Dr. Rachel Cohen

Department of Sociology

University of Warwick

Coventry

Courses Taught in the MA SES Programme:

Introduction in Social Research Methods

RESEARCH PROFILE

Comparative analysis of work and the labour process, with a particular focus on non-standard work. Other interests include social research methods; social theory. Additional research foci have included the internet and the antiwar movement; right-wing voting in the US; and poverty and ethnicity in Central and Eastern Europe

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Cohen, Rachel Lara, Pitimson, Natalie, (2009) 'The online participation and mobilization of offline activists: an investigation into the effects of gender, age, place and experience' in Space for Gender Action: Industrial Relations, Transport and Electronic Activism., Editors: Hogan, John Greene, Anne-Marie, Aldershot: Ashgate Press

Cohen, Rachel Lara (2008) 'Work relations and the multiple dimensions of the work-life boundary: Hairstyling at home' in Work Less, Live More? A Critical Analysis of the Work-Life Boundary, Editors: Chris Warhurst, Doris Ruth Eikhof and Axel Haunschild, Palgrave

Cohen Rachel Lara (2007) 'The multi-dimensional work-life boundary in hairstyling: why work relations matter', Warwick: Centre for Comparative Labour Studies, Labour Studies Working Paper 24 [Working Paper]