Professor Jim Tomlinson
- Emeritus Professor (School of Social & Political Sciences)
Publications
2023
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979, by Malcolm Petrie (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022; pp. 212. £85).
English Historical Review,
(doi: 10.1093/ehr/cead195)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
Winston Churchill versus E. D. Morel, Dundee, 1922, and the split in the Liberal Party.
Journal of British Studies, 62(4),
pp. 964-987.
(doi: 10.1017/jbr.2023.71)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
Growthmanship in the twenty-first century.
Political Quarterly, 94(4),
pp. 634-641.
(doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.13335)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
‘The Limits of Austerity’ Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press: 2022), 480pp., $30, ISBN 978-0-226-81839-9.
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 44(1),
pp. 203-214.
(doi: 10.3828/hsir.2023.44.12)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
Imagining economic growth in post-war Britain.
Twentieth-Century British History,
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad049)
(Early Online Publication)
2022
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2022)
The First World War in a 'women's town': Dundee 1914-1922.
Women's History Review, 31(2),
pp. 173-197.
(doi: 10.1080/09612025.2020.1864886)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486, Phillips, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469 and Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272
(2022)
De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001, and its broad implications.
Business History, 64(1),
pp. 28-54.
(doi: 10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235)
2021
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2021)
The strange survival of “embedded liberalism”: national economic management and globalization in Britain from 1944.
Twentieth Century British History, 32(4),
pp. 483-508.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab012)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2021)
Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences.
Contemporary British History, 35(4),
pp. 620-642.
(doi: 10.1080/13619462.2021.1972416)
Phillips, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469, Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272 and Tomlinson, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2021)
Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.
ISBN 9781474479240
Wright, Valerie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272, Phillips, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469 and Tomlinson, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2021)
Defending the right to work: the 1983 Timex workers’ occupation in Dundee.
Labour History Review, 86(1),
pp. 63-90.
(doi: 10.3828/lhr.2021.4)
2020
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2020)
Churchill’s defeat in Dundee, 1922, and the decline of liberal political economy.
Historical Journal, 63(4),
pp. 980-1006.
(doi: 10.1017/S0018246X19000475)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2020)
De-industrialization: Strengths and weaknesses as a key concept for understanding post-war British history.
Urban History, 47(2),
pp. 199-219.
(doi: 10.1017/S0963926819000221)
Tomlinson, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2020)
Social democracy and the problem of equality: economic analysis and political argument in the United Kingdom.
History of Political Economy, 52,
pp. 519-538.
(doi: 10.1215/00182702-8304843)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2020)
Supplying ‘Juteopolis’: Dundee and Bengal Jute, c.1850-1914. Commodities of Empire Working Paper No. 31.
Working Paper.
Commodities of Empire Project.
Phillips, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469, Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272 and Tomlinson, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(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.
(doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2019.1666973)
2019
Phillips, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469, Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272 and Tomlinson, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(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.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwz005)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2019)
Britain since the 1970s: a transition to neo-liberalism?
In: Hoppitt, J., Needham, D. and Leonard, A. (eds.)
Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton.
Series: People, markets, goods: economies and societies in history (14).
Boydell Press: Woodbridge, pp. 181-197.
ISBN 9781783274451
2018
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2018)
The economy.
In: Brown, David, Crowcroft, Robert and Pentland, Gordon (eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198714897
2017
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2017)
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198786092
(doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198786092.001.0001)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2017)
Key historical trends in the Scottish economy.
In: Gibb, Kenneth, Maclennan, Duncan, McNulty, Des and Comerford, Michael (eds.)
The Scottish Economy: A Living Book.
Series: Regions and cities.
Routledge: Abingdon ; New York, pp. 12-25.
ISBN 9781138960916
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2017)
The art of the possible. Politics and governance in modern British history, 1885–1997: essays in memory of Duncan Tanner.
Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 37(1),
pp. 101-102.
(doi: 10.1080/02606755.2016.1186913)[Book Review]
2016
Tomlinson, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2016)
Distributional politics: the search for equality in Britain since the First World War.
In: Hudson, Pat and Tribe, Keith (eds.)
The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-first Century: The Piketty Opportunity.
Agenda: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 167-191.
ISBN 9781911116103
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2016)
De-industrialization not decline: a new meta-narrative for post-war British history.
Twentieth-Century British History, 27(1),
pp. 76-99.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwv030)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2016)
Economic policy.
