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This is the official working paper series of the ESRC 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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2012

Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2012), 'Apple Business Model: Financialization across the Pacific', CRESC Working Paper 111.
Ismail Ertürk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, John Law, Adam Leaver, Michael Moran and Karel Williams (2012), 'Deep Stall? The euro zone crisis, banking reform and politics', CRESC Working Paper 110.
Andrew Miles (2012), 'The Social Participation and Identity Project in Wales'.

2011

John Law (2011), 'Assembling the Baroque', CRESC Working Paper 109.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Michael Moran and Karel Williams (2011), 'Groundhog Day: elite power, democratic disconnects and the failure of financial reform in the UK', CRESC Working Paper 108.
Anita Greenhill, Gordon Fletcher (2011), 'Life, Death and Everyday Experience of Social Media', CRESC Working Paper 107.
Richard Collins (2011), 'The Reith Mission. An episode in the development of global telecommunications and in the demise of the British Empire.', CRESC Working Paper 106.
Maria Kaika (2011), 'Autistic Architecture: The Fall of the Icon and the Rise of the Serial Object of Architecture', CRESC Working Paper 105.
Wendy Bottero (2011), 'Placing people in the past: Family history and understandings of inequality', CRESC Working Paper 104.
Marie Gillespie (2011), 'Real-time media monitoring, digital diplomacy and mobile methods: A case study of BBC Arabic’s social media experiment Greenwich 7/10', CRESC Working Paper 103.
Francis Dodsworth, Elena Vacchelli, Sophie Watson (2011), 'Shaping religious community in East London', CRESC Working Paper 102.
Ismail Ertürk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Michael Moran and Karel Williams (2011), 'City State against National Settlement: UK Economic Policy and Politics after the Financial Crisis', CRESC Working Paper 101.
Tony Cutler and Barbara Waine (2011), 'In Defence of Public Sector Pensions: a Critique of theIndependent Public Service Pensions Commission', CRESC Working Paper 100.
Richard Collins (2011), 'The Bermuda Agreement 1945', CRESC Working Paper 099.
Grahame Thompson (2011), 'Sources of Financial Sociability: Networks, Ecological Systems or Diligent Risk Preparedness?', CRESC Working Paper 098.
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Mick Moran, Karel Williams (2011), 'Haldane’s Gambit: Political Arithmetic and/or a New Metaphor', CRESC Working Paper 097.
Simon Carter, Francis Dodsworth, Evelyn Ruppert, Sophie Watson (2011), 'Thinking Cities Through Objects', CRESC Working Paper 096.
John Law, Evelyn Ruppert and Mike Savage (2011), 'The Double Social Life of Methods', CRESC Working Paper 095.
Ewald Engelen, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Michael Moran and Karel Williams (2011), 'Misrule of Experts? The Financial Crisis as Elite Debacle', CRESC Working Paper 094.
Jane Elliott, Andrew Miles, Sam Parsons and Mike Savage (2011), 'The design and content of the ‘Social participation’ study: A qualitative sub-study conducted as part of the', CRESC Working Paper 093.
Johnna Montgomerie (2011), 'The Age of Insecurity: indebtedness and the politics of abandonment', CRESC Working Paper 092.
Johnna Montgomerie (2011), 'Gender, indebtedness and social reproduction: another politics of the subprime crisis', CRESC Working Paper 091.
Johnna Montgomerie (2011), 'America’s debt safety-net', CRESC Working Paper 090.
Richard Collins (2011), 'The End of Public Media? The UK: canary in the coal mine?', CRESC Working Paper 089.
Mark Banks (2011), 'The Meanings and Uses of Artmoney', CRESC Working Paper 088.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, John Law, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2011), 'Rebalancing the Economy (Or Buyer's Remorse)', CRESC Working Paper 087.
Jennifer Mason and Stewart Muir (2011), 'Conjuring up Traditions: atmospheres, eras and family Christmases', available at Realities Working papers 18.

