Phillip Brown (sociologist)
Professor Phillip Brown (born 21 April 1957), a British sociologist of education, economy and social change, is Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. His publications include seventeen books and over 75 articles. He has spoken at the World Bank and International Labour Organisation and EU.
Biography
Brown was brought up in Oxfordshire in the UK. He started his working life as an apprentice at the British Leyland car factory in Cowley, Oxford, before going to college to study Sociology.
He received his PhD at Swansea University, Wales. His thesis on social class, education and the transition to employment in a period of high youth unemployment was later published as Schooling Ordinary Kids (1987) ]. He was then appointed as a post-doc researcher at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology from 1985-87 followed by a lectureship in Industrial Sociology at the University of Kent (1987-97). He became a Reader in Sociology at Kent before moving to the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University in 1997.
Academic work
His work explores the transformation of education, employment and labour markets since the rise of neo-liberalism in the 1970s, including empirical studies of education, employment and social stratification in Britain, alongside comparative studies of skills and the global division of labour in China, France, Germany, India, Korea, Singapore and the United States.
Books
- (1987) Schooling Ordinary Kids: Inequality, Unemployment and the New Vocationalism, London: Tavistock, pp.210.
- (1994) Higher Education and Corporate Realities: Class, Culture and the Decline of Graduate Careers, London: UCL Press. Brown, P. & Scase, R., pp.197.
- (2001) Capitalism and Social Progress: The Future of Society in a Global Economy, Baskingstoke: Palgrave. Brown, P. and Lauder H., pp.350.
- (2001) High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness and Skill Formation, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brown, P., Green, A. and Lauder, H., pp.300.
- (2004) The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brown, P. and Hesketh, A. with Williams, S., pp.278.
- (2011) The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs and Incomes, New York: Oxford University Press. Brown, P., Lauder, H. and Ashton, D., pp.224.
- Brown, P. (1987) Schooling Ordinary Kids: Inequality, Unemployment and the New Vocationalism, London: Tavistock, pp.210.
- Brown, P. and Hesketh, A. with Williams, S (2004) The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.