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Gerry Mooney is a senior lecturer in social policy and staff tutor, social sciences, for The Open University in Scotland and a member of the OU’s International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research.

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Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow: from tenements to riverside apartments Featuring: activity, Updated contentCopyrighted Image Hilary Mooney

By Dr Alison Gilmour (The Open University), Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University)

14 May 2012

We look back at the social history shaped by a ten-fold rise in population from 5,000 in 1850 to over 55,000 by 1901, and forward...  Read more : Dumbarton Road, Partick, Glasgow: from tenements to riverside apartments

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Debt: Wiping the slate cleanZoran Karapancev | Dreamstime.com

By Jonquil Lowe (The Open University), Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University), Alan Shipman (The Open University)

11 January 2012

We look at economic anthropologist David Graeber's argument that defaulting on debt can liberate the borrower and bring social benefits that eventually reward the...  Read more : Debt: Wiping the slate clean

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Debt: Household pain Jupiter Images

By Jonquil Lowe (The Open University), Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University), Alan Shipman (The Open University)

11 January 2012

We look at how decisions taken at international and national levels ripple down and can have major, even catastrophic effects, on individual citizens ...  Read more : Debt: Household pain

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Debt in 2012 Creative Commons Image By EU Social via Flickr under Creative Commons license

By Jonquil Lowe (The Open University), Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University), Alan Shipman (The Open University)

11 January 2012

Find out more about debt in 2012 at an international level and a household level with these articles  Read more : Debt in 2012

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Family-friendly employment and the dream of the work-life balanceZoran Karapancev | Dreamstime.com

By Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University)

24 June 2011

Getting a balance between work and life is an attractive idea - but you've got to be able to separate them in order to balance...  Read more : Family-friendly employment and the dream of the work-life balance

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Clydebank and Singer'sStacy Jackson, reproduced under CC-BY-ND licence

By Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University)

20 July 2010

Shipbuilding tied Clydebank into the British Empire, but the town’s global links were cemented by foreign-owned companies in the Clydebank area, especially the I.M. Singer Company.  Read more : Clydebank and Singer's

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The Clydebank BlitzBBC

By Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University)

20 July 2010

What was it that made Clydebank such a tempting target for the Luftwaffe?  Read more : The Clydebank Blitz

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Clydebank - strife and strikesDreamstime

By Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University)

20 July 2010

Clydebank has a proud industrial and manufacturing past, with workers most notably providing hardware for textile production, ships for early travel and tourism for the...  Read more : Clydebank - strife and strikes

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ClydebuiltJames Allan, reproduced under CC-BY-SA licence.

By Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University)

20 July 2010

Clydebank may no longer be a shipbuilding powerhouse, but the Queen Elizabeth 2 and others were constructed along the river Clyde.  Read more : Clydebuilt

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Clydebank todayBen Cooper under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University)

20 July 2010

 Clydebank's shipbuilding days are over, but the area's future is looking up.  Read more : Clydebank today

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Hancock, Lynn and Mooney, Gerry (2012). ‘Welfare ghettos’ and the ‘broken society’: territorial stigmatisation in the contemporary UK. Housing, Theory and Society (In press).

Mooney, Gerry; Neal, Sarah and Hancock, Lynn (2012). Crisis social policy and the resilience of the concept of community. Critical Social Policy, 32(3), (in press).

Mooney, Gerry and Scott, Gill (2012). Devolution, social justice and social policy: the Scottish context. In: Mooney, Gerry and Scott, Gill eds. Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 1–24.

Law , Alex and Mooney, Gerry (2012). Devolution in a 'Stateless Nation': Nation-building and Social Policy in Scotland. Social Policy and Administration, 46(2), pp. 161–177.

Mooney, Gerry and Scott, Gill eds. (2012). Social justice and social policy in Scotland. Bristol: Policy Press.

Danson, Mike; MacLeod, Gordon and Mooney, Gerry (2012). Devolution and the shifting political economic geographies of the United Kingdom. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 30(1), pp. 1–9.

Mooney, Gerry; McKee, Kim and Paton, Kirsteen (2012). Class, citizenship and regeneration: Glasgow and the Commonwealth Games 2014. Antipode (in press).

Law, Alex and Mooney, Gerry (2012). Competitive nationalism: state, class and the forms of capital in devolved Scotland. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 30(1), pp. 62–77.

Mooney, Gerry and Hancock, Lynn (2011). ‘Saints and scroungers': constructing the poverty and crime myth. Criminal Justice Matters, 83(1), pp. 26–27.

McKendrick, John; Mooney, Gerry; Dickie, John and Kelly, Peter eds. (2011). Poverty in Scotland 2011: Towards a More Equal Scotland? Poverty in Scotland. London: Child Poverty Action Group.

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Clydebuilt

Comment posted by zz784026

05 Jun 2011

Your article on the launch of the QE2 brought back many memories for me, as a young apprentice Plater I had the privilage of attending the launch and had invited a girlfriend to go with me. I had... Read more : Clydebuilt

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Gerry Mooney is a senior lecturer in social policy and staff tutor, social sciences, for The Open University in Scotland and a member of the OU’s International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research. He is also a member of the Scottish Poverty Information Unit based at Glasgow Caledonian University and has writing and research relationships with academic colleagues from across Scotland and beyond, as well as organisations such The Child Poverty Action Unit and the Poverty Alliance.

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