Staff, Academic

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Australian National University, 1977

Master of Arts - Flinders University, 1983

PhD - University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1988

Expertise & Consultancies

Bill Martin was appointed Principal Research Fellow at NILS in 2003. He is also Associate Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, where he has taught in the Department of Sociology since 1990.  

Associate Professor Martin's research interests have centred around the experience of work and the labour market, particularly amongst professionals and managers. With Professor Judy Wajcman (ANU), he has undertaken major research on the work and career experiences of managers and professionals in large Australian companies. This research has produced significant publications and is ongoing. He has also analysed ABS data on employment and earnings trends amongst managers and professionals and published a number of papers on this issue.   Previous research included an examination of sources of change in the distribution of employment in the United States. His new research examines the changing transition to retirement, particularly amongst managers.

Selected Publications

"The Transformation of the American Class Structure, 1960-1980," American Journal of Sociology , Vol. 93, 1987 (with Erik O. Wright).

"The Australian middle class, 1986-1995: stable, declining, or restructuring?", Journal of Sociology , Vol. 34, No. 2,   1998 .

"Managerial and professional careers in an era of organisational restructuring," Journal of Sociology , Vol. 36, No. 3, 2000 (with Wendy Riemens and Judy Wajcman).

"The changing experience of the middle class" in G. Dow and R. Parker (eds.) Business, Work and Community into the New Millenium , Oxford University Press, 2001.  

  "My company or my career: managerial achievement and loyalty", British Journal of Sociology , Vol. 52, No. 4, 2001 (with Judy Wajcman).

"Narratives of identity in modern management: The corrosion of gender difference?", Sociology, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2002 (with Judy Wajcman).

  "Work and employment," in I. McAllister, S. Dowrick and R. Hassan (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

"Class and inequality in Australia", in F. Devine and M. Waters (eds.), Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective, Blackwell, 2004 (with Judy Wajcman).