Miriam Glucksmann

Miriam Glucks­mann is Pro­fessor in soci­ology at the Uni­ver­sity of Essex. She stud­ies food work, fact­ory work and con­sump­tion work.


January 25, 2010 A short exchange with Miriam Glucksmann about ‘Women on the Line’ Miriam Glucksmann

In 1982, Miriam Glucks­mann pub­lished a book about the exper­i­ence of women work­ing ‘on the line’ at a fact­ory in West Lon­don which pro­duced speedo­met­ers for cars. She had left her higher edu­ca­tion teach­ing job to work in this fact­ory, not with the inten­tion of pro­du­cing an eth­no­graphy, nor with any illu­sions of ‘join­ing the…

October 8, 2009 Norfolk Reed, Tradition in Decline Miriam Glucksmann

I got talk­ing to these reed­cut­ters in North Nor­folk one sunny Janu­ary Sunday. They were sad about the decline of this tra­di­tional industry and the dearth of young people want­ing to work in it, and also com­plained about the high cost of thatched cot­tages in con­trast to their own low wages.