Working Class Women and the Politics of Manufacturing Decline (WOMADE)

The aim of WOMADE is to expand the scientific understanding of the gendered experience of deindustrialization and investigate how manufacturing decline has reconfigured the way that working-class women participate in politics. 

WOMADE has three main objectives:

1) Investigate how the working-class female political sub-culture has changed due to women’s occupational restructuring and establishing how this is different from males;

2) Develop a  multi-dimensional measurement of working class status based on both women’s occupational and gender roles and explore how each of these dimensions differentially affects their political participation

3) Establish how working-class women reconcile the competing influences of female emancipation and  economic restructuring on their political preferences.

The WOMADE Project is funded under the FARE programe by the Italian Ministry of Research (MUR). Project Duration: 2023- 2025.

Principal Investigator: Anne-Marie Jeannet

Artwork: John Albert Walker, USEUM.