Publications

Publications

Books

Jarman, J. and P. Lambert (eds.) 2017. Exploring Social Inequality in the 21st Century (Routledge), ISBN: 978-1-138-09115-3.

1992, 1995 Gender Inequality in the Labour Market:  Occupational Concentration and Segregation, A Manual on Methodology  International Labour Office, Geneva, pp.  i-xi + 124 (with J. Siltanen and R.M. Blackburn) 


Editorial Work
 
2016 “Social Inequality and Its Consequences in the 21st Century”, Contemporary Social Science. (Vol. 11, No. 2 and 3): 103-282. [Link]

2008 Co-editor of National Trade Union Congress Conference Proceedings, “Proceedings of the Regional Trade Union Seminar, “Achieving Decent Work in a Globalizing Economy”.

2008 Editor of Special Issue ‘State, Culture and New Economy’, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 5-10. [Link]
2001 Editor of Special Issue "Explaining Social Exclusion", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 21, No. 4/5/6.[Link]

1993 Inequalities in Employment:  Inequalities in Home-Life Cambridge: Sociological Research Group.  (co-editors G. Dunne and R.M. Blackburn)


Refereed Articles

2016 J. Jarman “Social Inequality and its Consequences in the 21st Century.” Contemporary Social Science. 11(2): 103-112. [Link]

2015 Blackburn, R.M., J. Jarman and G. Racko. “Understanding Gender Inequality in Employment and Retirement.” Contemporary Social Science. Published online 2015 January.[Link]

2012 “The Dimensions of Occupational Gender Segregation in Industrial Countries.” Sociology. Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 1003-1019. (with R.M. Blackburn and G. Racko).[Link to Full Text]

2008 “Business Services and the Knowledge Economy in Malaysia” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 28, Issue 5/6, pp. 193-203. (with Parminder S. Chopra)[Link]

2006 “Gendered Occupations: Exploring the Relationship between Gender Segregation and Inequality”, International Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 2, 289-315 (with R.M. Blackburn).[Link to Full Text]

2003 "Occupational Gender Segregation in Canada, 1981-1996:  Overall, Vertical and Horizontal Segregation".  Canadian Review of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Vol. 40, No. 2, May, pp. 197-213. (with B. Brooks and R.M. Blackburn). [Link]

2003  "Explaining Gender Segregation".  British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 513-536. (with R. M. Blackburn, J. Browne, and B. Brooks).

2001  "Occupational Stratification, The Vertical Dimension of Occupational Segregation", Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 15, No. 3, Sept., pp. 511-538. (with R.M. Blackburn and B. Brooks). [Link to Full Text]

2000  "The Puzzle of Gender Segregation and Inequality:  a Cross-National Analysis, European Sociological Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, June, pp. 119-135. (with R.M. Blackburn and B. Brooks)   [Link]

1999 "Gender Differences at Work: International Variations in Occupational Segregation", Sociological Research Online, Vol. 4, No. 1, March, pp. U129-U156. (with R.M. Blackburn, B. Brooks and E. Dermott). [Link]

1997  "Occupational Gender Segregation",  Social Research Update, Issue Sixteen, Spring.  [Link]

1995 "The Measurement of Occupational Gender Segregation:  Current Problems and a New Approach",  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol.  158, Part 2, pp. 319-331 (with R.M. Blackburn and J. Siltanen).

1994 "Which Way Forward:  Amending the British Equal Pay Act", Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.  243-254. [Link to Full Text]

1993 "Changing Inequalities in Access to British Universities",  Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1993, pp. 197 - 215 (with R.M. Blackburn). [Link]

1993 "The Analysis of Occupational Gender Segregation over Time and Place: Considerations of Measurement and some New Evidence"  Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 1, No. 3 1993, pp.  335-362 (with R.M. Blackburn and J. Siltanen).  Re-printed in John Holmwood, (ed.), 1996, Social Stratification, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.  [Link to Full Text]

This publication also led us to make two comments:

1994"Marginal Matching and the Gini Coefficient:  A Reply to Lampard", Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp.  413-419  (with R.M. Blackburn and J. Siltanen); [Link to Full Text]

1994 " Critique of Marginal Matching:  A Reply to Watts", Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp.  433-438 (with R.M. Blackburn and J. Siltanen). [Link to Full Text]

 

Book Chapters
 
2016 Jarman, J. “What are the Challenges of Economic Transition? Exploring the Consequences of Regional Dynamics and Global Shifts” Chapter 9 in Questioning Sociology, 3rd edition, edited by M. Hird and G. Pavlich, Toronto: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0199020108; [Link to Questioning Sociology webpage at Oxford University Press]

2012“Occupational Segregation: its Horizontal and Vertical dimensions.” Blackburn, R.M., J. Jarman and G. Racko. In Gender Inequality in the Labour Market, edited by Giovanni Razzu, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2012 Jarman, J. “What are the Challenges of Economic Transition?” In Questioning Sociology, Chapter 20, 2nd edition. Edited by Myrna Hird and George Pavlich. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

2012 “Gender Inequality, Modernization and Development in South and Southeast Asia” In Lambert, P. , Connelly, R., Blackburn, R.M., and Gayle, V. (eds.) Social Stratification: Trends and Processes, London: Ashgate.

2012 “The International Labour Organization” In George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Globalization. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell.

2012 “Work and Labour” In George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Globalization. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell.

2009 “Envisioning Futures in Work and Career in Large Transnational Call Centres in India”, In Michael Gillan and Bob Pobrant, Trade, Labour and Transformation of Community in Asia, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 257-280.

2007 Ch. 2 “Human Occupation, Part A: Occupation, i. Classifications” In Enabling Occupation 2007, Edited by Elizabeth Townsend and Helene Polatajko, Handbook of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists.

