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Institute for Employment Research

IER publications pre 1999

Books

  • Whiteside, N., & Phillips, G. (1985). Casual Labour: the Unemployment Question and the Port Transport Industry, 1880-1970. Oxford University Press.
  • Whiteside, N. (1991). Bad Times: Unemployment in British Social and Political History. Faber & Faber.
  • Whiteside, N., Land, A., & Lowe, R. (1992). Developments in the British Welfare State, 1939-1951. HMSO.
  • Whiteside, N., Mansfield, M., & Salais, R. (Eds.). (1994). Aux sources du chômage: une comparaison interdisciplinaire France - Grande Bretagne. Editions Belin.
  • Whiteside, N., & Salais, R. (Eds.). (1998). Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and France: the modernising state in the mid-twentieth century. Routledge.

Contributions to Edited Books

  • Whiteside, N. (1985). 'Public policy and port labour reform'. In S. Tolliday & J. Zeitlin (Eds.), Shop Floor Bargaining and the State (pp. 75-108). Cambridge University Press.
  • Whiteside, N. (1987). 'Social welfare and industrial relations, 1918-1939'. In C.J. Wrigley (Ed.), A History of British Industrial Relations Vol. II, 1914-1939 (pp. 211-242). Harvester.
  • Whiteside, N. (1987). 'The social consequences of unemployment'. In A. Booth & S. Glynn (Eds.), The Road to Full Employment (pp. 17-31). Allen and Unwin.
  • Whiteside, N. (1988). 'The British population at war'. In J.M. Turner (Ed.), Britain and the First World War (pp. 85-98). Unwin Hyman.
  • Whiteside, N. (1990/1991). 'Concession, coercion or cooperation? State policy and industrial unrest in Britain during the first world war'. In L. Haimson & G. Sapelli (Eds.), Strikes, Social Conflict and the First World War (pp. 107-123). Annali, Feltrinelli Foundation.
  • Whiteside, N. (1994). (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 M. Mansfield, R. Salais, & N. Whiteside (Eds.), Aux sources du chômage, 1880-1914 (pp. 381-412; 281-295; 5-33). Editions Belin.
  • Whiteside, N. (1995). 'Aiming at consensus: the politics of the “social” and the “industrial” wage in Britain after the second world war'. In MIRE (Ed.), Comparing Social Welfare Systems in Europe, vol 1, Oxford Conference (pp. 509-535). Imprimerie nationale.
  • Whiteside, N. (1995). 'Employment policy: a chronicle of decline?'. In D. Gladstone (Ed.), British Social Welfare (pp. 52-71). UCL Press.
  • Whiteside, N. (1995). 'Prottegere il mestiere: l'organizzazione sindicale in Gran Bretagna prima della grande guerra'. In M. Antonioli & L. Ganapini (Eds.), I sindacati occidentali dal'800 ad oggi in una prospettiva storica comparata (pp. 51-73). Saggiatore B. Mondadori.
  • Whiteside, N. (1996). 'Industrial relations and social welfare, 1945-1979'. In C.J. Wrigley (Ed.), A History of British Industrial Relations, vol. III, 1939-1979 (pp. 107-128). Edward Elgar.
  • Whiteside, N. (1997). 'Le syndicalisme docker en Grande Bretagne après la seconde guerre mondiale'. In M. Pigenet (Ed.), Le syndicalisme docker depuis 1945 (pp. 117-130). Presse Universitaire de Rouen.
  • Whiteside, N. (1997). 'The politics of the 'social' and the 'industrial' wage, 1945-60'. In H. Jones & M. Kandiah (Eds.), The Myth of Consensus? (pp. 120-139). Macmillan.
  • Whiteside, N. (1998). 'Le Welfare state britannique: le produit d’une tradition libérale'. In P. Auvernon, P. Martin, P. Rozenblatt, & M. Tallard (Eds.), L'Etat a l'épreuve du ‘social’ (pp. 108-114). Editions Syllepse.
  • Whiteside, N. (1998). 'Employment policy'. In N. Ellison & C. Pierson (Eds.), Developments in British Social Policy (pp. 97-112). Macmillan.
  • Whiteside, N. (1998). 'Les politiques économiques et les politiques industrielles en France et Grande Bretagne (1930-1960)'. In F. Guedj & S. Sirot (Eds.), Histoire sociale de l’Europe occidentale au XXème siècle (pp. 165-180). Editions Seli Arslan.
  • Whiteside, N., & Salais, R. (1998).'Introduction'. . In N. Whiteside & R. Salais (Eds.), Governance, Industry and Labour Markets (pp. 5-38) Routledge
  • Whiteside, N. (1998) 'The state and the labour market: employment in the public sector'. In N. Whiteside & R. Salais (Eds.), Governance, Industry and Labour Markets (pp. 373-402). Routledge.
  • Whiteside, N. (1998). 'Private agencies and public purposes'. In J. Le Grand & W. Bartlett (Eds.), A Revolution in Social Policy: quasi-market reform in the 1990s (pp. 201-217). Polity Press.
  • Whiteside, N., Dreyfus, M., Kott, S., & Pigenet, M. (1998). 'Les bases multiples des syndicats'. In J.L. Robert, F. Boll, & A. Prost (Eds.), L'invention des syndicalismes: le syndicalisme en Europe occidentale à la fin du XIXe siècle (pp. 269-285). Paris, Sorbonne.
  • Whiteside, N. (2025). 'Le welfare state britannique: le Rapport Beveridge et ses conséquences. Une comparaison Royaume-Uni / France'. In C. Andrieu (Ed.), Le Conseil national de la Resistance. Un programme, un compromis (XXe-XXIe siècle) Folio Gallimard. (Expected March 2025).
  • Whiteside, N. (2025). 'Convention and Capability: an engagement with the work of Amartya Sen'. In R. Diaz-Bone & G. de Larquier (Eds.), Handbook of Economics and Sociology of Conventions. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. (Forthcoming).