In: Crines, A. and Hickson, K. (eds.)
Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister?
Biteback: London, pp. 93-111.
ISBN 9781785900310
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486 and Gibbs, Ewan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7241
(2016)
Planning the new industrial nation: Scotland 1931-1979.
Contemporary British History, 30(4),
pp. 584-606.
(doi: 10.1080/13619462.2016.1209009)
2015
Tomlinson, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2015)
A new political arithmetic?
Social History, 40(1),
pp. 5-14.
(doi: 10.1080/03071022.2014.993147)
Tomlinson, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2015)
Orientalism at work?: Dundee’s response to competition from Calcutta, circa 1870-1914.
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43(5),
pp. 807-830.
(doi: 10.1080/03086534.2014.982417)
2014
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid-1970s.
Economic History Review, 67(3),
pp. 750-768.
(doi: 10.1111/1468-0289.12038)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
Imagining the economic nation: the Scottish case.
Political Quarterly, 85(2),
pp. 170-177.
(doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.12082)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
The political economy of globalization: the genesis of Dundee's two 'United Fronts' in the 1930s.
Historical Journal, 57(1),
pp. 225-245.
(doi: 10.1017/S0018246X13000344)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
Dundee and the Empire: 'Juteopolis' 1850-1939.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.
ISBN 9780748686148
(doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686148.001.0001)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
Provincial radicalism today.
Economy and Society, 43(2),
pp. 307-314.
(doi: 10.1080/03085147.2014.912462)
2013
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2013)
The spirit of 45? Austerity then and now.
Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 21(2/3),
pp. 46-53.
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2013)
The politics of declinism.
In: Black, Lawrence, Pemberton, Hugh and Thane, Pat (eds.)
Reassessing 1970s Britain.
Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 41-60.
ISBN 978071908848
2012
Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
When rules started to rule: the IMF, neo-liberal economic ideas and economic policy change in Britain.
Review of International Political Economy, 19(3),
pp. 477-500.
(doi: 10.1080/09692290.2011.561124)
Morelli, C.J., Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486 and Wright, V.
(2012)
The managing of competition: government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63.
Business History, 54(5),
pp. 765-782.
(doi: 10.1080/00076791.2011.631129)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
De-globalization and its significance: from the particular to the general.
Contemporary British History, 26(2),
pp. 213-230.
(doi: 10.1080/13619462.2012.673714)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
The empire/commonwealth in British economic thinking and policy.
In: Thompson, A.S. (ed.)
Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century.
Series: Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 211-250.
ISBN 9780199236589
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
From 'distribution of industry' to 'local Keynesianism': the growth of public sector employment in Britain.
British Politics, 7(3),
pp. 204-223.
(doi: 10.1057/bp.2012.10)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
Thatcher, monetarism and the politics of inflation.
In: Jackson, B. and Saunders, R. (eds.)
Making Thatcher's Britain.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 62-77.
ISBN 9781107012387
2011
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Review of: The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914: 'The Secret Spring', by Anthony Cooke.
Economic History Review, 64(4),
pp. 1393-1394.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00611_9.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Managing decline: the case of Jute.
Scottish Historical Review, 90(2),
pp. 257-279.
(doi: 10.3366/shr.2011.0036)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Re-inventing the 'moral economy' in post-war Britain.
Historical Research, 84(224),
pp. 356-373.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00544.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Review of: The Origins of the Twenty-First Century: An Essay on Contemporary Social and Economic History, by Gabriel Tortella.
Economic History Review, 64(2),
pp. 711-712.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00578_33.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486 and Whatley, C.A. (Eds.)
(2011)
Jute No More: Transforming Dundee.
Dundee University Press: Dundee, UK.
ISBN 9781845860905
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Out of recession?
New Political Economy, 16(5),
pp. 655-665.
(doi: 10.1080/13563467.2011.601810)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486, Morelli, C. and Wright, V.
(2011)
The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change.
Series: Perspectives in economic and social history (9).
Pickering & Chatto: London.
ISBN 9781848931244
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486, Morelli, Carlo and Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272
(2011)
The Decline of Jute Managing Industrial Change.
Series: Perspectives in economic and social history (9).
Pickering & Chatto: London.
ISBN 9781848931244
2010
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2010)
Sick but not dying.
Political Studies Review, 8(1),
pp. 67-72.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2009.00207.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2010)
Responding to globalization?: Churchill and Dundee in 1908.
