Diane Perrons
Biographic Data
| ID | 170739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Perrons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Perrons |
| SIGNATURE | PERRONS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7903-4606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 534 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Gender and Risk Taking: Economics, Evidence and Why the Answer Matters
Gender and Risk Taking: Economics, Evidence and Why the Answer Matters." Gender & Development, 26(2), pp. 377–378
Work–Life Balance
Work–life balance has been defined as “A situation in which you are able to give the right amount of time and effort to your work and to your personal life outside work, for example to your family or to other interests.” This gender‐neutral definition has displaced earlier conceptualizations such as work and family reconciliation in order to recognize that all workers, and not only parents and carers, have legitimate interests outside of the work…
Gender and Inequality: Austerity and Alternatives
Gender equality policies aim to increase women’s participation in the market economy, but they do not always recognise that market societies reproduce inequalities at micro and macro levels. At the micro level, labour markets are gendered institutions, and at the macro level, austerity policies have inherent biases and negative impacts that fall disproportionately on women.
Social theory, economic geography, space and place: Reflections on the work of Ray Hudson
Economic geography, at its best, deploys economic and social theory to make sense of the economic, political and social transformation of regions and their impact on people’s lives and opportunities. Nowhere is this approach more evident than in the work of Ray Hudson, who has consistently focused on analysing the processes of combined and uneven development to explain the broad changes in the capitalist economy together with middle-level theorie…
Gendering the inequality debate
In the past 30 years, economic inequality has increased to unprecedented levels, and is generating widespread public concern amongst orthodox, as well as leftist and feminist thinkers. This article explores the gender dimensions of growing economic inequality, summarises key arguments from feminist economics which expose the inadequacy of current mainstream economic analysis on which ‘development’ is based, and argues for a ‘gender and equality’ …
Gender and Well-Being: The Role of Institutions
Gendering inequality: A note on Piketty's Capital in the Twenty‐First Century
Thomas P iketty's Capital in the Twenty‐First Century is remarkable for moving inequality from the margins to mainstream debate through detailed analysis of longitudinal statistics and, for an economist, by advocating an interdisciplinary perspective and writing in a witty and accessible style. With reference to the post 1970 period, when wage increases are largely responsible for the increase in inequality, P iketty shows how patrimonial capital…
Gender, Migration and Domestic Work
Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of masculinized domestic services, exploring issues such as increasing inequality, migra
Migrant Men's Fathering Narratives, Practices and Projects in National and Transnational Spaces: Recent Polish Male Migrants to London
Historically migrants have been constructed as units of labour and their social reproductive needs have received scant attention in policy and in academic literature. The growth in ‘feminist‐inflected’ migration research in recent decades, has provoked a body of work on transnational care‐giving that poses a challenge to such a construction, at least as it relates to female migrants in general and mothers in particular. Researchers, however, have…
The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism
Colin CROUCH, Polity, 2011, ISBN 9780745652214, £14.99 (pbk), 224 pp. As Colin Crouch maintains, despite the recent economic crises, neo-liberalism survives, not in the idealised form of self-regul
Global' Financial Crisis, Earnings Inequalities and Gender: Towards a More Sustainable Model of Development
The economic crisis of 2007-8 was sparked primarily by mismanagement of capital markets through speculation and excessive risk taking by very highly paid men (predominantly) in the financial centres of the western world, but the underlying causes are deeply rooted in the neo-liberal model of global development itself.Neo-liberalism is associated with unsustainable increases in earnings inequalities and a related imbalance between productivity and…
Regional performance and inequality: Linking economic and social development through a capabilities approach
Despite European Union objectives for economic and social cohesion, current measures of regional development are defined economically, reflecting the separation in policy and academia between economic issues, concerned with growth, and social issues, concerned with redistribution. Drawing on the capabilities perspective and a similar methodology to the UNDP's Human Development Index, this paper calculates a measure of regional development for UK …
Migration and uneven development within an enlarged European Union: Fathering, gender divisions and male migrant domestic services
