IER Professor Noel Whiteside - Publications

Books

The following does not include work on administrative histories of government departments, now forming part of the National Archive’s Current Guide, Part 1.

Governing Pension Fund Capitalism in Times of Uncertainty special issue Global Social Policy, 12, 3, (2012) Co-editors Mitchell Orenstein and Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Transforming European Employment Policy: labour market transitions and the promotion of capability (Elgar 2012) Co-editors Robert Salais and Ralf Rogowski
Britain’s Pensions Crisis: history and policy (British Academy / Oxford University Press, 2006) Co-editors Hugh Pemberton, Pat Thane
Pension Security in the 21^st Century: redrawing the public-private divide (OUP, Oxford, autumn 2003 and 2005) Co-editor, Gordon Clark
Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and France: the modernising state in the mid-twentieth century (Routledge, London, 1998) pp. 295. Co-editor, Robert Salais
Aux sources du chômage: une comparaison interdisciplinaire France - Grande Bretagne (Editions Belin, Paris, 1994) pp. 467 Co-editors, Malcolm Mansfield, Robert Salais
Developments in the British Welfare State, 1939-1951 (HMSO, 1992) pp.180; Co-authors, Andrew Land and Rodney Lowe.
Bad Times: Unemployment in British Social and Political History (Faber & Faber, 1991) pp. 147
Casual Labour: the Unemployment Question and the Port Transport Industry, 1880-1970, (Oxford University Press, 1985) pp. 324; Co-author, Gordon Phillips.

Contributions to edited books

Under my sole authorship, unless stated otherwise.

‘Convention and Capability : an engagement with the work of Amartya Sen’ in R. Diaz-Bone and G. de Larquier (eds.), Handbook of Economics and Sociology of Conventions, (© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025 – forthcoming)

