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Greig, Dr Alastair

Greig, Dr Alastair BA PhD ANU
Reader in Sociology

 

Office: Haydon-Allen 2148
Contact Number:
6125 4913
Email:
Alastair.Greig@anu.edu.au


Research Interests:

Globalisation

Industrial and organisational sociology:

  • focusing on contemporary restructuring within various Australian industry sectors, including the clothing industry, meat processing industry, the retail industry and the construction industry

Urban Sociology:

  • history of housing provision in Australia, with a focus on the post-WW2 era; local Canberran history; housing and sociological theory

Publications:

Books and Monographs

2007 Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the Twenty-First Century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 1403948232 (hardback), ISBN 1403948240 (paperback), pp. 296 + xvi (with D. Hulme & M. Turner).

2003 Inequality in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 0521524423 (paperback), 0521818915 (hardback), pp. 320 (with F. Lewins & K. White).

Articles

2008 ‘Chasing Democracy: Dissent, Civil Society and Humour’, in Social Alternatives, Vol. 27, Issue 1, Vol. 27, No. 1, First Quarter 2008, ISSN 0155-0306, pp. 34-8 (with M. Hynes and S. Sharpe).

2006 ‘The Accommodation of Growth: Canberra’s “Growing Pains” 1945-1955’, Canberra Historical Journal, New Series No. 57, July, pp. 13-34, ISSN 0313-5977.

2003 ‘The Way We Live’, Griffith Review, Summer, ABC Books, pp. 50-4, ISSN 1448-2924.

2002 ‘The Struggle for Outwork Reform in the Australian Clothing Industry’, Journal of Australian Political Economy, No. 49, June, pp. 5-33, ISSN 0156-5826. Also available at: http://www.jape.org/jape49_1.pdf

2001 ‘Australian Apparel Retailing Through the Net and Over the Waves’, Prometheus, Vol. 19, No. 4, ISSN 0810-9028, pp. 315-31.

Chapters

2007 ‘Writing the Journal Article’, in L. Neave et al, The Arts of Publication, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, ISBN 1 74097 135 3, pp. 91-102 (with J. Connor & R. Kennedy).

2006 ‘Class’, in D. Clark ed., The Elgar Companion to Development Studies, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1 84376 475 X, ISBN13 978 1 84376 475 5 (hb), pp. 67-72 (with D. Hulme & M. Turner).

2006 ‘Rhetoric and Reality in the Clothing Industry: The Case of Post-Fordism’, in H. Beynon & T. Nichols eds, Patterns of Work in the Post-Fordist Era: Fordism and PostFordism, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1 8452 324 0 (hardback), ISBN13 978 1 84542 324 7, Ch. 3, Vol. 2.

2006 ‘Canberra’, in P. Beilharz & T. Hogan eds, Relocating Sociology: Place, Time, Division, Oxford, Oxford University Press, ISBN13: 978-0-19-555097-9 (hb), ISBN10: 0-19-555097-8 (pb), pp. 47-51.

2006 ‘Houses and Homes’, in P. Beilharz & T. Hogan eds, Relocating Sociology: Place, Time, Division, Oxford, Oxford University Press, ISBN13: 978-0-19-555097-9 (hb), ISBN10: 0-19-555097-8 (pb), pp 319-23.

2003 ‘Globalisation and Social Movements’, in Jureidini, R., S. Kenny & M. Poole eds, Sociology: Australian Connections, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 3rd edition, pp. 102-22, ISBN 1 86508 896X.

2001 ‘No Quick Response: Who Is Responsible for Clothing Outwork Reform?’, in P. Griffiths & R. Webb eds, Work, Organisation, Struggle, Canberra, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, ISBN 0-909944-06-7, pp. 134-42.

2000 ‘Project Homes or Homes-as-Project’, in P.N. Troy ed., A History of European Housing in Australia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 52177 195 1, pp. 218-36.

2000 ‘Globalisation’, in Jureidini, R., S. Kenny & M. Poole eds, Sociology: Australian Connections, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 2nd edition, ISBN 1 86508 150 7, pp. 117-36.

