Professor Jim Phillips

  • Professor of Economic and Social History (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 01413308426
email: James.Phillips@glasgow.ac.uk

R218A Level 2, Economic & Social History, Lilybank House, Glasgow G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469

Biography

I have been working at the University of Glasgow since 1995, after education at the Universities of Aberdeen (MA First Class Honours in History, 1986-90) and Edinburgh (History PhD, 1990-94).

I take pride in my role as an educator. Helping our students at Glasgow is my first priority. I hugely enjoy supporting the learning of undergraduates and post-graduates. At all times I encourage student participation and involvement. I emphasise the benefits of cooperative learning, where students work closely together.


Research interests

Research is an important feature of my role as educator and citizen. I explore the historical dimensions of one of the core problems in our contemporary world: how individuals and communities identify and pursue their economic security. My research shows that well-regulated paid employment and labour organisation are central to this objective.

 

The loss of manual employment in industrial sectors and the diminution of trade-union voice in workplaces has contributed to the erosion of economic security in many countries across the world. I have contributed to understanding of this vial global issue through my pioneering research on deindustrialisation in Scotland. This has explained popular understanding of changes in industry and employment through the critical application of a moral economy framework. Whether people understood their transition out of industrial employment as just or fair depended on the extent to which their security was protected, and their voices were heard, by policy-makers.

 

With Jim Tomlinson and Valerie Wright, I showed that deindustrialisation in Scotland was a long-running, phased and politicised process. It was managed carefully by policy-makers in the 1960s and 1970s, and recklessly in the 1980s and 1990s. Workers and communities affected by deindustrialisation understood their experiences in moral economy terms, seeking at times to protect security through collective action. The perceived injustices of deindustrialisation contributed significantly to the growth of support for Home Rule within the UK in from the 1960s to the 1990s and then for Independence in the 2000s. Our book, Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955, was published in 2021.


My 2019 book, Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century, analysed a key group of industrial workers and their struggles for workplace justice and economic security. The book used generational analysis to highlight changes over time and demonstrated how miners took a leading role in the campaign for Home Rule. The miners’ resistance to deindustrialisation reflected the importance of their moral-economy thinking. The great strike of 1984-85 was an unsuccessful attempt to prevent an unjust transition from taking place. 

 

My new book, published in August 2024, is Coalfield Justice: the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike in Scotland

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-coalfield-justice.html

This shows how veteran strikers in Scotland won a collective pardon from the Scottish Parliament in 2022 for public order convictions arising from their activism in defence of communal economic security in 1984-85. Based on interviews with more than 30 former strikers and family members, the book analyses the distinct pattern of injustice in Scotland, where strikers were twice as likely to be arrested and three times more likely to be sacked by their employer, the National Coal Board, than strikers in England and Wales. Coalfield Justice demonstrates the influence of oral history in shaping the current world. Scottish government ministers and MSPs listened to the veterans’ testimonies of injustice. The pardon acknowledged that the criminalisation of strikers was a key element in the unjust transition out of coalmining in the 1980s. Union voice was unfairly removed from decisions about the future of the industry and no alternative provision was made for the economic security of the communities affected.

Publications

Selected publications

Phillips, J. (2024) Coalfield Justice. The 1984-85 Miners' Strike in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781399536493

Phillips, J. (2019) Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474452311 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474452311.001.0001)

Phillips, J. (2012) Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984-85. Series: Critical labour movement studies. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719096723

Phillips, J. (2008) The Industrial Politics of Devolution: Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719075339

All publications

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2024

Phillips, J. (2024) Coalfield Justice. The 1984-85 Miners' Strike in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781399536493

Gibbs, E. , McCartney, G. and Phillips, J. (2024) The fundamentals of public ownership: learning from UK historical experience and recent Scottish policy. Political Quarterly, 95(1), pp. 157-166. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.13348)

Gildea, R. and Phillips, J. (2024) Staying with it. Undertaking oral history with veteran strikers in British coal communities. Oral History, 52(2), (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Phillips, J. (2023) George Bain and memories of the Bullock Committee on Industrial Democracy. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 44(1), pp. 173-180. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2023.44.10)

Phillips, J. (2023) Injustice, deindustrialization and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in Scotland. Social History, 48(3), pp. 363-388. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2023.2213980)

Phillips, J. (2023) Strategic injustice and the 1984–85 miners’ strike in Scotland. Industrial Law Journal, 52(2), pp. 283-311. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwac017)

