Adam Fishwick is currently an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded DPhil researcher in the International Relations department.
His research explores the relationship between the working class and industrial development in Argentina and Chile during the mid-twentieth century. This focuses on workers in the metalworking and automobile industries in Argentina and the textile industry in Chile. In particular he is looking to explain how the conflicts that arise in the workplace enable the articulation of political and economic strategies of resistance that, in turn, shape the unexpected and contested outcomes of industrial development.
In conducting this research he undertook a six month fieldwork trip in 2012. This fieldwork includAdam Fishwick is currently an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded DPhil researcher in the International Relations department.
His research explores the relationship between the working class and industrial development in Argentina and Chile during the mid-twentieth century. This focuses on workers in the metalworking and automobile industries in Argentina and the textile industry in Chile. In particular he is looking to explain how the conflicts that arise in the workplace enable the articulation of political and economic strategies of resistance that, in turn, shape the unexpected and contested outcomes of industrial development.
In conducting this research he undertook a six month fieldwork trip in 2012. This fieldwork included obtaining and analysing newspapers, government and industry documents, interviewing leading academics and accessing locally produced secondary material in Argentina and Chile. He is now writing up his research results under the provisional thesis title of Industrialisation and the Working Class: The Contested Trajectories of ISI in Argentina and Chile.
Adam has also completed a BA (First Class Honours) in International Relations and Development Studies (2008), a MA (Distinction) in Global Political Economy (2009), and a MSc (Distinction) in Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research Methods (2010-2011)....more