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Windebank, J. (2012) ‘Social policy and gender divisions of domestic and care work in
France’, Modern and Contemporary France, 20 (1), pp.21-36.
Windebank, J. (2011) ‘Responses of French family and employment policy to the
unemployment crises: impacts on the gendering of paid and unpaid work’, Journal of
Contemporary European Studies, 19 (3).
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (Taylor &Francis: iFirst 12th May 2011) ‘Explaining
participation in the self-service economy’, Service Industries Journal, 1-12
Williams, C.C., Rodgers, P., Round, J. & Windebank, J. (2011) ‘Mapping the social
organization of labour in Moscow: beyond the formal/informal labour dualism’,
Sociological Research Online, 16 (1).
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J (2011) ‘Regional variations in the nature of the shadow
economy: evidence from a survey of 27 European Union member states’, in Schneider,
H. (ed) Handbook of the Shadow Economy, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, pp.177-200.
Windebank, J. (2010) ‘Barriers to outsourcing domestic chores in dual-earner
households’, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 30 (7/8) 2010, pp.387398.
Windebank, J. (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), pp.437-499.
Windebank, J. & Williams, C. (2009) ‘Gender and informal work’, in Marcelli, E.,
Williams, C.C. & Joassart, P. Informal work in developed nations, London: Routledge,
pp.82-96.
Windebank (2008) ‘Volunteering and the gender division of labour: a Franco-British
comparison’, Community, work and family, 11 (3), pp.457-473.
Windebank, J. (2007) ‘Outsourcing women’s domestic labour: the Chèque Emploi
Service Universel in France’, Journal of European Social Policy, 17(3):257-270
Windebank, J. (2006) ‘The Chèque Emploi-Service, the Titre Emploi-Service and the
Chèque Emploi-Service Universel in France: the commodification of domestic work as a
route to gender equality?’, Modern and Contemporary France, 14 (2), pp.189 – 204.
Windebank, J. (2005) ‘Joining-up national and local actions to tackle undeclared work:
some lessons from France’, Local Governance 31 (1).
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J.
(2005) ‘Why do households use alternative
consumption practices: some lessons from Leicester’, Community, Work and Family, 8
(3)
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2005) ‘Refiguring the nature of undeclared work: some
evidence from England’, European Societies, 7(1): 37-52
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2005) "Theorising informal employment", in Aleksander
Surdej (ed.) Deformalizacja zatrundneinia, deformalizacja gospodarki, Scholar/PWN,
Warsaw
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2005) "Methods of researching informal employment",
in Aleksander Surdej (ed.) Deformalizacja zatrundneinia, deformalizacja gospodarki,
Scholar/ Publisher PWN, Warsaw
Windebank, J. (2004) ‘Local initiatives to tackle informal employment: an evaluation of
community service voucher schemes in Belgium’, Local Governance, 30 (2):98-107.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2004) ‘The heterogeneity of the underground economy’,
International Journal of Economic Development, 6 (2):1-22.
Williams, C.C. and Windebank, J. (2004) ‘The heterogeneity of cash-in-hand work’,
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 24 1/2:124-140
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Windebank, J. (2004) ‘Demand-side incentives to combat the underground economy:
some lessons from France and Belgium’, International Journal of Economic
Development, 6 (2): 54-75.
Burns, D., Williams, C.C. and Windebank, J. (2003) Community self-help, Palgrave:
Basingstoke.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2003) Poverty and the Third Way, Routledge: London.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2003) ‘The slow advance and uneven penetration of
commodification’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 27(2): 250-64
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2002) ‘Why do people engage in paid informal work? a
comparison of affluent suburbs and deprived urban neighbourhoods in Britain’,
Community, Work and Family, 5 (1):67-83.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2002) ‘The uneven geographies of informal economic
activities’, Work, Employment and Society, 16 (2):229-248.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2002) ‘The ‘excluded consumer’: a neglected aspect of
social exclusion?’, Policy and Politics, 30 (4):499-511.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2002) ‘Reconceptualising women‘s paid informal work:
some lessons from lower-income urban neighbourhoods’, Gender, Work and
Organisation, 10 (3): 281-300.
