Windebank, Jan, Professor

Professor Jan Windebank

School of Languages and Cultures

Professor of French and European Societies

j.windebank@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 4888

1.34, Jessop West

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Professor Jan Windebank
School of Languages and Cultures
1.34
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
91ֱ��
S3 7RA

Profile

I began a degree in Modern Languages (French & German) at Aston University in 1981. At the time, this was one of only a handful of universities that offered modern language courses based on social scientific rather than literary studies and whilst at Aston I developed an interest in social and economic inequalities and related policies.

I embarked on a PhD in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bath on the subject of the theorisation of the informal economy in France, an interest which has informed my research ever since.

I obtained my doctorate in 1989 and held my first post as Lecturer in the School of Languages and European Studies at the then Wolverhampton Polytechnic. I joined the Department of French at 91ֱ�� in 1990, first as Lecturer, then as Senior Lecturer from 1997 and was awarded a Personal Chair in 2009. I served as Head of the Department of French from 2010 to 2013 and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures from 2018 – 2021.

Research interests

My research takes as its overarching theme 'informal work' (that is, forms of work other than formal employment such as domestic labour, caring work, voluntary work and undeclared employment and entrepreneurship). I apply sociological and social policy methodologies to the research questions that I address. Within this broad category, I have had two principal interests: on the one hand, gender and domestic and care work and on the other, undeclared employment and entrepreneurship.

I have undertaken research on these themes in the context of France, Franco-British cross-national comparisons and more widely across Europe and the advanced economies funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Joseph Rowntree Trust, the European Union and 91ֱ�� City Council. I have collaborated with fellow researchers from a range of disciplines on these projects.

The first strand of this research on gender and domestic work has included analyses of the domestic labour debates in France, Franco-British comparisons of employed mothers' childcare strategies, evaluations of the impact of French state policy on gender divisions of labour in the home, policy towards paid domestic services in France, Franco-British comparisons of the use of paid domestic services and their impact on gender divisions of domestic labour, Franco-British comparisons of gender and voluntary work, and the impact of the 2008 economic crisis on work-family reconciliation policy in France and the UK. Most recently I have written on the relationship between paid domestic services and the gender division of unpaid domestic labour.

I have published numerous articles on these subjects in journals such as Work, Employment and Society, Journal of European Social Policy, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy and the Service Industries Journal as well as two books: The Informal Economy in France, published by Avebury in 1988 and in 2000 Women and work in France and Britain: practice, theory and policy (written jointly with Prof Abigail Gregory, University of Salford) was published with Palgrave Macmillan.

My second strand of research addresses undeclared employment and entrepreneurship. My book Informal Employment in the Advanced Economies: implications for work and welfare, (written jointly with my long-term collaborator, Prof. Colin Williams, University of 91ֱ��) was published in 1998 by Routledge and was the first publication to recognise and theorise the heterogeneity of undeclared employment and entrepreneurship in the advanced economies. It has become a seminal work in the field.

I have also undertaken projects looking at the question of using informal work as a tool for tackling social exclusion in a European perspective. This work resulted in a number of books: Poverty and the Third Way, (with Prof Williams, Routledge, 2003) analyses the role that informal work could play in tackling poverty in Europe. Further works on related research questions include: Community self-help (with Prof Williams & Prof Daniel Burns, Palgrave, 2003); Revitalising Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods: an assisted self-help approach, (with Prof Williams, Ashgate, 2001); A Helping Hand: harnessing self-help to combat social exclusion (with Prof Williams, York Publishing Services, 1999).

More recently, this research has focused on analysing the results from two 27-country Eurobarometer surveys of undeclared work in the European Union.

Currently, I am writing a book for Palgrave Macmillan entitled Domestic and Care Work in Modern France - Gender, Family and the State; undertaking further researching on the relationship between the use of paid domestic services and gender divisions of unpaid labour in the home; and starting work on a history of policies to tackle undeclared work in France since 1945.

Publications

Books

Windebank J (2023) Domestic and Care Work in Modern France Gender, Family and the State. Springer Nature.
Marcelli E, Williams CC & Joassart P (2009) .
Wirtz JJ (2009) Introduction.
Williams CC, Burns D & Windebank J (2004) Community Self-Help. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Williams CC (2001) Revitalising Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods: an assisted self-help approach. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Gregory A & Windebank J (2000) . Palgrave Macmillan UK.
Williams CC (1998) Informal Employment in Advanced Economies. Routledge.
Windebank J (1991) The Informal Economy in France.
Williams CC () . Routledge.
Williams CC () . Routledge.