Other Refereed Articles, Monographs and Book Reviews etc

2008 ‘Book Review: “Development Success: Statecraft in the South”, by A. Bebbington & W. McCourt eds’, Globalizations, Vol. 5, No. 2 (June), ISSN: 1474-7731, pp. 331-2.

2008 ‘The Millennium Development Goals and Pacific Island Countries’, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Briefing Notes, No. 9, 2008, http://rspas.anu.edu.au/melanesia/publications.php (with M. Turner), pp. 1-4.

2007 ‘Book Review: “Permission to Steal: Revealing the Roots of Corporate Scandal”, by L. H. Newton’, Labour and Industry, Vol. 18, No. 2, ISSN 1030-1763, pp. 121-3.

2007 ‘Book Review: “Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers” by H-P. Blossfeld & H. Hofmeister eds’, Labour and Industry, Vol. 17, No. 3, ISSN 1030-1763 (with J. Sikora), pp. 143-5.

2006 ‘Book Review: “Globalization, Uncertainty and Men’s Careers” by H-P. Blossfeld et al eds’, Labour and Industry, Vol. 17, No. 2, ISSN 1030-1763, pp. 119-21 (with J. Sikora).

2006 ‘Book Review: “Rethinking Work: Time, Space and Discourse” by M. Hearn & G. Michelson eds’, Labour and Industry, August, Vol. 17 No. 1, ISSN 1030-1763, pp. 101-3.

2006 ‘Looking Forward to Utopia’, Seeing Red, Issue 5, ISSN 14479-2822, pp. 35-7.

2005 ‘Book Review: “Class and Struggle in Australia” by R. Kuhn ed.’, Labour and Industry, Vol. 16 No. 2, December, ISSN 1030-1763, pp. 115-7.

2005 ‘Book Review: “A Fairer Globalisation” by the International Labour Organisation’, Labour & Industry, August, Vol. 16 No. 1, ISSN 1030-1763, pp. 156-8.

2005 ‘Understanding and Changing Capitalism’, Overland, Spring 2005, ISSN 0030 7416, ISBN 0 9750837 7 5, pp. 36-7.

2004 ‘The Heart of Empire: Comparisons Between Iraq and Vietnam’, Seeing Red, Issue 2, ISSN 14479-2822, September, pp. 14-7.

2004 ‘Book Review: “Australian Economy and Society 2001” by M. Evans & J. Kelley’, Labour & Industry, Vol. 14, No. 3, April, ISSN 1030-1763, pp. 161-4.

2004 ‘Book Review: “Hard Heads, Soft Hearts” by P.Dawkins and P. Kelly’, Labour and Industry, Vol. 14, No. 3, ISSN 1030-1763, pp. 159-61.

2003 ‘Book Review: “Globalisation/Anti-Globalisation”’ by D. Held & A. McGrew, Labour & Industry, Vol. 13, No. 4, August, ISSN 1030-1763, pp. 117-9.

2003 ‘Book Review: “Globalisation, Privatisation and Industrial Relations”, by B. Fairbrother et al’, Labour and Industry, Vol. 13, No. 3, April, ISSN 1020-1763, pp. 105-6.

2001 ‘Disarticulation of the Australian Clothing Supply Chain and its Re-configuration within Global Networks’, AEGIS Working Papers on Innovation 2001-04, University of Western Sydney, ISSN 1444-6448, pp. 36.

2001 ‘No Quick Response: Who is Responsible for Clothing Outwork Reform?’, AEGIS Working Papers on Innovation 2001-05, University of Western Sydney, ISSN 1444-6448, pp. 23.

2001 ‘Retailers and the Shape of the Australian Clothing Industry’, AEGIS Working Papers on Innovation 2001-02, University of Western Sydney, ISSN 1444-6448, pp. 54.

2000 ‘A Review of “Economic Appraisal of Behind the Label” by the Centre for International Economics’, prepared for NSW Department of Industrial Relations, pp. 13.