Professor Jo Melling

My research interests are the history of work, including masculinity and management in the workplace, as well as the history of health and illness at work and in society more generally. These research interests include the social and cultural history of insanity, health and illness in the dusty occupations, and the gender differences in the identification and treatment of ill health. Secondary research interests include the growth of white collar employment and trade unionism, including its impact on Labour politics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History

• History of health, illness and welfare
• History of insanity and mental illness
• History of labour and management at work including masculinity
• White collar trade unionism and labour politics
• Richard Acland and Common Wealth

Other:

Director of joint project with Alan Booth on 'Productivity and the workplace'.

Director of Wellcome Project on the History of Insanity in Devon, 1993-1996.

Principal Director of Medical Archives Project.