‘Le welfare state britannique: le Rapport Beveridge et ses conséquences. Une comparaison Royaume-Uni / France.’ In C. Andrieu (dir.) [book on ANR anniversary] Folio Gallimard, Paris. Prévu mars 2025.
‘Convention theory and social policy: historical perspectives’ in Diaz-Bone and G. de Larquier (eds.), Handbook of Economics and Sociology of Conventions, (© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52130-1_79-1
‘Beyond unemployment: the collapsing categories of the liberal labour market’ in C. Bessy and C. Didry (dirs.) L’économie est une science réflexive (Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2022) 99-111
‘Au-delà de Beveridge: la sécurité sociale au Royaume-Uni aujourd’hui’ with Matthew Cooper in Daugareilh et M. Badel (dirs.) La securité sociale: a 70 ans – une idée neuve? (Pedone, Paris, 2019)
‘Transforming the unemployed: trade union benefits and the advent of state policy’ in K. Laybourn and J. Shepherd (eds.), Labour and Working Class Lives: essays to celebrate the life and work of Chris Wrigley (Manchester University Press 2017): 68-86.
‘Britain’s pension reforms: a new departure?’ in M. Jepson and D. Natali (eds) The New Pension Mix in Europe: Reforms throughout the Crisis’ (Peter Laing – 2017)
‘Organising labour markets: the British experience’ in Wadauer, T. Buchner, and A. Mejstrik The History of Labour Intermediation (Berghahn Books 2015) 74-91
‘Lebenschancen und Wohlfahrt: Forderung der Gleichstellung von Mannern und Frauen im forgeschritten Alter’ in. B. Huber (ed) Kurswechsel fur ein gutes Leben (campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013) 130-149
‘The Liberal era and the growth of state welfare’ in P. Alcock, M. May and S. Wright (eds) Social Policy (Wiley-Blackwell 2012 4^th) 117-24. Revised and reprinted 2015
‘Introduction’ with R. Rogowski and R. Salais in in R. Rogowski, R. Salais and N. Whiteside (eds), Transforming European Employment Policy: labour market transitions and the promotion of capability (Elgar 2011) 1-25.
‘Creating collective capability: historical perspectives on co-ordinated public action’ in R. Rogowski, R. Salais and N. Whiteside (eds), Transforming European Employment Policy: labour market transitions and the promotion of capability (Elgar 2011) 157-81
‘Les derives du ‘New Public Management’ in Le travail reinventé: un defi pour l’Europe’ Bourgouin and R. Salais (dirs) Nantes 2011: 46-7.
‘Creating public value’ in Benington and M. H. Moore (eds), Public Value: theory and practice (Palgrave, 2011) 74-89
‘L’assurance sociale en Grande Bretagne 1900-1950’ in Michel Dreyfus (dir.) Les assurances sociales en Europe (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009) 127-58.
‘La protección social en Gran Bretaña … el caso del seguro sanitario’ in S. Castillo (coord.) La Previsión Social en la Historia (Siglio, 2009) 519-53
‘Constructing unemployment’ in Riis and M. Hansen (eds.) Poverty: its degrees, its causes and its relief (Solivegus – Verlag, Kiel, 2008) 103-127
‘Estado y relaciones de trabajo en Gran Bretaña. Un estudio de caso – el trabajo portuario’ in Castillo (et al.) Estados y relaciones de trabajo en la Europa del siglo XX, (Ediciones Cinca, 2007) 187- 213
‘Syndicalismes et l’Etat social’ (with M. Dreyfus, P. Pasture and E. Nijhof) in Pigenet, J-P Robert et P. Pasture (dirs), L’Apogée des syndicalismes en Europe occidentale: 1960-85, (Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2006) 81-109
‘Private pensions and public policy: the public-private divide reappraised’ in L. Clark, A. Munnell and M. Orzag (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income (OUP, Oxford, 2006) 684-702
‘Comparing welfare states: conventions, institutions and political frameworks in France and Britain since 1945’ in J-C Barbier et M-T Letablier (dirs), Politiques Sociales: enjeux épistémologiques et méthodologiques des comparaisons internationales (Laing, Brussels, 2005) 211-229
‘Security and the working life’ in Salais and R. Villeneuve (eds), Towards a European Politics of Capabilities, (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
‘The Multiple Foundations of Trade Union Organisation in Nineteenth-Century Germany, France and Britain,’ (with Dreyfus, Kott and Pigenet) in J-L. Robert, A. Prost, C.Wrigley (eds.) The Emergence of European Trade Unionism. (Aldershot, Ashgate), 215-232.
