Personal Biographical Information

I am faculty member of the sociology department since 1997. Until 1999 I was publishing primarily papers around the main model of inter-personal resources that emerged from my Oxford PhD study (1995) and since then I entered the field of job insecurity with a specific emphasis on women in precarious employment. In recent years I embraced the methodology of institutional ethnography (Smith, 2005) and pursued a study of the tendering procedures in the health, education and welfare ministries. My book Gendering Israel's Outsourcing: The Erasure of Employees' Caring Skills (Palgrave-McMillan), presenting the results of this institutional ethnography, is in print and will be out on August 2016. Currently the chair of the social sciences faculty unit for poverty research.

Research:

Orly Benjamin, Professor at the Sociology and Anthropology department and at the Gender Studies program.

Her field of research in recent years are the quality of jobs, women’s struggle to provide while living in poverty, changes in the welfare policy, emotions. She studies these topics next to her past interest in couples’ negotiation and job insecurity.

• Poverty
• welfare state
• government procurement
• couples' negotiation
• sexuality
• economic violence