Peter Bain

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Peter Bain is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science and Public Administration. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Bain has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in General Health Professions, 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Public Administration. Recurrent topics in Peter Bain's work include Employment and Welfare Studies (16 papers), Emotional Labor in Professions (15 papers) and Labor Movements and Unions (13 papers). Peter Bain is often cited by papers focused on Employment and Welfare Studies (16 papers), Emotional Labor in Professions (15 papers) and Labor Movements and Unions (13 papers). Peter Bain collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Peter Bain's co-authors include Phil Taylor, Jeff Hyman, Gareth Mulvey, Philip Taylor, Chris Baldry, Bob Mason, Carol J. Boyd, Gregor Gall, Dora Scholarios and Abigail Marks and has published in prestigious journals such as Organization Studies, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Antipode.

In The Last Decade

Peter Bain

26 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

‘An assembly line in the head’: work and employee relatio... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. ‘An assembly line in the head’: work and employee relations in the call centre
    1999 535 citations Phil Taylor, Peter Bain Industrial Relations Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Bain United Kingdom 18 1.4k 927 623 535 170 28 2.0k
Stephen Deery United Kingdom 25 697 0.5× 647 0.7× 564 0.9× 841 1.6× 242 1.4× 55 1.9k
Daniel G. Gallagher United States 23 705 0.5× 929 1.0× 700 1.1× 917 1.7× 231 1.4× 56 2.1k
Paul Blyton United Kingdom 24 552 0.4× 600 0.6× 846 1.4× 646 1.2× 127 0.7× 113 1.9k
Irena Grugulis United Kingdom 21 363 0.3× 254 0.3× 259 0.4× 474 0.9× 130 0.8× 53 1.3k
Debra J. Mesch United States 18 729 0.5× 166 0.2× 203 0.3× 394 0.7× 175 1.0× 54 1.5k
John Forth United Kingdom 17 332 0.2× 604 0.7× 626 1.0× 390 0.7× 114 0.7× 84 1.5k
James Gerard Caillier United States 21 580 0.4× 134 0.1× 300 0.5× 653 1.2× 172 1.0× 41 1.2k
Michael Rose United Kingdom 14 418 0.3× 331 0.4× 196 0.3× 185 0.3× 106 0.6× 45 1.0k
Stephen Procter United Kingdom 20 319 0.2× 206 0.2× 251 0.4× 810 1.5× 180 1.1× 59 1.6k
Ernesto Noronha India 21 807 0.6× 234 0.3× 129 0.2× 399 0.7× 249 1.5× 67 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Bain

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Bain

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Bain. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Bain based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Peter Bain. Peter Bain is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Taylor, Phil & Peter Bain. (2008). United by a Common Language? Trade Union Responses in the UK and India to Call Centre Offshoring. Antipode. 40(1). 131–154. 39 indexed citations
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Bain, Peter & Phil Taylor. (2007). No passage to India? Initial responses of UK trade unions to call centre offshoring. Industrial Relations Journal. 39(1). 5–23. 20 indexed citations
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Baldry, Chris, Peter Bain, Phil Taylor, et al.. (2007). The Meaning of Work in the New Economy. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 59 indexed citations
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Taylor, Phil & Peter Bain. (2007). Reflections on the call centre — a reply to Glucksmann. Work Employment and Society. 21(2). 349–362. 38 indexed citations
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Bain, Peter, Philip M. Taylor, & Eli Dutton. (2005). The thin front line: call handling in police control rooms. Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde). 5 indexed citations
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Taylor, Phil & Peter Bain. (2005). ‘India calling to the far away towns’. Work Employment and Society. 19(2). 261–282. 229 indexed citations
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Taylor, Phil & Peter Bain. (2004). Call Centre Offshoring To India: The Revenge of History?. Labour & Industry a journal of the social and economic relations of work. 14(3). 15–38. 37 indexed citations
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Taylor, Phil & Peter Bain. (2004). Book Review: Call Centres and Human Resource Management. Organization Studies. 25(9). 1632–1638. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Phil & Peter Bain. (2003). ‘Subterranean Worksick Blues’: Humour as Subversion in Two Call Centres. Organization Studies. 24(9). 1487–1509. 177 indexed citations
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Taylor, Phil, Gareth Mulvey, Jeff Hyman, & Peter Bain. (2002). Work Organization, Control and the Experience of Work in Call Centres. Work Employment and Society. 16(1). 133–150. 199 indexed citations
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Taylor, Phil & Peter Bain. (2001). Entrapped by the. SSRN Electronic Journal. 23 indexed citations
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Bain, Peter & Phil Taylor. (2001). Seizing the Time? Union recruitment Potential in Scottish Call Centres. Scottish Affairs. 37 (First Serie(1). 104–128. 2 indexed citations
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Bain, Peter, Phil Taylor, & Chris Baldry. (1999). Sick Building Syndrome and the Industrial Relations of Occupational Health. International journal of employment studies. 7(1). 125. 5 indexed citations
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Taylor, Phil & Peter Bain. (1999). ‘An assembly line in the head’: work and employee relations in the call centre. Industrial Relations Journal. 30(2). 101–117. 535 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boyd, Carol J. & Peter Bain. (1998). ‘Once I Get You Up There, Where the Air is Rarified’: Health, Safety and the Working Conditions of Airline Cabin Crews. New Technology Work and Employment. 13(1). 16–28. 20 indexed citations
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Baldry, Chris, Peter Bain, & Phil Taylor. (1997). Sick and Tired? - Working in the Modern Office. Work Employment and Society. 11(3). 519–539. 2 indexed citations
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Bain, Peter. (1997). Human resource malpractice: the deregulation of health and safety at work in the USA and Britain. Industrial Relations Journal. 28(3). 176–191. 15 indexed citations
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Baldry, Chris, Peter Bain, & Phil Taylor. (1997). Sick and Tired? Working in the Modern Office. Work Employment and Society. 11(3). 519–539. 21 indexed citations
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Bain, Peter, Bob Mason, & Ed Snape. (1993). Trade Union Recruitment Strategies: A National & Local Level Assessment. Management Research News. 16(5/6). 38–39. 1 indexed citations
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Mason, Bob & Peter Bain. (1991). Trade union recruitment strategies: facing the 1990s. Industrial Relations Journal. 22(1). 36–45. 27 indexed citations

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