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A new book from CLR Studies - publication March 2004
Women in Construction
‘A wake-up call to the trade unions, employers and other institutions that
play a role in regulating the gender composition of the construction
workforce’
For more information, including list of contents and contributors: please
see following Web Page http://www.wmin.ac.uk/etlm/wicbook
Ordering copies of 'Women in Construction': please use booking form at this
web page. Alternatively, email Professor Linda Clarke [[log in to unmask]]
or Elisabeth Michielsens [[log in to unmask]].
Why are women so rarely seen on construction sites in the developed world,
though visible as building labourers in parts of Asia? This book explores
the reasons why the construction industry has remained overwhelmingly male
dominated both in image and numbers. Any presence of women in the industry
has been sparsely documented - especially women working in the manual
trades as carpenters, electricians, plumbers, painters, plasterers,
scaffolders and bricklayers, etc. The book sets out to rectify this
omission and reveals how women – though in a minority - have been working
in the industry, now and in the past, throughout the world, from the Indian
subcontinent and Africa to the United States and, above all, in Europe. It
brings together original research by an international group of writers and
academics, and personal accounts by women in the industry, illustrated with
contemporary and historical photographs.
Editors: Linda Clarke, Elisabeth Michielsens, Elsebet Frydendal Pedersen,
Barbara Susman & Christine Wall.
Publisher: Reed International/CLR Studies (European Institute for
Construction Labour Research).
Women in Construction uncovers a little known area of women’s work and
highlights some of the significant changes in women’s position in the
labour market during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It will
appeal to readers with an interest in the transformation of work and family
life during this period; in women’s participation in the labour market,
especially in non-traditional occupations; and the production of the built
environment.
Elisabeth Michielsens
Senior Lecturer
Westminster Business School
35 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS
UK
tel: 00 44 207 911 5000 extension 3158/3029
Fax: 00 44 207 911 5839
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