Dr Jackie Clarke

  • Senior Lecturer (French) (French)

telephone: x4251
email: Jackie.Clarke@glasgow.ac.uk

Modern Languages and Cultures, Hetherington Building

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740

Research interests

Jackie Clarke's research interests reflect her cross-disciplinary training in History and French Studies, with a particular focus on twentieth and twenty-first-century France.

She has written on various aspects of interwar, postwar and contemporary France including:

  • work and workers in French society and culture
  • contemporary writing about work and the 'end of industry'
  • consumption and consumer culture
  • deindustrialisation and its social and cultural legacies
  • memory and nostalgia
  • the history of experts and ‘technocrats’ in France

She is particularly interested in questions of class and gender and is a member of the Centre for Gender History

Her current book-length project uses the emblematic French domestic appliance brand as lens through which to explore questions about work, consumption and subjectivity in France since the 1950s.

She is a Co-Investigator in the major transnational partnership project DéPOT (Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time), led by Professor Steven High and a Co-Editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialisation Studies (forthcoming).

She is also one of the international advisors on the CONDE project (Confronting Decline. Challenges of Deindustrialization in Western Societies since the 1970s) led by Prof. Andreas Wirsching in Munich.

In 2018-2020, she led the RSE-funded After the Factory network on gender and deindustrialisation.

Publications

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2025

Berger, Stefan, Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740, High, Steven, Linkon, Sherry Lee and Strangleman, Tim (Eds.) (2025) Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies. Series: Routledge International Handbooks. Routledge: London. (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740, McIvor, Arthur, McEwan, Anna and Burns, Sinead (2024) Gender and deindustrialization: a transnational historiographical review. International Labor and Working-Class History, (doi: 10.1017/S0147547924000024) (Early Online Publication)

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740, Clark, Andy and Wright, Valerie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272 (2024) Introduction: Gender and deindustrialization: Perspectives from European case studies. International Labor and Working-Class History,

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 and Gallot, Fanny (2024) Gender and the displaced worker in contemporary France: women, mobility and economic restructuring beyond the industrial heartlands. International Labor and Working-Class History, (doi: 10.1017/S0147547923000327) (Early Online Publication)

2018

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2018) The récit de filiation ouvrière and the unfinished business of fordism in twenty-first-century France. Modern and Contemporary France, 26(3), pp. 261-273. (doi: 10.1080/09639489.2018.1447916)

2017

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2017) Afterlives of a factory: memory, place and space in Alençon. In: High, Steven, MacKinnon, Lachlan and Perchard, Andrew (eds.) The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places. University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver, pp. 111-125. ISBN 9780774834933

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2017) Vital minimum: need, science and politics in modern France. Modern and Contemporary France, 25(1), pp. 106-107. (doi: 10.1080/09639489.2016.1233958)[Book Review]

2015

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2015) Closing time: deindustrialization and nostalgia in contemporary France. History Workshop Journal, 79(1), pp. 107-125. (doi: 10.1093/hwj/dbu041)

2013

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2013) Rancière, politics and the social question. In: Davis, O. (ed.) Rancière Now. Polity Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 13-27. ISBN 9780745662565

2012

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2012) Work, consumption and subjectivity in postwar France: Moulinex and the meanings of domestic appliances, 1950s-1970s. Journal of Contemporary History, 47(4), pp. 838-859. (doi: 10.1177/0022009412451292)

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2012) Social exclusion, creative writing, and democracy: the politics of a socio-literary project in Caen. Contemporary French Civilization, 37(1), pp. 1-22. (doi: 10.3828/cfc.2012.2)

2011

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2011) Closing Moulinex: thoughts on the visibility and invisibility of industrial labour in contemporary France. Modern and Contemporary France, 19(4), pp. 443-458. (doi: 10.1080/09639489.2011.610164)

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2011) France in the Age of Organization: Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy. Series: Berghahn monographs in French studies (11). Berghahn Books: New York, NY. ISBN 9780857450807

2005

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2005) L’Organisation ménagère comme pédagogie: Paulette Bernège et la formation d’une nouvelle classe moyenne dans les années 1930 et 1940. Travail, Genre et Sociétés(13), pp. 139-157.

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2005) Homecomings: Paulette Bernège, scientific management and the return to the land in Vichy France. In: Diamond, H. and Kitson, S. (eds.) Vichy, Resistance, Liberation: New Perspectives on Wartime France. Berg. ISBN 9781859737729

2004

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2004) France, America and the meta-narrative of modernization: from postwar social science to the new culturalism. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 8(4), pp. 365-377. (doi: 10.1080/10260210410001733379)

2001

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2001) Engineering a new order in the 1930s: the case of Jean Coutrot. French Historical Studies, 24(1), pp. 63-68. (doi: 10.1215/00161071-24-1-63)

2000

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2000) Imagined productive communities: industrial rationalisation and cultural crisis in the 1930s. Modern and Contemporary France, 8(3), pp. 345-357. (doi: 10.1080/09639480050057356)

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Number of items: 18.

