Jan Windebank
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 273758 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Windebank |
| NOMBRES | Jan |
| APELLIDO | Windebank |
| FIRMA | WINDEBANK J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0986-6615 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 320 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Domestic and Care Work in Modern France
Domestic and Care Work in Modern France
Explaining participation in undeclared work in France
Purpose France is a model of best practice in the European Union as regards policy to combat undeclared work. The purpose of this paper is to take the country as a case study to evaluate the competing explanations of why people engage in undeclared work which underpin such policy, namely, the dominant rational-economic-actor approach and the more recent social-actor approach. Design/methodology/approach To evaluate these approaches, the results o…
Change in work-family reconciliation policy in France and the UK since 2008
This article compares work-family reconciliation policy since 2008 in two contrasting case-study countries, namely France and the UK, and investigates how post-2008 economic circumstances and austerity measures have interacted with other policy drivers to influence the extent and shape of change in this policy area in these countries. The article demonstrates that work-family reconciliation policy in both countries has been resilient in the face …
The political economy of household services in Europe
Evaluating the Prevalence and Distribution of Envelope Wages in the European Union
The aim of this article is to evaluate the prevalence and distribution in the European Union of a little discussed illegitimate employment practice whereby employers pay their formal employees both an official declared salary and an undeclared ‘envelope’ wage so as to evade the full tax and social security dues owed. To do this, a 2013 Eurobarometer survey involving 11,025 face-to-face interviews with formal employees in the 28 member states of t…
Explaining participation in the informal economy
Drawing inspiration from institutional theory, a small sub-stream of literature has proposed that participation in the informal economy arises from the lack of alignment of a society's formal institutions (i.e. its codified laws and regulations) with its informal institutions (i.e. the norms, values and beliefs of its population). To further advance this explanation, this article reports a 2013 Eurobarometer survey involving 27,563 face-to-face i…
The Law of Kinship
Journal Article The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis and the Family in France Get access The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis and the Family in France. By Camille Robcis. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2013. xiv + 301 pp. £18.50. ISBN: 978 0 8014 7877 2. Jan Windebank Jan Windebank University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 28, Issue…
The Origins of Active Social Policy
Social Welfare and the Ethics of Austerity in Europe
Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe
Work‐life balance in times of economic crisis and austerity
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview of the wider debates concerning the evolution of work‐life balance practice and policy since the onset of the “Great Recession” of 2008 and to draw out some comparisons of the issues raised by the papers in the special issue by focusing particularly on the example of the UK. Design/methodology/approach The editorial analyses how the direction and pace of changes in work‐life balance …
Reconciling work and family life for French mothers in the Sarkozy era
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse work‐family reconciliation policy during the Sarkozy presidency in France, assessing the extent to which Sarkozy's injunction on the French to “work more to earn more” has provided a new frame for policy in this area
Responses of French Family and Employment Policy to the Unemployment Crises
This article analyses the evolution of family and employment policies in France and evaluates the extent to which they may have ‘stalled’ France's gender revolution. It considers the ‘universal breadwinner’ employment model of women's full-time and continuous participation in the labour market evolving in France in the 1970s and 1980s, due to early state support for childcare, restrictions on part-time working and demand for women's labour in the…
Social Policy and Gender Divisions of Domestic and Care Work in France
A number of cross-national comparisons of gender divisions of paid and unpaid labour have highlighted the mismatch which exists in France between on the one hand a narrow gender employment gap due to the full-time and continuous nature of women's employment, supported by extensive state-provided or subsidised childcare, and on the other hand, the persistence of an unexpectedly traditional gender division of domestic and care work. This results in…
Mapping the Social Organization of Labour in Moscow
The starting point of this paper is recognition that the depiction of a formal/informal labour dualism, which views formal and informal labour as separate and hostile realms, is inappropriate for capturing the range of labour practices in societies. This is because labour practices cannot be neatly separated into discrete formal and informal realms, the differences within the formal and informal spheres are as great as the differences between the…
Barriers to outsourcing domestic chores in dual‐earner households
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons women living in dual‐earner households give for not outsourcing domestic chores so as to understand better the barriers to the outsourcing of domestic labour. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on a web questionnaire survey amongst 550 staff of a large service‐sector employer in the UK. Using the Likert scale, reasons why households did or did not outsource domestic chores…
Towards a Democratic Division of Labour in Europe? The Combination Model as a New Integrated Approach to Professional and Family Life – By Walter Van Dongen
State Support for Domestic Services
