LEADER 04311nam 2200565I 450 001 9910793364403321 005 20181217105406.0 010 $a1-78769-369-4 010 $a1-78769-367-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000007164137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5602159 035 $a(UtOrBLW)9781787693678 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007164137 100 $a20181217h20182019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aGendering struggles against informal and precarious work /$fedited by Rina Agarwala and Jennifer Jihye Chun 210 1$aBingley, England :$cEmerald Publishing,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (190 pages) 225 1 $aPolitical power and social theory,$x0198-8719 ;$vvolume 35 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-78769-370-8 311 $a1-78769-368-6 327 $aPrelims -- Gendering struggles against informal and precarious work -- From theory to praxis and back to theory: informal workers' struggles against capitalism and patriarchy in India -- Low-wage worker organizing and advocacy in the USA: comparing domestic workers and day laborers -- Masculine vulnerabilities: the double bind of manhood in global migration -- Organizing Filipina domestic workers in Vancouver, Canada: gendered geographies and community mobilization -- Intersectional histories, overdetermined fortunes: understanding Mexican and US domestic worker movements -- Feminist entanglements with the neoliberal welfare state: NGOS and domestic worker organizing in South Korea -- Index. 330 $aGender is a defining feature of informal/precarious work in the 21st century, yet studies rarely adopt a gendered lens when examining collective efforts to challenge informality and precarity. This volume foregrounds the gendered dimensions of informal/precarious workers' struggles as a crucial starting point for re-theorizing the future of global labor movements. This volume includes six empirical chapters spanning five countries - the United States, Canada, South Korea, Mexico, and India - to explore exactly how gender is intertwined into informal/precarious workers organizing efforts, why gender is addressed, and to what end. The chapters focus on two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction - to identify the varying experiences of and struggles against gender and informality/precarity, as well as the conditions of movement success and failure. Across countries and sectors, the volume shows how informal/precarious worker organizations are on the front lines of challenging the multiple forms of gendered inequalities that shape contemporary practices of accumulation and labor regulation. Their struggles are making major transformations in terms of increasing women's leadership and membership in labor movements and exposing how gender interacts with other ascriptive identities to shape work. They are also re-shaping hegemonic scripts of capitalist accumulation, development, and gender to attain recognition for female-dominated occupations and reproductive needs for the first time ever. These outcomes are crucial as sources of emancipatory transformations at a time when state and public support for labor and social protection is facing the deep assault of transnational production and globalizing markets. 410 0$aPolitical power and social theory ;$vv. 35.$x0198-8719 606 $aWomen$xEmployment 606 $aSex discrimination in employment 606 $aConstruction industry$xEmployees 606 $aSex role in the work environment 606 $aBusiness & Economics$xLabor$2bisacsh 606 $aSociology: work & labour$2bicssc 615 0$aWomen$xEmployment. 615 0$aSex discrimination in employment. 615 0$aConstruction industry$xEmployees. 615 0$aSex role in the work environment. 615 7$aBusiness & Economics$xLabor. 615 7$aSociology: work & labour. 676 $a331.4 702 $aAgarwala$b Rina$f1973- 702 $aChun$b Jennifer Jihye$f1973- 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793364403321 996 $aGendering struggles against informal and precarious work$91744162 997 $aUNINA