‘Chômage et inaptitude en Grande Bretagne de la fin du XIXe siècle aux années trente’ in C.Omnes et S. Bruno (dirs), Les mains inutiles: inaptitude au travail et emploi en Europe, (Editions Belin, Paris, 2004) 224-48
‘L’Angleterre: la naissance d’une logique assurantielle’ in Assayag, F. Guedj et P. Toucas-Truyen (dirs), La santé en Europe: entre marche et solidarité, (L’Editions de l’Atelier, Paris, 2003) 43-47
‘Accounting and Accountability: an historical case study of a public-private partnership’ in Rhodes (ed.) Transforming British Government vol 2 (Macmillan, 2000) 167-182
- ‘Introduction’ (with Gordon Clark)
- ‘Historical perspectives and the politics of pension reform’
- inL. Clark and N. Whiteside (eds.) Pension Security in the 21^st Century (OUP, 2003): 1-21 & 21-42
‘From full employment to flexibility: Britain and France , 1960-2000’ in Bo Strath (ed) After Full Employment: European discourses on work and flexibility (Peter Laing, Brussels, 2000) 107-135
‘La Charte de la Mutualité et la loi de 1911 en Grande Bretagne’ in M. Dreyfus, B. Gibaud et A. Gueslin (dir) Démocratie, Solidarité et Mutualité: autour de la loi de 1898, (Editions Economica, Paris, 1999) 208-220.
‘Private provision and public welfare’ in Gladstone (ed) Before Beveridge: Welfare before the Welfare State (IEA, 1999) 26 – 43
'Towards a "modern" labour market?' in Conekin, F. Mort, C. Waters (eds), Moments of Modernity? Reconstructing Britain, 1945-64 (Rivers Oram Press 1999), 76-96
‘L’organisation du travail et le développement du syndicalisme dans les ports britanniques’ in Guillon et Mencherini (dir) Dockers, de la Méditerranée a la Mer du Nord (UMR, TELEMME, 1999) 63-75
'Les bases multiples des syndicats' (with M. Dreyfus, S. Kott, M. Pigenet) inL. Robert, F. Boll, A. Prost (dir) L'invention des syndicalismes: le syndicalisme en Europe occidentale à la fin du XIX^e siècle (Paris, Sorbonne, 1998) 269-85
‘Private agencies and public purposes’ in Le Grand and W. Bartlett (eds.) A Revolution in Social Policy: quasi-market reform in the 1990s (Polity Press, 1998) 201-17
‘Les politiques économiques et les politiques industrielles en France et Grande Bretagne (1930-1960)’ in Guedj et S. Sirot (dir), Histoire sociale de l’Europe occidentale au XXème siècle (Editions Seli Arslan, Paris, 1998) 165-180.
- ‘Introduction’ (with R. Salais)
- (b)‘The state and the labour market: employment in the public sector’
- in Whiteside and Salais (eds) Governance, Industry and Labour Markets (Routledge, 1998) 5-38; 373-402
‘Employment policy’ in Ellison and C. Pierson (eds.), Developments in British Social Policy (Macmillan, 1998) 97-112
'Le Welfare state britannique: le produit d’une tradition libérale’ in Auvernon, P. Martin, P. Rozenblatt et M. Tallard (eds), L'Etat a l'épreuve du ‘social’ (Editions Syllepse, 1998), 108-114.
'The politics of the 'social' and the 'industrial' wage, 1945-60' in Jones and M. Kandiah (eds), The Myth of Consensus? (Macmillan, 1997) 120-139
‘Le syndicalisme docker en Grande Bretagne après la seconde guerre mondiale’ in Pigenet (dir), Le syndicalisme docker depuis 1945 (Presse Universitaire de Rouen, 1997) 117-30.
'Industrial relations and social welfare, 1945-1979' inJ. Wrigley (ed.) A History of British Industrial Relations, vol. III, 1939-1979 (Edward Elgar, 1996) 107-128
'Prottegere il mestiere: l'organizzazione sindicale in Gran Bretagna prima della grande guerra' in Antonioli e L. Ganapini (eds) I sindacati occidentali dal'800 ad oggi in una prospettiva storica comparata (Saggiatore B. Mondadori, 1995) 51-73
'Employment policy: a chronicle of decline?' in Gladstone (ed.), British Social Welfare, (UCL Press, 1995) 52-71.
‘Aiming at consensus: the politics of the “social” and the “industrial” wage in Britain after the second world war’ in MIRE Comparing Social Welfare Systems in Europe, vol 1, Oxford Conference, ( Imprimerie nationale, 1995) 509-535
'Concession, coercion or cooperation? State policy and industrial unrest in Britain during the first world war' in Haimson and G. Sapelli (eds) Strikes, Social Conflict and the First World War, (Annali, Feltrinelli Foundation, 1990/1991) 107-123

