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Gender and work, space and time

CALL FOR PAPERS

Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, New
York City,
27 February - 3 March 2001

Organizers:
Colette Fagan, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester,
UK
Colette.fagan at man.ac.uk
Helen Jarvis, Department of Geography,
University of Newcastle, UK
helen.jarvis at ncl.ac.uk


Labour market restructuring has shaped the profile and geography
of
the workforce in advanced economies across the world.  Shifts in
core
sectors, locations, skills demand, emerging information and
telecommunications technology and 24 hour service economy
together
drive the proliferation of 'flexible', temporary and insecure
employment.  Associated with this process has been significant
growth
in numbers of dual-earner, single person, lone parent and
reconstituted households.  While it is increasingly common to
witness
the concentration of household structures around 'two wage' and 'no
wage' extremes, it is more significant still to note that fewer people
than ever are working a 'traditional' 40 hour week.  Both a'time
squeeze'  and 'time uncertainty' feature in many people's work
schedules due to the growth of  'demand led' unpaid overtime,
shiftwork, fragmented part-time hours and temporary, casual
contractual arrangements. Caught in this process of change are
partnered men and women who increasingly confront diverging,
competing
and shifting modes of flexible working when they combine two paid
jobs
within a single household.  These time pressures are compounded
further for employed single parents. The household arrangements
which
emerge are developed in the context of  labour market
developments and
broader welfare state policies. Pressures for change may emerge
from
the state, the labour market or the household level, shaping and
re-structuring the form which the gender division of labour takes in
society.

This session aims to bridge the divide typically separating
macro-level accounts of labour market restructuring from micro-level
examination of working time arrangements in practice. One aim is
to
draw out the way household arrangements shape labour supply at
the
same time that labour market restructuring and state policies
moderate
household structure. Papers are invited which examine and
account for
similarities and differences in the emerging shape and trends in
gender relations in different societies. Contributors may choose to
tackle the spatial and temporal co-ordination of home, work and
family
life from any combination of state, firm, work-place, household or
interest group perspective. It is hoped too that papers submitted to
this session will span a wide range of spatial scales (international,
national, regional, metropolitan etc.) and geographic contexts.

The type of issues we are interested in exploring are:

Time
- Working-time restructuring and the work-life balance
- City time and the 24 hour service economy
- The operation of family friendly policies in practice
- Time-space co-ordination of everyday working life.

Inequality
- gender, class, region and the economic polarisation of
households -
Welfare state regimes and the (re)construction of gender relations -
Economic restructuring and employment conditions - Public policy
debates and innovations to reform the 'Gender Order' - equal
opportunities and gender mainstreaming - labour market regulation
(wages, working-time, job security etc.) - work-family policies

If you are interested in participating in this session, please submit
a title and short abstract (250 words maximum) by 1 August 2000,
by
email if possible, to one of the organizers listed above.




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conference 2001, Manchester, UK?
Further details: http://les.man.ac.uk/sociology/bsa.htm.
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Colette Fagan
Department of Sociology
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UK
colette.fagan at man.ac.uk
Tel: 44-161-275-2512, fax -2514.
Department: http://les.man.ac.uk/sociology/
International Centre for Labour Studies:
 http://les.man.ac/icls/
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