Seminar: Gender Equality and Work-Family Reconciliation – Balancing Market Income and Non-market Production?

Michael Bittman, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England, Australia

27 January 2011

At 16:00 in Room 6.345 and afterwards in the Sociology Common Room.

Abstract: Generally social welfare since World War II has been approached as a question of income security and state or market provision of caring services. This presentation argues this is a limited perspective on welfare because it ignores the parts of the economy where goods and services are produced but no money changes hands. The presentation draws on more than a decade of research using time-use surveys to study trends in care that is provided through non-market economy. In the middle of last century the traditional sexual division of labour – male breadwinner/ female homemaker – tacitly acknowledged the importance of the non-market economy while simultaneously treating it as distinct from ‘work’.

Senior Research Officers wanted to work on Prof. Miriam Glucksmann’s ERC grant

Applications are invited for two European Research Council funded Senior Research Officer Posts in the Department of Sociology, to undertake research on the new field of consumption work. The positions have become available as part of Professor Miriam Glucksmann’s 3 year ERC Advanced Investigator Grant to undertake a programme of research on ‘Consumption Work and Societal Divisions of Labour’.

Seminar: The Establishment of a Workfare Scheme after the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis in South Korea: Contestations over Rights

Eunna Lee from Sociology (Essex)/ School of Public Policy (UCL)

Date: Thursday 4th February 2010.

At 16:00 in Room 6.345 (Department of Sociology).

Eunna Lee has an MA in The Theory and Practice of Human Rights and has recently submitted her PhD entitled ‘Human Rights and Poverty in South Korea after the Asian Economic Crisis in 1997’ in the Department of Sociology

Seminar: Work after globalisation

Professor Guy Standing from University of Bath, UK, and Monash University, Australia

Thursday 19th November

At 16:00 in Room 6.345.

Guy Standing is Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath and Associate Director of the Work and Employment Rights Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne. He is also a founder member and co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a citizenship income for all.

His latest book Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (2009) “explains that

Seminar – Researching women’s work: reflections on ‘Women on the Line’

CRESI’s  7th May 2009 seminar will be given by Professor Miriam Glucksmann (Sociology, University of Essex). Seminars are held in Room 6.345, are open to all staff and students and are followed by a reception in the Sociology Common Room (6.341).