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Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,991
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Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work (Hardcover): Rina Agarwala, Jennifer Jihye Chun

Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work (Hardcover)

Rina Agarwala, Jennifer Jihye Chun

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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Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Political Power and Social Theory
Release date: December 2018
First published: 2019
Editors: Rina Agarwala • Jennifer Jihye Chun
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 978-1-78769-368-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > Employment & unemployment
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LSN: 1-78769-368-6
Barcode: 9781787693685

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