Associate Professor Georgina Murray

D Teaching, B Arts, M Arts, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Humanities

Contact details for Associate Professor Georgina Murray

Research expertise

• Labour and work
• Marxism
• Sociology of Law
• Feminist theory
• Capitalism/Globalisation

Current teaching areas

• Network analysis
• Sociology and Political Economy

Publications

Books and research monographs

• 2006 Murray, G. Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand , Series: Corporate Social Responsibility, Aldershot, Burlington, Sydney, Ashgate.
• 1997 Murray, G & Tulloch, G. Feminism: the Big Challenge for the 90s, Current Sociology , (Trend Report, v. 46, n.1, 155 pages) guest editor and author of introduction, pp.1-9.
• 1995 Murray, G. Corporate Power in the Pacific Rim, Current Sociology , (Trend Report v. 43, n. 1, 161 pages), guest editor and author of introduction, pp.1-12 and conclusion pp.134-148.
• 1990 Murray, G. & Fleming, G. The Organization of Economic Advice in New Zealand in Policy Discussion Papers , n.7, Department of Economics, Auckland University, Auckland.
• 1986 Murray, G. & Crothers, C. General Report on Small Business Practices in Auckland: Small Firms in the Retail and Service Sectors, The University of Auckland, Department of Sociology, Working Papers in Comparative Sociology , Auckland, n. 16, September.

Book chapters

• 2010 Murray, G. and Peetz, D. 'The Big Shift: The gendered impact of 12 hour shifts on mining communities', R. Lambert (ed.) Globalisation and the Power of Labor, Sage, forthcoming accepted Nov 2008.
• 2009 Murray, G. and Peetz, D. 'Elite and Popular Workplace Ideology Down Under and the Shift to Individualism', in C. Azais (ed.) Employment and Work in a Globalised World: Lessons from the South, PEI Peter Lang, Brussels, forthcoming, accepted Oct 2007.
  
• 2007 Murray, G. "Conflict between liberal economic ideology and citizenship at work" (eds) Murray, G. & Coutou, M. in La citoyennet�� au travail: Quel avenir? Les Presses de l'Universit�� Laval (forthcoming).
• 2003 Murray, G. "South African Business Networks and Black Empowerment" in Rethinking the Labour Movement in the 'New South Africa' eds. Franco Barchiesi and Tom Bramble, Series: The Making of Modern Africa, Aldershot, Burlington, Sydney, Ashgate.
• 2003 Murray, G. "New Zealand Women Lawyers at the End of the Twentieth Century in New Zealand", in A Challenge to Law and Lawyers: Women in the Legal Profession, (eds.) Grisela Shaw and Ulrike Schultz, Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 23-138.
• 1990 Murray, G. 'The State of the Sociology of Law in New Zealand' in Developing Sociology of Law V. Ferrari (ed), Giuffre, Milano, University of Bolonga Press, pp. 71-592.
• 1988 Murray, G. The New Zealand Legal Profession: from Colonial GPs to the Servants of Capital? in R. Abel and P. Lewis, (eds.) Lawyers in Society: A Comparative Approach, vol.1, University of California Press, Los Angeles, pp. 318-344.