Twentieth-Century British History, 21(3),
pp. 257-280.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwq017)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2010)
Review of: Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist, by Peter Clarke; Keynes: The Return of the Master, by Robert Skidelsky.
Twentieth-Century British History, 21(2),
pp. 232-234.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwp060)
2009
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
The deglobalisation of Dundee, c. 1900–2000.
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 29(2),
pp. 123-140.
(doi: 10.3366/E1748538X09000478)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Keynesianism constrained.
Radical Philosophy, 155,
pp. 6-10.
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Review of: The Management of Technical Change: Automation in the UK and USA since 1950, by Alan Booth.
Economic History Review, 62(2),
pp. 493-494.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00474_12.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain by Frank Trentmann.
History, 94(314),
pp. 252-253.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.453_23.x)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
After decline?
Contemporary British History, 23(3),
pp. 395-406.
(doi: 10.1080/13619460903098467)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Balanced accounts? Constructing the balance of payments problem in post-war Britain.
English Historical Review, CXXIV(509),
pp. 863-884.
(doi: 10.1093/ehr/cep185)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Thrice denied: 'declinism' as a recurrent theme in British history in the long twentieth century.
Twentieth-Century British History, 20(2),
pp. 227-251.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwp019)
2008
Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Negotiating credibility: Britain and the International Monetary Fund, 1956–1976.
Contemporary European History, 17(4),
pp. 545-566.
(doi: 10.1017/S0960777308004700)
Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Whatever happened to the balance of payments 'problem'? The contingent (re)construction of British economic performance assessment.
British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10(4),
pp. 607-629.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2008.00334.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Review of: Equality and the British Left: A Study in Progressive Political Thought, 1900-64 - by Ben Jackson.
Economic History Review, 61(4),
pp. 1017-1019.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00447_18.x)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Review of: Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain 1918-1939 by Clare V. J. Griffiths.
History, 93(312),
pp. 576-577.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2008.432_48.x)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
History as political rhetoric.
Political Studies Review, 6(3),
pp. 297-307.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2008.00159.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
A 'failed experiment'? Public ownership and the narratives of post-war Britain.
Labour History Review, 73(2),
pp. 228-243.
(doi: 10.1179/174581808X324289)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Review of: Having it so good: Britain in the Fifties – by Peter Hennessy Never Had it so Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles – by Dominic Sandbrook.
Economic History Review, 61(2),
pp. 515-517.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00432_17.x)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Review of: Using History, Making British Policy: The Treasury and the Foreign Office, 1950–1976 by Peter J. Beck.
History, 93(310),
pp. 308-309.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2008.423_54.x)[Book Review]
Morelli, C. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Women and work after the Second World War: a case study of the jute industry, circa 1945-1954.
Twentieth-Century British History, 19(1),
pp. 61-82.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwm033)
2007
Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2007)
Credible Keynesianism? New Labour macroeconomic policy and the political economy of coarse tuning.
British Journal of Political Science, 37(1),
pp. 47-69.
(doi: 10.1017/S0007123407000038)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2007)
Mrs Thatcher's macroeconomic adventurism, 1979–1981, and its political consequences.
British Politics, 2,
pp. 3-19.
(doi: 10.1057/palgrave.bp.4200038)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2007)
Tale of a death exaggerated: how Keynesian policies survived the 1970s.
Contemporary British History, 21(4),
pp. 429-448.
(doi: 10.1080/13619460601060439)
2006
Morelli, C. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2006)
Women and Work After the Second World War: A Case Study of the Jute Industry, circa 1945-1954.
Discussion Paper.
University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
2005
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2005)
Managing the economy, managing the people: Britain c.1931–70.
Economic History Review, 58(3),
pp. 555-585.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00313.x)
2004
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2004)
The labour party and the capitalist firm, c. 1950–1970.
Historical Journal, 47(3),
pp. 685-708.
(doi: 10.1017/S0018246X04003917)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2004)
Economic Policy.
Series: Labour governments 1964-70, 3.
Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK.
ISBN 9780719045875
2003
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2003)
The commonwealth, the balance of payments and the politics of international poverty: British aid policy, 1958-1971.
Contemporary European History, 12(4),
pp. 413-429.
(doi: 10.1017/S0960777303001358)
2002
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2002)
The British 'productivity problem' in the 1960s.
Past and Present, 175(1),
pp. 188-210.
(doi: 10.1093/past/175.1.188)
Articles
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
Winston Churchill versus E. D. Morel, Dundee, 1922, and the split in the Liberal Party.
