Prof Gerry Mooney
Biography
Professional biography
Emeritus Professor of Scottish Society & Social Welfare,
School of Social Sciences & Global Studies,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
The Open University in Scotland
I retired from full time employment with The Open University in 2023. In my 37 years history with the OU I worked on the production of many different modules spanning different areas of the Social Sciences curricculum as well as at different levels.
During my OU life, I contributed a number of articles to OpenLearn on different aspects of Scottsh politics and society, and also lead projects on the collation of materials in relation to Red Clydeside and the role of Women in Workplace Struggles in Scotland over the past century and more.
I also acted as an academic consultant on many of the production partnerships between the OU and the BBC, most recently the BBC2 series, Union with David Olusoga, first broadcast on BBC in October 2023.
Since my retirement, I have been busy with some small scale research and writing projects on different aspects of social change in Glasgow, focusing on the impact of austerity and on public-sector strikes. I am also working with some colleagues on resistance to neoliberalism in Glasgow.
Publications
Book
Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation (2016)
Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland (2015)
Poverty in Scotland 2014: The Independence Referendum and Beyond (2014)
Social justice and social policy in Scotland (2012)
Poverty in Scotland 2011: Towards a More Equal Scotland? (2011)
Criminal Justice in Scotland (2010)
Community: Welfare, Crime and Society (2009)
Understanding social welfare movements (2009)
Poverty in Scotland 2007 (2007)
New Labour/hard labour?: Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry (2007)
Social Care, Health and Welfare in Contemporary Scotland (2006)
Exploring social policy in the ‘New’ Scotland (2005)
Work: Personal lives and social policy (2004)
Poverty in Scotland 2002: people, places and policies (2002)
Book Chapter
‘The Structural Development of Poverty and Inequality’ (2022)
‘Neoliberalism with a Heart? Life Under the SNP’ (2021)
Scotland - new directions in welfare? (2015)
Beyond the penal state: advanced marginality, social policy and anti-welfarism (2012)
The coming of age of Scottish social services? (2012)
Devolution, social justice and social policy: the Scottish context (2012)
Urban ‘disorders’, ‘problem places’ and criminal justice in Scotland’ (2010)
Criminal justice in Scotland: overview and prospects (2010)
Criminal justice in contemporary Scotland: themes, issues and questions (2010)
Anti-welfarism and the making of the 'problem' community (2010)
‘Financialisation and proletarianisation: changing landscapes of neoliberal Scotland’ (2010)
Communities and social mobilisations (2009)
Explaining poverty, social exclusion and inequality: Towards a structural approach (2008)
'Problem' people, 'problem' spaces?: New Labour and council estates (2007)
New Labour, ‘modernisation’ and welfare worker resistance (2007)
Poverty and anti-poverty policy: Continuity and change (2007)
Strenuous welfarism: restructuring the welfare labour process (2007)
Tackling Poverty and Disadvantage: Towards An Alternative Strategy (2007)
Beyond New Labour: work and resistance in the new welfare state (2007)
Children and Young people, Social Work and Scotland (2006)
Learning disability in 21st century Scotland (2006)
Care of older people in Scotland (2006)
New Labour and the management of welfare (2006)
United we swim: community action and the fight to save Govanhill Pool (2006)
Policies for the city and community in the devolved Scotland (2006)
Introduction: Social care, health and welfare in the devolved Scotland (2006)
Social policy in Scotland: Imagining a different future (2005)
Introduction: themes and questions (2005)
Managing poverty in the devolved Scotland (2005)
Governance and social policy in the devolved Scotland (2005)
Managing personal lives: doing 'welfare work' (2004)
New Labour and managerialism: privatizing the welfare state? (2001)
Introduction: Class struggle and social policy (2000)
"No Poll Tax Here!": The Tories, social policy and the great poll tax rebellion, 1987-1991 (2000)
Changing Places: Perspectives on the development of a municipal suburban streetscape (1998)
Glasgow: A tale of two cities? Disadvantage and exclusion on the european periphery (1998)
Journal Article
Conceptualising Austerity in Scotland as a Risk Shift: Ideas and Implications (2016)
The 2014 Scottish independence debate: questions of social welfare and social justice (2015)
Scottish criminal justice: Devolution, divergence and distinctiveness (2015)
The Scottish state and the criminalisation of football fans (2013)
Neoliberal housing policy - time for a critical re-appraisal (2013)
The de-civilizing process and the urban working class in Scotland (2012)
Crisis social policy and the resilience of the concept of community (2012)
“Welfare ghettos” and the “broken society”: territorial stigmatisation in the contemporary UK (2012)
Devolution in a ‘stateless nation’: nation-building and social policy in Scotland (2012)
Devolution and the shifting political economic geographies of the United Kingdom (2012)
Competitive nationalism: state, class and the forms of capital in devolved Scotland (2012)
Class, citizenship and regeneration: Glasgow and the Commonwealth Games 2014 (2012)
‘Saints and scroungers': constructing the poverty and crime myth (2011)
Glasgow's new urban frontier: 'Civilising' the population of 'Glasgow East' (2011)
Corporate power: agency, communication, influence and social policy (2010)
‘Welfare worries’: mapping the directions of welfare futures in the contemporary UK (2010)
Thinking beyond the hybrid: 'Actually-existing' cities 'after neoliberalism' in Boyle et al (2009)
The question of economic growth and inequality in contemporary Scotland (2009)
Introduction: Social policy in the devolved Scotland: Towards a Scottish welfare state? (2009)
Poverty and social justice in the devolved Scotland: Neoliberalism meets social democracy (2009)
Urban nightmares and dystopias, or places of hope? (2008)
Decentring Social Policy? Devolution and the Discipline of Social Policy: A Commentary (2008)
The 'Celtic Lion' and social policy: Some thoughts on the SNP and social welfare (2008)
'Reframing the poverty debate' the New Labour way (2007)
Reply to Bechhofer and McCrone (2007)
New Labour and community protests: The case of the Govanhill swimming pool campaign, Glasgow (2006)
Forging new ‘ways of life’? Social policy and nation building in devolved Scotland and Wales (2006)
The maladies of social capital II: Resisting neo-liberal conformism (2006)
The maladies of social capital I: The missing 'capital' in theories of social capital (2006)
‘We’ve never had it so good’: The ‘problem’ of the working class in devolved Scotland (2006)
Privatizing education in Scotland? New Labour, modernization and ‘public’ services (2006)
Introduction: Rethinking social policy through devolution (2006)
Marginalised voices: resisting the privatisation of council housing in Glasgow (2005)
'Only looking after the weans'? The Scottish nursery nurses’ strike, 2004 (2005)
'A land of milk and honey'?: Social policy in Scotland after devolution (2004)
Urban policy in the New Scotland: the role of social inclusion partnerships (2004)
Scotland divided: poverty, inequality and the Scottish parliament (2000)
The poll tax struggle in Britain: a reply to Hoggett and Burns (1992)
Undermining the 'north-south divide?' Fighting the poll tax in Scotland, England and Wales (1990)
Other
Journal for the Study of British Cultures: Poverty (2014)
Stigmatising poverty? The ‘Broken Society’ and reflections on anti-welfarism in the UK today (2011)
