Prof Al Rainnie

Prof Al Rainnie

UniSA Business

Teaching Enterprise

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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2025 Rainnie, A., Snell, D., & Dean, M. (2025). A 'new' capitalism? The state and restructuring. Journal of Australian Political Economy, 2025(94), 85-103.
2024 Rainnie, A., & Snell, D. (2024). Just Transition in Australia-depoliticisation?. Contemporary Social Science, 19(1-3), 21-40.
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2024 Rainnie, A. (2024). AUKUS and jobs. Journal of Australian Political Economy, 2024(92), 217-223.
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2024 Rainnie, A. (2024). Whyalla and the transition to a decarbonised future. Australian Geographer, 55(3), 401-417.
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2024 Rainnie, A., Snell, D., & Dean, M. (2024). Working futures in Australia's renewable industries?. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35(4), 878-889.
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2023 Rainnie, A. (2023). (Far) beyond smart specialisation to the foundational economy in Australia?. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 34(3), 594-609.
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2023 Rainnie, A., & Snell, D. (2023). Renewable energy and the promise of jobs, regional regeneration and first nations opportunities. Labour and Industry, 33(4), 403-421.
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2023 Weller, S., & Rainnie, A. (2023). Regional assets and value capture trajectories: the growth and demise of an Australian automotive supplier. Review of International Political Economy, 30(5), 1776-1798.
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2022 Rainnie, A., & Herod, A. (2022). Working on waste: beyond ahistorical chronicles and false dichotomies in circular economy narratives. Labour and Industry, 32(2), 194-205.
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2022 Rainnie, A. (2022). Industrial relations in small firms: Small isn't beautiful. Routledge Library Editions Small Business, 12, 1-194.
2022 Weller, S., & Rainnie, A. (2022). Not so 'smart'? An Australian experiment in smart specialisation. Geographical Research, 60(2), 300-313.
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2021 Dean, M., Rainnie, A., Stanford, J., & Nahum, D. (2021). Industrial policy-making after COVID-19: manufacturing, innovation and sustainability. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 32(2), 283-303.
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2021 Rainnie, A. (2021). Regional development and agency: unfinished business. Local Economy, 36(1), 42-55.
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2021 Rainnie, A. (2021). i4.0, 3D printing, deglobalisation and new manufacturing clusters: the view from Australia. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 32(1), 115-133.
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2021 Dean, M., & Rainnie, A. (2021). Post-COVID-19 policy responses to climate change: beyond capitalism?. Labour and Industry, 31(4), 366-386.
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2021 Goods, C., Herod, A., Ellem, B., & Rainnie, A. (2021). Warring brothers constructing Komatsu's and Caterpillar's globalization. Tempo Social, 33(2), 123-142.
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2020 Rainnie, A., & Dean, M. (2020). Industry 4.0 and the future of quality work in the global digital economy. Labour & Industry, 30(1), 16-33.
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2020 van Barneveld, K., Quinlan, M., Kriesler, P., Junor, A., Baum, F., Chowdhury, A., . . . Rainnie, A. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons on building more equal and sustainable societies. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 31(2), 133-157.
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2020 Todd, P., Ellem, B., Goods, C., Rainnie, A., & Smith, L. (2020). Labour in global production networks: workers and unions in mining engineering work. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 41(1), 98-120.
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2020 Junor, A., & Rainnie, A. (2020). A note from the Editors: Exploring contested terrains. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 31(3), 309.
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2019 McGrath Champ, S., Stacey, M., Wilson, R., Fitzgerald, S., Rainnie, A., & Parding, K. (2019). Principals' support for teachers' working conditions in devolved school settings: insights from two Australian States. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 47(4), 590-605.
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2018 Fitzgerald, S., Stacey, M., McGrath Champ, S., Parding, K., & Rainnie, A. (2018). Devolution, market dynamics and the independent public school initiative in Western Australia: "winning back' what has been lost?. Journal of Education Policy, 33(5), 662-681.
