| Email | glucm@essex.ac.uk |
| Telephone | 3039 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number) |
| Biography |
I came to Essex University in 1991 having previously taught at Brunel, Leicester and South Bank universities in the UK. I have also held research fellowships in the UK (the Ginsberg Research Fellowship at the LSE and the Hallsworth Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester) and abroad (in 1998 at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University in Canberra and at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala). I was Head of the Sociology Department here at Essex between 1999 and 2001. From 2004 to 2006, I was funded by an ESRC Professorial Fellowship to undertake a 3 year program of research in- Transformations of Work: New Frontiers, Shifting Boundaries, Changing Temporalities (see http://cresi.essex.ac.uk/getproject?projectID=40;) and I am currently writing a book based on this research. In 2005 I was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, and was awarded the 'Kerstin Hesselgren' Visiting Professorship for 2007 by the Swedish Research Council, hosted by the Economic History Department of Stockholm University. I am currently funded (2010 - 2013) by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant to undertake a programme of research on 'Consumption Work and Societal Divisions of Labour'. |
| Qualifications | BA (London)
PhD (London)
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| Current research | Consumption work and societal divisions of labour ERC Advanced Investigator Grant 2010-2013 (ERC Acronym DivLab)
I am funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant for three years (April 2010 – March 2013) to undertake a programme of research on ‘Consumption work and societal divisions of labour’. The research team will be based at Essex and comprise four post-doctoral researchers in addition to myself. Dr Esther Ruiz Ben and Dr Katherine Wheeler join the programme in January 2011.
Abstract
Contemporary global developments in work and employment are transforming labour and reshaping relations between workers, creating new webs of interconnection across the world. The objective of this research programme is radical renewal of the foundational concept of ‘the division of labour’, by situating traditional understandings of the technical allocation of tasks within an expanded theoretical framework. Two additional dimensions of differentiation and interdependency of work activities are proposed, namely across socio-economic modes (market, non-market, etc.) and across the economic processes of production, distribution, exchange, and preparation for consumption. The approach will be developed by researching the new terrain of ‘consumption work’: all work undertaken by consumers necessary for the purchase, use, re-use and disposal of consumption goods. The research will investigate how the work of consumers is shaped by its articulation with that of providers, and vice versa. Three contrasting empirical probes are chosen for the questions each raises about consumption work and its increasing socio-economic importance: domestic broadband installation, food preparation and household recycling of waste. Analysis will centre for each on the varying nature of the interface and interaction between consumption work and systems of provision in five comparator countries (UK, Sweden, France, Taiwan, South Korea) selected for their contrasting welfare regimes. The research programme is global, comparative and historical, aiming at reconceptualisation of the division of labour through substantive empirical research and integrative theoretical analysis. It will advance comprehension of ongoing socio-economic change and establish consumption work as a field of enquiry.
For more details and the Synopsis see http://cresi.essex.ac.uk/projects/divlab/ and http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/research/divlab/
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| Research interests |
- transformations of work and employment
- global changes in the division of labour
- the gendering of work and women's work and employment
- shifting boundaries between the work of production, distribution and consumption
- the work of consumption
- food preparation work
- remotely located work
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| Publications | Link to publications for Miriam Glucksmann |