Judy Wajcman, FBAFASSA[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]
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]
MacKenzie, Donald; Wajcman, Judy (1985). The social shaping of technology: how the refrigerator got its hum. Milton Keynes Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN9780335150267.
Wajcman, Judy (1998). Managing like a man: women and men in corporate management. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN9780271018485.
Edwards, Paul; Wajcman, Judy (2005). The politics of working life. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780191556692.
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. ISBN9781435605046.
Wajcman, Judy (2015). Pressed for time: the acceleration of life in digital capitalism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN9780226196473.
Wajcman, Judy; Dodd, Nigel (2017).The sociology of speed: Digital, organizational, and social temporalities. Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press. ISBN0198782853. 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, ISBN9780080430768.
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, ISBN9780631226857.
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, ISBN9781781009284.
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 978-972-789-836-7https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/37656
Journal articles
Wajcman, Judy (June 2000). "Feminism facing industrial relations in Britain". British Journal of Industrial Relations. 38 (2): 183–201. doi:10.1111/1467-8543.00158.
Bittman, Michael; Wajcman, Judy (September 2000). "The rush hour: the character of leisure time and gender equity". Social Forces. 79 (1): 165–189. doi:10.1093/sf/79.1.165.
‘How Silicon Valley sets Time’, New Media & Society, Vol. 21(6), 2019, pp. 1272–1289.
‘The Digital Architecture of Time Management’, Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2019, pp. 315–337.
References
^"Wajcman, Judy". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2015. Sources: found: The Social shaping of technology, 1998: CIP t.p. (Judy Wajcman, Sch. Soc., Aust. Nat. Univ.) data sheet (b. 12/12/50)
^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, ISBN9780080430768.
^Major, Debra A.; Burke, Ronald J. (2013), "Contributors", in Major, Debra A.; Burke, Ronald J. (eds.), Handbook of work-life integration of professionals: challenges and opportunities, Cheltenham, UK Massachusetts, USA: Edward Elgar, p. xv, ISBN9781781009284.
^Lyon, Stina (22 January 2015). "Pressed for time: The acceleration of life in digital capitalism, by Judy Wajcman (book review)". Times Higher Education. TES Global. Retrieved 10 June 2015. Her most significant message, however, relates to gender. Earlier work on the relationship between modernity, technology and time pressures engendered by the commodification of labour focused largely on men, as employers, capitalists and worker-employees, and thus on the labour process in the public domain of production, and not on the interrelated difficulties in "doing domestic time" in care, child-rearing and home maintenance.