Windebank, J. (2001) ‘Dual-earner couples in Britain and France: gender divisions of
domestic labour and parenting work in different welfare states’, Work, Employment and
Society, 15 (2): 269-290.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2001) ‘Beyond profit-motivated exchange: some
lessons from the study of paid informal work’, European Urban and Regional Studies, 8
(1): 49-61
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2001) ‘Beyond Social Inclusion Through Employment:
harnessing mutual aid as a complementary social inclusion policy’, Policy and Politics,
29 (1): 15-28
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2001) ‘Paid informal work in deprived urban
neighbourhoods: exploitative employment or co-operative self-help?’, Growth and
Change, 32 (4): 562-571.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2001) ‘Paid informal work: a barrier to social
inclusion?’, Transfer [Journal of the European Trade Union Institute], 7(1): 25-40.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2001) ‘Reconceptualising paid informal exchange:
some lessons from urban areas’, Environment and Planning A, 33 (1): 121-140.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2001) ‘A critical evaluation of the formalisation of work
thesis: some evidence from France’, SAIS Review [School for Advanced International
Studies, Foreign Policy Institute, Washington DC], XXI (1):117-122.
Cook, J., Roche, M., Williams, C.C. and Windebank, J. (2001) ‘The evolution of active
welfare policies as a solution to social exclusion in Britain’, Journal of European Area
Studies, 9 (1): 13-26.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2001) ‘Acquiring goods and services in lower income
populations: an evaluation of consumer behaviour and preferences’, The International
Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, 29 (1):16-24
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2001) Revitalising Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods:
an assisted self-help approach, Ashgate, London.
Gregory, A. & Windebank, J. (2000) Women and Work in France and Britain: theory,
practice and policy, Macmillan: Basingstoke.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2000) "The growth of urban informal economies", in R.
Paddison (eds.) Handbook of Urban Studies, Sage, London
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Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2000) ‘A Helping Hand: harnessing mutual aid to tackle
social exclusion in deprived urban neighbourhoods’, Local Governance, 26 (4): 237-245.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2000) ‘Paid informal work in deprived neighborhoods’,
Cities, 17(4):285-291.
Cook, J., Roche, M, Williams, C.C. and Windebank, J (2000) ‘De ontwikkeling van actief
sociale zekerheidsbeleid als oplossing voor sociale uitsluiting in het Verenigd Koninkrijk’,
Tijdschrift voor Arbeid en Participatie, 21 (2/3): 179-190.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2000) ‘Beyond Employment: an examination of modes
of service provision in a deprived neighbourhood’, The Service Industries Journal, 20 (4):
33-48.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2000) ‘Beyond Formal Retailing and Consumer
Services: an examination of how households acquire goods and services’, Journal of
Retailing and Consumer Services, 7 (3):129-136.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2000) ‘Helping each other out? Community exchange
in deprived neighbourhoods’, Community Development Journal, 35 (2): 146-156.
Windebank, J. and Williams, C.C. (2000) “Helping People to Help Themselves: some
policy lessons from deprived urban neighbourhoods in Southampton”, Journal of Social
Policy, vol. 29, no.3, pp. 355-373
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2000) ‘Modes of goods acquisition in deprived
neighbourhoods’, The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer
Research, 10 (1): 73-94.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (2000) ‘Self-Help and Mutual Aid in Deprived Urban
Neighbourhoods: some lessons from Southampton’, Urban Studies, 37 (1): 127-147.
Windebank, J. (1999) ‘Political motherhood and the social construction of mothering: a
Franco-British comparison’, Journal of Social Policy 28 (1): 1-25
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1999) ‘Unshackling the future of work from the ideology
of full-employment’, Foresight, 1 (4): 309-322.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1999) ‘The Formalisation of Work Thesis: a critical
evaluation’, Futures, 31 (6): 547-558.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1999) ‘Reconceptualising paid informal work and its
implications for policy: some lessons from a case study of Southampton’, Policy Studies,
20 (4):221-233.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1999) A Helping Hand: harnessing self-help to combat
social exclusion, York Publishing Services: York.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1999) ‘Informal economic activity in deprived
neighbourhoods’, in G.Haughton (ed.) Community Economic Development: linking the
grassroots to regional economic development, HMSO, London
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1998) Informal Employment in the Advanced
Economies: implications for work and welfare, Routledge: London.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J.
(1998) ‘Informele economische activiteit in
achterstandswijken: enkele bevindingen van een case-studie in Leicester’, Tijdschrift
voor Arbeid en Participatie, 20(1): 60-74
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1998) “Tackling social exclusion and inclusion in an
age of informalisation: a ‘whole economy’ approach”, in A. Pike and D. Sobers (eds.)