 

Journal Articles

  • Whiteside, N. (1979). 'Welfare insurance and casual labour: a study of administrative intervention in industrial employment'. Economic History Review, 32, 507-522.
  • Whiteside, N. (1979). 'Unemployment and the public record'. Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 38, 57-59.
  • Whiteside, N. (1979). 'Education and the state: the growth of central control'. Journal of the Society of Archivists, Spring, 15-19.
  • Whiteside, N. (1980). 'Welfare legislation and the unions during the First World War'. Historical Journal, 23, 857-874.
  • Whiteside, N. (1980). 'Industrial welfare and labour regulation in Britain at the time of the First World War'. International Review of Social History, 25, 307-331.
  • Whiteside, N. (1982). 'Welfare legislation and the unions after the First World War: a reply'. Historical Journal, 25, 443-446.
  • Whiteside, N. (1983). 'Industrial relations and the public record'. Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 47, 42-46.
  • Whiteside, N. (1983). '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, 28-31.
  • Whiteside, N. (1983). 'Private agencies for public purposes: some new perspectives on policy making in health insurance'. Journal of Social Policy, 12, 165-193.
  • Whiteside, N. (1983). 'The National Health Insurance scheme revisited'. Journal of Social Policy, 12, 525-529.
  • Whiteside, N. (1986). 'Wages and welfare: industrial bargaining and union benefits before the First World War'. Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 51(III), 21-34.
  • Whiteside, N. (1987). 'Counting the cost: sickness and disability among working people in an era of industrial recession'. Economic History Review, 40, 228-246.
  • Whiteside, N. (1988). 'Unemployment and health'. Journal of Social Policy, 17, 177-194.
  • Whiteside, N., & Gillespie, J. (1991). 'Deconstructing unemployment: developments in Britain in the interwar years'. Economic History Review, 44, 665-682.
  • Whiteside, N. (1993). '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, 51, 29-51.
  • Whiteside, N. (1993). 'The revolution that failed: public administration and labour policy in Britain, 1880-1918'. Jahrbuchs fur Europeanische Verwaltungsgeschichte, 5, 57-83.
  • Whiteside, N. (1995). 'La recherche du consensus: politiques des revenus salariaux et sociaux dans la Grande Bretagne de l'après-guerre'. Genèses: sciences sociales et histoire, 18, 47-67.
  • Whiteside, N. (1996). 'Creating the welfare state, 1945-60'. Journal of Social Policy, 25(1), 83-103.
  • Whiteside, N. (1997). ‘Regulating markets: the real costs of poly-centric administration under the National Health Insurance Scheme’. Public Administration, 75(3), 467-485.
  • Whiteside, N., & Salais, R. (1998). ‘Comparing welfare states: social protection and industrial politics in France and Britain, 1930-60’. Journal of European Social Policy, 8(2), 139-155.

Other Journal Articles

  • Whiteside, N. (1972). 'Faction and Impeachment in the Reign of Charles II'. Polichronicon (Liverpool), 17-23.
  • Whiteside, N. (1985). 'Unemployment and Health: a summary of recent research'. Bulletin of Labour Market Research (Canberra), 16, 10-14.
  • Whiteside, N. (1998). ‘Private Agencies for Public Purposes’. Talking Politics, 10(3), 162-165.

Departmental Working Papers (Australia)

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

Commissioned Reports

  • Whiteside, N. (1985). Unemployment and Health: an Evaluation. Report for the Australian National Bureau of Labour Market Research, June, 20 pages.