Drawing mainly on qualitative evidence gathered from interviews with migrant handymen and with labour-using households in the UK, this paper analyses how this migration typifies economic and social divisions within Europe and embodies conflicting tensions between economic and social policies at an interpersonal level. By supplying household services, migrant handymen enable labour-using households to alleviate time pressures and conflicts in time…
Class Transformation and Work-Life Balance in Urban Britain: The Case of Manchester
Recent years have seen an expansion in the work on the attitudes, beliefs and preferences of those middle-class groups that have accompanied the return of capital to many North American and western European city centres and their surrounding urban suburbs. Yet despite this, it is argued that there is little research linking gentrification to wider processes of social transformation, particularly debates over housing market decision-making, the ba…
Gendered Divisions in Domestic Work Time: The rise of the (migrant) handyman phenomenon
Drawing on quantitative analysis of three data sets - the Worker Registration Scheme, the Labour Force Survey, and the UK2000 Time Use Survey - and through an analysis of gendered use of time, this article provides an investigation of the small but growing phenomenon of male (migrant) domestic workers, and more specifically, of what we term the '(migrant) handyman phenomenon', in the UK. The article provides some preliminary documentation and dis…
Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of the Social
Migration: Cities, Regions and Uneven Development
Globalising failures
Gender, Social Class and Work-Life Balance in the New Economy
Women in the European Union are increasingly expected to be in paid employment to meet the Lisbon Strategy targets for growth and competitiveness and to offset the rising costs of welfare, given increased ageing and declining fertility. Yet despite the passing of equalities legislation over 30 years ago, gender inequalities remain in the scale and character of paid employment and in the division of domestic labour.1 The lack of any real change in…
Place, Class and Local Circuits of Reproduction: Exploring the Social Geography of Middle-class Childcare in London
In a recent revival of the older tradition of community studies, sociologists and geographers have begun to address the changing nature of attachment to locality in contemporary cities in advanced industrial societies. Challenging older definitions of attachment to place, a new form of communal attachment has recently been identified, termed 'elective belonging'. This sense of place is particularly important among the middle classes and is, it is…
Living and working in urban working class communities
Connecting Time and Space: The Significance of Transformations in Women's Work in the City
Growing numbers of women with children living in western cities are entering the labour market, raising new questions about changes in the allocation of the tasks of social reproduction between household members and others and about the effects of the increasing time women now spend in the workplace. As Manuel Castells noted over 25 years ago, women's unpaid labour has long been essential, not only in the domestic arena, but also in patching toge…
Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in the New (Market) Economy: An Analysis of Contradictions
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 12, Number 3, Fall 2005
The Contradictions and Intersections of Class and Gender in a Global City: Placing Working Women's Lives on the Research Agenda
In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London. It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of high-status employment brings in its wake rising employment in low-status, poorly paid 'servicing' occupations. Whereas urban theorists tend to ignore gender divisions…
Work, Life and Time in the New Economy: An introduction
International audience
Women's paid work and moral economies of care
Female labour force participation has been increasing in recent decades, in part encouraged by state policies to raise the employment rate to encourage economic competitiveness and combat social exclusion. Social provision for care, however, has lagged behind this increase, creating practical and moral dilemmas for individuals and for society, facing parents with complex choices about how to combine work and care. In this paper, we draw on a qual…
The New Economy and the Work–Life Balance: Conceptual Explorations and a Case Study of New Media
Given the varied claims made about the new economy and its implications for the organization of work and life, this article critically evaluates some conceptualizations of the new economy and then explores how the new media sector has materialized and been experienced by people working in Brighton and Hove, a new media hub. New technologies and patterns of working allow the temporal and spatial boundaries of paid work to be extended, potentially …
Migrant Men's Fathering Narratives, Practices and Projects in National and Transnational Spaces: Recent Polish Male Migrants to London
Historically migrants have been constructed as units of labour and their social reproductive needs have received scant attention in policy and in academic literature. The growth in ‘feminist‐inflected’ migration research in recent decades, has provoked a body of work on transnational care‐giving that poses a challenge to such a construction, at least as it relates to female migrants in general and mothers in particular. Researchers, however, have…
