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A reappraisal of the rank-and-file/bureaucracy debate (2012)
Journal Article
Darlington, R., & Upchurch, M. (2012). A reappraisal of the rank-and-file/bureaucracy debate. Capital and Class, 36(1), 77-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816811430369

This paper celebrates some of the considerable strengths of Richard Hyman’s 1970s/early 1980s analysis of trade unionism in general and bureaucracy specifically, and reapplies it to more recent developments within British trade unionism, while at the... Read More about A reappraisal of the rank-and-file/bureaucracy debate.

The back office goes global : exploring connections and contradictions in shared service centres (2012)
Journal Article
and contradictions in shared service centres. Work, Employment and Society, 26(1), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017011426309

This article explores a neglected aspect of IT-enabled service work: the back office. The
fieldwork study reveals how back-office service work has been identified as suitable for ongoing
reorganization and reconfiguration as firms respond to the pr... Read More about The back office goes global : exploring connections and contradictions in shared service centres.

Extending Holt's (1995) typology to encompass subject-subject relations in consumption : lessons from pet ownership (2012)
Journal Article
Cheetham, F., & Mceachern, M. (2012). Extending Holt's (1995) typology to encompass subject-subject relations in consumption : lessons from pet ownership. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 16(1), 91-115. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2011.652826

This paper adapts Holt's typology of consumption practices to illuminate consumption practices within the context of British consumers and their household pets. The photo-elicitation technique, autodriving, is used to elicit stories from our particip... Read More about Extending Holt's (1995) typology to encompass subject-subject relations in consumption : lessons from pet ownership.

Modelling quality in replacement and inspection maintenance (2012)
Journal Article
Scarf, P., & Cavalcante, C. (2012). Modelling quality in replacement and inspection maintenance. International Journal of Production Economics, 135(1), 372-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.08.011

Heterogeneity in component and maintenance quality is considered in the context of age-based inspection and replacement for a single component system. A three-state component failure model is assumed, with a defective state preceding the failed state... Read More about Modelling quality in replacement and inspection maintenance.

Maintenance scheduling of a protection system subject to imperfect inspection and replacement (2012)
Journal Article
Berrade, M., Cavalcante, C., & Scarf, P. (2012). Maintenance scheduling of a protection system subject to imperfect inspection and replacement. European Journal of Operational Research, 218, 716-725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2011.12.003

An inspection and replacement policy for a protection system is described in which the inspection process
is subject to error, and false positives (false alarms) and false negatives are possible. We develop two
models: one in which a false positive... Read More about Maintenance scheduling of a protection system subject to imperfect inspection and replacement.