Adkins / Dever The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract

Working and Living in Contingency
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-49554-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, eBook

This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for women over a range of working arrangements, and across classed and raced dimensions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adkins, Lisa

Dever, Maryanne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract;2
3;Contents;6
4;Acknowledgements;8
5;Notes on Contributors;9
6;1 Contingent Labour and the Rewriting of the Sexual Contract;12
6.1;Introduction;12
6.2;Work-readiness, employability and excessive attachments;15
6.3;Rewriting the domestic, new forms of work and asset-based futures;23
6.4;Dispossession, familism and the limits of regulation;28
6.5;Notes;37
6.6;References;38
7;Part I Work-Readiness, Employability and Excessive Attachments;40
7.1;2 Future Investments: Gender Transition as a Socio-economic Event;41
7.1.1;Introduction;41
7.1.2;Post-Fordism defined;42
7.1.3;Transition as a socio-economic event;47
7.1.3.1;Gender ambiguity/alterity not permissible in the workplace;47
7.1.3.2;Transition as period of flux/negotiated as time suspended;51
7.1.3.3;Negotiated transitions and the rendering of the employable woman;53
7.1.4;Conclusion;56
7.1.5;Notes;57
7.1.6;References;57
7.2;3 Self-appreciation and the Value of Employability: Integrating Un(der) employed Immigrants in Post-Fordist Canada;59
7.2.1;Introduction;59
7.2.2;Immigrant un(der)employment and the loss of potential value;60
7.2.3;Investing in immigrant integration;62
7.2.4;Learning how to be employable in the transition industry;65
7.2.5;Gaining ‘Canadian experience’: an eventful form of unemployment;67
7.2.6;Self-appreciation and the deferment of desirable work;72
7.2.7;Democratising credit;74
7.2.8;Conclusion;75
7.2.9;Acknowledgements;77
7.2.10;Notes;77
7.2.11;References;78
7.3;4 Caught in a Bad Romance? Affective Attachments in Contemporary Academia;80
7.3.1;Introduction;80
7.3.2;From detachment to attachment;82
7.3.3;Cruel optimism in contemporary academia;85
7.3.4;Calculating performance;88
7.3.5;The female complaint;92
7.3.6;Conclusion;95
7.3.7;Note;95
7.3.8;References;96
8;Part II Rewriting the Domestic, New Forms of Work, and Asset-Based Futures;98
8.1;5 Micro-enterprise as Work–Life ‘Magical Solution’;99
8.1.1;Introduction;99
8.1.2;Design craft self-employment and home-based labour as the answer to work–life balance;101
8.1.3;Women’s micro-entrepreneurial home-working as a post-Fordist ‘magical solution’;106
8.1.4;Conclusion;111
8.1.5;Notes;113
8.1.6;References;114
8.2;6 Laptops and Playpens: ‘Mommy Bloggers’ and Visions of Household Work;117
8.2.1;Introduction;117
8.2.2;New media, new times: women’s work in homes and factories;120
8.2.3;Mommy blogs: community and commerce;123
8.2.4;Selling sociality: new media and women’s work;127
8.2.5;Conclusion;131
8.2.6;Notes;132
8.2.7;References;133
8.3;7 The Financialisation of Social Reproduction: Domestic Labour and Promissory Value;137
8.3.1;Introduction;137
8.3.2;Post-Fordist domestic labour: a labour in transition;138
8.3.3;Social reproduction in crisis;140
8.3.4;Domestic labour as affective labour;141
8.3.5;Financialisation, social reproduction and domestic labour;143
8.3.6;Housework and financial value;146
8.3.7;Rethinking social reproduction;148
8.3.8;Notes;150
8.3.9;References;151
9;Part III Dispossession, Familism, and the Limits of Regulation;154
9.1;8 Negotiating Job Quality in Contracted-out Services: An Israeli Institutional Ethnography;155
9.1.1;Introduction;155
9.1.2;The historical background of enhanced job quality in caring jobs;156
9.1.3;Methodological approach;159
9.1.4;Documents shaping job quality;160
9.1.4.1;Labour force sections;161
9.1.5;Contracting as an institution;163
9.1.6;Negotiating the proportion between certified and uncertified employees;166
9.1.7;Negotiating job sizes;167
9.1.8;Negotiating income level;169
9.1.9;Negotiating skill recognition and training;170
9.1.10;Conclusion;171
9.1.11;Notes;173
9.1.12;References;173
9.2;9 Sex, Class and CCTV: The Covert Surveillance of Paid Homecare Workers;176
9.2.1;Introduction;176
9.2.2;The post-Fordist deregulation of homecare employment;177
9.2.3;CCTV and hidden cameras from the perspective of homecare workers;182
9.2.4;Surveillance as a news event;188
9.2.5;Conclusion: understanding homecare work through a gendered paradigm of surveillance;192
9.2.6;References;195
9.3;10 The Lie Which Is Not One: Biopolitics in the Migrant Domestic Workers’ Market in Turkey;199
9.3.1;Introduction;199
9.3.2;The migrant domestic workers’ market in Turkey;200
9.3.3;Enter: (the biopolitics of) lying;205
9.3.4;Biopower strikes back: the new work permit scheme;211
9.3.5;Conclusion;212
9.3.6;Notes;213
9.3.7;References;214
10;Index;216

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Adkins, University of Newcastle, Australia
Kori Allan, University of Newcastle, Australia
Ay?e Akalin, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Orly Benjamin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Maryanne Dever, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Lydia Hayes, Cardiff University, UK
Dan Irving, Carleton University, Ottawa
Susan Luckman, University of South Australia, Australia
Mona Mannevuo, University of Turku, Finland
Jessica Taylor, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada