1st Edition

Gender and Labour in New Times

Edited By Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever Copyright 2017
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

This book is concerned with the gender order of post-Fordism, and especially the labour demanded from many women by post-Fordist capitalism. It maps and traces these demands as well their entanglement in complex processes of value creation. In so doing the contributors elaborate how processes of financialization; calls for work-readiness; new modes of economic calculation; processes of... Read more

Introduction: Gender and Labour in New Times: An Introduction  1. The Feminisation of Finance: Gender, Labour and the Limits of Inclusion Fiona Allon  2. The Sexual Contract, Youth, Masculinity and the Uncertain Promise of Waged Work in Austerity Britain  3. Housework, Wages and Money: The Category of the Female Principal Breadwinner in Financial Capitalism 4. Legal Form and Temporal Rationalities in UK Work-Life Balance Law  5. Feminism and the Technological Age

Biography

Lisa Adkins is BHP Billiton Professor of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor (2015-19). She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies.

Maryanne Dever is Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies.