I was born and brought up in Ebbw Vale when it was a thriving coal and steel town on the north eastern rim of the South Welsh coalfield. That place, and the ways that is has changed has affected the way I have developed as a sociologist. I have worked in five universities in the UK and I have conducted empirical work in and around these places. In this have worked with local community groups, trades unions and public policy officials to seek to improve economic and social conditions and the life chances of disadvantaged people in disadvantaged places.
2011
- Beynon, H. 2011. Engaging Labour: British Sociology 1945-2010. Global Labour Journal 2(1), pp. 5-26.
2009
- Beynon, H. 2009. O paradoxo Ingles. In: Limoncic, F. and Martinho, C. P. eds. A grande depressao, politica e economia na decada de 1930. Rio de Janeiro: Civilizacao Brazileira, pp. 277-305.
2006
- Nichols, T. and Beynon, H. eds. 2006. The Fordism of Ford and modern management: Fordism and Post-Fordism. Edward Elgar.
- Beynon, H. and Nichols, T. eds. 2006. Patterns of work in the Post-Fordist era: Fordism and Post-Fordism. Edward Elgar.
2005
- Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2005. The negotiation of minority ethnic identities in virtually all-white communities: research with children and their families in the South Wales valleys. Children & Society 19(3), pp. 211-224. (10.1002/chi.831)
- Beynon, H. and Quilley, S. 2005. The Guernsey Tom: the rise and fall of an island economy. Food and history 3(1), pp. 151-196. (10.1484/J.FOOD.2.301901)
2003
- Beynon, H.et al. 2003. The rise and transformation of the UK domestic appliances industry. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Beynon, H. 2003. Globalization, trade union organization and workers' rights. In: Fairbrother, P. and Yates, C. A. B. eds. Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study. Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context London: Routledge, pp. 263 - 281.
2002
- Nichols, T.et al. 2002. International sector comparison of management strategy and employee relations. The Future of Work Bulletin 4, pp. 7-8.
- Scourfield, J. B.et al. 2002. Responding to the experiences of minority ethnic children in virtually all-white communities. Child & Family Social Work 7(3), pp. 161-175. (10.1046/j.1365-2206.2002.00243.x)
- Beynon, H.et al. 2002. Managing employment change: the new realities of work. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Grimshaw, D.et al. 2002. The restructuring of career paths in large service sector organizations: 'delayering', upskilling and polarisation. The Sociological Review 50(1), pp. 89-115. (10.1111/1467-954X.00356)
1977
- Nichols, T. and Beynon, H. 1977. Living with capitalism: class relations and the modern factory. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
I am best known as an industrial sociologist and for my research into the experience of work, trade unions and organisational change. I have combined this with a keen interest in historical sociology and the impact of place and social class upon social and economic life. "Working for Ford" was one of my first books and II am currently competing books relating to changes on the UK coalfields as well as working with colleagues on the impact of deindustrialisation in South Wales.