- (a)'Définir le chômage: traditions syndicales et politique nationale en Grande Bretagne'
- (b)'Introduction, troisième partie: Politique'
- (c)'Introduction générale' (co-author, R. Salais)
- in Mansfield, R. Salais and N. Whiteside (eds), Aux sources du chômage, 1880-1914 (Editions Belin, Paris, 1994) 381-412; 281-295; 5-33

'The British population at war' inM. Turner (ed) Britain and the First World War, (Unwin Hyman 1988) 85-98.
'The social consequences of unemployment', in Booth and S. Glynn (eds.) The Road to Full Employment, (Allen and Unwin, 1987) 17-31.
'Social welfare and industrial relations, 1918-1939' inJ.Wrigley (ed.) A History of British Industrial Relations Vol. II, 1914-1939, (Harvester, 1987) 211-242.

'Public policy and port labour reform', in Tolliday and J. Zeitlin (eds) Shop Floor Bargaining and the State (Cambridge University Press, 1985) 75-108.

Academic Journal Articles (refereed journals)

‘Before the gig economy: why the problems found in Britain’s commercial centres in the late nineteenth century are re-emerging’ LSE Politics and Policy blog August 2022 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/before-the-gig-economy/

‘Beveridge on idleness’ Social Policy and Administration 56, 2, 2022: 245-57

‘Before the gig economy: UK employment policy and the casual labour question’ Industrial Law Journal 50, 4, 2021: 610–635 https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwab029 https://academic.oup.com/ilj/article-abstract/50/4/610/6425068
‘Why women have lower retirement savings: the Australian case’ with Feng, J., Gerrans, P., Moulang, P. and Styrdom, M. Feminist Economics, 25, 1, 2019: 145-73. To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1533250
‘State policy and employment regulation in Britain: an historical perspective’ International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 35, 3, 2019: 379-
‘Casual employment and its consequences: an historical appraisal of recent labour market trends’ Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 40, 2019: 1-26.

‘Flexible employment and casual labour: historical perspectives on labour market policy’ History and Policy, June 2017 http://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/flexible-employment-and-casual-labour-a-historical-perspective-on-labour-ma

‘Constructing unemployment: Britain and France in historical perspective,’ Social Policy and Administration, 48, 1, 2014, 67-85.
‘Privatisation and After: time, complexity and governance in the world of funded pensions’ Transfer 20, 1, 2014, 67-79
The Beveridge Report and Its Implementation: a Revolutionary Project?, Histoire@Politique. Politique, culture, société, n° 24, septembre-décembre 2014 [en ligne, histoire-politique.fr]
‘Who were the ‘unemployed’? Conventions, classifications and social security law in Britain, 1911-34’ Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 40, 1, 2015: 150-170

‘Human rights and ethical reasoning: capabilities, conventions and spheres of public action’, Sociology: 46, 5, 2012, 921-935 with Alice Mah
‘Shifting responsibilities in Western European pensions systems: what future for social models?’, Global Social Policy, 12, 3, 2012, 266-83 with Bernhard Ebbinghaus
‘Introduction’ Global Social Policy, special issue, Governing Pension Fund Capitalism in Times of Uncertainty 12, 3, 2012, 241-46 with Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Mitchell Orenstein.

‘The promotion of capabilities in Sweden: a case study of the contraction of the shipbuilding industry in Gothenburg.’ International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 29, 11/12, 2009, 587-99 with Steven Gascoigne

‘Unemployment in comparative perspective’, International Review of Social History, 52, 2007, 35-56

‘Adapting private pensions to public purposes: historical perspectives on the politics of reform’, Journal of European Social Policy, 16, 1, 2006, 43-54

‘Historical methods for comparing pension policies’, Cross National Research Papers: European Cross National Research and Policy, 7^th series, ‘The Impact of Methodological Approaches to the Study of Welfare’, 2004, http:///www.xnat.org.uk/seminar2 21-30

‘Une comparaison des systèmes de protection sociale en Allemagne, en France et en Grande Bretagne’, Histoire et Sociétés, 6, 2003, 22-41

‘William Beveridge desde una perspectiva histórica: una reinterpretación del Informe Beveridge’ Sociológica del Trabajo, nueva época, num. 48, primavera de 2003, 87-110

‘In search of security: earnings-related pensions in Britain and Europe,’ History and Policy 2003, http://www.historyandpolicy.org/main/policy-paper-11.html 8 pp.

