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Reflecting on Women on the Line: Continuities and Change in Women's Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2012

Miriam Glucksmann
Miriam Glucksmann
Affiliation:
University of Essex
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Historically there has been a variety of ways for academics to engage with working people or to combine activism with scholarship. Women on the Line represents a historically specific form of engagement that was open to western feminists at the height of second wave feminism in the 1970s.

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Thirty Years on from Women on the Line: Researching Gender and Work
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 81 , Spring 2012 , pp. 168 - 173
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2012

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NOTES

I am indebted to the Economic and Social Research Council for funding my Professorial Fellowship research program, “Transformations of Work: New Frontiers, Shifting Boundaries, Changing temporalities” (RES-051-27-0015), and to the European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant for funding continuing research on “Consumption Work and Societal Divisions of Labour.” For further detail, see http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile.aspx?ID=130.

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