Journal articles

Horodnic IA, Williams CC, Windebank J, Zaiț A & Ciobanu CI (2021) . PLoS ONE, 16(10).
Williams C & Windebank J (2021) . Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy.
Windebank JE & Martinez-Perez A (2018) . Service Industries Journal, 38(11-12), 875-895.
Williams CC, Horodnic I & Windebank JE (2017) . International Journal of Social Economics, 44(11), 1421-1436.
Williams CC, Horodnic I & Windebank J (2017) . Journal of Economic Studies, 44(4), 605-616.
Windebank JE & Horodnic I (2017) . International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 37(3-4), 203-217.
Windebank J (2017) . Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 33(1), 55-72.
Windebank JE (2016) . Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 21(1).
Windebank J & Horodnic IA (2016) . International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 28(2/3), 178-178.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2015) . International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 15(1), 45-62.
Williams CC, Horodnic IA & Windebank J (2015) Evaluating the Prevalence and Distribution of Envelope Wages in the European Union: Lessons from a 2013 Eurobarometer Survey. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 11(2), 179-195.
Williams CC, Horodnic I & Windebank J (2015) . International Sociology, 30(3), 294-313.
Allmark P & Tod AM (2014) . Journal of Public Health, 36(1), 111-116.
Gregory A, Milner S & Windebank J (2013) . International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 33(9/10), 528-541.
Williams CC, Windebank J, Baric M & Nadin S (2013) . Management Decision, 51(6), 1161-1175.
Windebank JE (2013) . Nottingham French Studies, 52(1), 9-23.
Williams CC, Nadin S, Newton S, Rodgers P & Windebank J (2013) . International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 9(3), 447-463.
Windebank JE, Williams CC & Nadin S (2012) How much for cash? Tackling the cash-in-hand culture in the European property and construction sector. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 17(2), 123-134.
Windebank JE (2012) . Modern and Contemporary France, 20(1), 21-35.
Windebank JE, Williams CC, Nadin S, Rodgers P, Wapshott R, Williams N & Vorley T (2012) Evaluating the participation of students in the informal economy: some lessons from a European survey. Journal of Economy and its Applications, 2(1), 51-65..
Windebank JE (2012) . International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 32(9/10), 576-588.
Williams CC, Windebank J & Nadin S (2012) . The Service Industries Journal, 32(15), 2365-2377.
Williams CC, Nadin SJ & Windebank JE (2012) . Service Industries Journal, 32(11), 1811-1822.
Windebank JE, Williams CC & Nadin S (2012) . European Spatial Research and Policy, 19(1), 129-142.
Williams CC, Nadin S, Rodgers P, Round J & Windebank J (2011) . Sociological Research Online, 16(1), 43-53.
Windebank JE (2011) Beyond the formal/informal labour dualism: mapping the social organization of labour in Moscow. Sociological Research On-Line, 16(1).
Windebank JE (2011) . Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 19(3), 393-407.
Windebank JE, Nadin S & Williams CC (2011) . Construction Management and Economics, 29(8), 853-867.
Ampudia de Haro F, Windebank J, Nabrdalik B, Rajas J, Pynnöniemi K, Bonefeld W, Gremler C, Hansen C, Stephenson P, Smith S , Marshall B et al (2010) . Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 18(3), 401-437.
Windebank J (2010) . Geographical Journal, 176(1), 116-116.
Windebank JE (2010) . International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 30(7/8), 387-398.
(2009) . Modern & Contemporary France, 17(2), 221-247.
Windebank JE (2009) State support for domestic services: a comparison of the outsourcing of domestic cleaning in France and Britain. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 17(3), 437-449.
Windebank JE (2008) . Community, Work and Family, 11(4), 457-473.
Windebank J (2007) . Journal of European Social Policy, 17(3), 257-270.
Windebank J (2006) . Modern & Contemporary France, 14(2), 189-203.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2006) . Community, Work & Family, 9(2), 181-196.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2006) . International Journal of Manpower, 27(6), 535-551.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2005) . Journal of Economic Studies, 32(5), 435-449.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2005) . Community, Work & Family, 8(3), 301-320.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2005) . European Societies, 7(1), 81-102.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) . International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 24(1/2), 124-139.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2003) . Gender, Work and Organization, 10(3), 281-300.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2003) . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 27(2), 250-264.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2002) . Policy & Politics, 30(4), 501-513.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2002) . Work, Employment and Society, 16(2), 231-250.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2002) . Community, Work & Family, 5(1), 67-83.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2001) . International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 29(1), 16-24.