Work, Life and Time in the New Economy: An introduction
International audience
Regional Inequality, Regimes of Accumulation and Economic Development in Contemporary Europe
Michael Dunford, Diane Perrons, Regional Inequality, Regimes of Accumulation and Economic Development in Contemporary Europe, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1994), pp. 163-182
Empowerment Through Participation? Conceptual Explorations and A Case Study
Economic inequalities have been increasing between and within nations, regions and cities, but questions of redistribution have to some extent been displaced by those of recognition, empowerment and diversity in urban and regional inquiry and policy. A conceptual framework drawing upon Nancy Fraser's and Iris Marion Young's ideas about economic and cultural injustice is proposed for evaluating local empowerment initiatives, which is then drawn up…
The role of Ireland in the new international division of labour: A proposed framework for regional analysis
Sperrons D. C. (1981) The role of Ireland in the new international division of labour: a proposed framework for regional analysis, Reg. Studies 15, 81–100. This paper aims to justify and exemplify a new approach to regional analysis and then to outline how it might be used to account for Ireland's role in the new international division of labour. It argues that traditional location theory is unable to account adequately for the present structure …
Migration and uneven development within an enlarged European Union: Fathering, gender divisions and male migrant domestic services
Drawing mainly on qualitative evidence gathered from interviews with migrant handymen and with labour-using households in the UK, this paper analyses how this migration typifies economic and social divisions within Europe and embodies conflicting tensions between economic and social policies at an interpersonal level. By supplying household services, migrant handymen enable labour-using households to alleviate time pressures and conflicts in time…
Gender Inequalities in Regional Development
PERRONS D. (1995) Gender inequalities in regional development, Reg. Studies 29, 465–476. Gender inequality is a universal phenomenon but there are cross-national and regional variations in its extent. Different degrees of gender inequality in employment in the European Union are identified and explained in terms of a synthesis of ideas drawn from the literature on welfare regimes and regulation theory. The structure and degree of involvement of w…
The Contradictions and Intersections of Class and Gender in a Global City: Placing Working Women's Lives on the Research Agenda
In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London. It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of high-status employment brings in its wake rising employment in low-status, poorly paid 'servicing' occupations. Whereas urban theorists tend to ignore gender divisions…
Living and working in urban working class communities
Gendered Divisions in Domestic Work Time: The rise of the (migrant) handyman phenomenon
Drawing on quantitative analysis of three data sets - the Worker Registration Scheme, the Labour Force Survey, and the UK2000 Time Use Survey - and through an analysis of gendered use of time, this article provides an investigation of the small but growing phenomenon of male (migrant) domestic workers, and more specifically, of what we term the '(migrant) handyman phenomenon', in the UK. The article provides some preliminary documentation and dis…
Place, Class and Local Circuits of Reproduction: Exploring the Social Geography of Middle-class Childcare in London
In a recent revival of the older tradition of community studies, sociologists and geographers have begun to address the changing nature of attachment to locality in contemporary cities in advanced industrial societies. Challenging older definitions of attachment to place, a new form of communal attachment has recently been identified, termed 'elective belonging'. This sense of place is particularly important among the middle classes and is, it is…
Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in the New (Market) Economy: An Analysis of Contradictions
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 12, Number 3, Fall 2005
Connecting Time and Space: The Significance of Transformations in Women's Work in the City
Growing numbers of women with children living in western cities are entering the labour market, raising new questions about changes in the allocation of the tasks of social reproduction between household members and others and about the effects of the increasing time women now spend in the workplace. As Manuel Castells noted over 25 years ago, women's unpaid labour has long been essential, not only in the domestic arena, but also in patching toge…
Towards a More Holistic Framework for Economic Geography
Flexible Working Patterns and Equal Opportunities in the European Union
Migration: Cities, Regions and Uneven Development
Citations, authors and referees: Regional studies , 1981–2002
Dunford M., Perrons D., Reilly B. and Bull R. (2002) Citations, authors and referees: Regional Studies, 1981–2002, Reg. Studies 36, 1055–1067. The aim of this paper is to provide information about who publishes in the journal, how frequently this work is cited, what share of papers submitted are accepted, how quickly decisions are taken, how referees perform and, in particular, how the journal has evolved. The data reviewed indicate that the flow…