2010

Mike Savage, Evelyn Ruppert and John Law (2010), 'Digital Devices: nine theses', CRESC Working Paper 86.
Vron Ware (2010), 'The New Literary Front: Public Diplomacy and the CulturalPolitics of Reading Arabic Fiction in Translation', CRESC Working Paper 85.
Liz McFall (2010), 'Following the line of least resistance?: advertising, agencements and crashes', CRESC Working Paper 84.
Isabelle Darmon and Coralie Perez (2010), '‘Conduct of conduct’ or the shaping of 'adequate dispositions'? Lessons from an empirical study of labour market and career guidance in four European countries', CRESC Working Paper 83.
Luke Yates (2010), 'Consumer Participation: Boycotting and Buycotting in Europe', CRESC Working Paper 82.
Till Geiger, Niamh Moore and Mike Savage (2010), 'The Archive In Question', CRESC Working Paper 81.
Tony Cutler and Barbara Wain (2010), 'Moral Outrage and Questionable Polarities:The Attack on Public Sector Pensions', CRESC Working Paper 80.
Johnna Montgomerie and Brigitte Young (2010), 'Home is Where The Hardship is. Gender and Wealth (Dis)Accumulation in the Subprime Boom', CRESC Working Paper 79.
Adriana Nilsson (2010), 'Old is New Again: National responses to the financial crisis', CRESC Working Paper 78.
Sarah Green (2010), 'Of Gold and Euros: Locating value on the Greek-Turkish border', CRESC Working Paper 6, Pages 1-23, available at EastBordNet.
Madeleine Reeves (2010), 'On the documentary production of the ‘undocumented’ migrant in urban Russia', available at On the documentary production of the ‘undocumented’ migrant in urban Russia.

2009

Camilla Lewis (2009), 'Urban regeneration in East Manchester: a process of gentrification?', CRESC Working Paper 77.
Shinobu Majima (2009), 'Affluence in the Making: The 1953-54 Household Expenditures Enquiry and Visualization of Taste', CRESC Working Paper 76.
Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams, Sukhdev Johal and John Buchanan (2009), 'Undisclosed and unsustainable: problems of the UK national business model', CRESC Working Paper 75.
Evelyn Ruppert and Mike Savage (2009), 'New Populations: Scoping Paper on Digital Transactional Data', CRESC Working Paper 74.
George Poulton (2009), 'Cultural Participation, the Making of Distinction and the Case of Fans of FC United of Manchester', CRESC Working Paper 73.
Mike Savage and Modesto Gayo-Cal (2009), 'Against the omnivore: assemblages of contemporary musical taste in the United Kingdom', CRESC Working Paper 72.
Jeannette Edwards (2009), 'The Ancestor in the Machine', CRESC Working Paper 71.
Simone Scherger and Mike Savage (2009), 'Cultural Transmission, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility', CRESC Working Paper 70.
Felix Bühlmann (2009), 'Biographical Mechanisms of British Service Class Formation', CRESC Working Paper 69.
Evelyn Ruppert (2009), 'Numbers Regimes: From Censuses to Metrics', CRESC Working Paper 68.
Hugh Mackay (2009), 'The Internet and the Transformation of Public and Private', CRESC Working Paper 67.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Johnna Montgomerie and Karel Williams (2009), 'Escaping the tyranny of earned income? The failure of finance as social innovation', CRESC Working Paper 66.
Francis Dodsworth (2009), 'The Subject of Freedom in Republican Thought: Habit, Virtue and Education in the work of John Brown (1715-66)', CRESC Working Paper 65.
Tony Bennett (2009), 'Culture, History, Habit', CRESC Working Paper 64.
Barry Hindess (2009), 'Habit, Custom and the Problematics of Early Modern Government', CRESC Working Paper 63.
Michael Bailey (2009), 'New Ventures in Adult Education in Early Twentieth-Century Britain: Pastoral Government and the Pedagogical State', CRESC Working Paper 62.
Sarah Green (2009), '“Lines, Traces and Tidemarks: reflections on forms of borderli-ness”', available at EastBordNet.