Windebank J (2001) . Work, Employment and Society, 15(2), 269-290.
Windebank J (2001) . Work, Employment & Society, 15(2), 269-290.
Cook J, Roche M, Williams CC & Windebank J (2001) . Journal of European Area Studies, 9(1), 13-26.
Williams CC & Windebank JE (2001) Paid Informal Work in Deprived Urban Neighborhoods: Exploitative Employment or Cooperative Self-Help?. Growth and Change, 2001, 32(4), 562-571.
Williams CC & Windebank JE (2001) Paid Informal Work: A Barrier to Social Inclusion?. Transfer: Journal of the European Trade Union Institute, 2001, 7(1), 25-40.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2001) . Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 7(1), 025-040.
Williams CC & Windebank JJ (2001) . SAIS Review, 21(1), 117-122.
Williams C & Windebank J (2001) . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 33(1), 121-140.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2001) . Growth and Change, 32(4), 548-557.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2001) . European Urban and Regional Studies, 8(1), 49-61.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2001) . Policy & Politics, 29(1), 15-27.
Williams CC & Jan W (2000) . The Service Industries Journal, 20(4), 33-46.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2000) . Cities, 17(4), 285-291.
WILLIAMS CC & WINDEBANK JAN (2000) . Journal of Social Policy, 29(3), 355-373.
Williams CC & Windebank JE (2000) Helping Each Other Out?: Community Exchange in Deprived Neighbourhoods. Community Development Journal, 2000, 35(2), 146-156.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2000) . The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 10(1), 73-94.
Williams CC (2000) . Community Development Journal, 35(2), 146-156.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2000) . Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 7(3), 129-136.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2000) . Urban Studies, 37(1), 127-147.
Williams CC & Windebank J (1999) . Futures, 31(6), 547-558.
WINDEBANK JAN (1999) . Journal of Social Policy, 28(1), 1-25.
Williams CC & Windebank J (1999) . Policy Studies, 20(4), 221-233.
Williams CC & Windebank J (1999) . Foresight, 1(4), 319-332.
Godin E, Marks J, Rollet B, Elgie R, Bianning TCW, Hayward J, Reader K, Windebank J, Cornick M, Williams S , Kelly M et al (1997) . Modern & Contemporary France, 5(1), 91-119.
Windebank J & Williams CC (1997) . International Planning Studies, 2(3), 315-327.
Windebank J (1996) . Journal of European Social Policy, 6(2), 147-161.
Cahm E, Windebank J, Parkes G, Godin E, Drake D, Brooks J, Holmes D & Chafer T (1996) . Modern & Contemporary France, 4(4), 533-535.
Windebank J (1996) . Modern & Contemporary France, 4(3), 345-348.
Williams CC & Windebank J (1995) . Regional Studies, 29(8), 723-728.
Williams CC & Windebank J (1995) . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 19(1), 23-39.
Windebank J (1995) . Modern & Contemporary France, 3(4), 379-380.
Wharton S, Chilton P, Stevens A, Shipway M, Ward D, Maclean M, Cross M, Gorrara C, Windebank J, Milner S , Jenkins B et al (1995) . Modern & Contemporary France, 3(2), 169-180.
Windebank J (1995) . Modern & Contemporary France, 3(3), 297-299.
Williams CC & Windebank J (1994) . Regional Studies, 28(8), 819-825.
Hanley D, Windebank J & Reader K (1994) . Modern & Contemporary France, 2(3), 301-310.
Windebank J (1994) . Women's Studies International Forum, 17(5), 499-509.
WINDEBANK J (1994) EXPLAINING WOMENS RELATIONSHIP TO HOME AND FAMILY - THE DOMESTIC LABOR DEBATES IN FRANCE. NOUVELLES QUESTIONS FEMINISTES, 15(1), 9-34.
Williams CC & Windebank J (1993) Social and spatial inequalities in the informal economy: some evidence from the European Community. Area, 25(4), 358-364.
Chafer T, Cahm E, Mason A, Windebank J, Hargreaves AG, Larkin M, Ward D, Cross M, Parker G, Rollet B & Firth K (1993) . Modern & Contemporary France, 1(2), 171-184.
Windebank J (1993) . Journal of Area Studies, 1(3), 6-19.
Windebank J (1993) . Modern & Contemporary France, 1(2), 185-187.
Windebank J (1992) . Women's Studies International Forum, 15(1), 65-76.
Williams CC & Windebank JE () . SSRN Electronic Journal.
Williams CC & Windebank JE () . SSRN Electronic Journal.
Williams CC & Windebank JE () . SSRN Electronic Journal.
Williams CC & Windebank JE () . SSRN Electronic Journal.
Williams CC & Windebank JE () . SSRN Electronic Journal.

