British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Jill Rubery
Professor of Comparative Employment Systems, University of Manchester

Year elected: 2006

She has been one of the most influential figures to British economic sociology over the last two decades. Her contributions include studies of internal labour markets and worker organization; conceptual work on the social structure of labour markets leading to substantial research on the workforce strategies of employers and skill development; work on the comparative analysis of gender segregation, and more recently flexibility in work patterns.