The Rosemary Crompton Memorial Lecture took place on the 25th of April 2018

Work and Exploitation

On the 25th of April 2018, the Rosemary Crompton Annual Memorial Lecture series continued at City, University of London, with Professor Julia O’Connell Davidson, Professor in Social Research, University of Bristol and Professor Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, University of Bristol.

Julia O’Connell Davidson is Professor in Social Research at the University of Bristol. She has a longstanding  interest in work and economic life, and has conducted research on privatisation and employment relations, prostitution, sex tourism,  ‘trafficking’, child migration, and ‘modern slavery’. Her most recent book is ‘Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom’, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Bridget Anderson is Professor of Mobilities, Migration and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. She was previously Research Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). Her interests include citizenship, nationalism, immigration enforcement (including ‘trafficking’), and care labour. Her most recent authored book is Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls (OUP, 2013).

Rosemary Crompton

Professor Rosemary Crompton was one of the leading British sociologists of her generation and a major contributor to international scholarship and to shifting the parameters of theoretical debates within which the analysis of class, work and gender are conducted. She remains one of the most widely cited British sociologists on these topics. When she died in 2011, there was agreement among colleagues who had been influenced by her work, that her scholarly influence should be formally recognized in an enduring way. This was the motivation for the Rosemary Crompton Annual Memorial Lecture series which celebrates the enduring relevance of the interplay between work, gender and class in contemporary research agendas.