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Patriarchy at Work - Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment (Paperback)
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Patriarchy at Work - Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment (Paperback)
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The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide
between traditions of feminist thought. Sylvia Walby attempts to
conceptualize 'patriarchy' in a way that takes account not only of
the complexity of relationships of gender, but also of the
subtleties of the interconnections of patriarchy and capitalism.
She rejects those accounts which treat patriarchy as a unified set
of relations, or which confine the site of patriarchy to any one
privileged sphere such as the family. Instead, she elaborates a
novel view of patriarchy as a set of 'relatively autonomous
relations', the connections between which are spelled out through a
variety of detailed case studies. In contrast to many other views
of 'capitalist patriarchy', Sylvia Walby characterizes the
relationship between capitalism and patriarchy as a relationship,
not of harmony and mutual accommodation, but of tension and
conflict. This thesis is substantiated through a comparative
historical analysis of three contrasting areas of employment:
cotton textiles, engineering and clerical work. These analyses show
the shortcomings of much conventional literature in sociology,
history and economics on women's employment, which pays
insufficient attention to the independence of patriarchal
relations. The book draws upon sociological, historical, economic
and geographic materials to argue for an understanding of gender
relations in terms of the specific tensions and compromises between
patriarchal and capitalist relations. Exploring the impact of the
state on patterns of employment and unemployment completes a book
rich in theoretical and empirical analysis. Patriarchy at Work will
be recognized as a major contribution to feminist thought and the
social sciences.
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