Publications

Contesting labour violations in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields

McGuire Darren, Piacentini Laura, Sambajee Pratima

Work, Employment and Society, pp. 1-11 (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251408614

Moral sentiments and oppositional practice in branch work : a moral economy approach

Laaser Knut, McGuire Darren

Employee Relations Vol 47, pp. 557-573 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-05-2023-0253

Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science : a roundtable with Dr Melissa Beresford, Professor Andrew Sayer and Professor Neville Kirk, chaired by Professor Robert McMaster

Beresford Melissa, Sayer Andrew, Kirk Neville, McMaster Robert, McGuire Darren

Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol 46, pp. 14-26 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x241307419

Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science : finding Customs in Common?

Perchard Andrew, McGuire Darren, Laaser Knut, Gildart Keith, Kaufman Anya, McMaster Robert, Curtis Ben

Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol 46, pp. 3-13 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X241307418

It’s the knock-on effect : The cost-of-living crisis and Glasgow’s third sector

McGuire Darren, Remnant Jennifer, Watson Rose, Cunningham Ian

(2024)

Quality of Life & Work in Mauritius and Covid-19

Sambajee Pratima, Scholarios Dora, McGuire Darren

(2023)

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Teaching

Darren teaches on a range of PG and UG modules at Strathlcyde. A key inspiration in Darren's teaching is facilitating learning about the possibilities of theory in management and organisation and its potential to contribite towards societal challenges. 

Professional Activities

Co-designing community priorities

Organiser

24/2/2026

Research literacy and peer-researcher introductory training

Speaker

3/12/2025

Internal examiner for PhD viva

Examiner

5/6/2025

"Farmers Have No Freedom” (Uzbek Forum report on land, labour and farmers rights)

Advisor

1/6/2025

Developing Impact Series between Strathlcyde and GCVS

Contributor

1/6/2025

Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: finding customs in common?

Organiser

12/3/2025

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Projects

Cultures of Collaborative Research in a Socially Progressive Technological University / R230557-219

McGuire, Darren (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026

GCVS and Strathclyde University PhD funding for 2 scholarships based in WEO

Remnant, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) McGuire, Darren (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028

Partnership development workshops with Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (ESRC Impact Accelerator)

Remnant, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) McGuire, Darren (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2025

Deepening Engagement with the Third Sector: Creating a more collaborative and engaging research culture at Strathclyde, Collaborative Cultures Call 1

Joshi, Manish (Principal Investigator) Remnant, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) McGuire, Darren (Principal Investigator) Haroon Tejumola, Qawiyah Oladunni (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2025

Guest Researcher Visiting Fund - Professor Andrew Perchard

McGuire, Darren (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 20-Jan-2025

Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Science: Enhancing the Centre for Political Economy of Labour’s network

McGuire, Darren (Principal Investigator)

Over the past 20 years, a growing body of work by anthropologists, historians and social scientists has revisited and revived the concept of moral economy, conceived by social historian Edward Palmer Thompson and anthropologist James C Scott.

This project is to deliver a one-day workshop on Moral Economy at the Crossroads of History and Social Science at Strathclyde University through the Centre for the Political Economy of Labour (CPEL) in Work, Employment and Organisation (WEO).

In addition to shedding light on cross and interdisciplinary developments on moral economy, the workshop is an important step in developing a stream of research and collaborative research ties between SBS and HASS (especially History) and labour academics and activists from Brazil, Italy, Uzbekistan, Scotland, Ireland and Mauritius.

09-Jan-2023 - 18-Jan-2023

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