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This is the official working paper series of the ESCR Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). The working paper series is intended to provide a forum for debate and discussion. All of the papers published in the series have been subjected to peer review and comment within CRESC in order to maintain quality. These are working papers which will in most cases be revised before or after submission for publication in a learned journal. The papers published here do not necessarily appear in their final form and appearance as a CRESC paper does not preclude revision for submission to another forum.
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2010 Working Papers:
Working Paper No.81
The Archive in Question
Till Geiger, Niamh Moore, Mike Savage
April 2010
http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/921/
No.81 Abstract
Paper No.81 (
, 325kb)
Paper with Table of Content(, 329kb)
Working Paper No.80
Moral Outrage and Questionable Polarities:
The Attack on Public Sector Pensions
Tony Cutler and Barbara Waine
April 2010
No.80 Abstract
Paper No.80 (, 327kb)
Working Paper No.79
Home is Where The Hardship is. Gender and Wealth (Dis)Accumulation in the Subprime Boom
Johnna Montgomerie & Brigitte Young
February 2010
No.79 Abstract
Paper No.79 (, 254kb)
Working Paper No.78
Old is New Again: National responses to the financial crisis
Adriana Nilsson
January 2010
No.78 Abstract
Paper No.78 (, 260kb)
2009 Working Papers:
Working Paper No.77
Urban regeneration in East Manchester: a process of gentrification?
Camilla Lewis
December 2009
No.77 Abstract
Paper No.77 (, 180kb)
Working Paper No.76
Affluence in the Making: The 1953-54 Household Expenditures Enquiry and Visualization of Taste
Shinbu Majima
December 2009
No.76 Abstract
Paper No.76 (, 142kb)
Working Paper No.75
Undisclosed and unsustainable: problems of the UK national business model
John Buchanan, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
December 2009
No.75 Abstract
Paper No.75 (, 310kb)
Working Paper No.74
New Populations: Scoping Paper on Digital Transactional Data
Evelyn Ruppert and Mike Savage (eds)
November 2009
No.74 Abstract
Paper No.74 (, 239kb)
Working Paper No.73
Cultural Participation, the Making of Distinction and the Case of Fans of FC United of Manchester
George Poulton
November 2009
No.73 Abstract
Paper No.73 (, 188kb)
Working Paper No.72
Against the omnivore: assemblages of contemporary musical taste in the United Kingdom
Mike Savage and Modesto Gayo-Cal
November 2009
No.72 Abstract
Paper No.72 (, 340kb)
Working Paper No.71
The Ancestor in the Machine
Jeanette Edwards
November 2009
No.71 Abstract
Paper No.71 (, 254kb)
Working Paper No.70
Cultural Transmission, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility
Simone Scherger and Mike savage
May 2009
No.70 Abstract
Paper No.70 (, 291kb)
Working Paper No.69
Biographical Mechanisms of British Service Class Formation
Felix Bühlmann
April 2009
No.69 Abstract
Paper No.69 (, 314kb)
Working Paper No.68
Numbers Regimes: From Censuses to Metrics
Evelyn Ruppert
September 2009
No.68 Abstract
Paper No.68 (, 221kb)
Working Paper No.67
The Internet and the Transformation of Public and Private
Hugh Mackay
September 2009
No.67 Abstract
Paper No.67 (, 263kb)
Working Paper No.66
Escaping the Tyranny of Earned Income? The Failure of Finance as Social Innovation
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Johnna Montgomerie, Karel Williams
March 2009
No.66 Abstract
Paper No.66 (, 258kb)
Working Paper No.65
The Subject of Freedom in Republican Thought: Habit, Virtue and Education in the work of John Brown (1715-66)
Francis Dodsworth
June 2009
No.65 Abstract
Paper No.65 (, 256kb)
Working Paper No.64
Culture, History, Habit
Tony Bennett
March 2009
No.64 Abstract
Paper No.64 (, 208kb)
Working Paper No.63
Habit, Custom and the Problematics of Early Modern Government
Barry Hindess
March 2009
No.63 Abstract
Paper No.63 (, 172kb)
Working Paper No.62
New Ventures in Adult Education in Early Twentieth-Century Britain: Pastoral Government and the Pedagogical State
