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Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920 (2024)
Journal Article
Wright, M. (2024). Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920. *Journal not in list, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.13169/jofstudindentleg.4.2.0021

Indian women represented something of a persistent problem for colonial officials. The Indian Government consistently emphasized the importance of obtaining high numbers of indentured women, as the lack of women on plantations was portrayed as leadin... Read More about Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920.

Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement (2024)
Book Chapter
McQuinn, M. (2024). Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement. In F. Fauri, & D. Mantovani (Eds.), Past and Present Migration Challenges: What European and American History Can Teach Us (219-245). Palgrave MacMillan with the support of the European Commission. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39431-7_9

This chapter examines the 2022 UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP). This arrangement includes an asylum partnership arrangement (APA), allowing the British government to send people to Rwanda who would otherwise claim asyl... Read More about Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement.

African Trade Unions and the Politics of Gender: A Collection of Interviews with Rhoda Boateng, Marjorie Chanda Mutale, Deborah Freeman, Leontine Mbolanomena and Maria Joaquina Almeida (2022)
Journal Article
Cojocaru, M., & McQuinn, M. (2022). African Trade Unions and the Politics of Gender: A Collection of Interviews with Rhoda Boateng, Marjorie Chanda Mutale, Deborah Freeman, Leontine Mbolanomena and Maria Joaquina Almeida. Global labour journal, 13(2), 250-259. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v13i2.5195

ICTs, Distributed Discourse and the Labour Movement in Cabo Verde: Why Weak Communications Remain a Crucial Barrier to Trade Union Effectiveness (2022)
Journal Article
McQuinn, M., & Cojocaru, M. (in press). ICTs, Distributed Discourse and the Labour Movement in Cabo Verde: Why Weak Communications Remain a Crucial Barrier to Trade Union Effectiveness. Global labour journal, 13(2), 229-249. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v13i2.4980

Based on interviews with trade union officials from different islands and the Inspector General of Labour, this article examines the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by labour organisations in Cabo Verde. Distributed discourse... Read More about ICTs, Distributed Discourse and the Labour Movement in Cabo Verde: Why Weak Communications Remain a Crucial Barrier to Trade Union Effectiveness.

Oil in Ghana: The Work of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union (GTPCWU) (2022)
Journal Article
McQuinn, M., & Sallah, F. (in press). Oil in Ghana: The Work of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union (GTPCWU). Global labour journal, 13(2), 187-208. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v13i2.4557

Utilising elements of Coordination and Context-Appropriate Power Theory (CCAP) as a framework, this article assesses the efforts of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union (GTPCWU) in Ghana to defend the rights of workers in the... Read More about Oil in Ghana: The Work of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers’ Union (GTPCWU).

The US rate of profit 1964–2017 and the turnover of fixed and circulating capital (2022)
Journal Article
Jefferies, B. (2023). The US rate of profit 1964–2017 and the turnover of fixed and circulating capital. Capital & Class, 47(2), 267-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168221084110

This article addresses how Marxist economists have estimated the quantity of fixed and circulating capital advanced in the denominator of the rate of profit calculation. Generally, Marxist economists have used neoclassical fixed capital estimates of... Read More about The US rate of profit 1964–2017 and the turnover of fixed and circulating capital.

The arbitration of nature: state, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition (2021)
Journal Article
Reinsborough, M. (in press). The arbitration of nature: state, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition. Water History, 13(3), 337-373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-021-00284-6

Begun in the summer of 1923, the Silent Valley Reservoir was the first large scale civil engineering project after the division between the North and the South of Ireland. It was the continuation of a previous project. In the late Nineteenth Century... Read More about The arbitration of nature: state, water, and civil engineering in Northern Ireland directly after partition.

The Labour Theory of Value, Simple Commodity Production and the Transformation Problem (2021)
Journal Article
Jefferies, B. (in press). The Labour Theory of Value, Simple Commodity Production and the Transformation Problem. Critique (Abingdon. Online), 49(1/2), 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/03017605.2021.1934080

This article revaluates contemporary criticism of Marx’s value theory. Key tenets of Marx’s value theory are widely rejected. The use of labour (abstract or otherwise) as a standard of value is deemed ‘mystical’ or ‘magical’. The logical-historical m... Read More about The Labour Theory of Value, Simple Commodity Production and the Transformation Problem.

