Rosemary Crompton

Rosemary Crompton, FBA (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.[2]

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

References
  1. Savage, Mike (29 August 2011). "Rosemary Crompton obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  2. "Professor Rosemary Crompton". British Academy. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  3. Purcell, Kate (January 2015). "Crompton , Rosemary (1942–2011)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
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