The increase in women's employment and lack of change in the gender division of domestic labour has led to recent interest in domestic outsourcing and to some states in the European Union developing policies to encourage this practice. This article compares the outsourcing of domestic cleaning in two countries with very different policy approaches to the issue, namely France and Britain. France has some of the most developed policies to encourage…
Volunteering and the gender division of labour
Cross-national analyses of the gender division of labour usually focus on employment and domestic labour. This paper argues that formal and informal voluntary work should be included in such analyses. Using available secondary sources, the paper compares the gender division of voluntary work in Britain and France – two countries with well-documented differences and similarities concerning employment and domestic labour. The paper reveals that Fre…
Outsourcing women's domestic labour
In France, the Chèque Emploi-Service Universel is the current policy tool with which the state subsidizes and supports the use of paid domestic services by households. Evaluations of this scheme and of its forerunners, the Chèque Emploi-Service and the Titre Emploi-Service , have been very positive both within France and at European Union level. This article questions this conclusion by assessing the extent to which the state-supported outsourcin…
Rereading Undeclared Work
The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether undeclared work is the same when conducted by men and women. Conventionally, the view is that such work is always profit-motivated market-like work and that women's undeclared work mirrors their subjugated position in the formal labour market in terms of pay, contract type and sector. Reporting evidence gathered during 861 face-to-face interviews in contemporary England, this paper finds that to repres…
The Chèque Emploi-Service, the Titre Emploi-Service and the Chèque Emploi-Service Universel in France
In France, there have been two principal policy tools to stimulate demand for and organise the supply of domestic service employment, namely the Chèque Emploi-Service and the Titre Emploi-Service. These are currently being replaced by the Chèque Emploi-Service Universel. This article assesses these schemes from a gender perspective, in terms of both the type of employment that such commodification of domestic labour offers women and the extent to…
Refiguring the nature of undeclared work
A recurring assumption is that undeclared work is market-like and motivated by monetary gain and thus that participants make a rational economic decision to engage in such an enterprise. In consequence, the predominant public policy response has been to seek to deter this work by ensuring that the expected cost of being caught and punished is greater than the economic benefit of participating. Here, however, and drawing upon evidence from 861 fac…
Why do households use alternative consumption practices
In recent years, the emphasis on economic necessity when explaining engagement in alternative consumption practices (i.e. informal and/or second-hand modes of goods acquisition) has been challenged by an agency-oriented reading that views participation to be more a matter of choice, and more recently by a geographically sensitive approach that ascribes agency to affluent populations and economic necessity to deprived populations. To evaluate crit…
Dual-Earner Couples in Britain and France
In recent years, much cross-national research on women's work has focused on the impact of the state in creating the conditions to enable women to combine paid work and motherhood. However, when dealing with women's domestic responsibilities, this research has concentrated heavily on caring functions, whilst largely ignoring the importance of other basic household chores. Furthermore, few studies have addressed the question of how state policy co…
Social Polarization of Households in Contemporary Britain
Outsourcing women's domestic labour
In France, the Chèque Emploi-Service Universel is the current policy tool with which the state subsidizes and supports the use of paid domestic services by households. Evaluations of this scheme and of its forerunners, the Chèque Emploi-Service and the Titre Emploi-Service , have been very positive both within France and at European Union level. This article questions this conclusion by assessing the extent to which the state-supported outsourcin…
The Uneven Geographies of Informal Economic Activities
This article explores the uneven geographies of informal economic activities. Drawing upon 511 interviews conducted in higher- and lower-income neighbourhoods of one affluent and one deprived city in Britain, we explore whether the capabilities of households to perform necessary work and household work practices vary across space. We reveal not only the ways in which household work capabilities and practices vary between areas, but also the compl…
Explaining participation in the informal economy
Drawing inspiration from institutional theory, a small sub-stream of literature has proposed that participation in the informal economy arises from the lack of alignment of a society's formal institutions (i.e. its codified laws and regulations) with its informal institutions (i.e. the norms, values and beliefs of its population). To further advance this explanation, this article reports a 2013 Eurobarometer survey involving 27,563 face-to-face i…
The ‘excluded consumer
English This article investigates social exclusion in relation to consumption. To do this, we introduce the notion of the ‘excluded consumer’. In order to understand who defines themselves as excluded from normal consumption practices, and how, the results of interviews with 400 households in lower income UK urban neighbourhoods are reported. This reveals that households view themselves as excluded from mainstream consumption practices not only w…
Reconceptualising Paid Informal Exchange
Most studies of paid informal exchange evaluate its varying magnitude across space and social groups. Little attention, however, has been paid to the variable nature of paid informal exchange. Instead, the unchallenged assumption is that such exchanges are universally conducted under work relations akin to formal employment for profit-motivated purposes. To evaluate critically this dominant conceptualisation of the character of paid informal exch…
