Name Phillip Brown | Role Professor | |
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Books The Global Auction: The Brok, The Mismanagement of Talent, Capitalism and Social Progress, High Skills: Globalization - Competiti, Higher Education and Corp Similar People Hugh Lauder, Philip Brown, Richard Sparks | ||
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.
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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.