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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Working and living in post-Fordism concerns risk and contingency. This collection identifies how the contingent contracting of post-Fordism is shaping new regulatory ideals for women including excessive attachments to work, intensive mothering, entrepreneurship and an investor subjectivity. Lisa Adkins, Maryanne Dever and their fellow authors map these often unattainable ideals as they operate across a range of working and living arrangements and in their classed and raced dimensions. Contributors examine how these ideals unfold and! = show more than shape the demands of employability and work readiness, in the sub-contracting and outsourcing of labour, in the demands of affective labour, in the contours of home-based work and in the indebtedness that contingent working so often demands. The collection elaborates how the contingent contracting of post-Fordism is not only setting the terms of a new labor settlement but also rewriting the terms of the sexual contract |
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Fordism.
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Women -- Employment -- 21st century
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Women-owned business enterprises.
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Women household employees -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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women-owned business enterprises.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Fordism
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Women -- Employment
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Women household employees -- Social conditions
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Women-owned business enterprises
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Society.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137495549 |
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1137495545 |
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9781137495532 |
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1137495537 |
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