Professor Joseph Melling
Publications
Books
Dangerous Trade. Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2011.
with A Booth, Managing the Labour Problem, Ashgate, 2008.
Managing the Modern Workplace. Productivity, politics and workplace culture in postwar Britain, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008.
with P Dale, Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850, Routledge, 2006.
with W Forsythe, The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845-1914, Routledge, 2006.
Articles
Kissing shuttles., Social History, 2006
Beyond a shadow of a doubt., Bulletin of Medical History, 2006
Leading the White-Collar Union: Clive Jenkins, the Management of Trade-Union Officers, and the Politics of the British Labour Movement, c.1968-1979, International Review of Social History, vol. 49, no. 1, 2004, 71-102
Managing the White-Collar Union: Salaried Staff, Trade-Union Leadership, and the Politics of Organized Labour in Postwar Britain, c.1950-1968, International Review of Social History, vol. 48, no. 2, 2003, 245-271
Red under the Collar? Clive Jenkins, White Collar Unionism and the Politics of the British Left, 1947-65, Twentieth Century British History, vol. 13, no. 4, 2002, 412-448
Chapters
‘From Dangerous Trades to Trade in Dangers: Towards an Industrial Hazard History of the Present’, in Dangerous Trade. Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011, 1-13
Trade, spores and the culture of disease: Attempts to Regulate Anthrax in Britain and Its International Trade, 1875–1930, in Dangerous Trade. Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World, Philadelphia.: Temple University Press, 2011, 60-72
Objective Collectives? Transnationalism and “Invisible Colleges” in Occupational and Environmental Health from Collis to Selikoff’, in Dangerous Trade. Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011, 113-125
with T Carter, Donald Hunter and the history of occupational health: precedents and perspectives, in Donald Hunter's Diseases of Occupations - New Authorised Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 1-26
Leading Hands at Work: Technology, work organization and supervision in British engineering, 1870-1914, in Eeckhout PVD (eds) Supervision and Authority in Industry, , 2009, 145-170
with A Booth, Workplace cultures and business performance: British labour relations and industrial output in comparative perspective, in Melling J,Booth A (eds) Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Post-war Britain, Ashgate, 2008, 1-26
with A Booth, Waiting for Thatcher? Trade unionism, Labour politics and shop floor bargaining in post-war Britain, in Melling J,Booth A (eds) Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Post-war Britain, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 125-163
Fordism and the Foreman. Labour relations and supervisory trade unionism in the American and British automobile industries, c. 1939-1970, in Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Post-war Britain, Ashgate, 2008, 27-48
Sex and Sensibility in Cultural History: The English governess and the lunatic asylum, 1845-1914, in Andrews J,Digby A (eds) Sex and Seclusion, Rodopi, 2004, 177-221
Articles
Towards a Trans-national Industrial Hazard History: Charting the Circulation of Workplace Dangers, Debates and Expertise’,, British Journal of the History of Science (, 2012
55. ‘Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt? Experts, Lay Knowledge, and the Role of Radiography in the Diagnosis of Silicosis in Britain, c. 1919–1945’, Bulletin of History of Medicine, vol. 84, no. 4, 2010, 424-466
with P Dale, Britain’s Medical Officers of Health, gender and the provision of cancer services by local and national government, c. 1900-1940, Medical History, vol. 53, 2009, 537-560
Shadows of doubt: Somerset miners and the struggle for compensation rights for silicosis sufferers, Five Arches. Journal of the Radstock Museum Society, no. 65, 2009, 3-5
with P Dale, J Greenlees, The kiss of death or a flight of fancy? Workers’ health and the campaign to regulate shuttle kissing in the British cotton industry, c.1900-1952, Soucial History, 2007
with M Bufton, A mere matter of rock”: organised labour, scientific evidence and British government schemes for compensating silicosis and pneumoconiosis among coalminers, c. 1926-1940, Medical History, vol. 49, 2005, 155-178
An Inspector Calls: perspectives on the history of occupational diseases and accident compensation in the United Kingdom, Medical History, vol. 49, 2005, 102-106
Leading the white collar union: Clive Jenkins, the management of trade union officers and the politics of the British Labour Movement, c. 1968-1979, International Review of Social History, vol. 49, 2004, 71-102
'Leadership and factionalism in the growth of supervisory trade unionism: the case of ASSET, 1939-1956', Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, vol. 13, 2002, 37-82
A healthy future for medical records? A view from sourth-west England, Health Information and Libraries Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, 2001, 162-164
with M Bufton, Coming up for air: industrial silicosis and compensation provisions for workers in the United Kingdom, 1900-1939, Social History of Medicine, vol. 18, no. 1, 63-86