2022

Phillips, J. (2022) Labour market in crisis: the moral economy and redundancy on the Upper Clyde, 1969–72. Scottish Historical Review, 101(1), pp. 86-108. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2022.0548)

Tomlinson, J. , Phillips, J. and Wright, V. (2022) De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001, and its broad implications. Business History, 64(1), pp. 28-54. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235)

2021

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2021) Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474479240

Wright, V. , Phillips, J. and Tomlinson, J. (2021) Defending the right to work: the 1983 Timex workers’ occupation in Dundee. Labour History Review, 86(1), pp. 63-90. (doi: 10.3828/lhr.2021.4)

Phillips, J. (2021) The UCS work-in, Jimmy Airlie and deindustrialisation in Scotland from the 1960s to the 1990s. Scottish Labour History, 56, pp. 77-105.

Phillips, J. (2021) Workers’ voice and the moral economy in Britain’s ‘neoliberal’ age. In: Davies, A., Jackson, B. and Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, F. (eds.) The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s. UCL Press: London, pp. 155-175. ISBN 9781787356863

2020

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2020) Being a ‘Clydesider’ in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s. Labor History, 61(2), pp. 151-169. (doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2019.1666973)

2019

Gibbs, E. and Phillips, J. (2019) Remembering Auchengeich: the largest fatal accident in Scottish coal in the nationalised era. Scottish Labour History, 54, pp. 47-57.

Phillips, J. (2019) The moral economy and industrial politics in the UK from the 1960s to the 1980s. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 40(1), pp. 223-232. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2019.40.8)

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2019) Deindustrialization, the Linwood car plant and Scotland’s political divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s. Twentieth-Century British History, 30(3), pp. 399-423. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwz005)

Phillips, J. (2019) Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474452311 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474452311.001.0001)

Phillips, J. (2019) Industrial relations in the “Golden Age” in the UK and the USA, 1945 to 1980. In: Bowden, B. and McMurray, A. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Management History. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9783319621135

Phillips, J. (2019) Participation and Nationalization: the case of British coal from the 1940s to the 1980s. In: Berger, S., Pries, L. and Wannöffel, M. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 187-204. ISBN 9781137481917

2018

Gibbs, E. and Phillips, J. (2018) Who owns a factory?: Caterpillar tractors in Uddingston, 1956-1987. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 39, pp. 111-137. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2018.39.4)

Phillips, J. (2018) The meanings of coal community in Britain since 1947. Contemporary British History, 32(1), pp. 39-59. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2017.1408533)

2017

Phillips, J. (2017) Economic direction and generational change in twentieth century Britain: the case of the Scottish coalfields. English Historical Review, 132(557), pp. 885-911. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cex199)

Phillips, J. (2017) The moral economy of deindustrialization in post-1945 Scotland. In: High, S., MacKinnon, L. and Perchard, A. (eds.) The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places. University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver, pp. 313-330. ISBN 9780774834933

2016

Phillips, J. (2016) The Miners’ Strike in Britain, 1984-85. In: Campaigning for Change: Lessons from History. Friends of the Earth and History & Policy: London, pp. 143-156. ISBN 9780995704206

Phillips, J. (2016) A peculiar obscurity? William Gallacher’s missing biography and the role of Stalinism in Scottish Labour history: a contribution to an overdue discussion. Scottish Labour History Review, 51, pp. 154-174.

2015

Phillips, J. (2015) The closure of Michael Colliery in 1967 and the politics of deindustrialization in Scotland. Twentieth Century British History, 26(4), pp. 551-572. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwu067)

Phillips, J. (2015) Contested memories: the Scottish Parliament and the 1984–5 miners' strike. Scottish Affairs, 24(2), pp. 187-206. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2015.0066)

Phillips, J. (2015) The politics of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields after 1945. In: Aprile, S., Oliveira, M. d. and Touchelay, B. (eds.) Les houillères entre l'État, le marché et la société. Series: Histoire et civilisations. Septentrion Presses Universitaires: Villeneuve d'Ascq, pp. 155-167. ISBN 9782757411209

2014

Phillips, J. (2014) Containing, isolating, and defeating the miners: The UK Cabinet Ministerial Group on Coal and the three phases of the 1984-85 strike. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 35, pp. 117-141. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2014.35.5)