Michael Bailey
January 2009
No.62 Abstract
Paper No.62 (, 435kb)
2008 Working Papers:
Working Paper No.61
Ownership Matters: Private Equity and the Political Division of Ownership
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
December 2008
No.61 Abstract
Paper No.61 (, 478kb)
Working Paper No.60
Copyright and the Conditions of Creativity: Social Authorship in Reggae Music and Open Source Software
Jason Toynbee
November 2008
No.60 Abstract
Paper No.60 (, 397kb)
Working Paper No.59
Financial Innovation: Frame, Conjuncture and Bricolage
Ewald Engelen, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
November 2008
No.59 Abstract
Paper No.59 (, 485kb)
Working Paper No.58
Spectre of the Subprime Borrower — beyond a credit score perspective
Johnna Montgomerie
October 2008
No.58 Abstract
Paper No.58 (, 474kb)
Appendix Paper No.58 (, 95kb)
Working Paper No.57
Losing the battles but winning the war:
The case of UK Private Equity Industry and mediated scandal of summer 2007
Johnna Montgomerie, Adam Leaver and Adriana Nilsson
August 2008
No.57 Abstract
Paper No.57 (, 459kb)
Working Paper No.56
Rethinking top management pay: From pay for performance to pay as fee
Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Siobhan McAndrew, David Shammai, Karel Williams
August 2008
No.56 Abstract
Paper No.56 (, 382kb)
Working Paper No.55
Cultural practices, age and the life course
Simone Scherger
August 2008
No.55 Abstract
Paper No.55 (, 503kb)
Working Paper No.54
Postal communication and the making of the British technostate
Patrick Joyce
August 2008
No.54 Abstract
Paper No.54 (, 466kb)
Working Paper No.53
(Re)Politicizing inflation policy: A global political economy perspective
Johnna Montgomerie
August 2008
No.53 Abstract
Paper No.53 (, 548kb)
Working Paper No.52
Anthropological assemblages: producing culture as a surface of government
Tony Bennett
March 2008
No.52 Abstract
Paper No.52 (, 382kb)
Working Paper No.51
Writing the Visual
Andrew Hill
March 2008
No.51 Abstract
Paper No.51 (, 337kb)
Working Paper No.50
The Built Environment and the Formation of Liberal Elites in England and Germany around 1900
Maiken Umbach
March 2008
No.50 Abstract
Paper No.50 (, 550kb)
Working Paper No.49
Modelling Bourdieu: An Extension of the Axelrod Cultural Diffusion Model
Andrew B. Trigg, Andrew J. Bertie, Susan F. Himmelweit
February 2008
No.49 Abstract
Paper No.49 (, 549kb)
Working Paper No.48
Corporate governance and impossibilism
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal. Adam Leaver, David Shammai, Karel Williams
January 2008
No.48 Abstract
Paper No.48 (, 472kb)
Working Paper No.47
The Instrumental Leisure of the ‘Creative Class’
Mark Banks
January 2008
No.47 Abstract
Paper No.47 (, 327kb)
Working Paper No.46
Everything for Sale: How Non-executive Directors Make a Difference
Julie Froud , Adam Leaver, Gindo Tampubolon and Karel Williams
January 2008
No.46 Abstract
Paper No.46 (, 485kb)
2007 Working Papers:
Working Paper No.45
Watching The Big Read with Pierre Bourdieu: Forms of heteronomy in the contemporary literary field
David Wright
December 2007
No.45 Abstract
Paper No.45 (, 399kb)
Working Paper No.44
Taking its toll: The private financing of roads in SpainBasilio Acerete, Jean Shaoul and Anne Stafford
December 2007
No.44 Abstract
Paper No.44 (
, 326kb)
Working Paper No.43
Financialization and consumption: Aan alternative account of rising consumer debt levels in Anglo-America Johnna Montgomerie
December 2007
No.43 Abstract
Paper No.43 (, 710kb)
Working Paper No.42
Money’s eyes: The visual preparation of financial markets
Mike Pryke
December 2007
No.42 Abstract
Paper No.42 (, 385kb)
Working Paper No.41
Gender Matters in the Global Outsourcing of Service Work
Debra Howcroft & Helen Richardson
December 2007
No.41 Abstract
Paper No.41(, 374kb)
Working Paper No.40
Class and Cultural Division in the UK
Brigitte Le Roux, Henry Rouanet, Mike Savage and Alan Warde
December 2007
No.40 Abstract
Paper No.40 (, 622kb)
Working Paper No.39
Trajectories of Time Spent Reading as a Primary Activity: A Comparison of the Netherlands, Norway, France, UK and USA since the 1970s