Refereed journal articles

• 2005 Murray, G. 'Conflict between liberal economic ideology and citizenship at work', Special Edition, Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations , v. 60, n 4, pp.792-816
• 2005 Peetz, D. and Murray, G. 'Individualisation at the Coal Face', Just Labour, Canadian Journal of Work and Society, Special Edition, v. 6 & 7, Autumn, pp. 55-71 .
• 2003 Hutchings, K. and Murray, G. 'Family, Face and Favours: Do Australians Adjust to accepted Business Conventions in China?' Singapore Management Review , 25, (2), pp.25-50.
• 2002 Hutchings, K. and Murray, G. 'Working with Guanxi: An Assessment of the Impact of Globalisation on Business Networking in China', Creativity and Innovation Management, 11(3): pp.1-8.
• 2002 Hutchings, K. and Murray, G. 'Australian Expatriates: Experiences in working behind the Bamboo Curtain: An Examination of Guanxi in post-Communist China', Asian Business and Management 1: pp.373-393.
• 2002 Murray, G. and Hutchings, K. 'Challenging the Chinese Managerial Paradigm: Global relations over-ride the traditional market model', Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice, v.4, n pp.1-3.
• 2001 Murray, G. 'Interlocks or Ownership: New Zealand Boardroom Power', New Zealand Sociology, v. 16, n.1, pp.176-201.
• 2001 Murray, G. 'Interlocking Directorates: What do they tell us about Corporate Power in Australia?' Journal of Australian Political Economy , June, n. 47, pp.5-27, 2001 (reprinted as Corporate Locking Horns, Workers Online, 27 July, Issue 104.
• 2001 Murray, G. 'Black Empowerment in South Africa - a Corporate Black Wash', Critical Sociology, v.26, n. 3. pp. pp183-204.
• 1999 Murray, G. 'He Aha Mea Nui O Te Ao? Tangata, Tangata, Tangata' (trans. What is the Most Important Matter in the World?" People, People, People.) Invited contribution, New Zealand Sociology , v. 14, November, pp.241-248.
• 1997 Murray, G, 'Agonise Don't Organise: A Critique of Post-Feminism', Current Sociology , (Trend Report, vol. 45, n. 2, April, 36-47.
• 1996 Murray, G. 'Global "Who-Can-I-Kill-Today?" Capitalism: Top Business in the 90s', Social Alternatives , January, v. 15, n. 1, pp.26-30.
• 1995 Murray, G. & Bierling, J. 'The Rich Countries: Australia, New Zealand and Japan, The Emerging Powers', Current Sociology , Trend Report, v. 43, n. 1, Summer, pp. 65-96.
• 1994 Alexander, M, Murray, G. & Houghton, J. 'Business Power in Australia: the Concentration of Directorship Holdings amongst the top 250 Corporates', Australian Journal of Political Science , 29 (1): pp. 40-61.
• 1993 Murray, G. 'Why New Zealand cannot not afford a Welfare State', Pacific Basin Review , v. 5, n 2, pp.1-3.
• 1992 Alexander, M., Murray, G. 'Interlocking Directorates in the Top 250 Australian Companies: comment on Carroll, Stening and Stening' co-author Malcolm Alexander, Companies and Securities Law Journal, v. 10, n 6, pp.385-395.
• 1989 Murray, G. & Crothers, C. 'Corporate Decision-Making: Some New Zealand Survey Evidence', co-author Charles Crothers, Critical Sociology , n. 16, pp. 75-90, December.
• 1989 Murray, G. 'New Zealand Networks of Corporate Power', Sociology , n.4, pp.115-163.
• 1987 Murray, G. 'The New Zealand Woman Lawyer: a Description and Suggested Strategies', International Journal of Sociology of Law , December, n.15, pp.439-457, Academic Press, London.

Referred conference paper in published proceedings

• 2007 Murray G. and Peetz, D. 'Coal Rushes: progress report on Women Miners, Miners' Women and their communities', Conference Proceedings: AIRAANZ Conference editors Julian Teicher and Clive Gilson. February.
• 2007 Murray, G. and Peetz, D. 'Women Miners and Miners' Women: their activism in the 1952 stay down strike' in Public Sociologies: trans Tasman Comparisons, joint conference of The Sociological Association of Australia and Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand [CD] Auckland 5, December.
  
• 2005 Murray, G. & C. Poyatas Matas, 'Layered Teaching with Large Classes' Proceedings of the Effective Teaching and Learning Conference , 2004, (eds. Gay Crebert and Lynda Davis, Griffith University.
• 2004 Murray, G. 'Think Tanks, Economic Liberalism and Industrial Relations', in M. Barry & P. Brosnan (eds) New Economies: New Industrial Relations , Proceedings of the 18th AIRAANZ conference, v. 1: Refereed Papers, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Noosa, February.
• 2003 Peetz, D. & Murray, G. 'Popular and elite workplace ideology and the shift to individualism', in P. Corrigan, M. Gibson, G. Hawkes, E Livingston, J. Scott, S. Thiele & G. Carpenter (eds), New Times, New Worlds, New Ideas: Sociology Today and Tomorrow , TASA Conference, Refereed Proceedings, The Australian Sociological Association and University of New England, Armidale, December.
• 1999 Murray, G. 'Interlocking Directorates: Australian and New Zealand Comparisons', in Sociological Sites , eds. S. Oakley, J. Pudsey, J. King and R. Boyd, The Australian Sociological Association , TASA Flinders University.
• 1998 Murray, G. 'White-Mail the Continuity of Class Politics in South Africa', Refashioning Sociology: Responses to a New World Order, eds. M. Alexander, S. Harding, P. Harrison, Z. Skrbis & J. Western, The Australian Sociological Association, TASA Monash University.

Non refereed articles

• 2000 Murray, G. & Pacheco, D. 'The Ideas Industry: Australasian Think Tanks in the 1990s', Marxist Interventions website, Australia National University Library.