2013

Phillips, J. (2013) Deindustrialization and the moral economy of the Scottish coalfields, 1947 to 1991. International Labor and Working-Class History, 84(1), pp. 99-115. (doi: 10.1017/S0147547913000264)

2012

Phillips, J. (2012) Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984-85. Series: Critical labour movement studies. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719096723

Phillips, J. (2012) Material and moral resources: the 1984-5 miners' strike in Scotland. Economic History Review, 65(1), pp. 256-276. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00594.x)

2011

Perchard, A. and Phillips, J. (2011) Transgressing the moral economy: Wheelerism and management of the nationalised coal industry in Scotland. Contemporary British History, 25(3), pp. 387-405. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2011.597550)

Phillips, J. (2011) The 'Retreat' to Scotland: The Tay Road Bridge and Dundee's post-1945 development. In: Tomlinson, J. and Whatley, C.A. (eds.) Jute No More: Transforming Dundee. Dundee University Press: Dundee, pp. 246-265. ISBN 9781845860905

Phillips, J. (2011) UK business power and opposition to the Bullock Committee's 1977 proposals on worker directors. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations(31-32), pp. 1-30.

2010

Phillips, J. (2010) Collieries and communities: the miners’ strike in Scotland, 1984-1985. Scottish Labour History, 45, -172.

2009

Phillips, J. (2009) Business and the limited reconstruction of industrial relations in the UK in the 1970s. Business History, 51(6), pp. 801-816. (doi: 10.1080/00076790903268253)

Phillips, J. (2009) Workplace conflict and the origins of the 1984-85 miners' strike in Scotland. Twentieth-Century British History, 20(2), pp. 152-172. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwn047)

Phillips, J. (2009) Energy and industrial politics in the UK: the miners' strikes of 1972, 1974 and 1984-85. Scottish Business and Industrial History, 25(2), pp. 56-72.

2008

Phillips, J. (2008) The Industrial Politics of Devolution: Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719075339

2007

Phillips, J. (2007) Industrial relations, historical contingencies and political economy : Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. Labour History Review (Special Issue on Working Class Masculinities), 72(3), pp. 215-233. (doi: 10.1179/174581607X264801)

2006

Phillips, J. (2006) The 1972 miners' strike: popular agency and industrial politics in Britain. Contemporary British History, 20(2), pp. 187-207. (doi: 10.1080/13619460600600748)

2005

Phillips, J. (2005) Oceanspan : deindustrialisation and devolution in Scotland, c. 1960-1974. Scottish Historical Review, 84(1), pp. 63-84. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2005.84.1.63)

Phillips, J. (2005) Class and industrial relations in Britain: the 'long' mid-century and the case of port transport, c. 1920-70. Twentieth-Century British History, 16(1), pp. 52-73. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwi009)

Phillips, J. (2005) A Karachi stowage: dockers and the sea in twentieth-century Britain. History in Focus, 9,

2004

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2004) Windows and barriers in policy-making: responses to food poisoning in Britain, 1945-1956. Social History of Medicine, 17(2), pp. 245-260. (doi: 10.1093/shm/17.2.269)

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2004) Protéger les consommateurs ou soutenir les producteurs ? La politique alimentaire menée par le Royaume-Uni de 1945 à 1955. Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 51(3), pp. 165-190.

2003

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2003) Sophisticates or dupes? Attitudes toward food consumers in Edwardian Britain. Enterprise and Society, 4(3), pp. 442-470. (doi: 10.1093/es/khg022)

2002

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2002) Food safety regimes in Scotland, 1899-1914. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 22(2), pp. 134-157. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2002.22.2.134)

2000

Smith, D.F. and Phillips, J. (Eds.) (2000) Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century : International and Comparative Perspectives. Routledge: London. ISBN 0415235324

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2000) Cheated Not Poisoned? : Food Regulation in the United Kingdom, 1875-1938. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719056055

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2000) Compositional food standards in the United Kingdom: the case of the Willis Inquiry, 1929-1934. In: Smith, D.F. and Phillips, J. (eds.) Food, Science, Policy, and Regulation in the Twentieth Century : International and Comparative Perspectives. Routledge: London, pp. 17-35. ISBN 0415235324

Smith, D.F. and Phillips, J. (2000) Food policy and regulation: a multiplicity of actors and experts. In: Smith, D.F. and Phillips, J. (eds.) Food, Science, Policy, and Regulation in the Twentieth Century : International and Comparative Perspectives. Routledge: London, pp. 1-16. ISBN 0415235324

1999

Phillips, J. (1999) Democracy and trade unionism on the docks, 1945-1964. In: Campbell, A., Fishman, N. and McIlroy, J. (eds.) British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics : the Post-War Compromise, 1945-64. Series: Studies in labour history, 1. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 293-310. ISBN 9780754600176

Phillips, J. (1999) Labour and the Cold War: the TGWU and the politics of anti-communism, 1945-55. Labour History Review, 64, pp. 44-61.