Black Market Work in the European Community
Beyond social inclusion through employment
English This article argues that New Labour's reliance on a ‘social inclusion through employment’ approach is problematic - especially when applied in lower income areas. This is due to the significant gap between actual employment rates and a full-employment scenario in such areas, its unidimensional view that equates social inclusion with having a job, and its failure to recognise and value forms of work beyond employment. We evaluate whether a…
Why do households use alternative consumption practices
In recent years, the emphasis on economic necessity when explaining engagement in alternative consumption practices (i.e. informal and/or second-hand modes of goods acquisition) has been challenged by an agency-oriented reading that views participation to be more a matter of choice, and more recently by a geographically sensitive approach that ascribes agency to affluent populations and economic necessity to deprived populations. To evaluate crit…
To What Extent Can Social Policy Challenge the Dominant Ideology of Mothering? a Cross-National Comparison of Sweden, France and Britain
The question of who looks after young chil dren is a function of the social construction of 'mothering'. Although the exact nature and distribution of 'mothering' work changes ac cording to cultural and historical context, mothering has remained inextricably linked to gender. Indeed, numerous studies have shown that fathers' involvement in child care has not increased to match mothers' involvement in the labour force and that women remain the pri…
Beyond Profit-Motivated Exchange
The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically whether under a market system, monetary exchange is always and everywhere based on profit-seeking behaviour. To do this, the paper examines paid informal work, a form of work conventionally conceptualized as low-paid employment heavily imbued with profit motivations on the part of both the consumer and supplier. Using structured interviews with 400 households in UK lower-income urban neighbourhoods,…
Self-help and Mutual Aid in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods
This paper evaluates self-help and mutual aid as tools for tackling social exclusion and promoting social cohesion in deprived urban neighbourhoods. Highlighting the rationales for using self-help and mutual aid to combat social exclusion and cohesion and then drawing upon case-study evidence from a deprived neighbourhood in Southampton to investigate their nature and extent as well as the barriers preventing their usage, it finds that although s…
The slow advance and uneven penetration of commodification
A common assumption is that commodification - the process by which goods and services are increasingly produced by capitalist firms for a profit under conditions of market exchange - is colonizing, albeit slowly and unevenly, ever more areas of daily life. Yet little evidence has been supplied to show either the extent or unevenness of this penetration. Here, therefore, we first draw upon secondary data to evaluate the degree to which the advance…
Political motherhood and the everyday experience of mothering
In contrast to the majority of research on the relationship between women and the state which bases its findings on nationally aggregated data and concentrates its analysis on the forces which shape national policy concerning gender, this article adopts a micro-social approach to this question. Based on the findings from an in-depth qualitative cross-national study of the child care strategies of 112 mothers working in secretarial or clerical occ…
Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe
Refiguring the nature of undeclared work
A recurring assumption is that undeclared work is market-like and motivated by monetary gain and thus that participants make a rational economic decision to engage in such an enterprise. In consequence, the predominant public policy response has been to seek to deter this work by ensuring that the expected cost of being caught and punished is greater than the economic benefit of participating. Here, however, and drawing upon evidence from 861 fac…
Why do people engage in paid informal work? A comparison of higher- and lower-income urban neighbourhoods in Britain
Change in work-family reconciliation policy in France and the UK since 2008
This article compares work-family reconciliation policy since 2008 in two contrasting case-study countries, namely France and the UK, and investigates how post-2008 economic circumstances and austerity measures have interacted with other policy drivers to influence the extent and shape of change in this policy area in these countries. The article demonstrates that work-family reconciliation policy in both countries has been resilient in the face …
Work‐life balance in times of economic crisis and austerity
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview of the wider debates concerning the evolution of work‐life balance practice and policy since the onset of the “Great Recession” of 2008 and to draw out some comparisons of the issues raised by the papers in the special issue by focusing particularly on the example of the UK. Design/methodology/approach The editorial analyses how the direction and pace of changes in work‐life balance …
Barriers to outsourcing domestic chores in dual‐earner households
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons women living in dual‐earner households give for not outsourcing domestic chores so as to understand better the barriers to the outsourcing of domestic labour. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on a web questionnaire survey amongst 550 staff of a large service‐sector employer in the UK. Using the Likert scale, reasons why households did or did not outsource domestic chores…
Reconceptualizing Women's Paid Informal Work
This article evaluates critically whether women's paid informal work is low‐paid market‐like work conducted for the purpose of economic gain. Drawing upon interviews with 400 households in UK lower‐income urban neighbourhoods, we show that only a small segment of the paid informal work conducted by women is of this character. The vast bulk is undertaken for and by friends, relative and neighbours under non‐market relations for reasons associated …