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2017 Rainnie, A. (2017). Book review: Mary Romero, Valerie Preston and Wenona Giles (eds), When care work goes global: locating the social relations of domestic work. Work Employment And Society, 31(6), 1038-1040.
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2015 McGrath Champ, S., Rainnie, A., Pickren, G., & Herod, A. (2015). Global destruction networks, the labour process and employment relations. Journal of Industrial Relations, 57(4), 624-640.
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2015 Goods, C., Rainnie, A., & Fitzgerald, S. (2015). Ecological modernisation, industry policy and the Australian automotive industry, 2007-13. Australian Journal of Political Science, 50(1), 93-113.
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2014 Herod, A., Pickren, G., Rainnie, A., & Champ, S. M. (2014). Global destruction networks, labour and waste. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(2), 421-441.
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2014 Fitzgerald, S., Rainnie, A., Goods, C., & Morris, L. (2014). The restructuring of WA human services and its implications for the not-for-profit sector. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 49(4), 509-528.
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2014 Burgess, J., Cameron, R., & Rainnie, A. (2014). Contemporary research on work, workplaces and industrial relations in Australia. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 25(1), 5-9.
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2014 Rainnie, A., Fitzgerald, S., Ellem, B., & Goods, C. (2014). FIFO and global production networks: exploring the issues. Australian Bulletin of Labour, 40(2), 98-115.
2014 McDonald, C., Kirk-Brown, A., Frost, L., Van Dijk, P., & Rainnie, A. (2014). Corrigendum to "Partnerships and integrated responses to rural decline: The role of collective efficacy and political capital in Northwest Tasmania, Australia" [J. Rural Stud. 32 (2013) 346-356]. Journal of Rural Studies, 34, 50.
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2013 Fitzgerald, S., Rainnie, A., & Burgess, J. (2013). Rediscovering Braverman?: political economy, skill, and skill shortages. Australian Bulletin of Labour, 39(1), 2-18.
2013 Rainnie, A., Goods, C., Bahn, S., & Burgess, J. (2013). The challenges of working in Australian academia: an introduction. Labour & Industry, 23(3), 191-199.
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2013 McDonald, C., Kirk Brown, A., Frost, L., Van Dijk, P., & Rainnie, A. (2013). Partnerships and integrated responses to rural decline: the role of collective efficacy and political capital in Northwest Tasmania, Australia. Journal of Rural Studies, 32, 346-356.
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2013 Taylor, P., Newsome, K., & Rainnie, A. (2013). 'Putting labour in its place': global value chains and labour process analysis. Competition and Change, 17(1), 1-5.
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2013 Rainnie, A., Herod, A., & McGrath Champ, S. (2013). Global production networks, labour and small firms. Capital and Class, 37(2), 177-195.
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2013 Bahn, S., & Rainnie, A. (2013). Supply chains and responsibility for OHS management in the Western Australian resources sector. Employee Relations, 35(6), 564-575.
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2013 Herod, A., Pickren, G., Rainnie, A., & McGrath Champ, S. (2013). Waste, commodity fetishism and the ongoingness of economic life. Area, 45(3), 376-382.
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2012 Holley, S., & Rainnie, A. (2012). Who cleans up? The declining earnings position of cleaners in Australia. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 23(1), 143-160.
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2012 Elwood, L., & Rainnie, A. (2012). Strategic planning in Ireland's institutes of technology. Higher Education Policy, 25(1), 107-129.
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2012 Fitzgerald, S., & Rainnie, A. (2012). Failing forward: public schools and new public management. Public Policy, 7(2), 167-182.
2012 Rainnie, A., Fitzgerald, S., Gilchrist, D., & Morris, L. (2012). Putting the public first? Restructuring the West Australian human services sector. International Journal of Employment Studies, 20(1), 104-125.
2012 Rainnie, A., Fitzgerald, S., & Bennett, D. (2012). Creative workers in Western Australia: towards a renewed research agenda. Regions Magazine, 283(1), 19-21.
