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Ajayi, S O (2017) Design, procurement and construction strategies for minimizing waste in construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Bristol Enterprise, Research and Innovation Centre , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Akinade, O O (2017) BIM-based software for construction waste analytics using artificial intelligence hybrid models, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Business and Management , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Alaka, H A (2017) 'Big data analytics' for construction firms insolvency prediction models, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Faculty of Business and Law , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Asah-Kissiedu, M (2019) Development of an integrated safety, health and environmental management capability maturity model for Ghanaian construction companies, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture and Built Environment , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Baba, A (2013) Developing a decision support framework for low carbon housing design and delivery in the UK, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture and Built Environment , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Balogun, T B (2018) Integrating bridge maintenance life cycle assessments into bridge design for improved sustainable decision making, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol.
Chidiobi, C (2022) Development of frameworks for the management of materials procurement and construction waste for Nigerian contractors, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Clark, P I (2011) CDM regulations: safety targeted assessment through gateway evaluation (stage) approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Dwairi, S (2018) Development of an Ontology-based framework and tool for Employer Information Requirements (OntEIR), Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture and Built Environment , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Evans, M (2013) An investigation into occupants' satisfaction in UK sustainable social housing, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Faculty of Environment and Technology , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Henjewele, C (2010) Modelling client's value for money uncertainties in PFI projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Faculty of Environment and Technology , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Lam, T (2017) A web-based Decision Support System to assist SMEs to broker risks and rewards for BIM adoption, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Faculty of Environment and Technology , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Love, N E (2009) Leading indicators of failure: a study of SMES in the construction sector in Wales and Scotland, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Business School , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Mahamadu, A-M (2017) Development of a decision support framework to aid selection of construction supply chain organisations for BIM-enabled projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture and Built Environment , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Meng, X (2008) Development of assessment framework for construction supply chain relationships, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of the Built and Natural Environment , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Muhammed-Yakubu, N (2023) A BIM-based information management schema for construction activities data-flow across the project life cycle, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Oladejo, J (2020) An investigation in the factors affecting the implementation of health and safety management practices by contractors in Nigeria, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture and Built Environment , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Omar, H (2020) Towards an automated photogrammetry-based approach for monitoring and controlling construction site activities, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Owolabi, H (2018) Public accountability: The case of government guarantee scheme in PFI/PPP projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol.
Prabhakaran, A (2023) Development of interactive and distributed virtual environments for immersive communication in the furniture, fixture and equipment sector, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Rogan, D J (2003) Attitudes towards innovation in the construction industry: The case in the social housing sector, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Smith, D (2020) Rank and file union organising and employers' counter-mobilisation: The role of activists in the mobilisation of 'self-employed' construction workers, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: action research; building contract; case study; dispute; employment; industrial relations; interview; UK
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- URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1490832
- Abstract:
The unlawful blacklisting of union members by the UK’s major building contractors is well documented. Yet despite having a low union membership density, the sector experiences periodic explosions of industrial action that are almost always unofficial and led by rank and file activists rather than the official unions. Scholars have highlighted the lack of research into employers’ anti-union strategies and the methods by which workers attempt to overcome the difficulties they impose. The author is a leading blacklisting campaigner and this thesis adopts a participatory action research approach, where findings have already been used to support emancipatory change. Over 100 interviews with activists, union officials and industrial relations officers were carried out; whilst documentary evidence from blacklist files, witness statements and internal police reports were analysed. The author’s positionality allowed access to both the interview cohort and primary source documentary data that would be denied to most other researchers. Using mobilisation theory as its theoretical framework, this thesis investigates a systematic industry wide employers’ counter-mobilisation strategy orchestrated by senior executives of multinational corporations, with direct involvement of the police. It also documents the experiences of the construction activists; evaluating how an expectation of victimisation combined with precarious employment relations which results in little legal protection for workers and a business friendly approach adopted by unions, has shaped their activism. Starting from the mid 1980s, the thesis acts as a 30-year longitudinal qualitative case study. A previously unresearched model of union organising that combines covert organising techniques with informal networks of activists operating outside formal union structures is documented. These rank and file groups led some of the most significant industrial disputes of the past three decades, often involving self-employed and non-union workers. Though heavily influenced by structural factors, human agency by activists is key to understanding the patterns of industrial action in construction. This thesis argues that blacklisting is a pre-existing feature of the employment relations landscape rather than a response to specific instances of union organising. As such, counter-mobilisation, within the construction industry at least, should be placed at the start rather than towards the end of any collective mobilisation process. The thesis suggests that a more explicitly dialectical view of mobilisation theory, where structure and agency and the actions of employers and unions constantly interact throughout the mobilisation process, provides a fuller understanding of the phenomenon than a sequential ‘theory of stages’ in which it is too often presented.
Tanabe, S (2022) A risk allocation framework for public private partnerships (PPP) water infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of the West of England, Bristol.
Yakubu, O A (2010) Cost and time control practice of construction projects in the UK: The pursuit of effective management control, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol.