Irene Bruegel
Biographic Data
| ID | 258648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene Bruegel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruegel |
| SIGNATURE | BRUEGEL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | London South Bank University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Children's `Place' in the Development of Neighbourhood Social Capital
The restrictions many parents place on children's spatial freedoms are often tied to concerns about `urban risk'. Concurrently, those children afforded greater spatial autonomy are often represented as threatening and disruptive to local social interaction. Little research has, however, explored the implications of children's spatial freedoms on social cohesion. Framed by the concept of social capital, this paper examines the role children play i…
Family Resources and Community Social Capital as Routes to Valued Employment in the UK
This paper analyses existing research on social capital, school choice and educational attainment to consider the questions that need to be answered if the role of social capital in reducing or extending social inequality is to be addressed. We identify a need to distinguish between: social surveillance and genuinely educative forms of social capital; between parent–pupil interactions and family: school links that generate positive external spin-…
The restructuring of London's labour force: Migration and shifting opportunities, 1971–91
The links between migration in and out of London and intergenerational social mobility are explored. Opportunities to enter high‐grade jobs are greater in London, but so is the competition. The selectivity of migration explains the high social mobility associated with both in‐ and out‐migration; those who stay in London are much less mobile, be they male or female. Black migrants to London do not share the fast escalator with white migrants, and …
No More Jobs for the Boys? Gender and Class in the restructuring of the British Economy
ACROSS THE WORLD female employment has increased in the face of overall rises in levels of unemployment. For the most part such feminisation is ‘characterised as an outcome of cultural changes associated with women’s broadening aspirations, rather than with changes in the relative demand for male and female labour. In Britain as the end of the century approached, however, commentators increasingly described the problem of unemployment as a male p…
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…
Symposium: Equal Opportunities and Employment Change in West European Economies
Gendering the Polarisation Debate: A Comment on Hamnett's 'Social Polarisation, Economic Restructuring and Welfare State Regimes
This note looks at the juxtaposition of a polarising income distribution and a 'professionalising' occupational structure as an account of recent trends in London. It suggests that Hamnett may read too much occupational upgrading from the data and that he does not tackle adequately the question of earned income polarisation. While welfare systems always mediate the relationship between the global and the local, Esping-Anderson's welfare state cat…
Whose Myths Are They Anyway: A Comment
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
The moment of municipal feminism: Gender and class in 1980s local government
This paper discusses the tensions in the relationship between munici pal feminism, the urban left and the trade union movement and identi fies the period from 1983 to 1987 as the 'moment of municipal femin. ism'. It argues that since that period the concept of equal opportunities has narrowed considerably. It shows that inequalities between women working for local authorities have widened appreciably, even though the rhetoric of local authority m…
Economic Reasoning and Family Relations
Both these books attempt to theorise family obligation and take up the question of why women put so much more time and effort into childcare than men. They both operate with an interdisciplinary mix of economics, sociology and social policy, looking at choice, constraints, inter-dependencies and game strategies. Yet the answers they give are very different. Jordan et al. are attempting to add rational choice theory to an interactionalist perspect…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Iain Begg of the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, and David Mayes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research examine some of the policy issues surrounding the issue of cohesion and convergence as enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty. They argue that if insufficient priority is assigned to cohesion then inevitably political pressures will slow the pace of economic in…
Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender
The authors of this volume discuss the ways in which places have been transformed by the changes happening within them - shifts in the nature and quantity of paid and unpaid work, in social and political mobilization, in cultural and aesthetic experience and in the built environment
Report: The European Forum of Socialist Feminists Norwich, 1991
The European Forum of Socialist Feminists Norwich, 1991
Sex and Race in the Labour Market
We know from our everyday experience that black women have some of the worst jobs. Yet this is not quite what published statistics suggest. Official data certainly show marked differences between men's and women's jobs and between the jobs that black and white men hold, but racial differences between women appear slight in national survey results. This article attempts to unravel the reasons for the apparent conflict between the evidence of our e…
Women as a Reserve Army of Labour: A Note on Recent British Experience
Cities, Women and Social Class: A Comment
Women as a Reserve Army of Labour: A Note on Recent British Experience
Whose Myths Are They Anyway: A Comment
Children's `Place' in the Development of Neighbourhood Social Capital
The restrictions many parents place on children's spatial freedoms are often tied to concerns about `urban risk'. Concurrently, those children afforded greater spatial autonomy are often represented as threatening and disruptive to local social interaction. Little research has, however, explored the implications of children's spatial freedoms on social cohesion. Framed by the concept of social capital, this paper examines the role children play i…
Sex and Race in the Labour Market
We know from our everyday experience that black women have some of the worst jobs. Yet this is not quite what published statistics suggest. Official data certainly show marked differences between men's and women's jobs and between the jobs that black and white men hold, but racial differences between women appear slight in national survey results. This article attempts to unravel the reasons for the apparent conflict between the evidence of our e…
Gendering the Polarisation Debate: A Comment on Hamnett's 'Social Polarisation, Economic Restructuring and Welfare State Regimes
This note looks at the juxtaposition of a polarising income distribution and a 'professionalising' occupational structure as an account of recent trends in London. It suggests that Hamnett may read too much occupational upgrading from the data and that he does not tackle adequately the question of earned income polarisation. While welfare systems always mediate the relationship between the global and the local, Esping-Anderson's welfare state cat…
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
Cities, Women and Social Class: A Comment
Family Resources and Community Social Capital as Routes to Valued Employment in the UK
This paper analyses existing research on social capital, school choice and educational attainment to consider the questions that need to be answered if the role of social capital in reducing or extending social inequality is to be addressed. We identify a need to distinguish between: social surveillance and genuinely educative forms of social capital; between parent–pupil interactions and family: school links that generate positive external spin-…
