Demystifying the global metropolis. Living and working in Las Rozas de Madrid

In this research note we present the first results, preliminary, of an ongoing research that focuses on the study of the effects of economic and social transformations of the last twenty years on the working and living conditions of the population and especially women living and working in outer metropolitan areas. It is the municipality of Las Rozas in the axis Madrid-west extension. This case study is part of a comprehensive National Research Program 'New Models of Living and Working in the Information Society. The case of large metropolitan peripheries,' we developed within the UCM Research Group Charles Babbage Labour Social Sciences. In this framework, Las Rozas is one of the selected scenarios for rebuilding the social and productive complex geography of the outskirts of Madrid, taking account of the effects of changes in production, and the study of changes in the reproductive sphere, the balances between the life (and care) and work, the transformation of gender roles and mandates in homes, new patterns of consumption and leisure, among others. Adapted from the source document.