Chapters

Windebank J (2019) , Making Waves (pp. 73-84). Liverpool University Press
Windebank JE (2019) Work-family reconciliation policy in France: challenging or reinforcing the gender division of domestic and care work since the 1970s? In Atack M, Fell A, Holmes D & Long I (Ed.), Making Waves: French Feminisms and their Legacies 1975-2015 (pp. 73-84). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Williams CC & Windebank J (2018) , European Citizenship and Social Exclusion (pp. 103-117). Routledge
Williams C, Horodnic IA & Windebank J (2016) The participation of the self-employed in the shadow economy in the European Union In Sauka A, Schneider F & Williams C (Ed.), Entrepreneurship and the Shadow Economy Edward Elgar Publishing
Windebank JE (2013) Domestic Labour: Maintaining the Material Space of the Home and Gender Identity in France In Allison M & Long I (Ed.), Women Matter / Femmes Matiere: French and Francophone Women and the Material World (pp. 107-122). Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Williams CC & Windebank J (2013) , Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Landscapes of Labour Inequality (pp. 141-153).
Windebank JE & Williams CC (2011) Regional variations in the nature of the shadow economy: evidence from a survey of 27 European Union member states In Schneider F (Ed.), Handbook on the Shadow Economy (pp. 177-200). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub.
Windebank JE & Williams CC (2010) Gender and informal work In Marcelli E, Williams CC & Joassart P (Ed.), Informal Work in Developed Nations (pp. 82-96). Routledge
Windebank J & Williams CC (2009) , Informal Work in Developed Nations (pp. 82-96).
Burns D, Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) , Community Self-Help (pp. 48-69). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Burns D, Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) , Community Self-Help (pp. 131-147). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Burns D, Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) , Community Self-Help (pp. 70-88). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Burns D, Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) , Community Self-Help (pp. 6-28). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Burns D, Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) , Community Self-Help (pp. 29-47). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Burns D, Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) , Community Self-Help (pp. 117-130). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Burns D, Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) , Community Self-Help (pp. 101-116). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Burns D, Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) Community Self-Help Introduction, COMMUNITY SELF-HELP (pp. 1-+).
Burns D, Williams CC & Windebank J (2004) , Community Self-Help (pp. 89-100). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Gregory A & Windebank J (2000) , Women's Work in Britain and France (pp. 144-172). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Gregory A & Windebank J (2000) , Women's Work in Britain and France (pp. 79-98). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Gregory A & Windebank J (2000) , Women's Work in Britain and France (pp. 11-42). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Gregory A & Windebank J (2000) , Women's Work in Britain and France (pp. 173-183). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Gregory A & Windebank J (2000) , Women's Work in Britain and France (pp. 101-143). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Gregory A & Windebank J (2000) , Women's Work in Britain and France (pp. 43-78). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Gregory A & Windebank J (2000) , Women's Work in Britain and France (pp. 1-7). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Williams CC () (pp. 89-116). Edward Elgar Publishing
Williams CC & Windebank J () Edward Elgar Publishing
Williams CC & Windebank J () , Alternative Economic Spaces (pp. 128-150). SAGE Publications Ltd
Williams CC & Windebank J () , Handbook of Urban Studies (pp. 308-322). SAGE Publications Ltd

Book reviews

Windebank J (2016) . Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24(3), 434-435.
Windebank J (2014) . French History, 28(2), 293-293.
Windebank J (2014) . Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 22(2), 237-238.
Windebank J (2014) . Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 22(2), 210-211.
Windebank J (2013) . French Studies, 67(2), 296-297.

Other

Windebank J & Whitworth A (2014) . Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 22(2), 99-103.

Research group

I have supervised a number of doctoral students to completion on a variety of contemporary social topics including:

• Widening-participation Students’ Experience of Higher Education
• The Work-Care Experiences of Out-of-Work Partnered Parents in France and the UK: Ideals, Practice and Policy Learning
• Business sponsorship of the arts in France
• Gender and space in contemporary France

Potential areas for future supervision include:

• Gender, the family and employment policy in France or in a European comparative perspective
• Gender divisions of labour in France or in a comparative European perspective
• Undeclared work and employment in France or in a comparative European perspective

Teaching activities

I teach French language from post-A level to advanced level and a range of undergraduate modules focusing on contemporary French society.

Currently I teach the Level 2 module ‘Understanding gender and society in France and the francophone world’’ and contribute to the Level 1 module on ‘Understanding modern France’.

I am very happy to supervise undergraduate dissertations on aspects of contemporary French society.

I also teach on Postgraduate courses on Research Methods and Ethnography, and supervise MA dissertations on a wide range of subjects.

Professional activities and memberships

I have been a very active member of the academic community promoting teaching and research in area studies within modern language departments. I have held a wide range of external examining posts including at the Universities of Leeds, Nottingham Trent, Bath, Aston, Southampton and the University of London in Paris (ULIP).

I am currently Honorary President of the ; have been co-editor of the ; and serve on the editorial board of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.

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