06073nam 22007815 450 991025333670332120220404171831.01-137-49554-510.1057/9781137495549(CKB)3710000000517089(EBL)4096846(DE-He213)978-1-137-49554-9(MiAaPQ)EBC4096846(EXLCZ)99371000000051708920160316d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe post-Fordist sexual contract[electronic resource] working and living in contingency /edited by Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (228 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-57759-6 1-137-49553-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Contingent Labour and the Rewriting of the Sexual Contract; Introduction; Work-readiness, employability and excessive attachments; Rewriting the domestic, new forms of work and asset-based futures; Dispossession, familism and the limits of regulation; Notes; References; Part I Work-Readiness, Employability and Excessive Attachments; 2 Future Investments: Gender Transition as a Socio-economic Event; Introduction; Post-Fordism defined; Transition as a socio-economic eventGender ambiguity/alterity not permissible in the workplaceTransition as period of flux/negotiated as time suspended; Negotiated transitions and the rendering of the employable woman; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Self-appreciation and the Value of Employability: Integrating Un(der) employed Immigrants in Post-Fordist Canada; Introduction; Immigrant un(der)employment and the loss of potential value; Investing in immigrant integration; Learning how to be employable in the transition industry; Gaining 'Canadian experience': an eventful form of unemploymentSelf-appreciation and the deferment of desirable workDemocratising credit; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 4 Caught in a Bad Romance? Affective Attachments in Contemporary Academia; Introduction; From detachment to attachment; Cruel optimism in contemporary academia; Calculating performance; The female complaint; Conclusion; Note; References; Part II Rewriting the Domestic, New Forms of Work, and Asset-Based Futures; 5 Micro-enterprise as Work-Life 'Magical Solution'; Introduction; Design craft self-employment and home-based labour as the answer to work-life balanceWomen's micro-entrepreneurial home-working as a post-Fordist 'magical solution'Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 Laptops and Playpens: 'Mommy Bloggers' and Visions of Household Work; Introduction; New media, new times: women's work in homes and factories; Mommy blogs: community and commerce; Selling sociality: new media and women's work; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 The Financialisation of Social Reproduction: Domestic Labour and Promissory Value; Introduction; Post-Fordist domestic labour: a labour in transition; Social reproduction in crisis; Domestic labour as affective labourFinancialisation, social reproduction and domestic labourHousework and financial value; Rethinking social reproduction; Notes; References; Part III Dispossession, Familism, and the Limits of Regulation; 8 Negotiating Job Quality in Contracted-out Services: An Israeli Institutional Ethnography; Introduction; The historical background of enhanced job quality in caring jobs; Methodological approach; Documents shaping job quality; Labour force sections; Contracting as an institution; Negotiating the proportion between certified and uncertified employees; Negotiating job sizesNegotiating income levelThis 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.SociologyLabor economicsPolitical economyIndustrial sociologyPolitical theorySocial groupsFamilyGender Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000Labor Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W37000International Political Economyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912140Sociology of Workhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22240Political Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911010Sociology of Family, Youth and Aginghttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22080Sociology.Labor economics.Political economy.Industrial sociology.Political theory.Social groups.Family.Gender Studies.Labor Economics.International Political Economy.Sociology of Work.Political Theory.Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.305.3Adkins Lisaedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtDever Maryanneedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910253336703321The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract2531370UNINA