Dr Whyeda Gill-McLure
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Job title: Senior Lecturer Human Resources/ Employer Relations
Email: w.gill-mclure@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591549
Room: E510d, Kedleston Road
Recent publications
Gill-McLure,W. (2007) 'Fighting Marketization: An Analysis of Manual Municipal Labour in the UK and the US', Labour Studies Journal, Spring issue.
Gill-McLure,W. and Seifert, R. (2008) 'Degrading the labourer: the reform of local government manual work' Capital & Class
Book chapters:
Gill-McLure, W (forthcoming 2014) 'Local Government Industrial Relations: a future under austerity?' in Seifert, R (ed.) Resisting Reform: Public Sector Workers against the State, Policy Press: Bristol.
Work submitted
Gill-McLure (Nov. 2011) 'Free Market v. Residual State Intervention in the UK 1800-present: The political economy of public sector trade union militancy under Keynesianism' to Policy and Politics
Gill-McLure (Nov. 2011) 'The Theory and Practice of the Public Bureaucratic v. the New Public Management Models : A case study of UK local government administration 1850's to present' to Public Administration
Gill-McLure, W. (2011) 'The New Public Management in Local Government : A Skinnerian approach to understanding the use of language as an ideological tool' Paper presented to the EBES 2011 Conference, Istanbul 1st -3rd June.
Ironside, M., Seifert, R., Gill-McLure, W. and Clarke, K. (2008) 'Workplace racism and line management: a case study of BME's experience of working in English local government' paper to Perspectives in Critical Accounting conference, New York, 24 April
Faculty: Business, Computing and Law
School: Derby Business School
Subject Area: Human Resource Management
I am the module leader for for Employment Relations, Employment Relations and Law, Comparitive Labour Relations and Law, Organisational Behaviour and Research Methods.
Teaching responsibilities
Undergraduate: Employment Relations and Managing Change
Postgraduate: Employment Relations and Law
Research interests
Political Economy of the public sector , Theories of state intervention ; New public management and Leadership; Neo-liberalism ; Policy transfer in emerging markets. Impact of marketisation in US and Canadian local government; Globalisation and public services; Contemporary Workplace; Race, class and gender; Labour history: Philosophy and Work; Philosophy of Social Sciences.
Research projects include:
A Survey of Blackworkers under Marketisation in Local Government, funded by UNISON
The Local Authority Museum Service under Austerity 20010- present
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
British Universities Industrial Relations Association
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA Law and French , Keele University
Postgraduate qualifications
- LLB , Cantab University
Research qualifications
- PhD, Keele University