Journal of British Studies, 62(4),
pp. 964-987.
(doi: 10.1017/jbr.2023.71)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
Growthmanship in the twenty-first century.
Political Quarterly, 94(4),
pp. 634-641.
(doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.13335)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
Imagining economic growth in post-war Britain.
Twentieth-Century British History,
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwad049)
(Early Online Publication)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2022)
The First World War in a 'women's town': Dundee 1914-1922.
Women's History Review, 31(2),
pp. 173-197.
(doi: 10.1080/09612025.2020.1864886)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486, Phillips, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469 and Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272
(2022)
De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001, and its broad implications.
Business History, 64(1),
pp. 28-54.
(doi: 10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2021)
The strange survival of “embedded liberalism”: national economic management and globalization in Britain from 1944.
Twentieth Century British History, 32(4),
pp. 483-508.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab012)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2021)
Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences.
Contemporary British History, 35(4),
pp. 620-642.
(doi: 10.1080/13619462.2021.1972416)
Wright, Valerie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272, Phillips, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469 and Tomlinson, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2021)
Defending the right to work: the 1983 Timex workers’ occupation in Dundee.
Labour History Review, 86(1),
pp. 63-90.
(doi: 10.3828/lhr.2021.4)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2020)
Churchill’s defeat in Dundee, 1922, and the decline of liberal political economy.
Historical Journal, 63(4),
pp. 980-1006.
(doi: 10.1017/S0018246X19000475)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2020)
De-industrialization: Strengths and weaknesses as a key concept for understanding post-war British history.
Urban History, 47(2),
pp. 199-219.
(doi: 10.1017/S0963926819000221)
Tomlinson, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2020)
Social democracy and the problem of equality: economic analysis and political argument in the United Kingdom.
History of Political Economy, 52,
pp. 519-538.
(doi: 10.1215/00182702-8304843)
Phillips, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469, Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272 and Tomlinson, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(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.
(doi: 10.1080/0023656X.2019.1666973)
Phillips, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469, Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272 and Tomlinson, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(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.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwz005)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2016)
De-industrialization not decline: a new meta-narrative for post-war British history.
Twentieth-Century British History, 27(1),
pp. 76-99.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwv030)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486 and Gibbs, Ewan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7241
(2016)
Planning the new industrial nation: Scotland 1931-1979.
Contemporary British History, 30(4),
pp. 584-606.
(doi: 10.1080/13619462.2016.1209009)
Tomlinson, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2015)
A new political arithmetic?
Social History, 40(1),
pp. 5-14.
(doi: 10.1080/03071022.2014.993147)
Tomlinson, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2015)
Orientalism at work?: Dundee’s response to competition from Calcutta, circa 1870-1914.
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43(5),
pp. 807-830.
(doi: 10.1080/03086534.2014.982417)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid-1970s.
Economic History Review, 67(3),
pp. 750-768.
(doi: 10.1111/1468-0289.12038)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
Imagining the economic nation: the Scottish case.
Political Quarterly, 85(2),
pp. 170-177.
(doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.12082)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
The political economy of globalization: the genesis of Dundee's two 'United Fronts' in the 1930s.
Historical Journal, 57(1),
pp. 225-245.
(doi: 10.1017/S0018246X13000344)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
Provincial radicalism today.
Economy and Society, 43(2),
pp. 307-314.
(doi: 10.1080/03085147.2014.912462)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2013)
The spirit of 45? Austerity then and now.
Renewal: a Journal of Social Democracy, 21(2/3),
pp. 46-53.
Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
When rules started to rule: the IMF, neo-liberal economic ideas and economic policy change in Britain.
Review of International Political Economy, 19(3),
pp. 477-500.
(doi: 10.1080/09692290.2011.561124)
Morelli, C.J., Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486 and Wright, V.
(2012)
The managing of competition: government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63.
Business History, 54(5),
pp. 765-782.
(doi: 10.1080/00076791.2011.631129)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
De-globalization and its significance: from the particular to the general.
Contemporary British History, 26(2),
pp. 213-230.
(doi: 10.1080/13619462.2012.673714)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
From 'distribution of industry' to 'local Keynesianism': the growth of public sector employment in Britain.
British Politics, 7(3),
pp. 204-223.
(doi: 10.1057/bp.2012.10)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Review of: The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914: 'The Secret Spring', by Anthony Cooke.
Economic History Review, 64(4),
pp. 1393-1394.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00611_9.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Managing decline: the case of Jute.
Scottish Historical Review, 90(2),
pp. 257-279.
(doi: 10.3366/shr.2011.0036)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Re-inventing the 'moral economy' in post-war Britain.
Historical Research, 84(224),
pp. 356-373.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00544.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Review of: The Origins of the Twenty-First Century: An Essay on Contemporary Social and Economic History, by Gabriel Tortella.
Economic History Review, 64(2),
pp. 711-712.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00578_33.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2011)
Out of recession?
New Political Economy, 16(5),
pp. 655-665.
(doi: 10.1080/13563467.2011.601810)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2010)
Sick but not dying.
Political Studies Review, 8(1),
pp. 67-72.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2009.00207.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2010)
Responding to globalization?: Churchill and Dundee in 1908.
Twentieth-Century British History, 21(3),
pp. 257-280.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwq017)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2010)
Review of: Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist, by Peter Clarke; Keynes: The Return of the Master, by Robert Skidelsky.
Twentieth-Century British History, 21(2),
pp. 232-234.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwp060)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
The deglobalisation of Dundee, c. 1900–2000.
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 29(2),
pp. 123-140.
(doi: 10.3366/E1748538X09000478)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Keynesianism constrained.
Radical Philosophy, 155,
pp. 6-10.
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Review of: The Management of Technical Change: Automation in the UK and USA since 1950, by Alan Booth.
Economic History Review, 62(2),
pp. 493-494.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00474_12.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
After decline?
Contemporary British History, 23(3),
pp. 395-406.
(doi: 10.1080/13619460903098467)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Balanced accounts? Constructing the balance of payments problem in post-war Britain.
English Historical Review, CXXIV(509),
pp. 863-884.
(doi: 10.1093/ehr/cep185)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Thrice denied: 'declinism' as a recurrent theme in British history in the long twentieth century.
Twentieth-Century British History, 20(2),
pp. 227-251.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwp019)
Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Negotiating credibility: Britain and the International Monetary Fund, 1956–1976.
Contemporary European History, 17(4),
pp. 545-566.
(doi: 10.1017/S0960777308004700)
Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Whatever happened to the balance of payments 'problem'? The contingent (re)construction of British economic performance assessment.
British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 10(4),
pp. 607-629.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2008.00334.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
History as political rhetoric.
Political Studies Review, 6(3),
pp. 297-307.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2008.00159.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
A 'failed experiment'? Public ownership and the narratives of post-war Britain.
Labour History Review, 73(2),
pp. 228-243.
(doi: 10.1179/174581808X324289)
Morelli, C. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Women and work after the Second World War: a case study of the jute industry, circa 1945-1954.
Twentieth-Century British History, 19(1),
pp. 61-82.
(doi: 10.1093/tcbh/hwm033)
Clift, B. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2007)
Credible Keynesianism? New Labour macroeconomic policy and the political economy of coarse tuning.
British Journal of Political Science, 37(1),
pp. 47-69.
(doi: 10.1017/S0007123407000038)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2007)
Mrs Thatcher's macroeconomic adventurism, 1979–1981, and its political consequences.
British Politics, 2,
pp. 3-19.
(doi: 10.1057/palgrave.bp.4200038)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2007)
Tale of a death exaggerated: how Keynesian policies survived the 1970s.
Contemporary British History, 21(4),
pp. 429-448.
(doi: 10.1080/13619460601060439)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2005)
Managing the economy, managing the people: Britain c.1931–70.
Economic History Review, 58(3),
pp. 555-585.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00313.x)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2004)
The labour party and the capitalist firm, c. 1950–1970.
Historical Journal, 47(3),
pp. 685-708.
(doi: 10.1017/S0018246X04003917)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2003)
The commonwealth, the balance of payments and the politics of international poverty: British aid policy, 1958-1971.
Contemporary European History, 12(4),
pp. 413-429.
(doi: 10.1017/S0960777303001358)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2002)
The British 'productivity problem' in the 1960s.
Past and Present, 175(1),
pp. 188-210.
(doi: 10.1093/past/175.1.188)
Books
Phillips, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5183-9469, Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272 and Tomlinson, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2021)
Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.
ISBN 9781474479240
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2017)
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198786092
(doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198786092.001.0001)
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2014)
Dundee and the Empire: 'Juteopolis' 1850-1939.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.
