Professor Robert Martin (Bob) Blackburn

Books

Gender Inequality in the Labour Market: Occupational Concentration and Segregation, Geneva: International Labour Organisation, 1995. Sections reproduced in Singapore Manpower Research and Statistics Department, 'Occupation Segregation: A Gender Perspective', Ministry of Manpower, Singapore, 2000. (with J. Siltanen and J. Jarman)

White-Collar Unionism, (Cambridge Studies in Sociology), London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1983. (with K. Prandy and A. Stewart)

White-Collar Work, (Cambridge Studies in Sociology), London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982. (with K. Prandy and A. Stewart)

Social Stratification and Occupations (Cambridge Studies in Sociology), London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1980. Ch. 8 'Mobility Within and Between Occupations' reproduced in J. Holmwood (ed), Social Stratification Vol. 2, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996. (with A. Stewart and K. Prandy)

The Working Class in the Labour Market (Cambridge Studies in Sociology), London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979, 1987. Italian edition, L'illusione della Scelta, Rosenberg and Sellier, 1983. Extracts in P. Braham, E. Rhodes and M. Pearn (eds), Discrimination and Disadvantage in Employment, London: Harper and Row, 1981. (with M. Mann)

Perceptions of Work: Variations within a Factory, Cambridge University Press, 1972, 2010. (with H. Beynon). Section on trade unionism reproduced in J. Siltanen and M. Stanworth (eds), Women and the Public Sphere, Hutchinson, 1984. (with H. Beynon)

Union Character and Social Class, Batsford, 1967.

Edited Collections

Social Stratification: Trends and Processes, Ashgate, 2012. (with P Lambert, R Connelly and V Gale).

Work and Social Stratification, special edition of International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 5/6, June, 2008.

Understanding Social Inequality, special edition of International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, December, 1999.

Social Inequality in a Changing World, Cambridge: SRG Publications, 1994.

Inequalities in Employment: Inequalities in Home-Life, Cambridge: SRG 2 Publications, 1993. (with G. A. Dunne and J. Jarman

Special Reports

'Vertical Occupational Segregation', Report to the Women in Science Unit, European Commission, Brussels, 2002. (With J. Jarman)

'The Gendering of Work Around the World: Occupational Gender Segregation and Inequality', Report to the United Nations, Dec. 1999, pp 1-67. Included in UN, 'The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics', New York: 2000. (with J.Jarman)

'Gender in the Labour Market: Occupational Concentration and Segregation', Report prepared for the United Nations, July 1994. Included in UN, 'The World's Women 1995: Trends and Statistics', New York: 1995. (with J Jarman and J Siltanen)

'Gender Inequality in the Labour Market: Occupational Concentration and Segregation', International Labour Organisation, 1995. (with J Siltanen and J Jarman)

Articles and Chapters

'Understanding Gender Inequality in Employment and Retirement'. Contemporary Social Science, 2015. Online December 2014. (With Jennifer Jarman and Girts Racko.)

'Occupational Segregation: Its Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions', in G. Razzu (ed.) Gender Inequality in the Labour Market in the UK, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 101-121, 2014. (With Jennifer Jarman and Girts Racko.)

'The Dimensions of Occupational Gender Segregation in Industrial Countries', Sociology, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 1003-1019, 2012. Online May 7 2012. (With Jennifer Jarman and Girts Racko.)

'The Measurement of Occupational Segregation and its Dimensions of Inequality and Difference', International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 175-198, May 2012. Online, 3/10/2011.

'What is Social Inequality', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 28, No. 7/8, pp. 250-259, 2008. (Awarded Literati Network Highly Commended Award for Excellence)

'Work and Social Stratification', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 28, No. 5/6, pp. 153-154, 2008.

'Gendered Occupations: Exploring the Relationship between Gender Segregation and Inequality', International Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 289-315, March 2006. (With J. Jarman) An earlier version appeared as GeNet 2005-5.

'Segregation and Inequality', in European Commission, 25th CEIES Seminar - Gender statistics - Occupational segregation: extent, causes and consequences, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2004. (With J. Jarman) Also GeNet 2005-3.

'Occupational Gender Segregation in Canada, 1981-1996: Overall, Vertical and Horizontal Segregation.', Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 42.2, May 2003. (with B. Brooks and J. Jarman)

'Explaining Gender Segregation', British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 53, No.4, pp. 513-536, December 2002. (with J. Browne, B. Brooks and J. Jarman)

'The Vertical Dimension of Occupational Segregation', Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 511-538, September 2001. (with B. Brooks and J. Jarman)

'The Puzzle of Gender Segregation and Inequality: A Cross-National Analysis', European Sociological Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 119-135, June 2000. (with J. Jarman and B. Brooks)

'Understanding Social Inequality', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol 19, No. 9/10/11, pp. 1-23, Dec. 1999.

'Is Housework Unpaid Work?', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol 19, 7/8, pp. 1-20, 1999.

'Gender Differences at Work: International Variations in Occupational Segregation', Sociological Research Online, Vol. 4, Issue 1, March, 1999. 6 (with J Jarman, B Brooks and E Dermott)

'The Vicious Circle of Competitive Unemployment', International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 19, No. 1/2 pp. 1-26, January 1999.

