The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract [electronic resource] : Working and Living in Contingency /
Adkins, Lisa.editor.
Dever, Maryanne.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sociology.
Labor economics.
Political economy.
Industrial sociology.
Political theory.
Gender Studies.
Labor Economics.
International Political Economy.
Sociology of Work.
Political Theory.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.