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Working Life and Gender Inequality: Intersectional Perspectives and the Spatial Practices of Peripheralization book cover

1st Edition

Working Life and Gender Inequality Intersectional Perspectives and the Spatial Practices of Peripheralization

Edited By Angelika Sjöstedt, Katarina Giritli Nygren, Marianna Fotaki Copyright 2021
308 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In the modern globalized world of work, society’s capitalist and patriarchal norms perpetuate old and create new differences based on gender, class, ethnicity, age, and other social categorizations. This book proposes a novel conceptual framework offering theoretical and methodological insights for thinking through the present and future inequality challenges in the globalized world of work... Read more

1. Intersectionality and peripheralization: Introduction to the edited collection

Angelika Sjöstedt, Katarina Giritli Nygren and Marianna Fotaki 

2. #WeAreNotSlaves! An intersectional analysis of class and ethnicity in the Istanbul Airport resistance

Ayse Serdar

3. From the periphery to the centre of resistance: Women and/in anti-austerity mobilizations in crisis-ridden Athens

Hara Kouki 

4. Intersectional perspective on working life: Poor, black, working-class women remain on the margins – the case of paid and unpaid domestic labour

Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima 

5. The Logic of Intersectional Marginalization: Palestinian and Israeli Practitioners’ Observations of Inequitable Labor Practices in Grassroots Peace Organizing

Ambreen Tour Ben-Shmuel and Manar Faraj

6. From the body to the world, from the world to the body: Ethnography, migration, and care

Camila Esguerra Muelle 

7. The imbrication of gender and nationality where the pay gap is concerned: the case in Malta

JosAnn Cutajar

8. Intersectional perspectives on northern Swedish rural men’s working life narratives

Lisa Ridzén

9. Risky subjectivities: Peripheralization and appropriation of small-ward midwives’ work practices in the closure of a rural area’s maternity ward

Emelie Larsson 

10. On the margins of mine work: Organizational peripheries in a globalized world of work

Kristina Johansson and Lisa Ringblom

11. Inequality regimes in equality work: New public management and peripheralization processes in Swedish schools

Ulrika Schmauch, Björn Ahlström & Britt-Inger Keisu

12. Freedom of choice and gender equality in Swedish home-based elderly care

Annette Thörnquist

13. How do people become Others to be used? Processes of peripheralization in Swedish unemployment politics

Paula Mulinari

14. Thinking through intersectionality at work: A feminist-and-labour geographer’s approach

Kristina Zampoukos

Biography

Angelika Sjöstedt is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Katarina Giritli Nygren is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Forum for Gender Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Marianna Fotaki is Professor of business ethics at the University of Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.

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