Miriam Glucksmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 247170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Glucksmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Glucksmann |
| SIGNATURE | GLUCKSMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 294 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Completing and Complementing
Few goods are delivered 'complete' to consumers as ready for use without further processing. The operation of markets and capitalist production presuppose the work of consumers in searching for, completing and coordinating between goods and services. Yet the critical contribution of consumers in finalising and complementing a division of labour is rarely acknowledged in theories of either work/production or consumption. The article argues for a r…
It's Kind of Saving them a Job isn't it?' The Consumption Work of Household Recycling
Consumers play an integral role in societal divisions of labour. Rather than simply consume, they frequently perform labour. Incorporating consumers into the division of labour poses a challenge to this foundational and enduring concept, given its traditional focus on the technical division of tasks/skills within a labour process. Yet, insofar as completion of a circuit of production, distribution, exchange and consumption is predicated on consum…
Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought (RLE Social Theory)
The primary concern of this book is to investigate whether or not structuralism constitutes a distinctive framework in the social sciences. The author focuses on two major structuralist thinkers, Louis Althusser and Claude Lévi-Strauss. She analyses and compares the structure of their theory, and places them within the context of their respective disciplines. Dr Glucksmann began working on this book at a time when structuralism was at the height …
Bake or buy? Comparative and theoretical perspectives on divisions of labour in food preparation work
The proportion of food preparation work undertaken in the home varies historically and spatially. Many countries have witnessed a shift in the overall division of labour of 'food work', from household to market, and from unpaid domestic labour to work undertaken by paid employees, whether in factories or restaurants. This article undertakes comparative analysis of the changing place of domestic food preparation in the wider division of labour dra…
Economies of Recycling, 'Consumption Work' and Divisions of Labour in Sweden and England
The recycling of domestic waste has become increasingly significant over recent years with governments across the world pledging increases in their recycling rates. But success in reaching targets relies on the input and effort of the household and consumer. This article argues that the work consumers regularly perform in sorting their recyclable waste into different fractions and, in some cases, transporting this to communal sites, plays an inte…
Reflecting on Women on the Line
Historically there has been a variety of ways for academics to engage with working people or to combine activism with scholarship. Women on the Line represents a historically specific form of engagement that was open to western feminists at the height of second wave feminism in the 1970s
A Contingent Transmission of Sociology
Formations, Connections and Divisions of Labour
The division of labour, an enduring concept of the sociology of work, has yet to receive fundamental critical re-evaluation. The need for this is exposed especially by developments in global work and employment, and the ensuing complexity and variety of contemporary connections and divisions of labour. The aim of this article is to initiate a process of conceptual renewal. Having reviewed classical and 20th-century formulations of the concept, I …
V. Airbrushing the History of Feminism
Comparative Configurations of Care Work across Europe
The activity of work takes place in a variety of socio-economic relations, shifting over time across the boundaries between different sectors of employment (public, private, not-for-profit or voluntary) and forms of unpaid work (domestic, community, voluntary).Taking the social care work of older people as a research probe, this article explores linkages between paid and unpaid work across key forms of provision (public sector, market, family/hou…
Hard Labour. The Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant Volunteer Workers – By Linda McDowell
Configurations of Care Work
Most current sociological approaches to work recognise that the same activity may be undertaken within a variety of socio-economic forms - formal or informal, linked with the private market, public state or not-for-profit sectors. This article takes care of the elderly as an exemplary case for probing some of the linkages between paid and unpaid work. We attempt to unravel the interconnections between forms of care work undertaken in different so…
Shifting Boundaries and Interconnections
Confronting the Challenges of Work Today
Introductory chapter to edited collection, setting out our perspective: The central aim of this publication is to initiate and develop an empirically grounded understanding of the nature, dimensions, and relations of different forms of work. Work is not assumed to be a discrete activity carried out in exchange for remuneration in institutions (although it can be) but, rather, is conceptualized as being embedded in other domains and entangled in o…
Call configurations
Michael Bittman and Jocelyn Pixley, The Double Life of the Family
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What a Difference a Day Makes
This paper explores the potentialities and distinctiveness of a temporal perspective for analysing differences between and within genders. After a brief overview of sociological approaches to time, it suggests the value of 'an economy of time' framework for analysing work, especially those forms which involve no monetary exchange. Exchanges of time can be seen to establish their own reciprocities, inequalities and hierarchies, thus forming a wide…