Dale Southerton, Alan Warde, Shu-Li Cheng & Wendy Olsen
November 2007
No.39 Abstract
Paper No.39 (, 463kb)
Paper No.39 Appendix (, 91kb)
Working Paper No.38
Is the Stock Market a Disciplinary Institution? French Giant Firms and the Regime of Accumulation
Sukhdev Johal and Adam Leaver
October 2007
No.38 Abstract
Paper No.38 (, 401kb)
Working Paper No.37
Producing Population
Evelyn S. Ruppert
October 2007
No.37 Abstract
Paper No.37 (, 500kb)
Working Paper No.36
Linguistic Globalisation or Localisation? The Practice of Intercultural Communication in Multilingual Spaces
Hanne Tange
September 2007
No.36 Abstract
Paper No.36 (, 364kb)
Working Paper No.35
Nation States and Networks of Flows: The Role of the State in Jordan’s ICT Enabled Development
Chris Westrup, Saheer Al-Jaghoub
September 2007
No.35 Abstract
Paper No.35 (, 511kb)
Working Paper No.34
Misrecognitions: Associative and Communalist Visions in EU Media Policy and Regulation, from Television without Frontiers to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD)
Richard Collins
June 2007
No.34 Abstract
Paper No.34 (, 464kb)
Working Paper No.33
'Without Affection or Enthusiasm': Problems of Attachment and Involvement in 'Responsive' Public Management
Paul du Gay
May 2007
No.33 Abstract
Paper No.33 (, 337kb)
Working Paper No.32
Prudentialism and the ‘Missionaries’ of Life Assurance
Liz Mcfall
April 2007
No.32 Abstract
Paper No.32 (, 349kb)
Working Paper No.31
Private Equity and the Culture of Value Extraction
Julie Froud and Karel Williams
February 2007
No.31 Abstract
Paper No.31 (, 346kb)
Working Paper No.30
Digitalisation, Music and Copyright
David Hesmondhalgh
January 2007
No.30 Abstract
Paper No.30 (,, 347kb)
Working Paper No.29
Missing Women’: Gender, ICTs and The Shaping Of The Global Economy
Hazel Gillard, Debra Howcroft, Natalie Mitev, Helen Richardson
January 2007
No.29 Abstract
Paper No.29 (, 337kb)
2006 Working Papers:
Working Paper No.28
Rawls, Fraser, redistribution, recognition and The World Summit on the Information Society
Richard Collins
December 2006
No.28 Abstract
Paper No.28 (, 392kb)
Working Paper No.27
The operationalization of the concept ‘cultural diversity’ in British television policy and governance
Ben O'Loughlin
November 2006
No.27 Abstract
Paper No.27 (, 419kb)
Working Paper No.26
Economy and aesthetic of public knowledge
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
November 2006
No.26 Abstract
Paper No.26 (, 419kb)
Working Paper No.25
Working for themselves? Capital market intermediaries and present day capitalism
Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams
November 2006
No.25 Abstract
Paper No.25 (, 419kb)
Working Paper No.24
Speculating on geographies finance
Michael Pryke
October 2006
No.24 Abstract
Paper No.24 (, 419kb)
Working Paper No.23
Agency, the romance of management pay and an alternative explanation
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams
October 2006
No.23 Abstract
Paper No.23 (, 387kb)
Working Paper No.22
Stressed by choice: a business model analysis of the BBC
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Richard Phillips,
Karel Williams
September 2006
No.22 Abstract
Paper No.22 (, 482kb)
Response to paper 22 - (, 90kb)
Working Paper No.21
Liberty and order: Civil government and the common good in eighteenth-century England
Francis Dodsworth
August 2006
No.21 Abstract
Paper No.21 (, 360kb)
Working Paper No.20
Taking the high ground: the struggle for ideas in UK broadcasting policy
Richard Collins
July 2006
No.20 Abstract
Paper No.20 (, 479kb)
Working Paper No.19
The BBC and public value
Richard Collins
June 2006
No.19 Abstract
Paper No.19 (, 858kb)
Working Paper No.18
Muddled modernities in 'peasant' China
Susanne Brandtstädter
May 2006
No.18 Abstract
Paper No.18 (, 325kb)
Working Paper No.17
Unpacking culture shifts In Post-War Britain: A critical encounter with Ronald Inglehart
Mike Savage and Shinobu Majima
April 2006
No.17 Abstract
Paper No.17 (, 624kb)
Working Paper No.16
What does liberalism inherit from early modern religious settlements?