New Lifestyles, New Regions: integrated approaches to local and regional development
and planning policy, London: Regional Studies Association.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1998) "The unemployed and informal sector in
Europe's cities and regions", in P. Lawless, R. Martin & S. Hardy (eds) Tackling
unemployment and social exclusion: landscapes of labour inequality, Jessica Kingsley,
London).
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Windebank, J. (1997) "Men, women, work and family size in France: a feminist
perspective", in M. Cross and S. Perry (eds) France: Population and Peoples, Cassells,
London
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1997) ‘The informal sector in the European Union:
mitigating or reinforcing economic exclusion?’, in M. Roche and R. Van Berkel (eds)
European Citizenship and Social Exclusion, Edward Elgar, Aldershot.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1997) ‘What is to be done about the informal sector in
the European Union? A review of policy options’, International Planning Studies. 2 (3):
315-27
Windebank, J. (1996) ‘To what extent can social policy challenge the dominant ideology
of mothering? A cross-national comparison of France, Sweden and Britain’, Journal of
European Social Policy., 6 (2): 147 - 161.
Windebank, J. (1996) ‘Economic Review of the year 1995’, Modern and Contemporary
France, NS4 (3): 345 - 348.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1995) ‘Towards the regulation of paid informal work in
the European Union: policy implications of its uneven social and spatial distribution’ in
D.G. Mayes (ed) The evolution of rules for a Single European Market: social and
international issues, European Commission, Brussels, pp.97-114.
Windebank, J. & Gunther, R. (1995) (eds) Violence and conflict in the politics and
society of modern France, Edwin Mellen Press: Lampeter
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1995) ‘Black market work in the European Community:
peripheral work for peripheral regions?’ International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, 19 (1): 23-39.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1995) ‘The implications for the informal sector of
European Community integration’, European Spatial Research and Policy, 2 (1): 17-33.
Windebank, J. (1995) ‘Economic Review of the year 1994’, Modern and Contemporary
France NS3 (3): 297-299
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. ‘Social polarisation of households in contemporary
Britain: a 'whole economy' perspective’, Regional Studies, 29 (8): 727-732.
Gunther, R. & Windebank, J.(1994) (eds) Violence and conflict in modern French
culture, Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield
Windebank , J. (1994) "Women's Work, Men's Leisure: recent research in France on the
gendered nature of household activities", in Allison, M. (ed.) Women's Space and
Identity, Department of Modern Languages, University of Bradford, Bradford, pp.1-9.
Windebank, J. (1994) ‘Explaining women's relationship to domestic labour:
individualism, structuralism and empiricism in the French debates’, Women's Studies
International Forum, 17(5): 499-509.
Windebank, J. (1994) ‘Explication du rapport des femmes au travail domestique:
individualisme, structuralisme et empiricisme dans les débats francais’ Nouvelles
Questions Féministes 15(1) : 9-34.
Windebank, J. (1994) ‘Economic review of the year 1993’, Modern and Contemporary
France, NS2 (3): 304-307
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1994) ‘Spatial variations in the informal sector: a review
of evidence from the European Community’ Regional Studies, 28 (8):819-826.
Windebank, J. (1993) ‘Women in the labour market in France: the (ir)relevance of
European comparisons?’, in K. Wadia and S Williams, France and Europe,
Wolverhampton University Publications, Wolverhampton, pp. 146-171.
Windebank, J. (1993) ‘The economic review of the year 1992’, Modern and
Contemporary France, NS1 (2):185-188.
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Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1993) ‘Social and spatial inequalities in the informal
economy: some evidence from the European Community’, Area, 25(4):358-364.
Windebank, J. (1993) ‘Perspectivism as interdisciplinary methodology: a case study of
research into the informal economy in France’, Journal of Area Studies, 1 (3): 6-20.
Windebank, J. (1992) ‘The economic review of the year 1991’, Modern and
Contemporary France, 49: 60-62.
Windebank, J. (1992) ‘Comparing women's employment patterns across the European
Community: issues of method and interpretation’, Women's Studies International Forum,
15 (1):65-76.
Williams, C.C. & Windebank, J. (1992) ‘The implications of l992 for the informal
economy in France’ Modern and Contemporary France, 51: 22-31.
Windebank, J (1991) The Informal Economy in France, Avebury: Aldershot
Windebank, J. (1989) ‘Women and domestic labour in France: the discovery of an
economic phenomenon’, in J. Howorth and G Ross (eds), Contemporary France: a
review of interdisciplinary studies, Pinter, London, pp. 52-70.