Article
De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951–2001, and its broad implications
Tomlinson J, Phillips J & Wright V (2022) De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951–2001, and its broad implications. Business History, 64 (1), pp. 28-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235
Article
'Housing Problems … are Political Dynamite': Housing Disputes in Glasgow c. 1971 to the Present Day
Wright V (2021) 'Housing Problems … are Political Dynamite': Housing Disputes in Glasgow c. 1971 to the Present Day. Sociological Research Online, 26 (4), pp. 976-988. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418780038
Book Review
Making the Woman Worker: precarious labor and the fight for global standards, 1919-2019
Wright V (2021) Making the Woman Worker: precarious labor and the fight for global standards, 1919-2019. Review of: Making the Woman Worker: precarious labor and the fight for global standards, 1919–2019 by Eileen Boris, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, xx + 344 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-087462-9. Social History, 46 (2), pp. 230-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2021.1896242
Article
Place, memory and the British high rise experience: negotiating social change on the Wyndford Estate, 1962-2015
Hazley B, Abrams L, Kearns A & Wright V (2021) Place, memory and the British high rise experience: negotiating social change on the Wyndford Estate, 1962-2015. Contemporary British History, 35 (1), pp. 72-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2020.1845148
Commentary
Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity: Using fiction and theatre to reimagine the post-COVID-19 future
French J, Lovatt M & Wright V (2021) Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity: Using fiction and theatre to reimagine the post-COVID-19 future. Sociological Review Magazine. https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/november-2021/methods-and-methodology/through-the-utopian-lens-of-opportunity/
Article
Being a 'Clydesider' in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s
Phillips J, Wright V & Tomlinson J (2020) Being a 'Clydesider' in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s. Labor History, 61 (2), pp. 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2019.1666973
Article
Planning for play: seventy years of ineffective public policy? The example of Glasgow, Scotland
Wright V, Kearns A, Abrams L & Hazley B (2019) Planning for play: seventy years of ineffective public policy? The example of Glasgow, Scotland. Planning Perspectives, 34 (2), pp. 243-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2017.1393627
Article
Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives
Kearns A, Wright V, Abrams L & Hazley B (2019) Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives. Housing Studies, 34 (2), pp. 201-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2017.1409342
Article
Isolated and dependent: women and children in high-rise social housing in post-war Glasgow
Abrams L, Fleming L, Hazley B, Wright V & Kearns A (2019) Isolated and dependent: women and children in high-rise social housing in post-war Glasgow. Women's History Review, 28 (5), pp. 794-813. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1472897
Article
'People and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense'? Locating the tenant's voice in Homes in High Flats
Hazley B, Wright V, Abrams L & Kearns A (2019) 'People and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense'? Locating the tenant's voice in Homes in High Flats. Women's History Review, 28 (5), pp. 728-745. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1472890
Article
Deindustrialization, the Linwood Car Plant and Scotland’s Political Divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s
Phillips J, Wright V & Tomlinson J (2019) Deindustrialization, the Linwood Car Plant and Scotland’s Political Divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s. Twentieth Century British History, 30 (3), pp. 399-423. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz005
Book Chapter
Urban Regeneration in Glasgow: Looking to the past to build the future? The case of the 'New Gorbals'
Clark J & Wright V (2018) Urban Regeneration in Glasgow: Looking to the past to build the future? The case of the 'New Gorbals'. In: Clark J & Wise N (eds.) Urban Renewal, Community and Participation: Theory, Policy and Practice. The Urban Book Series. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 45-70. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72311-2_3
Book Chapter
What did the rent strikers do next? Women and 'The Politics of the Kitchen' in Interwar Scotland
Hughes A & Wright V (2018) What did the rent strikers do next? Women and 'The Politics of the Kitchen' in Interwar Scotland. In: Gray N (ed.) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Transforming Capitalism. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, pp. 17-32. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786605757/Rent-and-its-Discontents-A-Century-of-Housing-Struggle
Article
Aspiration, Agency, and the Production of New Selves in a Scottish New Town, c.1947–c.2016
Abrams L, Hazley B, Wright V & Kearns A (2018) Aspiration, Agency, and the Production of New Selves in a Scottish New Town, c.1947–c.2016. Twentieth Century British History, 29 (4), pp. 576-604. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwy006
Article
‘‘Tinkering at a local level’: Unemployment, State intervention and community agency in Ferguslie Park, Paisley c. 1972-1977’
Wright V (2018) ‘‘Tinkering at a local level’: Unemployment, State intervention and community agency in Ferguslie Park, Paisley c. 1972-1977’. Scottish Labour History, 53, pp. 192-211.
Article
Women as Active Citizens: Glasgow and Edinburghc.1918–1939
Breitenbach E & Wright V (2014) Women as Active Citizens: Glasgow and Edinburghc.1918–1939. Women's History Review, 23 (3), pp. 401-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2013.820602
Article
A woman's industry? The role of women in the workforce of the Dundee jute industry c. 1945-1979
Wright V (2014) A woman's industry? The role of women in the workforce of the Dundee jute industry c. 1945-1979. International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 8 (2/3), pp. 110-125. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmcp.2014.063847
Article
The Prevention of Rural Depopulation: Housing and the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes, c.1917-39
Wright V (2012) The Prevention of Rural Depopulation: Housing and the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes, c.1917-39. Twentieth Century British History, 23 (3), pp. 336-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwr048
Article
The managing of competition: Government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63
Morelli CJ, Tomlinson J & Wright V (2012) The managing of competition: Government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63. Business History, 54 (5), pp. 765-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2011.631129
Book Chapter
Juteopolis and After: Women and Work in Twentieth-Century Dundee
Wright V (2011) Juteopolis and After: Women and Work in Twentieth-Century Dundee. In: Jute No More: Transforming Dundee. Dundee: Dundee University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860905.003.0006
Monograph
The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change
Wright V, Tomlinson J & Morelli C (2011) The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change. London: Pickering and Chatto.
Article
Education for active citizenship: women’s organisations in interwar Scotland
Wright V (2009) Education for active citizenship: women’s organisations in interwar Scotland. History of Education, 38 (3: Education and Citizenship in Modern Scotland), pp. 419-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/00467600902855454