David Saunders
April 2006
No.16 Abstract
Paper No.16 (, 335kb)
Working Paper No.15
Mapping the network society: Network dynamics in the transition to democracy in Indonesia
Yanuar Nugroho and Gindo Tampubolon
March 2006
No.15 Abstract
Paper No.15 (, 1244kb)
Working Paper No.14
Religious Fundamentalisms, Territories and 'Globalization'
Grahame Thompson
February 2006
No.14 Abstract
Paper No.14 (, 464kb)
Working Paper No.13
Re-Instating an Ethic of Office? Office, ethos and persona in public management
Paul du Gay
January 2006
No.13 Abstract unavailable
Paper No.13 (, 524kb)
2005 Working Papers:
Working Paper No.12
Rethinking Elite Research
Julie Froud, Mike Savage, Gindo Tampubolon, Karel Williams
January 2006
No.12 Abstract
Paper No.12 (, 458kb)
Working Paper No.11
The reinvention of prudence: household savings, financialisation and forms of capitalism
Ismail Ertürk, Julie Froud, Stefano Solari, Karel Williams
November 2005
No.11 Abstract
Paper No.11 (, 611kb)
Working Paper No.10
The Rise of Cybernetics? Government and Change in Lithuanian Cultural Policy
Egle Rindzeviciute
November 2005
No.10 Abstract
Paper No.10 (, 612kb)
Working Paper No.9
The democratisation of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver & Karel Williams
November 2005
ISBN 1-905405-08-1
No.9 Abstract
Paper No.9 (, 242kb)
Working Paper No.8
On and Off the Pitch: Diversity policies and transforming identities?
Kath Woodward
September 2005
ISBN 1-905405-05-7
No.8 Abstract
Paper No.8 (, 416kb)
Working Paper No.7
Social Movements and Social Change
Tim Jordan
September 2005
ISBN 1-905405-07-3
No.7 Abstract unavailable
Paper No.7 (, 423kb)
Working Paper No.6
In the Gym: Motives, Meanings and Moral Careers
Nick Crossley
September 2005
ISBN 1-905405-06-05
No.6 Abstract unavailable
Paper No.6 (, 461kb)
Working Paper No.5
General Electric: The Conditions of Success
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams
September 2005
ISBN 1-905405-04-9
No.5 Abstract
Paper No.5 (, 1,016kb)
Working Paper No.4
Cultural capital in the UK: a preliminary report using correspondence analysis
Mike Savage, Modesto Gayo-Cal, Alan Warde, Gindo Tampubolon
(with the assistance of Johs Hjellbrekke, Brigitte LeRoux and Henry Rouanet)
August 2005
ISBN 1-905405-03-0
No.4 Abstract
Paper No.4(, 3,976kb)
Working Paper No.3
Cultural Capital and the Cultural Field in Contemporary Britain
Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright
June 2005
ISBN 1-905405-02-2
No.3 Abstract
Paper No.3 (, 513kb)
Working Paper No.2
Civic laboratories: museums, cultural objecthood, and the governance of the social
Tony Bennett
May 2005
ISBN 1-905405-01-4
No.2 Abstract
Paper No.2 (, 454kb)
Working Paper No.1
Social networks and spatial relations: networks as method, metaphor and form
Hannah Knox, Mike Savage, Penny Harvey
May 2005
ISBN 1-905405-00-6
No.1 Abstract
Paper No.1 (, 486kb)