Introduction
Visualizing Space and Narrating Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11212923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dawn Lyon (0000-0002-8534-2194, University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Pages | 163-167 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0147547912000099 |
| OpenAlex | W1971025378 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Miriam Glucksmann's ethnography of factory work, Women on the Line , was republished in 2009, nearly thirty years after the publication of the first edition in 1982 under the pseudonym, Ruth Cavendish. The original text is unchanged, but the new edition includes a new introduction and additional images. It is an account of Glucksmann's time working in a factory in the late 1970s, something she undertook as a political act and not with the intention of writing an ethnography, as she herself discusses below. The book was quickly recognized as a seminal account of women's work and one which disentangled the operation of gender at work. It exposed the construction of sexual difference and drew attention to forms of solidarity between women of different ethnic backgrounds. Indeed, Women on the Line is considered to be “a paradigmatic example of gender as central to understanding work” and one that has been studied closely and critiqued as well as admired. Two other “feminist ethnographies”—as they came to be described—were published at around the same time: Anna Pollert's Girls, Wives, Factory Lives in 1981, and Sallie Westwood's All Day, Every Day in 1984. They continue to be widely cited and remain key references in sociology text books and on student reading lists
Ethnic group · Ethnography · Factory (object-oriented programming · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Solidarity · Space (punctuation) · Work (physics · Anthropology · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Women on the line
The Taste of Ethnographic Things
Skilled vision. An apprenticeship in breeding aesthetics1
What's so Special about Women's Employment? A Review of some Recent Studies of Women's Paid Work
The production of space
Skilled vision. An apprenticeship in breeding aesthetics
Diversity and Agreement in Feminist Ethnography
In Search of the Sociology of Work
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |