The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract (eBook)

Working and Living in Contingency

Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
X, 217 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-49554-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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

Inhalt

Cover 1
The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract 2
Contents 6
Acknowledgements 8
Notes on Contributors 9
1 Contingent Labour and the Rewriting of the Sexual Contract 12
Introduction 12
Work-readiness, employability and excessive attachments 15
Rewriting the domestic, new forms of work and asset-based futures 23
Dispossession, familism and the limits of regulation 28
Notes 37
References 38
Part I Work-Readiness, Employability and Excessive Attachments 40
2 Future Investments: Gender Transition as a Socio-economic Event 41
Introduction 41
Post-Fordism defined 42
Transition as a socio-economic event 47
Gender ambiguity/alterity not permissible in the workplace 47
Transition as period of flux/negotiated as time suspended 51
Negotiated transitions and the rendering of the employable woman 53
Conclusion 56
Notes 57
References 57
3 Self-appreciation and the Value of Employability: Integrating Un(der) employed Immigrants in Post-Fordist Canada 59
Introduction 59
Immigrant un(der)employment and the loss of potential value 60
Investing in immigrant integration 62
Learning how to be employable in the transition industry 65
Gaining ‘Canadian experience’: an eventful form of unemployment 67
Self-appreciation and the deferment of desirable work 72
Democratising credit 74
Conclusion 75
Acknowledgements 77
Notes 77
References 78
4 Caught in a Bad Romance? Affective Attachments in Contemporary Academia 80
Introduction 80
From detachment to attachment 82
Cruel optimism in contemporary academia 85
Calculating performance 88
The female complaint 92
Conclusion 95
Note 95
References 96
Part II Rewriting the Domestic, New Forms of Work, and Asset-Based Futures 98
5 Micro-enterprise as Work–Life ‘Magical Solution’ 99
Introduction 99
Design craft self-employment and home-based labour as the answer to work–life balance 101
Women’s micro-entrepreneurial home-working as a post-Fordist ‘magical solution’ 106
Conclusion 111
Notes 113
References 114
6 Laptops and Playpens: ‘Mommy Bloggers’ and Visions of Household Work 117
Introduction 117
New media, new times: women’s work in homes and factories 120
Mommy blogs: community and commerce 123
Selling sociality: new media and women’s work 127
Conclusion 131
Notes 132
References 133
7 The Financialisation of Social Reproduction: Domestic Labour and Promissory Value 137
Introduction 137
Post-Fordist domestic labour: a labour in transition 138
Social reproduction in crisis 140
Domestic labour as affective labour 141
Financialisation, social reproduction and domestic labour 143
Housework and financial value 146
Rethinking social reproduction 148
Notes 150
References 151
Part III Dispossession, Familism, and the Limits of Regulation 154
8 Negotiating Job Quality in Contracted-out Services: An Israeli Institutional Ethnography 155
Introduction 155
The historical background of enhanced job quality in caring jobs 156
Methodological approach 159
Documents shaping job quality 160
Labour force sections 161
Contracting as an institution 163
Negotiating the proportion between certified and uncertified employees 166
Negotiating job sizes 167
Negotiating income level 169
Negotiating skill recognition and training 170
Conclusion 171
Notes 173
References 173
9 Sex, Class and CCTV: The Covert Surveillance of Paid Homecare Workers 176
Introduction 176
The post-Fordist deregulation of homecare employment 177
CCTV and hidden cameras from the perspective of homecare workers 182
Surveillance as a news event 188
Conclusion: understanding homecare work through a gendered paradigm of surveillance 192
References 195
10 The Lie Which Is Not One: Biopolitics in the Migrant Domestic Workers’ Market in Turkey 199
Introduction 199
The migrant domestic workers’ market in Turkey 200
Enter: (the biopolitics of) lying 205
Biopower strikes back: the new work permit scheme 211
Conclusion 212
Notes 213
References 214
Index 216

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2016
• Zusatzinfo: X, 217 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: affective work • Capitalism • Class • contingent labour • debt • Domestic labour • Employability • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Familie • Gender • Immaterial labour • Labour • Migrants • Neoliberalism • out-sourcing • post-Fordism • sexual contract • sub-contracting • Transition • Unemployment • Women • women's work • Work
• ISBN-10: 1-137-49554-5 / 1137495545
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-49554-9 / 9781137495549