Judy Wajcman

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Judy Wajcman (/ˈwaɪzmɛn/ WISE-men), FBA FASSA[1] is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[2] She is the Principal Investigator of the Women in Data Science and AI project at The Alan Turing Institute. She is also a visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her scholarly interests encompass the sociology of work, science and technology studies, gender theory, and organizational analysis. Her work has been translated into French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. Prior to joining the LSE in 2009, she was a professor of sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.[3] She was the first woman to be appointed the Norman Laski Research Fellow (1978–80) at St. John's College, Cambridge.[4] In 1997 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[5]

Main interests
Social Studies of Technology

Work and Employment

Sociology of Time
Notable works
The Social Shaping of Technology

Feminism Confronts Technology TechnoFeminism

Pressed for Time
Websitehttps://www.lse.ac.uk/people/judy-wajcman
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Judy Wajcman
FBA FASSA
Academic work
Main interests
Social Studies of Technology

Work and Employment

Sociology of Time
Notable works
The Social Shaping of Technology

Feminism Confronts Technology TechnoFeminism

Pressed for Time
Websitehttps://www.lse.ac.uk/people/judy-wajcman
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Wajcman was President of the Society for the Social Studies of Science[6] (2009–2011), and is the recipient of the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award of the American Sociological Association (2013). She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (2015) and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (2016).[7] Her book Pressed for Time is the (2017) winner of the Ludwik Fleck prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science. In 2018, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute. In 2021, she was awarded the John Desmond Bernal prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Research

Wajcman is probably best known for her analysis of the gendered nature of technology.[8] She was an early contributor to the social studies of technology, as well as to studies of gender, work, and organisations.[9][10]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Wajcman, Judy (1983). Women in control: dilemmas of a workers co-operative. New York City: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312887377.
  • MacKenzie, Donald; Wajcman, Judy (1985). The social shaping of technology: how the refrigerator got its hum. Milton Keynes Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 9780335150267.
  • Wajcman, Judy (1991). Feminism confronts technology. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271008028.
  • Wajcman, Judy (1998). Managing like a man: women and men in corporate management. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271018485.
  • Wajcman, Judy (2004). TechnoFeminism. Cambridge Malden, Massachusetts: Polity. ISBN 9780745630441.
  • Edwards, Paul; Wajcman, Judy (2005). The politics of working life. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191556692.
  • Hackett, Edward; Amsterdamska, Olga; Lynch, Michael; Wajcman, Judy (2008). The handbook of science and technology studies (3rd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press Published in co-operation with the Society for the Social Studies of Science. ISBN 9781435605046.
  • Wajcman, Judy (2015). Pressed for time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226196473.
  • Wajcman, Judy; Dodd, Nigel (2017).The sociology of speed: Digital, organizational, and social temporalities. Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198782853. OCLC 952384327.

Book chapters

  • Wajcman, Judy (2001), "Gender and technology", in Wright, James D.; Smelser, Neil J.; Baltes, Paul B. (eds.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (volume 9), Amsterdam New York: Elsevier, pp. 5976–5979, ISBN 9780080430768.
  • Bittman, Michael; Wajcman, Judy (2004), "The rush hour: the quality of leisure time and gender equity", in Folbre, Nancy; Bittman, Michael (eds.), Family time: the social organization of care, London New York: Routledge, pp. 171–194 ISBN 9780203411650
  • Martin, Bill; Wajcman, Judy (2004), "Understanding class inequality in Australia", in Devine, Fiona; Waters, Mary C. (eds.), Social inequalities in comparative perspective, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 163–190, ISBN 9780631226857.
  • Chesley, Noelle; Sübak, Andra; Wajcman, Judy (2013), "Information and communication technology use and work-life integration", in Major, Debra A.; Burke, Ronald J. (eds.), Handbook of work-life integration of professionals: challenges and opportunities, Cheltenham, UK Massachusetts, USA: Edward Elgar, pp. 245–268, ISBN 9781781009284.
  • Frade, Renata & Wajcman, Judy (2023). "Feminism and Technology: an interview with Dr. Judy Wajcman by Renata Frade", in Frade, R. and Vairinhos, Mário (eds), Technofeminism: multi and transdisciplinary contemporary views on women in technology: Aveiro, UA Editora, ISBN 978-972-789-836-7 hdl:10773/37656

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