Marx’s Forgotten Transformation Solution: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production in Marx’s Grundrisse and Maksakovsky’s The Capitalist Cycle (2021)
Journal Article
Jefferies, B. (in press). Marx’s Forgotten Transformation Solution: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production in Marx’s Grundrisse and Maksakovsky’s The Capitalist Cycle. History of Economics Review, 80(1), 18-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/10370196.2021.1952004

This article explains that in the Grundrisse Marx considered that the discontinuity in his transformation procedure was no logical inconsistency, but a necessary feature of the disproportionate transition to capitalist production dominated by the acc... Read More about Marx’s Forgotten Transformation Solution: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production in Marx’s Grundrisse and Maksakovsky’s The Capitalist Cycle.

China’s Accession to the WTO and the Collapse That Never Was (2020)
Journal Article
Jefferies, B. (2021). China’s Accession to the WTO and the Collapse That Never Was. Review of Radical Political Economics, 53(2), 300-319. https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613420948968

This article examines the application of neoclassical economics to the discussion of China’s transition to the market in the 1990s and its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. It shows how this theory shaped, and misled, forecasts... Read More about China’s Accession to the WTO and the Collapse That Never Was.

Reference and Affect: What role in computation and the neurosciences (2020)
Book Chapter
Reinsborough, M. (2020). Reference and Affect: What role in computation and the neurosciences. In K. Purgar (Ed.), Iconology of Abstraction: Nonfigurative Images and the Modern World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429262500-21

Twenty First Century computational neuroscience and Twenty First Century psychoanalysis have two very different ways of representing the mental life of the subject, each with its own merits and limitations. This paper performs a superimposition of Pe... Read More about Reference and Affect: What role in computation and the neurosciences.

Art-Science Collaboration in an EPSRC/BBSRC-Funded Synthetic Biology UK Research Centre (2020)
Journal Article
Reinsborough, M. (in press). Art-Science Collaboration in an EPSRC/BBSRC-Funded Synthetic Biology UK Research Centre. NanoEthics: Studies of New and Emerging Technologies, 14, 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00367-3

Here I examine the potential for art-science collaborations to be the basis for deliberative discussions on research agendas and direction. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become a science policy goal in synthetic biology and several ot... Read More about Art-Science Collaboration in an EPSRC/BBSRC-Funded Synthetic Biology UK Research Centre.

An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China (2019)
Book Chapter
McQuinn, M. (2019). An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China. In Y. Zheng, & J. Qian (Eds.), Development and Poverty Reduction: A Global Comparative Perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429292125-5

This chapter provides an overview of the interrelated issues affecting official development assistance (ODA) and situates a discussion of future trajectories for Development Assistance Committee (DAC)-China aid relations within these complex strands.... Read More about An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China.

Ethics Management and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project (2019)
Book Chapter
Rainey, S., Stahl, B., Shaw, M., & Reinsborough, M. (2019). Ethics Management and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project. In R. von Schomberg, & J. Hankins (Eds.), International Handbook on Responsible Innovation: A Global Resource (379-392). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00035

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a key concept in current discourses concerning research governance and policy. The practice of Ethics Management in the European Union (EU) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship Human Brain Proje... Read More about Ethics Management and Responsible Research and Innovation in the Human Brain Project.

An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities (2019)
Journal Article
Radetz, A., Reinsborough, M., Fisher, E., Corley, E., & Guston, D. (in press). An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities. Science and Public Policy, 46(6), 853-865. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scz034

Increased funding of nanotechnology research in the USA at the turn of the millennium was paired with a legislative commitment to and a novel societal research policy for the responsible development of nanotechnology. Innovative policy discourses at... Read More about An assessment of engaged social science research in nanoscale science and engineering communities.

Strengths and Weaknesses of African Trade Unions in the Neoliberal Period with a Sierra Leone Case Study' (2018)
Journal Article
McQuinn, M. (2018). Strengths and Weaknesses of African Trade Unions in the Neoliberal Period with a Sierra Leone Case Study'. Africana studia,

This article provides an overview of the weaknesses and strengths of trade unions in Africa, as neoliberal economic policies continue to spread across the continent. The Power Resources Approach is used as a conceptual framework. Five problems affec... Read More about Strengths and Weaknesses of African Trade Unions in the Neoliberal Period with a Sierra Leone Case Study'.