Rosemary Crompton Explained

Rosemary Crompton, (née Baxendale; 22 April 1942 – 17 August 2011) was a British sociologist and academic, specialising in gender and social class. She was Professor of Sociology at City University from 1999 to 2008: she was then appointed professor emeritus. She had previously been a research assistant at the University of Cambridge, a lecturer at the University of East Anglia and at the University of Kent, and held a chair at the University of Leicester.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Honours

In 2007, Crompton was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected works

• Book: Crompton . Rosemary . Jones . Gareth . White-Collar Proletariat: Deskilling and Gender in Clerical Work . 1984 . Macmillan . London . 978-0333327531.
• Book: Crompton . Rosemary . Sanderson . Kate . Gendered jobs and social change . 1990 . Unwin Hyman . London . 978-0044455974.
• Book: Crompton . Rosemary . Women and work in modern Britain . 1997 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0198780960 .
• Book: Crompton . Rosemary . Class and stratification: an introduction to current debates . 1998 . Polity Press . Cambridge . 978-0745617923 . 2nd . registration .
• Book: Crompton, Rosemary . Restructuring gender relations and employment: the decline of the male breadwinner . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 1999 . 978-0198296089 .
• Book: Devine . Fiona . Fiona Devine . Savage . Mike . Michael Savage (sociologist) . Scott . John . Crompton . Rosemary . Rethinking class: culture, identities and lifestyles . Palgrave Macmillan . Basingstoke, Hampshire New York . 2005 . 978-0333968956 .
• Book: Crompton . Rosemary . Employment and the family: the reconfiguration of work and family life in contemporary societies . 2006 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 978-0521840910 . registration .
• Book: Crompton . Rosemary . Class and stratification . 2008 . Polity . Cambridge . 978-0745638690 . 3rd .

Notes and References

1. News: Savage. Mike. Rosemary Crompton obituary. 10 September 2017. The Guardian. 29 August 2011.
2. Web site: Professor Rosemary Crompton. British Academy. 10 September 2017.
3. Purcell. Kate. Crompton, Rosemary (1942–2011). 10 September 2017. January 2015. 10.1093/ref:odnb/104016 . 978-0-19-861411-1 .