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2011 Rainnie, A., Herod, A., & McGrath Champ, S. (2011). Review and positions: global production networks and labour. Competition & Change, 15(2), 155-169.
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2011 Cockfield, S., Buttigieg, D., Jerrard, M., & Rainnie, A. (2011). Assessing the impact of employment regulation on the low-paid in Victoria. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 22(2), 131-152.
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2010 McDonald, C., Frost, L., Kirk Brown, A., Rainnie, A., & Van Dijk, P. (2010). An evaluation of the economic approaches used by policy actors towards investment in place-based partnerships in Victoria. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 69(1), 9-21.
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2009 Buttigieg, D. M., Cockfield, S., Jerrard, M., & Rainnie, A. (2009). Community and unions. Labor Studies Journal, 34(4), 437-440.
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2009 Dean, A. M., & Rainnie, A. (2009). Frontline employees' views on organizational factors that affect the delivery of service quality in call centers. Journal of Services Marketing, 23(5), 326-337.
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2009 Cockfield, S., Rainnie, A., Buttigieg, D., & Jerrard, M. (2009). Community unionism and union renewal: building linkages between unions and community in Victoria, Australia. Labor Studies Journal, 34(4), 461-484.
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2008 Rainnie, A., Barrett, R., Burgess, J., & Connell, J. (2008). Introduction: call centres, the networked economy and the value chain. Journal of Industrial Relations, 50(2), 195-208.
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2007 Herod, A., Rainnie, A., & McGrath-Champ, S. (2007). Working space: Why incorporating the geographical is central to theorizing work and employment practices. Work Employment and Society, 21(2), 247-264.
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2005 Rainnie, A., Smith, A., & Swain, A. (2005). Introduction: Work, employment and transition. Work Employment and Transition Restructuring Livelihoods in Post Communism, 1-4.
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2005 Fairbrother, P., & Rainnie, A. (2005). Globalisation, state and labour. Globalisation State and Labour, 1-155.
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2005 Barrett, R., & Rainnie, A. (2005). Editorial: Small firms and new technology. New Technology Work and Employment, 20(3), 184-189.
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2004 Healy, G., Rainnie, A., & Telford, J. (2004). Policy and practice in general print: The workplace reality of national bargaining. Employee Relations, 26(5), 550-566.
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2002 Barrett, R., & Rainnie, A. (2002). What's so special about small firms? Developing an integrated approach to analysing small firm industrial relations. Work Employment and Society, 16(3), 415-431.
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2002 Smith, A., Rainnie, A., Dunford, M., Hardy, J., Hudson, R., & Sadler, D. (2002). Networks of value, commodities and regions: Reworking divisions of labour in macro-regional economies. Progress in Human Geography, 26(1), 41-63.
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2000 Blair, H., & Rainnie, A. (2000). Flexible films?. Media Culture and Society, 22(2), 187-204.
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1997 Randle, K., & Rainnie, A. (1997). Managing creativity, maintaining control: A study in pharmaceutical research. Human Resource Management Journal, 7(2), 32-46.
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1997 Rainnie, A., & Hardy, J. (1997). Trade unions, foreign direct investment and the restructuring of Polish state-owned enterprises. Transfer European Review of Labour and Research, 3(2), 270-290.
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1996 Fitzgerald, I., Rainnie, A., & Stirling, J. (1996). Coming to Terms with Quality: UNISON and the Restructuring of Local Government. Capital Class, 20(2), 103-134.
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1996 Hardy, J., Rainnie, A., Kot, J., Dziura, M., & Piasecka, E. (1996). Restructuring Huta T. Sendzimira - From the lenin steelworks to lean production. Communist Economies and Economic Transformation, 8(2), 237-249.
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1994 Rainnie, A. (1994). Declining in Unison? Trades Union Organisation and Privatisation on Local Authority White Collar Services. Management Research News, 17(7-9), 101.