Phillips, J. and French, M. (1999) State regulation and the hazards of milk, 1900-1939. Social History of Medicine, 12(3), pp. 371-388. (doi: 10.1093/shm/12.3.371)

1998

Phillips, J. and French, M. (1998) Adulteration and food law, 1899–1939. Twentieth-Century British History, 9(3), pp. 350-369.

Phillips, J. and French, M. (1998) The pure beer campaign and arsenic poisoning, 1896–1903. Rural History, 9, pp. 195-209. (doi: 10.1017/S0956793300001576)

1996

Phillips, J. (1996) Decausualization and disruption : industrial relations in the docks, 1945-1979. In: Wrigley, C. (ed.) A History of British Industrial Relations, 1939-1979 : Industrial Relations in a Declining Economy. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 165-185. ISBN 1852788925

Phillips, J. (1996) The Great Alliance : Economic Recovery and the Problems of Power, 1945-1951. Pluto Press: London. ISBN 0745310389

Phillips, J. (1996) Inter-union conflict in the docks, 1954-55. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 1, pp. 103-126.

Phillips, J. (1996) Unofficial dock strikes, 1945-1951. In: Charlesworth, A., Gilbert, D., Randall, A., Southall, H. and Wrigley, C. (eds.) An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain, 1750-1990. MacMillan: Basingstoke, pp. 195-201. ISBN 9780333565995

1995

Phillips, J. (1995) British dock workers and the Second World War : the limits of social change. Scottish Labour History, 30, pp. 87-103.

Phillips, J. (1995) The postwar political consensus and industrial unrest in the docks, 1945–55. Twentieth-Century British History, 6(3), pp. 302-319. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/6.3.302)

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Articles

Gibbs, E. , McCartney, G. and Phillips, J. (2024) The fundamentals of public ownership: learning from UK historical experience and recent Scottish policy. Political Quarterly, 95(1), pp. 157-166. (doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.13348)

Gildea, R. and Phillips, J. (2024) Staying with it. Undertaking oral history with veteran strikers in British coal communities. Oral History, 52(2), (Accepted for Publication)

Phillips, J. (2023) George Bain and memories of the Bullock Committee on Industrial Democracy. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 44(1), pp. 173-180. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2023.44.10)

Phillips, J. (2023) Injustice, deindustrialization and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in Scotland. Social History, 48(3), pp. 363-388. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2023.2213980)

Phillips, J. (2023) Strategic injustice and the 1984–85 miners’ strike in Scotland. Industrial Law Journal, 52(2), pp. 283-311. (doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dwac017)

Phillips, J. (2022) Labour market in crisis: the moral economy and redundancy on the Upper Clyde, 1969–72. Scottish Historical Review, 101(1), pp. 86-108. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2022.0548)

Tomlinson, J. , Phillips, J. and Wright, V. (2022) De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001, and its broad implications. Business History, 64(1), pp. 28-54. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235)

Wright, V. , Phillips, J. and Tomlinson, J. (2021) Defending the right to work: the 1983 Timex workers’ occupation in Dundee. Labour History Review, 86(1), pp. 63-90. (doi: 10.3828/lhr.2021.4)

Phillips, J. (2021) The UCS work-in, Jimmy Airlie and deindustrialisation in Scotland from the 1960s to the 1990s. Scottish Labour History, 56, pp. 77-105.

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2020) Being a ‘Clydesider’ in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s. Labor History, 61(2), pp. 151-169. (doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2019.1666973)

Gibbs, E. and Phillips, J. (2019) Remembering Auchengeich: the largest fatal accident in Scottish coal in the nationalised era. Scottish Labour History, 54, pp. 47-57.