Care, Paid Work, and Leisure: Rounding the Triangle
The current distribution of paid work and caring work is inequitable. Some people are combining very long hours of paid work with caring responsibilities, while others with no caring responsibilities are also excluded from paid work. Nancy Fraser's (1996) concept of gender equity, is drawn upon as a normative standard against which to evaluate different models of work and child care in France and the U.K. In practice, distinctions between work, c…
Understanding Social and Spatial Divisions in the New Economy: New Media Clusters and the Digital Divide
Economic inequality is increasing but has been sidelined in some of the recent debates in urban and regional studies. This article outlines a holistic framework for economic geography, which focuses on understanding social and spatial divisions, by drawing on economists' ideas about the new economy and feminist perspectives on social reproduction. The framework is illustrated with reference to the emerging new media cluster in Brighton and Hove, …
Flexible Working and Equal Opportunities in the United Kingdom: A Case Study from Retail
Flexible working has been widely advocated as a social panacea, capable of resolving unemployment, maintaining economic competitiveness, and enhancing equal opportunities between women and men. Flexibility has neutral or even positive connotations for both employers and employees. These meanings are differentiated, and empirically explored, by reference to the British component of a qualitative, comparative six-country European study of flexible …
Regional policy and the crisis in the UK: A Long-Run Perspective
Global' Financial Crisis, Earnings Inequalities and Gender: Towards a More Sustainable Model of Development
The economic crisis of 2007-8 was sparked primarily by mismanagement of capital markets through speculation and excessive risk taking by very highly paid men (predominantly) in the financial centres of the western world, but the underlying causes are deeply rooted in the neo-liberal model of global development itself.Neo-liberalism is associated with unsustainable increases in earnings inequalities and a related imbalance between productivity and…
Regional performance and inequality: Linking economic and social development through a capabilities approach
Despite European Union objectives for economic and social cohesion, current measures of regional development are defined economically, reflecting the separation in policy and academia between economic issues, concerned with growth, and social issues, concerned with redistribution. Drawing on the capabilities perspective and a similar methodology to the UNDP's Human Development Index, this paper calculates a measure of regional development for UK …
Ireland and the Break‐up of Britain
The role of Ireland in the new international division of labour: A proposed framework for regional analysis
Sperrons D. C. (1981) The role of Ireland in the new international division of labour: a proposed framework for regional analysis, Reg. Studies 15, 81–100. This paper aims to justify and exemplify a new approach to regional analysis and then to outline how it might be used to account for Ireland's role in the new international division of labour. It argues that traditional location theory is unable to account adequately for the present structure …
Regional policy and the crisis in the UK: A Long-Run Perspective
The Arena of Capital
The Arena of Capital
Undefended Cities and Regions facing the New European Order: International seminar, Lemnos, Greece, August 1991
Regional Inequality, Regimes of Accumulation and Economic Development in Contemporary Europe
Michael Dunford, Diane Perrons, Regional Inequality, Regimes of Accumulation and Economic Development in Contemporary Europe, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1994), pp. 163-182
Measuring Equal Opportunities in European Employment
The European Community has developed various social policies to compensate for the uneven effects of economic integration, and to bring about greater equality between women and men. In addition, the member states have their own policy traditions and institutional frameworks which likewise affect general employment conditions. In order to bring about greater economic and social cohesion in the European Community there have been moves to harmonise …
Economic Strategies, Welfare Regimes and Gender Inequality in Employment in the European Union
Female participation in paid employment has in creased significantly in recent decades throughout Europe, but despite the existence of equal opportuni ties policies the position of women in the labour market remains a subordinate one. There are how ever, significant differences between European Union countries in terms of the extent of inequality. Using data from Eurostat, and a methodology simi lar to the United Nations human development index, …
Where Do the Costs of Unequal Treatment for Women Fall? An Analysis of the Incidence of the Costs of Unequal Pay and Sex Discrimination in the UK
Gender Inequalities in Regional Development
PERRONS D. (1995) Gender inequalities in regional development, Reg. Studies 29, 465–476. Gender inequality is a universal phenomenon but there are cross-national and regional variations in its extent. Different degrees of gender inequality in employment in the European Union are identified and explained in terms of a synthesis of ideas drawn from the literature on welfare regimes and regulation theory. The structure and degree of involvement of w…