2006 “Will the Call Centre Industry Revitalize the Maritimes?”, In Canadian Sociology for the Asking, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by Myrna Hird and George Pavlich, pp. 276-293.

2003 Ch. 3 "What is Occupation? Defining and Classifying Human Activity" in Introduction to Occupation, The Art and Science of Living.  Prentice-Hall.  Charles Christiansen, George T. Bryan and Elizabeth Townsend, editors, pp. 47 - 61.
1997  "Ethnic Differences in the UK, An Analysis of 1991 Census Data" in  Ethnic Minorities and the 1991 Census. Edited by Valerie Karn. London:  Office of Population and Census Statistics (with A. Dale and R.M. Blackburn).

1996  "Change and Continuity in Higher Education Reforms" in  Reforms in Higher Education, Vol. II of a 4 volume series  Education Dilemmas:  Debate and Diversity edited by K. Watson, S. Mogdil and C. Mogdil.  London: Cassell, pp. 33-46 (with R.M. Blackburn)  

1991 "Equality or Marginalisation: The Repeal of Protective Legislation" in E. Meehan and S. Sevenhuijsen (eds.)  Gender and Equality Politics  Modern Politics Series, London:  Sage, pp. 142-153.

 


Working Papers

2001  "The Gendering of Work Around the World:  Occupational Gender Segregation and Inequality", R.M. Blackburn, B. Brooks and J. Jarman, Cambridge Studies in social Research, No. 8, SRG

1999  "Gender Inequality in the Labour Market", Cambridge Studies in Social Research, No. 3. (with R.M. Blackburn and B. Brooks)

1999  "The Relation Between Gender Inequality and Occupational Segregation in 32 Countries", Cambridge Studies in Social Research, No. 2. (with R.M. Blackburn and B. Brooks).

1998 "International Variations in Overall Occupational Gender Segregation", Working Paper No. 27, Cambridge:  Sociological Research Group. (with R.M. Blackburn, B. Brooks and E. Dermott)

1992 "Changing Inequalities in Access to Higher Education", Working Paper No. 12, Cambridge:  Sociological Research Group, (with R.M. Blackburn).

1991 "Equality or Marginalisation: The Repeal of Protective Legislation", Working Paper No. 4, Cambridge:  Sociological Research Group.

1991 "International Comparisons of Occupational Gender Segregation:  Assessing Two Popular Measures", Working Paper No. 9, Cambridge:  Sociological Research Group.  (With R.M. Blackburn and J.  Siltanen)  

1990 "Measuring Occupational Gender Segregation", Working Paper No. 3,Cambridge:  Sociological Research Group, 2nd edition (1993) (with R.M. Blackburn and J. Siltanen).


Reviews


2011 Agnew, Vijay (ed.) 2009. Racialized Migrant Women in Canada, Essays in Health, Violence and Equity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. i-viii, 1-329. ISBN: 978-0-9904-4, Women's Studies International Forum, 34(1): 88-89.

2009 Review of Steven C. Mackay’s Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? Work and Occupations, in Work and Occupations, August, pp. 265-267.

2000  Review of Richard Anker's  Gender and Jobs, Sex Segregation of Occupations in the World, in  Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 401-402. [Link to Full Text]

1991  Review of Linda Blum's  Between Feminism and Labour, in  Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 661-662.  

1991  Review of Carl Cuneo's "Pay Equity" in British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol.  6,  No.  2, pp.  443-444.


Conference Proceedings

2016 “The Globalization of Service Labour: Understanding the Rejection of Canada as a Preferred Source of Labour for the Global Business Service Industry.” Globalization at the Margins: Development and Inequality Conference Proceeding, RESRG Workshop #1, Lakehead University, March 10, 2016.

2009 “Framing the Challenges for Decent Work in the Emerging Business Process Industry in Asia”, 15th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, The New World of Work, Organisations and Employment, August 24-27th, 2009. Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia.

2006 “Technological Integration in Pedagogy: A Systematic Approach to Mapping Pedagogy and Tasks to Learning Designs”, Association of Pacific Rim Universities, Distance Learning and the Internet, (with Low Hon Loon Alfred).

2004  "Understanding the Growth of the Call and Customer Contact Centre Industry in Singapore",  Conference Proceedings of the 6th ASEAN Inter University Seminar on Social Development, The School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 14-16th May 2004. (forthcoming)

1998 "Occupational Gendering at Work: A Cross-National Perspective", Interdisciplinary Seminar on Occupation, 1996/1997, Edited by Elizabeth Townsend, School of Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie University (with R.M. Blackburn).

1997 "The Triple Day of Work:  Women Combining Caregiving, Paid Work and Higher Education", Conference Proceedings of the 1996 Cambridge Social StratificationSeminar, Cambridge University (with E.  van Roosmalen).  

1997 "Sweatshops and Teleprofessionalism: An Investigation of Life and Work in the Teleservice Industry".  Conference Proceedings of the Second International Telework Conference 'Building Actions on Ideas', Amsterdam, The Netherlands (with P.  Butler and D.  Clairmont).

1996 "Difference and Inequality: The Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of Gender Segregation" Cambridge Social Stratification Conference Proceedings (with R.M. Blackburn).  

1993 "Measuring Segregation:  A Feminist Methodology" in G.A. Dunne et al. (eds.)  Inequalities in Employment: Inequalities in Home-Life Cambridge: Sociological Research Group, (with R.M. Blackburn and J. Siltanen).

1991  "The Future of Equal Pay Legislation in Great Britain", Conference Proceedings of the Conference of Socialist Economists, Nottingham, England.