@GenderWorkGroup

Research group @UniOfCambridge, deploying gender as analytic category in scholarship on work in formal, informal and reproductive spheres across the globe.

 Cambridge, England
Joined October 2018
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Full Fact
@FullFactMar 7
Videos shared online falsely claim Keir Starmer banned New York mayor Zohran Mamdani from the UK, after Mr Mamdani supposedly said the UK had “lost its moral compass” at an event they both attended. But no such event happened, and he hasn’t been banned. fullfact.org/us/mamdani-uk-l…

NYC mayor not banned from UK – Full Fact

A series of videos shared on social media falsely claim that Zohran Mamdani said the UK has “lost its moral compass”, prompting Keir Starmer to ban him from the UK.

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LSE Gender@LSEGenderTweet21 Nov 2023
📢We are hiring for 3 academic teaching positions! Use the link below to find more information & apply- all apps are due 4 Feb 🗓️ Asst Prof in Gender, Development & Globalisation Assoc Prof in Gender & Sexuality Asst Prof in Gender, Peace & Security lse.ac.uk/gender/about-us/Wo…
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A few months in the making... & now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.…
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Sarah J Tracy 🏜@SarahJTracy3 Jul 2023
Assuming a purely grounded approach to #qualitative methods lends itself to frustration, wasted resources, & the research taking 2-3 times longer than necessary. Instead qualitative research is at its most powerful when it is ITERATIVE. What is does it mean to be iterative?
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Adam Bienkov@AdamBienkov19 Oct 2022
BREAKING: The House of Commons votes by 223 to 0 for a motion condemning the damage done by Liz Truss' mini-budget to the economy, and seeking to compel the government to publish the OBR's forecasts in full.
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Rob Rinder
@RobbieRinder24 Aug 2022
It was a DEEPLY stupid thing to say.
I Am Incorrigible also on Bluesky, threads & masto@ImIncorrigible24 Aug 2022
"That's a deeply stupid thing to say" Rob Rinder sets Andrew Pierce straight after the Daily Mail 'journalist' tries to shift the blame for murders like that of #OliviaPrattKorbel onto "the black community in our inner cities" #GMB #r4today
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Just a quick tweet to say the next reading group is this Tuesday at 12.30-13.30 on zoom. We'll be reading about labour protest, birth control, and imperial constructions of girlhood. Please find zoom link and readings in the email that was just sent out! Hope to see you there!
Tuesday 7 June, 12.30-13.30 - On Zoom   N. Bourbonnais, (2009) ‘“Dangerously Large” the 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Debate over Birth Control in Jamaica,’ New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 83:1, 39-69.   E. Dillenburg, (2019). ‘Girl Empire Builders: Girls' Domestic and Cultural Labor and Constructions of Girlhood.’ The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 12:3, 393-412. email at genderandworkinglives@gmail.com for zoom link

ALT Tuesday 7 June, 12.30-13.30 - On Zoom   N. Bourbonnais, (2009) ‘“Dangerously Large” the 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Debate over Birth Control in Jamaica,’ New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 83:1, 39-69.   E. Dillenburg, (2019). ‘Girl Empire Builders: Girls' Domestic and Cultural Labor and Constructions of Girlhood.’ The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 12:3, 393-412. email at [email protected] for zoom link

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Today's reading group has been cancelled. Very sorry but we hope to see you next time on June 7, when we have two texts on empire & labour.
Gender and Working Lives@GenderWorkGroup23 May 2022
Tomorrow! Everyone and everything is welcome - including pets, lunches and (iced) coffees
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Tomorrow! Everyone and everything is welcome - including pets, lunches and (iced) coffees
Gender and Working Lives@GenderWorkGroup19 May 2022
Hi All! Just a reminder that our next reading group is next Tuesday on zoom from 12.30 to 13.30. Everyone is welcome to join! We'll be reading from Sen's canonical Women and Labour and King's work on Women in Commercial Activities of 19th Century Bridgetown.
Tuesday 24 May, 12.30-13.30 – On Zoom   S. Sen, chapter 3 in Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: the Bengal Jute Industry (1999), 89-141.   A.C. King, (2011) ‘Capitalizing on Avenues for Financial Autonomy: Women in the Commercial Activities of Nineteenth-Century Bridgetown, Barbados.’ The Journal of Caribbean History, 45:1, 75-8. email to genderandworkinglives@gmail.com for zoom link

ALT Tuesday 24 May, 12.30-13.30 – On Zoom   S. Sen, chapter 3 in Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: the Bengal Jute Industry (1999), 89-141.   A.C. King, (2011) ‘Capitalizing on Avenues for Financial Autonomy: Women in the Commercial Activities of Nineteenth-Century Bridgetown, Barbados.’ The Journal of Caribbean History, 45:1, 75-8. email to [email protected] for zoom link

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New article by recent PhD @shaaarmila on 'The Many Faces of Care': check it out below
Sharmila Parmanand@shaaarmila23 May 2022
New open access article out on @EthicsWelfare! I compare the anti-trafficking approaches to domestic work and sex work in the Philippines and argue that the distinction is flawed and harmful. Grateful to the editors and reviewers for all their feedback :) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The Many Faces of Care: A Comparative Analysis of Anti-trafficking Approaches to Domestic Work and...

Human rights groups in the Philippines built on the momentum of the United Nations Anti-Trafficking Protocol to address precarious and feminized labor. This paper examines how care has been concept...

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Hi All! Just a reminder that our next reading group is next Tuesday on zoom from 12.30 to 13.30. Everyone is welcome to join! We'll be reading from Sen's canonical Women and Labour and King's work on Women in Commercial Activities of 19th Century Bridgetown.
Tuesday 24 May, 12.30-13.30 – On Zoom   S. Sen, chapter 3 in Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: the Bengal Jute Industry (1999), 89-141.   A.C. King, (2011) ‘Capitalizing on Avenues for Financial Autonomy: Women in the Commercial Activities of Nineteenth-Century Bridgetown, Barbados.’ The Journal of Caribbean History, 45:1, 75-8. email to genderandworkinglives@gmail.com for zoom link

ALT Tuesday 24 May, 12.30-13.30 – On Zoom   S. Sen, chapter 3 in Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: the Bengal Jute Industry (1999), 89-141.   A.C. King, (2011) ‘Capitalizing on Avenues for Financial Autonomy: Women in the Commercial Activities of Nineteenth-Century Bridgetown, Barbados.’ The Journal of Caribbean History, 45:1, 75-8. email to [email protected] for zoom link

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CRASSH, Cambridge@CRASSHlive11 May 2022
📣 Open for registration 'Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world' 🗓️ 26 & 27 May 2022 ➞ bit.ly/3OEQ7VU Geographies, disciplines and approaches on the gender dimension of food and cooking in the early globalisation.
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31 May | 5-7pm 'At this urgent roundtable, transnational queer activists and queer displaced people from Ukraine and Syria discuss the most pressing issues for LGBTQ+ people in situations where war and armed conflict exacerbate discrimination.' ➡️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-dis…
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Co-creators needed ASAP for #research project 🤔 @soassu @CGS_SOAS @SOASEvents @FemEconSoas @sdetsup @SOASDevelopment please retweet! #soas
ClearView Research@CVRInsights16 May 2022
We’re looking for staff, students and alumni from #SOASuniversity to join a co-creation group to help us design a research study to understand the attitudes and perceptions towards the university. You’ll be paid £300 for engaging with the study and sharing your valid opinion.
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Join us for our final Gender Research Seminar for the academic year with UCCGS PhD student Juliana Demartini-Brito on 'Devouring "Queer": Oswald de Andrade's "Manifesto Antropófago" and Queer Studies in Contemporary Brazil' at 12.30pm, Monday 16 May: bit.ly/3ssKcde
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Our latest article explores the gendered dynamics of labouring on #DigitalLabour platforms and gives voice to women #GigWorkers. 🆓 doi.org/10.1332/273241721X16… #GigEconomy @GenderWorkGroup @Re_AlJames @GenderWorkOrg
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Quick reminder that this is tomorrow! Please feel free to join regardless of whether you had time to do all the readings or not!
Gender and Working Lives@GenderWorkGroup5 May 2022
Our first reading group of this term is next Tuesday, May 10 at 12.30-13.30 on zoom. We'll be reading on categories of work and gender in the history of the International Labour Organisation. Zoom link in email! All are welcome, please feel free to bring your teas and lunches
Tuesday 10 May, 12.30-13.30 - On Zoom E. Boris, chapter 1 in Making the Women Worker (2019), 17-52.   T. Wobbe & L. Renard, (2017). ‘The category of ‘family workers’ in International Labour Organization statistics (1930s–1980s): A contribution to the study of globalized gendered boundaries between household and market.’ Journal of Global History, 12:3, 340-360. email to genderandworkinglives@gmail.com for the zoom link

ALT Tuesday 10 May, 12.30-13.30 - On Zoom E. Boris, chapter 1 in Making the Women Worker (2019), 17-52.   T. Wobbe & L. Renard, (2017). ‘The category of ‘family workers’ in International Labour Organization statistics (1930s–1980s): A contribution to the study of globalized gendered boundaries between household and market.’ Journal of Global History, 12:3, 340-360. email to [email protected] for the zoom link

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Our first reading group of this term is next Tuesday, May 10 at 12.30-13.30 on zoom. We'll be reading on categories of work and gender in the history of the International Labour Organisation. Zoom link in email! All are welcome, please feel free to bring your teas and lunches
Tuesday 10 May, 12.30-13.30 - On Zoom E. Boris, chapter 1 in Making the Women Worker (2019), 17-52.   T. Wobbe & L. Renard, (2017). ‘The category of ‘family workers’ in International Labour Organization statistics (1930s–1980s): A contribution to the study of globalized gendered boundaries between household and market.’ Journal of Global History, 12:3, 340-360. email to genderandworkinglives@gmail.com for the zoom link

ALT Tuesday 10 May, 12.30-13.30 - On Zoom E. Boris, chapter 1 in Making the Women Worker (2019), 17-52.   T. Wobbe & L. Renard, (2017). ‘The category of ‘family workers’ in International Labour Organization statistics (1930s–1980s): A contribution to the study of globalized gendered boundaries between household and market.’ Journal of Global History, 12:3, 340-360. email to [email protected] for the zoom link

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Untold Tales@Untold_LGBTQ22 Apr 2022
We're delighted to announce our CfP for our one-day symposium in July, centred around peripheral LGBTQ+ stories in research in any discipline! Deadline for abstracts is Monday 30th May 2022.
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