Women encounter technology. Changing patterns of employment in the third world
Why ‘Work’? Gender and the ‘Total Social Organization of Labour’
Although feminism revitalized the study of work, deconstructionist tendencies may now undermine further theoretical advance. Implicit threats to the very concept of ‘work’ pave the way for conceptual dissolution or, unwittingly, for recuperation by an unreconstructed mainstream. This paper argues for a reconceptualization of ‘work’ which builds on the new insights but avoids essentialist or ahistorical categories. The issue is approached through …
Some Do, Some Don't (But in Fact They All Do Really); Some Will, Some Won't; Some Have, Some Haven't
Working Through Gender
Gone are the days when the study of gender and technology involved looking at the impact of technology, presumed to be gender neutral, on gender relations, presumed to be already fully constituted. The accent now is rather on the mutual shaping of relations of technology and gender. Indeed, the specific aim of the first two books, both products of a European-wide feminist research project initiated by the Vienna Centre, was to explore how technol…
Women and Industrialization
The thread of patriarchy Courtaulds - a family firm the threshold between home and workplace fathering the workplace improving the town debating women's work
Women Assemble
Domestic and Wage Labour
In a Class of Their Own? Women Workers in the New Industries in Inter-War Britain
Why ‘Work’? Gender and the ‘Total Social Organization of Labour’
Although feminism revitalized the study of work, deconstructionist tendencies may now undermine further theoretical advance. Implicit threats to the very concept of ‘work’ pave the way for conceptual dissolution or, unwittingly, for recuperation by an unreconstructed mainstream. This paper argues for a reconceptualization of ‘work’ which builds on the new insights but avoids essentialist or ahistorical categories. The issue is approached through …
Shifting Boundaries and Interconnections
Call configurations
Formations, Connections and Divisions of Labour
The division of labour, an enduring concept of the sociology of work, has yet to receive fundamental critical re-evaluation. The need for this is exposed especially by developments in global work and employment, and the ensuing complexity and variety of contemporary connections and divisions of labour. The aim of this article is to initiate a process of conceptual renewal. Having reviewed classical and 20th-century formulations of the concept, I …
Comparative Configurations of Care Work across Europe
The activity of work takes place in a variety of socio-economic relations, shifting over time across the boundaries between different sectors of employment (public, private, not-for-profit or voluntary) and forms of unpaid work (domestic, community, voluntary).Taking the social care work of older people as a research probe, this article explores linkages between paid and unpaid work across key forms of provision (public sector, market, family/hou…
It's Kind of Saving them a Job isn't it?' The Consumption Work of Household Recycling
Consumers play an integral role in societal divisions of labour. Rather than simply consume, they frequently perform labour. Incorporating consumers into the division of labour poses a challenge to this foundational and enduring concept, given its traditional focus on the technical division of tasks/skills within a labour process. Yet, insofar as completion of a circuit of production, distribution, exchange and consumption is predicated on consum…
What a Difference a Day Makes
This paper explores the potentialities and distinctiveness of a temporal perspective for analysing differences between and within genders. After a brief overview of sociological approaches to time, it suggests the value of 'an economy of time' framework for analysing work, especially those forms which involve no monetary exchange. Exchanges of time can be seen to establish their own reciprocities, inequalities and hierarchies, thus forming a wide…
Confronting the Challenges of Work Today
Introductory chapter to edited collection, setting out our perspective: The central aim of this publication is to initiate and develop an empirically grounded understanding of the nature, dimensions, and relations of different forms of work. Work is not assumed to be a discrete activity carried out in exchange for remuneration in institutions (although it can be) but, rather, is conceptualized as being embedded in other domains and entangled in o…
Completing and Complementing
Few goods are delivered 'complete' to consumers as ready for use without further processing. The operation of markets and capitalist production presuppose the work of consumers in searching for, completing and coordinating between goods and services. Yet the critical contribution of consumers in finalising and complementing a division of labour is rarely acknowledged in theories of either work/production or consumption. The article argues for a r…
Configurations of Care Work
Most current sociological approaches to work recognise that the same activity may be undertaken within a variety of socio-economic forms - formal or informal, linked with the private market, public state or not-for-profit sectors. This article takes care of the elderly as an exemplary case for probing some of the linkages between paid and unpaid work. We attempt to unravel the interconnections between forms of care work undertaken in different so…
Economies of Recycling, 'Consumption Work' and Divisions of Labour in Sweden and England
The recycling of domestic waste has become increasingly significant over recent years with governments across the world pledging increases in their recycling rates. But success in reaching targets relies on the input and effort of the household and consumer. This article argues that the work consumers regularly perform in sorting their recyclable waste into different fractions and, in some cases, transporting this to communal sites, plays an inte…
Bake or buy? Comparative and theoretical perspectives on divisions of labour in food preparation work
