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Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work (Hardcover)
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Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work (Hardcover)
Series: Political Power and Social Theory
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Gender is a defining feature of informal/precarious work in the
21st century, yet studies rarely adopt a gendered lens when
examining collective efforts to challenge informality and
precarity. This volume foregrounds the gendered dimensions of
informal/precarious workers' struggles as a crucial starting point
for re-theorizing the future of global labor movements. This volume
includes six empirical chapters spanning five countries - the
United States, Canada, South Korea, Mexico, and India - to explore
exactly how gender is intertwined into informal/precarious workers
organizing efforts, why gender is addressed, and to what end. The
chapters focus on two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and
construction - to identify the varying experiences of and struggles
against gender and informality/precarity, as well as the conditions
of movement success and failure. Across countries and sectors, the
volume shows how informal/precarious worker organizations are on
the front lines of challenging the multiple forms of gendered
inequalities that shape contemporary practices of accumulation and
labor regulation. Their struggles are making major transformations
in terms of increasing women's leadership and membership in labor
movements and exposing how gender interacts with other ascriptive
identities to shape work. They are also re-shaping hegemonic
scripts of capitalist accumulation, development, and gender to
attain recognition for female-dominated occupations and
reproductive needs for the first time ever. These outcomes are
crucial as sources of emancipatory transformations at a time when
state and public support for labor and social protection is facing
the deep assault of transnational production and globalizing
markets.
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