Globalization, institutions, and regional development in Europe
Deregulation and Women's Employment: The Diverse Experiences of Women in Britain
In recent years employers in Britain have taken up equal opportunity policies more widely and structural changes in the economy have generally favored women. Against this, the pursuit of labor market deregulation is generally thought to impact adversely on women. This paper considers the changing British policy framework of the last ten to fifteen years and the effects on women's employment, highlighting differences amongst women. Deregulation an…
Maps of Meaning: Gender Inequality in the Regions of Western Europe
Employment data from the REGIO database are mapped using a geographic information system. Orthodox mapping is considered to be a useful way of portraying the continuing universal nature of gender inequality in employment alongside the wide, national and regional variations in the extent of the inequality. The maps also illustrate the growing feminization of employment in western Europe and the rapidity with which gender roles are changing. Howeve…
Flexible Working Patterns and Equal Opportunities in the European Union
Care, Paid Work, and Leisure: Rounding the Triangle
The current distribution of paid work and caring work is inequitable. Some people are combining very long hours of paid work with caring responsibilities, while others with no caring responsibilities are also excluded from paid work. Nancy Fraser's (1996) concept of gender equity, is drawn upon as a normative standard against which to evaluate different models of work and child care in France and the U.K. In practice, distinctions between work, c…
Flexible Working and Equal Opportunities in the United Kingdom: A Case Study from Retail
Flexible working has been widely advocated as a social panacea, capable of resolving unemployment, maintaining economic competitiveness, and enhancing equal opportunities between women and men. Flexibility has neutral or even positive connotations for both employers and employees. These meanings are differentiated, and empirically explored, by reference to the British component of a qualitative, comparative six-country European study of flexible …
Towards a More Holistic Framework for Economic Geography
Gendered divisions in the new economy: Risks and opportunities
Citations, authors and referees: Regional studies , 1981–2002
Dunford M., Perrons D., Reilly B. and Bull R. (2002) Citations, authors and referees: Regional Studies, 1981–2002, Reg. Studies 36, 1055–1067. The aim of this paper is to provide information about who publishes in the journal, how frequently this work is cited, what share of papers submitted are accepted, how quickly decisions are taken, how referees perform and, in particular, how the journal has evolved. The data reviewed indicate that the flow…
The New Economy and the Work–Life Balance: Conceptual Explorations and a Case Study of New Media
Given the varied claims made about the new economy and its implications for the organization of work and life, this article critically evaluates some conceptualizations of the new economy and then explores how the new media sector has materialized and been experienced by people working in Brighton and Hove, a new media hub. New technologies and patterns of working allow the temporal and spatial boundaries of paid work to be extended, potentially …
Empowerment Through Participation? Conceptual Explorations and A Case Study
Economic inequalities have been increasing between and within nations, regions and cities, but questions of redistribution have to some extent been displaced by those of recognition, empowerment and diversity in urban and regional inquiry and policy. A conceptual framework drawing upon Nancy Fraser's and Iris Marion Young's ideas about economic and cultural injustice is proposed for evaluating local empowerment initiatives, which is then drawn up…
Globalization and Social Change
Globalization and Social Change takes a refreshing new perspective on globalization and widening social and spatial inequalities. Diane Perrons draws on ideas about the new economy, risk society, welfare regimes and political economy to explain the growing social and spatial divisions characteristic of our increasingly divided world. Combining original argument with a clear exposition of the underlying processes, Perrons illustrates her points th…
Globalisation and social change: People and Places in a Divided World
Understanding Social and Spatial Divisions in the New Economy: New Media Clusters and the Digital Divide
Economic inequality is increasing but has been sidelined in some of the recent debates in urban and regional studies. This article outlines a holistic framework for economic geography, which focuses on understanding social and spatial divisions, by drawing on economists' ideas about the new economy and feminist perspectives on social reproduction. The framework is illustrated with reference to the emerging new media cluster in Brighton and Hove, …
Sociology (37 works) · Economics (35 works) · Political science (34 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (19 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (19 works) · Inequality (18 works) · Geography (17 works) · Economic geography (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works)