The proportion of food preparation work undertaken in the home varies historically and spatially. Many countries have witnessed a shift in the overall division of labour of 'food work', from household to market, and from unpaid domestic labour to work undertaken by paid employees, whether in factories or restaurants. This article undertakes comparative analysis of the changing place of domestic food preparation in the wider division of labour dra…
Women encounter technology. Changing patterns of employment in the third world
Some Do, Some Don't (But in Fact They All Do Really); Some Will, Some Won't; Some Have, Some Haven't
In a Class of Their Own? Women Workers in the New Industries in Inter-War Britain
V. Airbrushing the History of Feminism
Structural Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought
Structuralism
Lucien Goldmann
In recent years we have seen in Britain a systematic identification of Marxism with neo-Hegelianism, by left political groups and by bourgeois commentators alike. Neo-Hegelianism views society as a homogeneous totality revolving around one central contradiction; constituent elements are dissolved into an undifferentiated unity, and the internal contradictions
Reply to Birchall
Ian Birchall’s reply to my article on Goldmann is to be welcomed as a contribution to the debate between ‘neo-Hegelian’ and ‘scientific’ maxism. Obviously this debate cannot be solved in a few short polemics, but I should like to take this opportunity to answer Birchall by clarifying some
Structuralism
Structural Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought
Structuralist Analysis in Contemporary Social Thought
Women on the line
In a Class of Their Own? Women Workers in the New Industries in Inter-War Britain
Domestic and Wage Labour
Women and Industrialization
The thread of patriarchy Courtaulds - a family firm the threshold between home and workplace fathering the workplace improving the town debating women's work
Women Assemble
Working Through Gender
Gone are the days when the study of gender and technology involved looking at the impact of technology, presumed to be gender neutral, on gender relations, presumed to be already fully constituted. The accent now is rather on the mutual shaping of relations of technology and gender. Indeed, the specific aim of the first two books, both products of a European-wide feminist research project initiated by the Vienna Centre, was to explore how technol…
Why ‘Work’? Gender and the ‘Total Social Organization of Labour’
Although feminism revitalized the study of work, deconstructionist tendencies may now undermine further theoretical advance. Implicit threats to the very concept of ‘work’ pave the way for conceptual dissolution or, unwittingly, for recuperation by an unreconstructed mainstream. This paper argues for a reconceptualization of ‘work’ which builds on the new insights but avoids essentialist or ahistorical categories. The issue is approached through …
Some Do, Some Don't (But in Fact They All Do Really); Some Will, Some Won't; Some Have, Some Haven't
Women encounter technology. Changing patterns of employment in the third world
Michael Bittman and Jocelyn Pixley, The Double Life of the Family
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
What a Difference a Day Makes
This paper explores the potentialities and distinctiveness of a temporal perspective for analysing differences between and within genders. After a brief overview of sociological approaches to time, it suggests the value of 'an economy of time' framework for analysing work, especially those forms which involve no monetary exchange. Exchanges of time can be seen to establish their own reciprocities, inequalities and hierarchies, thus forming a wide…
Call configurations
Shifting Boundaries and Interconnections
Confronting the Challenges of Work Today
Introductory chapter to edited collection, setting out our perspective: The central aim of this publication is to initiate and develop an empirically grounded understanding of the nature, dimensions, and relations of different forms of work. Work is not assumed to be a discrete activity carried out in exchange for remuneration in institutions (although it can be) but, rather, is conceptualized as being embedded in other domains and entangled in o…
Configurations of Care Work
Most current sociological approaches to work recognise that the same activity may be undertaken within a variety of socio-economic forms - formal or informal, linked with the private market, public state or not-for-profit sectors. This article takes care of the elderly as an exemplary case for probing some of the linkages between paid and unpaid work. We attempt to unravel the interconnections between forms of care work undertaken in different so…
Hard Labour. The Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant Volunteer Workers – By Linda McDowell
V. Airbrushing the History of Feminism
Comparative Configurations of Care Work across Europe
The activity of work takes place in a variety of socio-economic relations, shifting over time across the boundaries between different sectors of employment (public, private, not-for-profit or voluntary) and forms of unpaid work (domestic, community, voluntary).Taking the social care work of older people as a research probe, this article explores linkages between paid and unpaid work across key forms of provision (public sector, market, family/hou…
A Contingent Transmission of Sociology
Formations, Connections and Divisions of Labour
The division of labour, an enduring concept of the sociology of work, has yet to receive fundamental critical re-evaluation. The need for this is exposed especially by developments in global work and employment, and the ensuing complexity and variety of contemporary connections and divisions of labour. The aim of this article is to initiate a process of conceptual renewal. Having reviewed classical and 20th-century formulations of the concept, I …
Sociology (27 works) · Economics (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Labour economics (7 works)