‘Comparing welfare states: social protection and industrial politics in France and Britain, 1930-60’, Journal of European Social Policy, 8, 2, 1998, 139-155 with Robert Salais

‘Regulating markets: the real costs of poly-centric administration under the National Health Insurance Scheme’, Public Administration, 75, 3, 1997, 467- 85
'Creating the welfare state, 1945-60' Journal of Social Policy 25, 1, 1996, 83-103

'La recherche du consensus: politiques des revenus salariaux et sociaux dans la Grande Bretagne de l'après-guerre', Genèses: sciences sociales et histoire, 18, Jan. 1995, 47-67.

'The revolution that failed: public administration and labour policy in Britain, 1880-1918', Jahrbuchs fur Europeanische Verwaltungsgeschichte, no 5, 1993, 57-83.

'La protection du métier: l'organisation industrielle et les services des syndicats dans l'Angleterre de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle', Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Institut de Recherches Marxistes, no. 51, 1993, 29-51.

'Deconstructing unemployment: developments in Britain in the interwar years', Economic History Review, XLIV, Nov. 1991, 665-682 with James Gillespie.

'Unemployment and health', Journal of Social Policy, 17, 1988, 177-194

'Counting the cost: sickness and disability among working people in an era of industrial recession', Economic History Review, XL, 1987, 228-246

'Wages and welfare: industrial bargaining and union benefits before the First World War', Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 51 pt.III, 1986, 21-34.
'Industrial relations and the public record', Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 47, 1983, 42-46

'Central control and the approved societies: access to social support under the interwar health insurance scheme', Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin, 32, 1983, 28-31

'Private agencies for public purposes: some new perspectives on policy making in health insurance', Journal of Social Policy, 12, 1983, 165-193

'The National Health Insurance scheme revisited', Journal of Social Policy, 12, 1983, 525-529
'Welfare legislation and the unions after the First World War: a reply', Historical Journal, 25, 1982, 443-446

'Welfare legislation and the unions during the First World War', Historical Journal, 23, 1980, 857-874
'Industrial welfare and labour regulation in Britain at the time of the First World War', International Review of Social History, 25, 1980, 307-331

'Welfare insurance and casual labour: a study of administrative intervention in industrial employment', Economic History Review, XXXII, Nov. 1979, 507-522
'Unemployment and the public record', Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 38, 1979, 57-59
'Education and the state: the growth of central control', Journal of the Society of Archivists, Spring 1979, 15-19

Departmental Working Papers (Australia)

Politics and Labour Markets: Constructing Unemployment in Twentieth Century Australia (ACIRRT Occasional Paper, University of Sydney, 1995) pp. 32
Industrial Organisation & the Nature of Work, CIRCIT Paper, 1990/4 pp. 29

Commissioned Reports

Mapping Income Protection Gaps: a report prepared for Zurich Insurance Group (October 2015) pp. 50. Co-authors S. McGill, R. Fernandez-Urbano and P. Deng.

Reviewing Governance of Funded Personal Pensions in Australia and the UK CSIRO-Monash Research Cluster working paper CP2 2014-02, July: 21

A Longitudinal Analysis of Superannuation Outcomes: Gender Differences CSIRO-Monash Research Cluster working paper CP2 2015-04: April: pp.49 Co-authors: P. Gerrans and J. Feng.
Gender Issues in European Pensions CSIRO-Monash Research Cluster working paper CP2 2014-02, July: 29
Promoting Personal Saving: a report for Zurich Financial Services; Co-author: Bernard Casey, 2011: pp 34.
Constructing the Public-Private Divide: historical perspectives on the politics of pension reform Oxford Institute of Ageing: Working Paper No. WP102, 2002: pp24

Unemployment and Health: an Evaluation. Report for the Australian National Bureau of Labour Market Research, June 1985: pp. 20

Institute for Employment Research Warwick Institute for Employment Research