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…
The restructuring of London's labour force: Migration and shifting opportunities, 1971–91
The links between migration in and out of London and intergenerational social mobility are explored. Opportunities to enter high‐grade jobs are greater in London, but so is the competition. The selectivity of migration explains the high social mobility associated with both in‐ and out‐migration; those who stay in London are much less mobile, be they male or female. Black migrants to London do not share the fast escalator with white migrants, and …
No More Jobs for the Boys? Gender and Class in the restructuring of the British Economy
ACROSS THE WORLD female employment has increased in the face of overall rises in levels of unemployment. For the most part such feminisation is ‘characterised as an outcome of cultural changes associated with women’s broadening aspirations, rather than with changes in the relative demand for male and female labour. In Britain as the end of the century approached, however, commentators increasingly described the problem of unemployment as a male p…
The moment of municipal feminism: Gender and class in 1980s local government
This paper discusses the tensions in the relationship between munici pal feminism, the urban left and the trade union movement and identi fies the period from 1983 to 1987 as the 'moment of municipal femin. ism'. It argues that since that period the concept of equal opportunities has narrowed considerably. It shows that inequalities between women working for local authorities have widened appreciably, even though the rhetoric of local authority m…
Symposium: Equal Opportunities and Employment Change in West European Economies
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Iain Begg of the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, and David Mayes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research examine some of the policy issues surrounding the issue of cohesion and convergence as enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty. They argue that if insufficient priority is assigned to cohesion then inevitably political pressures will slow the pace of economic in…
Cities, Women and Social Class: A Comment
Women as a Reserve Army of Labour: A Note on Recent British Experience
Sex and Race in the Labour Market
We know from our everyday experience that black women have some of the worst jobs. Yet this is not quite what published statistics suggest. Official data certainly show marked differences between men's and women's jobs and between the jobs that black and white men hold, but racial differences between women appear slight in national survey results. This article attempts to unravel the reasons for the apparent conflict between the evidence of our e…
Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender
The authors of this volume discuss the ways in which places have been transformed by the changes happening within them - shifts in the nature and quantity of paid and unpaid work, in social and political mobilization, in cultural and aesthetic experience and in the built environment
Report: The European Forum of Socialist Feminists Norwich, 1991
The European Forum of Socialist Feminists Norwich, 1991
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Iain Begg of the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, and David Mayes of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research examine some of the policy issues surrounding the issue of cohesion and convergence as enshrined in the Maastricht Treaty. They argue that if insufficient priority is assigned to cohesion then inevitably political pressures will slow the pace of economic in…
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
The moment of municipal feminism: Gender and class in 1980s local government
This paper discusses the tensions in the relationship between munici pal feminism, the urban left and the trade union movement and identi fies the period from 1983 to 1987 as the 'moment of municipal femin. ism'. It argues that since that period the concept of equal opportunities has narrowed considerably. It shows that inequalities between women working for local authorities have widened appreciably, even though the rhetoric of local authority m…
Economic Reasoning and Family Relations
Both these books attempt to theorise family obligation and take up the question of why women put so much more time and effort into childcare than men. They both operate with an interdisciplinary mix of economics, sociology and social policy, looking at choice, constraints, inter-dependencies and game strategies. Yet the answers they give are very different. Jordan et al. are attempting to add rational choice theory to an interactionalist perspect…
Gendering the Polarisation Debate: A Comment on Hamnett's 'Social Polarisation, Economic Restructuring and Welfare State Regimes
This note looks at the juxtaposition of a polarising income distribution and a 'professionalising' occupational structure as an account of recent trends in London. It suggests that Hamnett may read too much occupational upgrading from the data and that he does not tackle adequately the question of earned income polarisation. While welfare systems always mediate the relationship between the global and the local, Esping-Anderson's welfare state cat…
Whose Myths Are They Anyway: A Comment
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…
Symposium: Equal Opportunities and Employment Change in West European Economies
The restructuring of London's labour force: Migration and shifting opportunities, 1971–91
The links between migration in and out of London and intergenerational social mobility are explored. Opportunities to enter high‐grade jobs are greater in London, but so is the competition. The selectivity of migration explains the high social mobility associated with both in‐ and out‐migration; those who stay in London are much less mobile, be they male or female. Black migrants to London do not share the fast escalator with white migrants, and …
No More Jobs for the Boys? Gender and Class in the restructuring of the British Economy
ACROSS THE WORLD female employment has increased in the face of overall rises in levels of unemployment. For the most part such feminisation is ‘characterised as an outcome of cultural changes associated with women’s broadening aspirations, rather than with changes in the relative demand for male and female labour. In Britain as the end of the century approached, however, commentators increasingly described the problem of unemployment as a male p…
Family Resources and Community Social Capital as Routes to Valued Employment in the UK
This paper analyses existing research on social capital, school choice and educational attainment to consider the questions that need to be answered if the role of social capital in reducing or extending social inequality is to be addressed. We identify a need to distinguish between: social surveillance and genuinely educative forms of social capital; between parent–pupil interactions and family: school links that generate positive external spin-…
Children's `Place' in the Development of Neighbourhood Social Capital
The restrictions many parents place on children's spatial freedoms are often tied to concerns about `urban risk'. Concurrently, those children afforded greater spatial autonomy are often represented as threatening and disruptive to local social interaction. Little research has, however, explored the implications of children's spatial freedoms on social cohesion. Framed by the concept of social capital, this paper examines the role children play i…
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