'A New System of Classes: But What Are They and Do We Need Them?', Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 735-41, December 1998. (Awarded ANBAR Citation of Excellence)

'The Reproduction of Social Inequality', Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 491-509, August 1997. (with K. Prandy)

Ethnic Differences in Attainment in Education, Occupation and LifeStyle', in V A Karn (ed), Ethnicity in the 1991 Cencus: Employment, Education and Housing Among Ethnic Minorities in Britain, London: HMSO. pp. 242-264, 1997. (with A Dale and J Jarman)

'Occupational Gender Segregation', Social Research Update, 16, Spring 1997.(with J. Jarman)

'Putting Men and Women Into Classes: But Is That Where They Belong? A Comment on Evans', Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 143-152, 1997. (with K. Prandy)

'The Measurement of Occupational Gender Segregation: Correcting Some Misunderstandings', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 160, 1997. (with J. Siltanen and J. Jarman)

'Rationalisation and the Modern University', in K Warson, S Mogdil and C Mogdil (eds) Educational Dilemmas: Debate and Diversity - Reforms in Higher Education, London: Cassell, pp. 33-46, 1997.(with J Jarman)

'The Measurement of Occupational Gender Segregation: Current Problems and a New Approach', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 158, pp.319-331, 1995. (with J. Siltanen and J. Jarman)

'Measuring Occupational Gender Segregation: a Reply to Watts', Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 433-438, Sept. 1994. (with J Jarman and J Siltanen)

'Measuring Occupational Gender Segregation: A Reply to Lampard' Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 413-419, Sept. 1994. (with J Jarman and J Siltanen)

'Changing Inequalities in Access to British Universities', Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 19. No. 2, pp. 197-215, 1993. (with J. Jarman)

'The Analysis of Occupational Gender Segregation Over Time and Place: Considerations of Measurement and Some New Evidence', Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 335-362, Sept. 1993. Reproduced in J. Holmwood (ed) Social Stratification Vol. 3, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996. (with J. Jarman and J. Siltanen)

'Measuring Segregation: A Feminist Methodology', in G A Dunne et al (eds), Inequalities in Employment: Inequalities in Home Life, Cambridge: SRG Publications, 1993. (with J Jarman and J Siltanen)

'Class Differences in Access to Higher Education' in R Burrows and C Marsh (eds) Consumption and Class: Divisions and Change, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan 1992, pp. 184-217.(with C Marsh)

'Education and Social Class: Revisiting the 1944 Education Act with Fixed Marginals', British Journal of Sociology, 43.4, pp. 507-536, 1991. Available electronically in JSTOR (with C. Marsh)

'Revisiting the Black-coated Worker', extended review, Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 299-303, June 1990.

'Education Selection and Social Stratification', video, University of Alberta, 1988

'Ideologies of Work' in D. Rose (ed), Social Stratification and Economic Change, London: Hutchinson, 1988.

'Understanding Unemployment: The Need for a Social Perspective, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1- 22, 1988

'Gender and Earnings: The Failure of Market Explanations' in R. Finnegan, D. Gallie and B. Roberts (eds), New Approaches in Economic Life - Economic Restructuring: Unemployment and the Social Division of Labour, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. Reproduced in DAE Sociology Reprint No, 12, 1987. (with A. Stewart and K. Prandy)

'The Market for Skill', in P. Windolf (ed), Selection and Allocation: Strategies of Enterprises in the Labour Market. (Proceedings of Conference 4 on Labour Market Policies) Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, 1981.

'Social Stratification' in P. Abrams and P. Lewthwaite (eds), Development and Diversity: British Sociology 1950-80. (Proceedings of B.S.A. '30 years' Conference) B.S.A., 1981.

'Part-Time Education and the Alternative Route’, Sociology, Vol 14, No. 4, pp.603-614, November 1980. Reproduced in DAE Sociology Reprint No. 7, 1981. (with A. Stewart and K. Prandy)

'Stratification and Careers into Management', in M. Poole and R. Mansfield (eds), Managerial Roles in Industrial Relations, Westmead: Gower, 1980. (with A. Stewart and K. Prandy)

'Stratification and Careers into Management', in Management and Industrial Relations, Proceedings of the University of Wales Colloquium, 1979. (with A. Stewart and K. Prandy)

'Women, Work and the Class Structure', New Society, September, 1977. (with A. Stewart)

'The Stability of Structural Inequality', Sociological Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 481-508 August 1975. Reproduced in DAE Sociology Reprint No. 4, 1976. (with A. Stewart)

'Ideology in the Non-Skilled Working Class', in M. Bulmer (ed), Working-Class Images of Society, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. (with M. Mann)

'Concepts and Measures: The Example of Unionateness', Sociology, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 427-446, September 1974. Reproduced in DAE Reprint No. 410, 1975, DAE Sociology Reprint No. 2, 1976. (with K. Prandy and A. Stewart)

'Measuring the Class Structure' Nature, Vol. 245, No. 5426, pp. 415-417, October 1973. Reproduced in DAE Reprint No. 394, 1974, DAE Sociology Reprint No. 1, 1976. (with A. Stewart and K. Prandy)

'Working Class Ideology', in M. Bulmer (ed), The Occupational Community of the Traditional Worker, Durham: S.S.R.C., 1972.

'Those Militant White-Collar Unions', Personnel, October, 1968. 3 White-Collar Associations: Organisational Character and Employee Involvement', in Social Stratification and Industrial Relations, SSRC, 1969. (with K Prandy and A Stewart)

'The Bank Clerks', New Society, 1.8.68. Reprinted in Work: A New Society Social studies reader, 1970.

'White Collar Unionization: A Conceptual Framework', British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp111-122, June 1965. Reproduced in R Hyman and R Price (eds), The New Working Class?, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan,1983. (Available electronically in JSTOR) (with K Prandy)