, we have conducted more structured interviews at all levels in the organization. These include... more
Alongside document analyses and numerous site visits to observe operations and talk informally with cooperative members across the organization, we have conducted more structured interviews at all levels in the organization. These include extensive discussions with the personnel officer (an ex-NUM official), other managers and (elected) Board members, face-workers and surface workers. All members are deemed to be 'employeeshareholders'.
Executive Summary The cooperative sector in Wales is thriving, with worker-owned businesses demonstrating longevity and viability across a wide range of sectors. Wales's agricultural sector has a large and growing number of secondary... more
Executive Summary The cooperative sector in Wales is thriving, with worker-owned businesses demonstrating longevity and viability across a wide range of sectors. Wales's agricultural sector has a large and growing number of secondary cooperatives which co-ordinate production and distribution. There are also cooperative dairies and agricultural suppliers. Tower Colliery is Wales's best known and its largest primary cooperative, but there are several other examples in the areas of fisheries and forestry. There is evidence ...
There is a shared view among business people that it is common sense to organize work in a hierarchical, management-led way. Notwithstanding fashionable managerial programmes about employee participation and involvement (which in the best... more
There is a shared view among business people that it is common sense to organize work in a hierarchical, management-led way. Notwithstanding fashionable managerial programmes about employee participation and involvement (which in the best of cases collapse like sandcastles in the storm of economic crises), within capitalism,'management has the right to manage'. That somebody needs to be empowered in the interests of the business to make quick decisions and impose the execution of these on working people is a principle hardly ...
(Wales Institute for Research into Cooperatives, Cardiff School of Management, UWIC) but the alternative is not clear and like much of similar analysis it implies that the market has to end. But is this, as Melucci suggests even possible... more
(Wales Institute for Research into Cooperatives, Cardiff School of Management, UWIC) but the alternative is not clear and like much of similar analysis it implies that the market has to end. But is this, as Melucci suggests even possible or even desirable? A diffi cult thought, which will be returned to at the end of the paper.
Workers cooperatives and mutual organisations have received relatively little attention within work and employment related discourses. This is despite a revival of interest and a long history of cycles of interest. This paper draws on... more
Workers cooperatives and mutual organisations have received relatively little attention within work and employment related discourses. This is despite a revival of interest and a long history of cycles of interest. This paper draws on four years of research at a cooperatively owned mine in South Wales–Tower Colliery is the last deep mine in the area. The argument is that worker cooperatives are significantly different to typical work organisation, in that they are social movements and research into their experience can ...
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This chapter offers an overview of the history and development of HRM as a subject of academic analysis.
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The core argument is about whether or not discourse analysis ignores ‘material reality’ – a charge levelled, in particular, by critical realists. To explore this issue I have tried to demonstrate how particle physicists (and others)... more
The core argument is about whether or not discourse analysis ignores ‘material reality’ – a charge levelled, in particular, by critical realists.
To explore this issue I have tried to demonstrate how particle physicists (and others) have socially constructed the Higgs boson. This is the so-called 'God Particle' without which there would be no 'material world'. This seemed a good place to start and it became all-consuming.
As you will see, it became a bit of a monster and I ended up chasing cosmology, the nature of scientific metaphor and the attempts of martketers to de-materialise material objects and social practices. I have convinced myself there is something important in here but remain unsure about how to edit it. any and all advice, suggestions etc warmly welcomed!
To explore this issue I have tried to demonstrate how particle physicists (and others) have socially constructed the Higgs boson. This is the so-called 'God Particle' without which there would be no 'material world'. This seemed a good place to start and it became all-consuming.
As you will see, it became a bit of a monster and I ended up chasing cosmology, the nature of scientific metaphor and the attempts of martketers to de-materialise material objects and social practices. I have convinced myself there is something important in here but remain unsure about how to edit it. any and all advice, suggestions etc warmly welcomed!
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The polemical argument developed in this paper is an attempt to analyse the ‘problem’ of HRM and suggest a way forward. The ‘problem’ is identified in terms of the intrinsic conceptual-theoretic, empirical, representative and... more
The polemical argument developed in this paper is an attempt to analyse the ‘problem’ of HRM and suggest a way forward. The ‘problem’ is identified in terms of the intrinsic conceptual-theoretic, empirical, representative and institutional ambiguities which characterize the discourses and practices of HRM. It is argued that these stem from the epistemological limitations of modernist methodologies employed to ‘identify’ and ‘fix’ HRM. The proposed ‘solution’ involves visualizing the phenomenal forms taken by HRM through the metaphor of the hologram and re-understanding HRM from a holographic perspective. This permits the well-known ‘contradictions’ to dissolve and HRM is reconstituted as a complex holistic process refracting the politico-managerial changes attendant on ‘globalization’
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Storey, John (Ed.). Human Resource Management – A Critical Text. London and New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. 399, $17.99. (pbk).Legge, Karen. Human Resource Management – Rhetorics and Realities. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1995, pp. 385,... more
Storey, John (Ed.). Human Resource Management – A Critical Text. London and New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. 399, $17.99. (pbk).Legge, Karen. Human Resource Management – Rhetorics and Realities. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1995, pp. 385, £14.99. (pbk).
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Seemingly fully-formed, HRM made its appearance in Britain in the mid-1980s. Since that time we have been struggling to come to terms with what it refers to, where it comes from, what forms it can or should take, how it impacts on the... more
Seemingly fully-formed, HRM made its appearance in Britain in the mid-1980s. Since that time we have been struggling to come to terms with what it refers to, where it comes from, what forms it can or should take, how it impacts on the practice of personnel management ...