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1993 Rainnie, A. (1993). The Reorganisation of Large Firm Subcontracting: Myth and Reality. Capital Class, 17(1), 53-75.
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1993 Rainnie, A. (1993). Trade Union Organisation and the Privatisation of Local Authority White Collar Services. Management Research News, 16(5-6), 18-20.
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1992 Rainnie, A. (1992). Subcontracting and the Global-Local Connection: Myth and Reality. Management Research News, 15(5-6), 53-54.
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1991 Rainnie, A. (1991). Just-in-time, sub-contracting and the small firm. Work Employment Society, 5(3), 353-375.
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1989 Rainnie, A. (1989). Flexible Specialisation: A View from the Boundary. Management Research News, 12(3), 19-20.
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1989 Charlesworth, J., Rainnie, A., & Kraithman, D. (1989). Corridor or blind alley? The A1M herts corridor consortium. Local Economy the Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 4(3), 209-218.
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1985 Rainnie, A. (1985). Is small beautiful? industrial relations in small clothing firms. Sociology, 19(2), 213-224.
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1985 Rainnie, A. (1985). Small firms, big problems: The political economy of small businesses. Capital Class, 9(1), 140-168.
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1984 Rainnie, A. (1984). Combined and uneven development in the clothing industry: The effects of competition on accumulation. Capital Class, 8(1), 141-156.
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1983 Rainnie, A. F. (1983). Industrial relations in small businesses: the case of the clothing industry in North East England. undefined.
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Year Citation
2024 Rainnie, A., Herod, A., & McGrath-Champ, S. (2024). Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work: Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the Circular Economy. Edward Elgar Publishing.
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2016 Rainnie, A. L. (2016). Industrial relations in small firms: Small isn't beautiful. Routledge.
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2015 Rainnie, A. (2015). Small firms: between the enterprise culture and 'New Times'. R. Burrows (Ed.), UK: Routledge.
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2015 Newsome, K., Taylor, P., Bair, J., & Rainnie, A. (Eds.) (2015). Putting labour in its place: labour process analysis and global value chains. UK: Macmillan.
2010 McGrath Champ, S., Herod, A., & Rainnie, A. (Eds.) (2010). Handbook of employment and society: working space. UK: Edward Elgar.
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2010 McGrath Champ, S., Herod, A., & Rainnie, A. (Eds.) (2010). Handbook of employment and society: working space. UK: Edward Elgar.
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2005 Rainnie, A., Smith, A., & Swain, A. (2005). Work, employment and transition: Restructuring livelihoods in post-communism. A. Rainnie, A. Smith, & A. Swain (Eds.), Routledge.
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2025 Rainnie, A., & Snell, D. (2025). The Australian net zero economy authority: limits and possibilities. In A. Ruyter, S. McCabe, & B. Nielsen (Eds.), Source details - Title: Examining Net Zero: Creating Solutions for a Greener Society and Sustainable Economic Growth (pp. 25-34). UK: Emerald Publishing Limited.
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2024 Snell, D., Dean, M., & Rainnie, A. (2024). Industry 5.0 and the future of work in manufacturing in Australia. In Handbook for the Future of Work (pp. 225-236). Routledge.
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2023 Sale, A., Sale, J., Rainnie, A., & Burgess, J. (2023). Employee voice and social media: the Australian perspective. In T. A. Adisa, C. Mordi, & E. Oruh (Eds.), Source details - Title: Employee voice in the global north (1st ed., pp. 167-196). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Cham.
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2021 Herod, A., McGrath Champ, S., & Rainnie, A. (2021). Foundations. In S. McGrath-Champ, A. Herod, & A. Rainnie (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space (pp. 1-16). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2021 Rainnie, A., & Dean, M. (2021). Manufacturing. In A. Nankervis (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Fourth Industrial Revolution: What does it mean for Australian Industry? (pp. 39-56). Singapore: Springer.