Phillips, J. (2019) The moral economy and industrial politics in the UK from the 1960s to the 1980s. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 40(1), pp. 223-232. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2019.40.8)

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2019) Deindustrialization, the Linwood car plant and Scotland’s political divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s. Twentieth-Century British History, 30(3), pp. 399-423. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwz005)

Gibbs, E. and Phillips, J. (2018) Who owns a factory?: Caterpillar tractors in Uddingston, 1956-1987. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 39, pp. 111-137. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2018.39.4)

Phillips, J. (2018) The meanings of coal community in Britain since 1947. Contemporary British History, 32(1), pp. 39-59. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2017.1408533)

Phillips, J. (2017) Economic direction and generational change in twentieth century Britain: the case of the Scottish coalfields. English Historical Review, 132(557), pp. 885-911. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cex199)

Phillips, J. (2016) A peculiar obscurity? William Gallacher’s missing biography and the role of Stalinism in Scottish Labour history: a contribution to an overdue discussion. Scottish Labour History Review, 51, pp. 154-174.

Phillips, J. (2015) The closure of Michael Colliery in 1967 and the politics of deindustrialization in Scotland. Twentieth Century British History, 26(4), pp. 551-572. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwu067)

Phillips, J. (2015) Contested memories: the Scottish Parliament and the 1984–5 miners' strike. Scottish Affairs, 24(2), pp. 187-206. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2015.0066)

Phillips, J. (2014) Containing, isolating, and defeating the miners: The UK Cabinet Ministerial Group on Coal and the three phases of the 1984-85 strike. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 35, pp. 117-141. (doi: 10.3828/hsir.2014.35.5)

Phillips, J. (2013) Deindustrialization and the moral economy of the Scottish coalfields, 1947 to 1991. International Labor and Working-Class History, 84(1), pp. 99-115. (doi: 10.1017/S0147547913000264)

Phillips, J. (2012) Material and moral resources: the 1984-5 miners' strike in Scotland. Economic History Review, 65(1), pp. 256-276. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00594.x)

Perchard, A. and Phillips, J. (2011) Transgressing the moral economy: Wheelerism and management of the nationalised coal industry in Scotland. Contemporary British History, 25(3), pp. 387-405. (doi: 10.1080/13619462.2011.597550)

Phillips, J. (2011) UK business power and opposition to the Bullock Committee's 1977 proposals on worker directors. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations(31-32), pp. 1-30.

Phillips, J. (2010) Collieries and communities: the miners’ strike in Scotland, 1984-1985. Scottish Labour History, 45, -172.

Phillips, J. (2009) Business and the limited reconstruction of industrial relations in the UK in the 1970s. Business History, 51(6), pp. 801-816. (doi: 10.1080/00076790903268253)

Phillips, J. (2009) Workplace conflict and the origins of the 1984-85 miners' strike in Scotland. Twentieth-Century British History, 20(2), pp. 152-172. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwn047)

Phillips, J. (2009) Energy and industrial politics in the UK: the miners' strikes of 1972, 1974 and 1984-85. Scottish Business and Industrial History, 25(2), pp. 56-72.

Phillips, J. (2007) Industrial relations, historical contingencies and political economy : Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. Labour History Review (Special Issue on Working Class Masculinities), 72(3), pp. 215-233. (doi: 10.1179/174581607X264801)

Phillips, J. (2006) The 1972 miners' strike: popular agency and industrial politics in Britain. Contemporary British History, 20(2), pp. 187-207. (doi: 10.1080/13619460600600748)

Phillips, J. (2005) Oceanspan : deindustrialisation and devolution in Scotland, c. 1960-1974. Scottish Historical Review, 84(1), pp. 63-84. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2005.84.1.63)

Phillips, J. (2005) Class and industrial relations in Britain: the 'long' mid-century and the case of port transport, c. 1920-70. Twentieth-Century British History, 16(1), pp. 52-73. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwi009)

Phillips, J. (2005) A Karachi stowage: dockers and the sea in twentieth-century Britain. History in Focus, 9,

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2004) Windows and barriers in policy-making: responses to food poisoning in Britain, 1945-1956. Social History of Medicine, 17(2), pp. 245-260. (doi: 10.1093/shm/17.2.269)

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2004) Protéger les consommateurs ou soutenir les producteurs ? La politique alimentaire menée par le Royaume-Uni de 1945 à 1955. Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, 51(3), pp. 165-190.

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2003) Sophisticates or dupes? Attitudes toward food consumers in Edwardian Britain. Enterprise and Society, 4(3), pp. 442-470. (doi: 10.1093/es/khg022)

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2002) Food safety regimes in Scotland, 1899-1914. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 22(2), pp. 134-157. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2002.22.2.134)

Phillips, J. (1999) Labour and the Cold War: the TGWU and the politics of anti-communism, 1945-55. Labour History Review, 64, pp. 44-61.

