Kate Believe it or not I am still wrangling with the journal over their copy editors’ incompetence. They introduce errors to my manuscript, then do not correct them when repeatedly pointed out! (This is basic errors like typos and missing words.) Grrrr.... more
Kate Why do they think they know better than I do what I want to say? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Kate The copy editing process is very, very frustrating. Of course I accept they have their house style and change ‘-ise’ to ‘-ize’ and ‘which’ to ‘that’ etc – fair enough. But I am having to go through my paper finding all the small changes the copy ed... more
Kate Why do they think they know better than I do what I want to say? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Graduate Student, School of Construction Management & Engineering
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Stuart Green
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About
Career history
I joined Reading University’s School of Construction Management and Engineering in 2007, following more than 25 years in the construction industry.
Research interests
I am particularly interested in people and culture in construction. My current work focuses on skill and identity in the building trades.
I am investigating the resources out of which occupational identities are crafted, such as :
= Work practices - (influenced by changes in technology)
= Work organisation - hierarchies and divisions of labour
= Discourses and ideologies that construct particular versions of self and occupation.
= Stories and myths
= Groups and social relations at work
= Anti-identities.
My previous work used critical discourse analysis to identify some of the assumptions behind the text of the “Respect for People” report (on UK construction), particularly as concerns safety, and ‘diversity’. Investigation of the context of the report reveals it to be a response to conditions at a particular historical moment: labour shortages; the desire to avoid or pre-empt regulation; changes in the wider prevailing discourse; and the need to give the impression that ‘something is being done’. The ‘business case’ argument for respecting people means that improvements to working conditions are judged purely in accordance with their contribution to efficiency and profitability, rather than in terms of moral imperatives (not killing people) or fairness (not discriminating against them).
