Professor Arthur McIvor

Professor in Social History

Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre

E: a.mcivor@strath.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 141 548 2212
F: +44 (0) 141 552 8509

Fields of specialisation

• History of occupational health, with a particular interest in respiratory disease and disability and in oral history methodology.
• Social history of work.
• Labour and industrial relations history.

Current research

• Oral History of occupational health and safety in Britain
• The history of work in Britain since 1945
• Disability and Industrial Society:  A comparative cultural history of British Coalfields, 1780-1947

Teaching and professional experience

• Director, Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde
• Lecturer in History at University of Strathclyde since 1984
• Editorial Board of the Society for the Study of Labour History (UK)

Research Grants

• Masculinities Challenged:  The reserved Occupations in Wartime, 1939-1945 - This new AHRC-funded (£292Kfec) two year research project started 1 January 2013 (PI:  Dr Juliette Pattinson; CI Prof. A McIvor; RA Dr Linsey Robb)

• Disability and industrial society:  A comparative cultural history of British coalfields, 1780-1947, (Wellcome Trust funded project on which I am co-investigator responsible for managing the Scottish part of the project).

Selected Publications

• Working Lives:  Work in Britain Since 1945, (Palgrave) forthcoming 2013

• 'Germs at WorK:  Eastablishing Tuberculosis as an Occupational Disease in Britain, c. 1900-1951', Social History of Medicine, vol. 25, no 4, 2012, pp. 812-829 (advance published June 2012).

• 'Body talk:  Oral history methodology in the study of occupational health and disability in twentiieth century British coalmining' in Judith Rainhorn (ed.), Santé et travail à la mine, XIXe-XXe siècles, Lille: Presses Universitaries du Septentrion, forthcoming , September 2013

• ‘Marginalising the body at work?  Employers’ occupational health strategies and occupational medicine in Scotland c. 1930-1974’, Social History of Medicine, April 2008, 21, 1, 127-144.  (with R. Johnston).

• ‘The Realities and Narratives of Paid Work:  The Scottish Workplace,’ in L. Abrams and C. Brown (eds.), A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Scotland, Edinburgh,  2010, 103-130.

• ‘The Textile Firm and the Management of Labour’, in Lex Heerma van Voss, E Hiemstra and E. van Nederveen (eds.), A Global History of Textile Workers, Ashgate, 2010, 597-619.

• Miners Lung a History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining (Ashgate, 2007), with Ronnie Johnston

• Lethal Work: a History of the Asbestos Tragedy in Scotland (Tuckwell Press, 2000), With Ronnie Johnston

• A History of Work in Britain 1880-1950 (Palgrave) 2001.

• Organised Capital (Cambridge University Press), 1996.

• The University Experience 1945-1975 (Edinburgh University Press), 2004 (with Callum Brown and Neil Rafeek)

• Roots of Red Clydeside 1910-14? (J.Donald), 1996, co-editor

• Employers and Labour in Textiles, 1850-1939. (Routledge), 1998, co-editor