1st Edition

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism Lean in Action

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments of health and social care services. During Lean implementation processes, knowledges, affects, skills, and materialities come together in manifold, complex ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and observation, and with empirical and... Read more

1. Introduction
Helena Hirvonen, Eeva Jokinen, Laura Mankki, Iiris Lehto and Timo Aho

2. Theoretical toolbox and methodological approaches
Laura Mankki, Timo Aho, Eeva Jokinen, Helena Hirvonen and Iiris Lehto

3. Gender in biocapitalism
Eeva Jokinen, Timo Aho, Laura Mankki, Helena Hirvonen and Iiris Lehto

4. Temporal architecture of Leaned welfare service work
Iiris Lehto  

5. Lean expertise as situated knowledge in Lean translations
Helena Hirvonen   

6. Lean-in-the-making: opening and closing black boxes in Lean training
Timo Aho  

7. (Un)doing happy Lean: affective configurations of humour and resistance in Lean training
Laura Mankki  

8. Affective encounters in welfare service work  
Eeva Jokinen  

9. Lean as a radical attempt to reorganise welfare service work.
Eeva Jokinen, Helena Hirvonen, Laura Mankki, Timo Aho, Iiris Lehto

Biography

Eeva Jokinen is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Eastern Finland.

Helena Hirvonen, PhD, Adjunct Professor, is Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland.

Laura Mankki (MSocSc) is a researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.

Timo Aho is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Iiris Lehto is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.