The formalisation of work thesis
The heterogeneity of cash‐in hand work
To evaluate critically whether under a market system, monetary exchange is always and everywhere based on profit‐seeking behaviour, this article examines cash‐in‐hand work, a form of activity conventionally conceptualised as low paid employment heavily imbued with profit motivations on the part of both the consumer and supplier. Reporting data gathered through structured face‐to‐face interviews with 511 households in affluent and deprived neighbo…
Reconceptualizing paid informal work and its implications for policy
Drawing upon case study evidence from Southampton, the aim of this paper is to show that paid informal work is not merely an economically‐motivated peripheral form of employment that should be eradicated due to its fraudulent and exploitative nature. Instead, paid informal work is revealed to be mostly conducted for family, neighbours and friends for social rather than economic reasons and is thus more akin to unpaid community exchange in the pri…
Comparing women's employment patterns across the European community
Report on the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France
Economic review of the year 1992
Short notices
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Spatial Variations in the Informal Sector
(1994). Spatial Variations in the Informal Sector: A Review of Evidence from the European Union. Regional Studies: Vol. 28, No. 8, pp. 819-825
From Maastricht to Versailles
Explaining women's relationship to home and family
Short Notices
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Report on the ASMCF Annual Conference. France
Economic review of the year 1994
Challenges to French social policy in the 1990s
Social Polarization of Households in Contemporary Britain
Black Market Work in the European Community
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Apollinaire, G., Alcools, trans. Donald Revell (University Press of New England, 1995), 171pp., £20.50 hbk., ISBN 0 8195 2224 4, £10.75 pbk, ISBN 0 8195 1228 1 Bredin, J.‐D., L'Affaire (Fayard/Julliard, 1993), 856pp., 198F. Burac, R., Charles Péguy. La révolution et lagrâce (Laffont, 1994), 347pp., 139F. Freeman, E.T., Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (Glasgow Introductory Guides 34, 1995 76pp., £3.95, ISBN 0 85261 467 5 French Pocket Dictionary, Engl…
Economic review of the year 1995
To What Extent Can Social Policy Challenge the Dominant Ideology of Mothering? a Cross-National Comparison of Sweden, France and Britain
The question of who looks after young chil dren is a function of the social construction of 'mothering'. Although the exact nature and distribution of 'mothering' work changes ac cording to cultural and historical context, mothering has remained inextricably linked to gender. Indeed, numerous studies have shown that fathers' involvement in child care has not increased to match mothers' involvement in the labour force and that women remain the pri…
Reconceptualizing paid informal work and its implications for policy
Drawing upon case study evidence from Southampton, the aim of this paper is to show that paid informal work is not merely an economically‐motivated peripheral form of employment that should be eradicated due to its fraudulent and exploitative nature. Instead, paid informal work is revealed to be mostly conducted for family, neighbours and friends for social rather than economic reasons and is thus more akin to unpaid community exchange in the pri…
The formalisation of work thesis
Political motherhood and the everyday experience of mothering
In contrast to the majority of research on the relationship between women and the state which bases its findings on nationally aggregated data and concentrates its analysis on the forces which shape national policy concerning gender, this article adopts a micro-social approach to this question. Based on the findings from an in-depth qualitative cross-national study of the child care strategies of 112 mothers working in secretarial or clerical occ…
Modes of goods acquisition in deprived neighbourhoods
The aim of this paper is to show that the extent to which British consumers acquire their goods new through formal retail outlets is not as all-pervasive as some might believe. Analysing how 200 households in relatively deprived areas of Southampton last acquired six goods (furniture, DIY tools, clothes, fridge, cooker and car), it finds that a large proportion of goods were acquired either informally and/or second-hand, especially amongst househ…
Paid informal work in deprived neighborhoods
Self-help and Mutual Aid in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods
This paper evaluates self-help and mutual aid as tools for tackling social exclusion and promoting social cohesion in deprived urban neighbourhoods. Highlighting the rationales for using self-help and mutual aid to combat social exclusion and cohesion and then drawing upon case-study evidence from a deprived neighbourhood in Southampton to investigate their nature and extent as well as the barriers preventing their usage, it finds that although s…
Helping People To Help Themselves
The aim of this paper is draw out some policy lessons from a study of self-help activity amongst 200 households in deprived urban neighbourhoods of Southampton. Commencing with a critique of the popular prejudice that promoting self-help should be opposed in case it leads to a demise of formal welfare provision, the paper then interrogates the empirical evidence to understand and explain the nature and extent of such work in deprived neighbourhoo…
Acquiring goods and services in lower income populations
Aims to explore the behaviour and preferences of lower income populations when acquiring goods and services. Drawing on empirical evidence from several UK cities, this paper finds that, in the realm of goods acquisition, these consumers want new goods from formal retail outlets but, due to economic necessity, their first option but second choice is often to acquire them informally or second‐hand. In the sphere of consumer services, however, infor…
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