2008

Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2008), 'Ownership Matters: Private equity and the political division of ownership', CRESC Working Paper 61.
Jason Toynbee (2008), 'Copyright and the Conditions of Creativity: Social Authorship in Reggae Music and Open Source Software', CRESC Working Paper 60.
Ewald Engelen, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2008), 'Financial Innovation:Frame, Conjuncture and Bricolage', CRESC Working Paper 59.
Johnna Montgomerie (2008), 'Spectre of the Subprime Borrower—beyond a credit score perspective', CRESC Working Paper 58.
Johnna Montgomerie, Adam Leaver and Adriana Nilsson (2008), 'Losing the battles but winning the war: the case of UK Private Equity Industry and mediated scandal of summer 2007', CRESC Working Paper 57.
Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Siobhan McAndrew, David Shammai and Karel Williams (2008), 'Rethinking Top Management Pay: From Pay for Performance to Pay as Fee', CRESC Working Paper 56.
Simone Scherger (2008), 'Cultural Practices, Age and the Life Course', CRESC Working Paper 55.
Patrick Joyce (2008), 'Postal Communication and the Making of the British Technostate', CRESC Working Paper 54.
Johnna Montgomerie (2008), '(Re)Politicizing inflation policy: A global political economy perspective', CRESC Working Paper 53.
Tony Bennett (2008), 'Anthropological assemblages: producing culture as a surface of government', CRESC Working Paper 52.
Andrew Hill (2008), 'Writing the Visual', CRESC Working Paper 51.
Maiken Umbach (2008), 'The Built Environment and the Formation of Liberal Elites in England and Germany around 1900', CRESC Working Paper 50.
Andrew B. Trigg, Andrew J. Bertie, Susan F. Himmelweit (2008), 'Modelling Bourdieu: An Extension of the Axelrod Cultural Diffusion Model', CRESC Working Paper 49.
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, David Shammai and Karel Williams (2008), 'Corporate governance and impossibilism', CRESC Working Paper 48.
Mark Banks (2008), ''The Instrumental Leisure of the ‘Creative Class’', CRESC Working Paper 47.
Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Gindo Tampubolon and Karel Williams (2008), 'Everything for Sale: How Non-executive Directors Make a Difference', CRESC Working Paper 46.
Andrew Miles with Paul Strauss (2008), 'The Academy: a Report on Outcomes for Participants (June 2006 - June 2008)'.
Anna Schroeder, Andrew Miles, Mike Savage, Susan Halford and Gindo Tampubolon (2008), 'Mobility, Careers and Inequalities: A Study of Work-Life Mobility and the Returns from Education'.

2007

David Wright (2007), 'Watching The Big Read with Pierre Bourdieu: Forms of heteronomy in the contemporary literary field', CRESC Working Paper 45.
Basilio Acerete, Jean Shaoul and Anne Stafford (2007), 'Taking its toll: The private financing of roads in Spain', CRESC Working Paper 44.
Johnna Montgomerie (2007), 'Financialization and consumption: an alternative account of rising consumer debt levels in Anglo-America', CRESC Working Paper 43.
Michael Pryke (2007), 'Money's eyes: The visual preparation of financial markets', CRESC Working Paper 42.
Debra Howcroft and Helen Richardson (2007), 'Gender Matters in the Global Outsourcing of Service Work', CRESC Working Paper 41.
Brigitte Le Roux, Henry Rouanet, Mike Savage and Alan Warde (2007), 'Class and Cultural Division in the UK', CRESC Working Paper 40.
Dale Southerton, Alan Warde, Shu-Li Cheng and Wendy Olsen (2007), 'Trajectories of time spent reading as a primary activity: a comparison of the Netherlands, Norway, France, UK and USA since the 1970s', CRESC Working Paper 39.
Sukhdev Johal and Adam Leaver (2007), 'Is the stock market a disciplinary institution? French giant firms and the regime of accumulation', CRESC Working Paper 38.
Evelyn Ruppert (2007), 'Producing Population', CRESC Working Paper 37.
Hanne Tange (2007), 'Linguistic globalisation or localisation? The practice of intercultural communication in multilingual spaces', CRESC Working Paper 36.
Chris Westrup and Saheer Al-Jaghoub (2007), 'Nation States and Networks of Flows: The role of the state in Jordan’s ICT enabled development', CRESC Working Paper 35.
Richard Collins (2007), 'Misrecognitions: associative and communalist visions in EU media policy and regulation, from Television without Frontiers to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD', CRESC Working Paper 34.
Paul Du Gay (2007), '‘Without affection or enthusiasm’: problems of attachment and involvement in ‘responsive’ public management', CRESC Working Paper 33.
Liz McFall (2007), 'Prudentialism and the ‘missionaries’ of life assurance', CRESC Working Paper 32.
Julie Froud and Karel Williams (2007), 'Private equity and the culture of value extraction', CRESC Working Paper 31.
David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee (2007), 'Digitalisation, Music and Copyright', CRESC Working Paper 30.
Hazel Gillard, Debra Howcroft, Natalie Mitev and Helen Richardson (2007), '‘Missing Women’: Gender, ICTs And The Shaping Of The Global Economy', CRESC Working Paper 29.

2006

Richard Collins (2006), 'Rawls, Fraser, redistribution, recognition and The World Summit on the Information Society.', CRESC Working Paper 28.
Ben O’Loughlin (2006), 'The operationalization of the concept ‘cultural diversity’ in British television policy and governance', CRESC Working Paper 27.
Alberto Corsín Jiménez (2006), 'Economy and aesthetic of public knowledge', CRESC Working Paper 26.
Peter Folkman, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams (2006), 'Working for Themselves?: Capital market intermediaries and present day capitalism', CRESC Working Paper 25.
Michael Pryke (2006), 'Speculating on geographies finance', CRESC Working Paper 24.
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2006), 'Agency, the romance of management pay and an alternative explanation', CRESC Working Paper 23.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Richard Phillips and Karel Williams (2006), 'Stressed by choice: a business model analysis of the BBC', CRESC Working Paper 22.
Francis Dodsworth (2006), 'Liberty and Order: Civil Government and the Common Good in Eighteenth-Century England', CRESC Working Paper 21.
Richard Collins (2006), 'Taking the high ground: the struggle for ideas in UK broadcasting policy', CRESC Working Paper 20.
Richard Collins (2006), 'The BBC and Public Value', CRESC Working Paper 19.
Susanne Brandtstädter (2006), 'Muddled Modernities in ‘Peasant’ China', CRESC Working Paper 18.
Shinobu Majima (2006), 'Unpacking Culture Shifts In Post-War Britain: A Critical Encounter With Ronald Inglehart', CRESC Working Paper 17.
David Saunders (2006), 'What does liberalism inherit from early modern religious settlements?', CRESC Working Paper 16.
Grahame Thompson (2006), 'Religious Fundamentalisms, Territories and ‘Globalization’', CRESC Working Paper 14.
Paul DuGay (2006), 'Re-Instating an Ethic of Office? Office, ethos and persona in public management', CRESC Working Paper 13.
Julie Froud, Mike Savage, Gindo Tampubolon and Karel Williams (2006), 'Rethinking Elite Research', CRESC Working Paper 12.
Andrew Miles and Rebecca Clarke (2006), 'The Arts in Criminal Justice: a Study of Research Feasibility'.
Grahame Thompson (2006), 'What is fundamentalism?', available at openDemocracy.
Kath Woodward (2006), 'Here we go-but where? The possibilities of diaspora in the field of Sport, AHRC', available at Diasporas.

2005

Yanuar Nugroho and Gindo Tampubolo (2005), 'Mapping the network society: Network dynamics in the transition to democracy in Indonesia', CRESC Working Paper 015.
Ismail Ertürk, Julie Froud, Stefano Solari and Karel William (2005), 'The reinvention of prudence: household savings, financialisation and forms of capitalism', CRESC Working Paper 011.
Egle Rindzeviciute (2005), 'The Rise of Cybernetics? Government and Change in Lithuanian Cultural Policy', CRESC Working Paper 010.
Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2005), 'The democratisation of finance? Promises, outcomes and conditions', CRESC Working Paper 009.
Kath Woodward (2005), 'On and Off the Pitch: Diversity policies and transforming identities?', CRESC Working Paper 008.
Tim Jordan (2005), 'Social Movements and Social Change', CRESC Working Paper 007.
Nick Crossley (2005), 'In the Gym: Motives, Meanings and Moral Careers', CRESC Working Paper 006.
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams (2005), 'General Electric: the Conditions of Success', CRESC Working Paper 005.
Mike Savage, Modesto Gayo-Cal, Alan Warde and Gindo Tampubolon (2005), 'Cultural capital in the UK: a preliminary report using correspondence analysis', CRESC Working Paper 004.
Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright (2005), 'Cultural Capital and the Cultural Field in Contemporary Britain', CRESC Working Paper 003.
Tony Bennett (2005), 'Civic laboratories: museums, cultural objecthood, and the governance of the social', CRESC Working Paper 002.
Hannah Knox, Mike Savage and Penny Harvey (2005), 'Social networks and spatial relations: networks as method, metaphor and form', CRESC Working Paper 001.

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