Professor Huw Beynon

Job Title: Professor, WISERD

Email: Beynonh@cf.ac.uk

Telephone: 029 208 70853

Role: Huw was the Director of WISERD until his retirement in 2010

 

Research Interests

Main theoretical interests relate to sociology and organisational change with particular reference to occupational change and issues of regional regeneration.

Main substantive research interests relate to:

• Questions of labour organization, forms of social solidarity; individualism and collectivism; trade unionism; labour politics.
• Questions raised by “globalisation”, de-industrialisation and post-industrial societies and regions especially issues raised in programmes of “regeneration”.
• Historical sociology and the use of biographical methods in relation to issues of labour organisation and social class.
• Environmental questions and changing patterns of social protest

Click here to view Huw’s official Cardiff University bio page. 

Recent Publications

Beynon H, Davies R, Davies S, 2012, ‘Sources of Variation in Trade Union Membership across the UK: The case of Wales’ Industrial Relations Journal,  May

Beynon H, 2011,  ’Engaging Labour: British Sociology 1945-2010′ Global Labour Journal 2(1) pp 5-26  Special Issue edited by Michael Burawoy (Available here)

Beynon H, 2010, ‘O Paradoxo Inglaterra’ in F Limoncic and F C P Martinho (eds) O Grande Depressao: Politica e Economia na decade de 1930, Civilazacao Brasileira pp 277-304 (Available here)

Beynon H, 2009, ‘Twenty Five Years On: Life on the Coalfields of Durham and South Wales’ in  G Williams (ed) Shafted: The Media, The Miners’ strike and the Aftermath, CPBF pp 145-155 (Available here)

Beynon H, 2008, ‘Issues of Class, Ethnicity and Migration in a London Borough’ in SAGERace Relations Abstracts Vol 32 (3) pp 30-43

Beynon H, Quilley S, 2006, ‘The Guernsey Tom: The Rise and Fall of an island Economy’ Food and History 3(2) pp 151-196 (Available here)