ISBN 9780748686148
(doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686148.001.0001)
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486, Morelli, C. and Wright, V.
(2011)
The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change.
Series: Perspectives in economic and social history (9).
Pickering & Chatto: London.
ISBN 9781848931244
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486, Morelli, Carlo and Wright, Valerie
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272
(2011)
The Decline of Jute Managing Industrial Change.
Series: Perspectives in economic and social history (9).
Pickering & Chatto: London.
ISBN 9781848931244
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2004)
Economic Policy.
Series: Labour governments 1964-70, 3.
Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK.
ISBN 9780719045875
Book Sections
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2019)
Britain since the 1970s: a transition to neo-liberalism?
In: Hoppitt, J., Needham, D. and Leonard, A. (eds.)
Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton.
Series: People, markets, goods: economies and societies in history (14).
Boydell Press: Woodbridge, pp. 181-197.
ISBN 9781783274451
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2018)
The economy.
In: Brown, David, Crowcroft, Robert and Pentland, Gordon (eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780198714897
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2017)
Key historical trends in the Scottish economy.
In: Gibb, Kenneth, Maclennan, Duncan, McNulty, Des and Comerford, Michael (eds.)
The Scottish Economy: A Living Book.
Series: Regions and cities.
Routledge: Abingdon ; New York, pp. 12-25.
ISBN 9781138960916
Tomlinson, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2016)
Distributional politics: the search for equality in Britain since the First World War.
In: Hudson, Pat and Tribe, Keith (eds.)
The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-first Century: The Piketty Opportunity.
Agenda: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 167-191.
ISBN 9781911116103
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2016)
Economic policy.
In: Crines, A. and Hickson, K. (eds.)
Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister?
Biteback: London, pp. 93-111.
ISBN 9781785900310
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2013)
The politics of declinism.
In: Black, Lawrence, Pemberton, Hugh and Thane, Pat (eds.)
Reassessing 1970s Britain.
Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 41-60.
ISBN 978071908848
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
The empire/commonwealth in British economic thinking and policy.
In: Thompson, A.S. (ed.)
Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century.
Series: Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 211-250.
ISBN 9780199236589
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2012)
Thatcher, monetarism and the politics of inflation.
In: Jackson, B. and Saunders, R. (eds.)
Making Thatcher's Britain.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 62-77.
ISBN 9781107012387
Book Reviews
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945–1979, by Malcolm Petrie (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022; pp. 212. £85).
English Historical Review,
(doi: 10.1093/ehr/cead195)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2023)
‘The Limits of Austerity’ Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press: 2022), 480pp., $30, ISBN 978-0-226-81839-9.
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, 44(1),
pp. 203-214.
(doi: 10.3828/hsir.2023.44.12)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2017)
The art of the possible. Politics and governance in modern British history, 1885–1997: essays in memory of Duncan Tanner.
Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 37(1),
pp. 101-102.
(doi: 10.1080/02606755.2016.1186913)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2009)
Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain by Frank Trentmann.
History, 94(314),
pp. 252-253.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.453_23.x)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Review of: Equality and the British Left: A Study in Progressive Political Thought, 1900-64 - by Ben Jackson.
Economic History Review, 61(4),
pp. 1017-1019.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00447_18.x)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Review of: Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain 1918-1939 by Clare V. J. Griffiths.
History, 93(312),
pp. 576-577.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2008.432_48.x)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Review of: Having it so good: Britain in the Fifties – by Peter Hennessy Never Had it so Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles – by Dominic Sandbrook.
Economic History Review, 61(2),
pp. 515-517.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00432_17.x)[Book Review]
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2008)
Review of: Using History, Making British Policy: The Treasury and the Foreign Office, 1950–1976 by Peter J. Beck.
History, 93(310),
pp. 308-309.
(doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2008.423_54.x)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486 and Whatley, C.A. (Eds.)
(2011)
Jute No More: Transforming Dundee.
Dundee University Press: Dundee, UK.
ISBN 9781845860905
Research Reports or Papers
Tomlinson, Jim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2020)
Supplying ‘Juteopolis’: Dundee and Bengal Jute, c.1850-1914. Commodities of Empire Working Paper No. 31.
Working Paper.
Commodities of Empire Project.
Morelli, C. and Tomlinson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2206-3486
(2006)
Women and Work After the Second World War: A Case Study of the Jute Industry, circa 1945-1954.
Discussion Paper.
University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.