Articles

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740, McIvor, Arthur, McEwan, Anna and Burns, Sinead (2024) Gender and deindustrialization: a transnational historiographical review. International Labor and Working-Class History, (doi: 10.1017/S0147547924000024) (Early Online Publication)

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740, Clark, Andy and Wright, Valerie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-9272 (2024) Introduction: Gender and deindustrialization: Perspectives from European case studies. International Labor and Working-Class History,

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 and Gallot, Fanny (2024) Gender and the displaced worker in contemporary France: women, mobility and economic restructuring beyond the industrial heartlands. International Labor and Working-Class History, (doi: 10.1017/S0147547923000327) (Early Online Publication)

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2018) The récit de filiation ouvrière and the unfinished business of fordism in twenty-first-century France. Modern and Contemporary France, 26(3), pp. 261-273. (doi: 10.1080/09639489.2018.1447916)

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2015) Closing time: deindustrialization and nostalgia in contemporary France. History Workshop Journal, 79(1), pp. 107-125. (doi: 10.1093/hwj/dbu041)

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2012) Work, consumption and subjectivity in postwar France: Moulinex and the meanings of domestic appliances, 1950s-1970s. Journal of Contemporary History, 47(4), pp. 838-859. (doi: 10.1177/0022009412451292)

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2012) Social exclusion, creative writing, and democracy: the politics of a socio-literary project in Caen. Contemporary French Civilization, 37(1), pp. 1-22. (doi: 10.3828/cfc.2012.2)

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2011) Closing Moulinex: thoughts on the visibility and invisibility of industrial labour in contemporary France. Modern and Contemporary France, 19(4), pp. 443-458. (doi: 10.1080/09639489.2011.610164)

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2005) L’Organisation ménagère comme pédagogie: Paulette Bernège et la formation d’une nouvelle classe moyenne dans les années 1930 et 1940. Travail, Genre et Sociétés(13), pp. 139-157.

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2004) France, America and the meta-narrative of modernization: from postwar social science to the new culturalism. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 8(4), pp. 365-377. (doi: 10.1080/10260210410001733379)

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2001) Engineering a new order in the 1930s: the case of Jean Coutrot. French Historical Studies, 24(1), pp. 63-68. (doi: 10.1215/00161071-24-1-63)

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2000) Imagined productive communities: industrial rationalisation and cultural crisis in the 1930s. Modern and Contemporary France, 8(3), pp. 345-357. (doi: 10.1080/09639480050057356)

Books

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2011) France in the Age of Organization: Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy. Series: Berghahn monographs in French studies (11). Berghahn Books: New York, NY. ISBN 9780857450807

Book Sections

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2017) Afterlives of a factory: memory, place and space in Alençon. In: High, Steven, MacKinnon, Lachlan and Perchard, Andrew (eds.) The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places. University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver, pp. 111-125. ISBN 9780774834933

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2013) Rancière, politics and the social question. In: Davis, O. (ed.) Rancière Now. Polity Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 13-27. ISBN 9780745662565

Clarke, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2005) Homecomings: Paulette Bernège, scientific management and the return to the land in Vichy France. In: Diamond, H. and Kitson, S. (eds.) Vichy, Resistance, Liberation: New Perspectives on Wartime France. Berg. ISBN 9781859737729

Book Reviews

Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740 (2017) Vital minimum: need, science and politics in modern France. Modern and Contemporary France, 25(1), pp. 106-107. (doi: 10.1080/09639489.2016.1233958)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Berger, Stefan, Clarke, Jackie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-2740, High, Steven, Linkon, Sherry Lee and Strangleman, Tim (Eds.) (2025) Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies. Series: Routledge International Handbooks. Routledge: London. (Accepted for Publication)

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Grants

2020-27 Co-Investigator, SSHRC Partnership Grant 'Deindustrialisation and the Politics of Our Time' (PI Prof Steven High, Concordia)

 

2018-2020 Royal Society of Edinburgh Network Grant, 'After the Factory: Gender and Deindustrialisation in European Context'

 

2012-14 British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant ‘Afterlives of the Factory: Remembering Moulinex in Contemporary France’.

 

2010 British Academy Small Grant, ‘Generation Moulinex’.

 

2005 British Academy Conference Grant (with Joan Tumblety), ‘French History: Spaces and Places’.

 

2002 Arts and Humanities Research Board Matching Leave Scheme, ‘Modernity and Crisis: Engineering a New France’.

 

2000 British Academy Small Grant, ‘Modernity and Crisis’.

Supervision

Jackie welcomes enquiries from prospective students interested in pursuing research on the history of work, consumption and deindustrialisation (in any country) and on any aspect of contemporary French history and society.  Many PhD projects today cut across several fields or disciplines, rather than sitting within the expertise of a single supervisor.  Jackie has previously collaborated with colleagues in supervising projects that draw on approaches from sociology, ethnography, translation studies and cultural studies as well as history.

If you are interested in applying for a PhD, please get in touch to discuss your ideas. Jackie is happy to work with prospective applicants in order to help them develop a strong research proposal.

Teaching

Jackie's teaching is concentrated in the field of modern French history. She also contributes to French language teaching.

Courses taught:

French Culture 1 - National Histories

Consumption, Culture and Society in Modern France (Honours option)

France 1940-44 (Honours option)

Senior Honours French Language

Gender Culture and Text (MSc Gender History - co-taught with colleagues in History)

Additional information

Jackie taught at University College Cork and the University of Southampton before joining the University of Glasgow in 2013.

She is a member of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and the Association française pour l'histoire des mondes du travail. She is a member and a trustee of the Society for the Study of French History.

She serves on the Editorial Collective of Gender and History and on the AHRC Peer Review College.