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2017 Herod, A., Pickren, G., Rainnie, A., & McGrath Champ, S. (2017). Innovation, development and global destruction networks. In H. Bathelt (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation (pp. 752-770). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2017 Rainnie, A. (2017). Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat?. In A Flexible Future Prospects for Employment and Organization (pp. 43-61). De Gruyter.
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2015 Rainnie, A. (2015). Small firms: Between the enterprise culture and ‘new times’. In Deciphering the Enterprise Culture Entrepreneurship Petty Capitalism and the Restructuring of Britain (pp. 176-199).
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2015 Taylor, P., Newsome, K., Bair, J., & Rainnie, A. (2015). Introduction - Putting labour in its place: labour process analysis and global value chains. In K. Newsome (Ed.), Source details - Title: Putting Labour in Its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains (pp. 1-26). UK: Macmillan.
2015 Rainnie, A., Herod, A., McGrath Champ, S., & Pickren, G. (2015). Wasted commodities, wasted labour? Global production and destruction networks and the nature of contemporary capitalism. In K. Newsome (Ed.), Source details - Title: Putting Labour in Its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains (pp. 249-265). UK: Macmillan.
2014 Bennett, D., Coffey, J., Fitzgerald, S., Petocz, P., & Rainnie, A. (2014). Looking inside the portfolio to understand the work of creative workers: a study of creatives in Perth. In G. al. (Ed.), Source details - Title: Creative Work Beyond the Creative Industries: Innovation, Employment and Education (pp. 158-172). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2014 Rainnie, A., Fitzgerald, S., & Ellem, B. (2014). Global production networks and resources in Western Australia. In M. Brueckner (Ed.), Source details - Title: Resource Curse or Cure? On the Sustainability of Development in Western Australia (pp. 93-106). Germany: Springer.
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2013 Church, A., Cundell, I., Hebbert, M., McCoshan, A., Palmer, D., Pinto, R., . . . Wood, P. (2013). Southern England: The South East. In Regional Development in the 1990s the British Isles in Transition (pp. 25-32). Routledge.
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2010 Rainnie, A., McGrath Champ, S., & Herod, A. (2010). Making space for geography in labour process theory. In P. Thompson, & C. Smith (Eds.), Source details - Title: Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis (pp. 297-315). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
2010 Rainnie, A., Herod, A., & McGrath Champ, S. (2010). Workers in space. In S. McGrath-Champ, A. Herod, & A. Rainnie (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space (pp. 249-272). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2010 Rainnie, A., McGrath Champ, S., & Herod, A. (2010). Working spaces. In S. McGrath-Champ, A. Herod, & A. Rainnie (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space (pp. 61-83). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2009 Abusidualghoul, V., Goodwin, J., James, N., Rainnie, A., Venter, K., & White, M. (2009). Sitting on a wall in Northumberland crying: semi-structured interviews. In K. Townsend, & J. Burgess (Eds.), Source details - Title: Method in the Madness: Research Stories You Won't Read in Textbooks (pp. 151-163). UK: Chandos Publishing.
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2006 Rainnie, A., & Drummond, G. (2006). Community unionism in a regional call centre: The organiser's perspective. In J. Connell, & J. Burgess (Eds.), Developments in the Call Centre Industry Analysis Changes and Challenges (pp. 136-151). Routledge.
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2005 Rainnie, A., & Fairbrother, P. (2005). The state we are in (and against). In Globalisation State and Labour (pp. 29-52).
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2005 Fairbrother, P., & Rainnie, A. (2005). The enduring question of the state. In Globalisation State and Labour (pp. 1-11).
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2005 Rainnie, A., Smith, A., & Swain, A. (2005). Employment and work restructuring in transition. In Work Employment and Transition Restructuring Livelihoods in Post Communism (pp. 7-34).
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Year Citation
2006 Rainnie, A., & Fairbrother, P. (2006). Labour and the state we are in (and against). In Labor History Vol. 47 (pp. 113-120).

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2021 Co-Supervisor Inter-firm Composition Dynamics in Troubled Regions Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Lionel Pengilley

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