Brett Morritt
My research focuses on the gender and racial dynamics of 20th century corporate capitalism. I explore workplace cultures and how systemic inequalities were created, maintained, and challenged. For my PhD, I am focusing on high-street English companies in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. As my doctoral research progresses, I am increasingly interested how membership in the European Economic Community shaped the UK, in particular how activists used litigation to the European Court of Justice to effect change for themselves and others.
As an undergraduate, I studied both history and commerce. Subsequently, I completed a MA in history at UCL and a JD at Queen's University at Kingston.
Business history, cultural history, gender history, legal history.
Supervisor, History Paper 19, 2024.
'Africanisation in Kenya and Tanzania and Litigation over Occupational Pensions at Barclays UK’, Ageing, Experience and Difference: The Social History of Old Age in Europe since 1900 Conference, German Historical Institute London, 2024.
‘Beauty and the Business: Staff Beauty Contests in an Era of “Equal Opportunities”’, Women’s History Network Conference, Royal Holloway, 2024.
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‘Systems of Male Privilege: The Industrial Relations Policies of the Ford Motor Company in the 1940s’, Enterprise & Society 23:4 (2022).