New ESRC seminar series: Gender, Work and Life in the new global economy
ESRC Seminar Work, life and time in the new economy
The LSE Gender Institute together with the University of Manchester and University College London are pleased to announce this award of an ESRC competitive seminar series. The series is being co-ordinated by Diane Perrons, LSE Gender Institute and Department of Geography, Linda McDowell and Kath Ray, UCL, Department of Geography, Colette Fagan, University of Manchester, Department of Sociology and Kevin Ward, University of Manchester, Department of Geography. Three seminars will be held at the LSE Gender Institute and three at the University of Manchester between 2002 and 2004. The purpose of the seminars is to explore some of the varied contemporary ideas about the new economy and the implications of work, life and the management of time.
An edited collection has come out of this series Gender divisions in the new economy: changing patterns of work, care and public policy in Europe and North America, edited by Diane Perrons, Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Kath Ray and Kevin Ward, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
See also Time & Society, vol 14.1, with an introductory article by the editors of the collection above, and articles by contributors to the seminar series, Helen Jarvis, Jill Rubery et al, Julia Brannen, and Kevin Doogan.
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