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Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Neil, J., & Ivancheva, M. (2024, April). Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?. Paper presented at 42nd International Labour Process Conference 2024 (ILPC 2024), Göttingen

Precarious work that becomes a ‘stepping stone’ to decent work (McGuiness and Wooden 2009, Nunley et al 2017; Munoz-Comet and Steinmetz 2020) is the bargain struck for many learners leaving education and accessing employment, typically via placements... Read More about Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?.

Unheard voices of decline in the Scottish Oil Sector (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Neil, J., & Ellis, V. (2018, June). Unheard voices of decline in the Scottish Oil Sector. Presented at BUIRA History of Industrial Relations Study Group, University of Westminster

This paper examines how employment in the Scottish oil industry is changing as the industry declines, shedding in excess of 120,000 jobs between 2014 and 2016 as oil prices fell. Yet, the absence of workers’ voice in policy discussions about how best... Read More about Unheard voices of decline in the Scottish Oil Sector.

Behind the Beer: An examination of the labour process within the Scottish microbrewing industry (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ellis, V., & O'Neil, J. (2018, March). Behind the Beer: An examination of the labour process within the Scottish microbrewing industry. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference, Buenos Aires

Much of the contemporary discourse on the future of work centres on the robot revolution and the continued automation of production processes. Long predicted by labour process theorists such as Braverman, the deskilling of work has produced increasin... Read More about Behind the Beer: An examination of the labour process within the Scottish microbrewing industry.