Dr Pamela Cawthorne

		BSc (Econ) Lond. CertEd Lond. MSc Bath PhD Open

		Phone	9351 2747
		FAX	9351 8596
		Location	Room 428 H04 Merewether Building map

Dr Pamela Cawthorne has broad-ranging academic and administrative experience in the field of Third World development. She has held administrative positions in the United Nations (UNIDO and UNRWA) in Vienna and at OXFAM before completing postgraduate degrees in the UK. She came to Sydney University in 1994 from the University of New South Wales and from the Open University in the UK where she was a doctoral student and lecturer in Third World Studies.

Dr Cawthorne’s research interests include gender and development; industrial development; the Indian and Fijian economies; the global textiles and clothing industry and the use of qualitative fieldwork-based methodologies. She has published with World Development, Journal of Australian Political Economy and in a book Gender, Small-Scale Industry and Development Policy. Her current research is on the use of corporate codes of labour practice and supply chains.

Research Interests

Global Integration
Development Economics
Economic development
Gender and development
Global TCF industry with reference to Australia, India and Fiji
Industrial clusters
Industrial clusters and global commodity chains
Industrial development
Qualitative interview-based research methodologies
Qualitative methodology
Use and monitoring of corporate codes in the management of overseas supply chains

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Publications

2004

Book Section/s

Cawthorne P and Weller S 2004 'Fiji´s experiment with export-oriented industrialisation: the garment industry before and after the 2000 coup' in The end of the cyclone: issues in Pacific Security, ed. I. Molloy, University of the Sunshine Coast Press, Australia.

2002

Conference Paper/s

Cawthorne PM 2002 'An Analysis of Fiji's Export Garment Industry',Pacific Islands Political Studies Association Conference, Pacific Islands Security: Old Challenges, New Threats, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Cawthorne PM 2002 'The State of the Australian Clothing Industry and Outwork Reform in the State of New South Wales',Annual Development Studies Association Conference, Greenwich University, London.

2001

Journal Article/s

Cawthorne PM and Kitching G 2001 'Moral Dilemmas and Factual Claims: Some Comments on Paul Krugman's Defense of Cheap Labor', Review of Social Economy, vol.LIX:4, pp. 455-466.

Cawthorne PM 2001 'Identity, values and method: taking interview research seriously in political economy', Qualitative Research, vol.1:1, pp. 65-90.

Cawthorne PM 2001 'Obituary for Rob Steven', Journal of Australian Political Economy, vol.47, pp. 122.

Cawthorne PM 2001 'The State Fiji's In', The Drawing Board - Digest.

2000

Internal Working Paper/s

Cawthorne PM 2000 'Fiji's garment export industry: An economic and political analysis of its long-term viability': Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.

1999

Internal Working Paper/s

Cawthorne PM and Kitching G 1999 'Moral dilemmas and factual claims: Some comments on Paul Krugman's defence of cheap labour', Sydney: Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.

Cawthorne PM 1999 'Some Methodological and Philosophical Reflections on Interview-based Fieldwork in India and Elsewhere', Sydney: Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.

1998

Internal Working Paper/s

Cawthorne PM 1998 'The Limited Usefulness of National Economic Identity in the Case of an Australia-Based, Networking Firm', Sydney: Sydney University, School of Economics and Political Science.

1997

Conference Proceeding/s

Cawthorne P 1997 'Surfing the global wave: The activities of an Australian surfwear firm in a liberalised era', Proceedings of the Fifth Women and Labour Conference.