The post-Fordist sexual contract [[electronic resource] ] : working and living in contingency / / edited by Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.3
• Soggetto topico: Sociology; 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
• Persona (resp. second.): AdkinsLisa; DeverMaryanne
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 event ; Gender 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 unemployment ; Self-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 balance ; Women'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 labour ; Financialisation, 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 sizes ; Negotiating income level
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract
• ISBN: 1-137-49554-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910253336703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II