Phillips, J. and French, M. (1999) State regulation and the hazards of milk, 1900-1939. Social History of Medicine, 12(3), pp. 371-388. (doi: 10.1093/shm/12.3.371)

Phillips, J. and French, M. (1998) Adulteration and food law, 1899–1939. Twentieth-Century British History, 9(3), pp. 350-369.

Phillips, J. and French, M. (1998) The pure beer campaign and arsenic poisoning, 1896–1903. Rural History, 9, pp. 195-209. (doi: 10.1017/S0956793300001576)

Phillips, J. (1996) Inter-union conflict in the docks, 1954-55. Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 1, pp. 103-126.

Phillips, J. (1995) British dock workers and the Second World War : the limits of social change. Scottish Labour History, 30, pp. 87-103.

Phillips, J. (1995) The postwar political consensus and industrial unrest in the docks, 1945–55. Twentieth-Century British History, 6(3), pp. 302-319. (doi: 10.1093/tcbh/6.3.302)

Books

Phillips, J. (2024) Coalfield Justice. The 1984-85 Miners' Strike in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781399536493

Phillips, J. , Wright, V. and Tomlinson, J. (2021) Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474479240

Phillips, J. (2019) Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474452311 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474452311.001.0001)

Phillips, J. (2012) Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984-85. Series: Critical labour movement studies. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719096723

Phillips, J. (2008) The Industrial Politics of Devolution: Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719075339

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2000) Cheated Not Poisoned? : Food Regulation in the United Kingdom, 1875-1938. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719056055

Phillips, J. (1996) The Great Alliance : Economic Recovery and the Problems of Power, 1945-1951. Pluto Press: London. ISBN 0745310389

Book Sections

Phillips, J. (2021) Workers’ voice and the moral economy in Britain’s ‘neoliberal’ age. In: Davies, A., Jackson, B. and Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, F. (eds.) The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s. UCL Press: London, pp. 155-175. ISBN 9781787356863

Phillips, J. (2019) Industrial relations in the “Golden Age” in the UK and the USA, 1945 to 1980. In: Bowden, B. and McMurray, A. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Management History. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9783319621135

Phillips, J. (2019) Participation and Nationalization: the case of British coal from the 1940s to the 1980s. In: Berger, S., Pries, L. and Wannöffel, M. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 187-204. ISBN 9781137481917

Phillips, J. (2017) The moral economy of deindustrialization in post-1945 Scotland. In: High, S., MacKinnon, L. and Perchard, A. (eds.) The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places. University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver, pp. 313-330. ISBN 9780774834933

Phillips, J. (2016) The Miners’ Strike in Britain, 1984-85. In: Campaigning for Change: Lessons from History. Friends of the Earth and History & Policy: London, pp. 143-156. ISBN 9780995704206

Phillips, J. (2015) The politics of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields after 1945. In: Aprile, S., Oliveira, M. d. and Touchelay, B. (eds.) Les houillères entre l'État, le marché et la société. Series: Histoire et civilisations. Septentrion Presses Universitaires: Villeneuve d'Ascq, pp. 155-167. ISBN 9782757411209

Phillips, J. (2011) The 'Retreat' to Scotland: The Tay Road Bridge and Dundee's post-1945 development. In: Tomlinson, J. and Whatley, C.A. (eds.) Jute No More: Transforming Dundee. Dundee University Press: Dundee, pp. 246-265. ISBN 9781845860905

French, M. and Phillips, J. (2000) Compositional food standards in the United Kingdom: the case of the Willis Inquiry, 1929-1934. In: Smith, D.F. and Phillips, J. (eds.) Food, Science, Policy, and Regulation in the Twentieth Century : International and Comparative Perspectives. Routledge: London, pp. 17-35. ISBN 0415235324

Smith, D.F. and Phillips, J. (2000) Food policy and regulation: a multiplicity of actors and experts. In: Smith, D.F. and Phillips, J. (eds.) Food, Science, Policy, and Regulation in the Twentieth Century : International and Comparative Perspectives. Routledge: London, pp. 1-16. ISBN 0415235324

Phillips, J. (1999) Democracy and trade unionism on the docks, 1945-1964. In: Campbell, A., Fishman, N. and McIlroy, J. (eds.) British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics : the Post-War Compromise, 1945-64. Series: Studies in labour history, 1. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 293-310. ISBN 9780754600176

Phillips, J. (1996) Decausualization and disruption : industrial relations in the docks, 1945-1979. In: Wrigley, C. (ed.) A History of British Industrial Relations, 1939-1979 : Industrial Relations in a Declining Economy. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 165-185. ISBN 1852788925

Phillips, J. (1996) Unofficial dock strikes, 1945-1951. In: Charlesworth, A., Gilbert, D., Randall, A., Southall, H. and Wrigley, C. (eds.) An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain, 1750-1990. MacMillan: Basingstoke, pp. 195-201. ISBN 9780333565995

Edited Books

Smith, D.F. and Phillips, J. (Eds.) (2000) Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century : International and Comparative Perspectives. Routledge: London. ISBN 0415235324

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Grants

Employment, Politics and Culture in Scotland, 1955-2015, Leverhulme Trust, RPG-2016-283, £215,596, for 36 months from 1 April 2017

 

Supervision

I welcome the opportunity to work with students using a wide range of methodologies and theoretical approaches to the study of economic and social history. Students with interests in the following areas will find my supervision particularly helpful:

  • Deindustrialisation and just transitions, particularly relating to employment
  • Labour organisation and activity
  • The politics and sociology of work and industrial relations
  • Moral economy and fairness in employment

I have a lengthy track record of helping students to secure research funding, particularly through the ESRC/SGSSS, and complete their theses under my co-supervision. I have also helped students gain scholarships from the Carnegie Trust and the University of Glasgow’s College of Social Sciences. Under my supervision students have used a variety of methodologies and theoretical approaches, including oral history as well as study of documentary materials in government, business, trade union and local authority archives, and deploying both class and gender as analytical categories. 

 

  • Shibe, Riyoko
    Energy, Industry and Society: Security and Justice in Grangemouth, Scotland, from the 1950s to the 2000s

PhD theses completed under my co-supervision have included:

  • Cultural History of Deindustrialisation in Fife
  • The Cooperative Movement in Scotland After 1945
  • Deindustrialisation in Lanarkshire, from the 1940s to the 1980s
  • Class, Gender, Inequalities and Consumerism in Industrial Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1990s
  • Industrial Relations at Bathgate’s Commercial Vehicle Factory in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Work Culture and Industrial Relations at the Linwood Car Plant in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Employee and Union Loyalties in British and American Retailing from the 1930s to the 1960s

Teaching

Undergraduate

Level 2

  • Economic & Social History 2A: Britain 1770-1914
  • Economic & Social History 2B: Britain since 1914

Honours

  • Researching Economic and Social History 1 and 2
  • Work and Labour in Britain since 1940
  • Dissertation supervision

Postgraduate

  • Contributions to core courses in MSc in the Globalised Economy
  • Contributions to core courses in Int M Global Markets, Local Creativities, Erasmus Mundus International Masters
  • Globalisation and Labour, taught within various School of Social and Political Sciences PGT programmes

 

Additional information

Research Contribution

  • Member and Contributor, History and Policy
  • Council member, Scottish Labour History Society
  • Editorial Committee member, Historical Studies in Industrial Relations

Research Presentations

  • ‘Voices from the Miners’ Strike Forty Years On’, with Robert Gildea, Oxford Talks, Worcester College, Oxford, March 2024
  • ‘Oral History and Justice: Coalfield memories and the Miners’ Strike (Pardons) (Scotland) Act, 2022’, Ian MacDougall Memorial Lecture, National Library of Scotland, April 2023
  • ‘Scottish Coal Miners in the Twentieth Century’, Edinburgh Open History Society, Royal Scots Club, Edinburgh, October 2021
  • ‘Memory and Justice in the Scottish Coalfields in the 21st Century’, Institute Francophone pour la Justice and Démocratie, Bayonne, online, 7 January 2021
  • ‘Employment, Politics and Culture in Scotland since 1955’, with Val Wright and Jim Tomlinson, Economic History Society, Queen’s University Belfast, April 2019
  • ‘Deindustrialisation and Industrial Relations in Scotland’, British Universities Industrial Relations Association, Westminster Business School, June 2018
  • ‘The Moral Economy of Deindustrialisation: how workers in Scotland made sense of economic changes from the 1950s to the 1990s’, with Val Wright and Jim Tomlinson, European Social Science History Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, April 2018