Synopses & Reviews
This edited collection, by an international network of prominent feminist scholars, combines theoretical discussions and original empirical material from the UK, US, Germany and Japan to investigate the future of work.
Review
"...the book is meticulously detailed, providing empirically grounded analysis, and will appeal to a specialist audience of researchers and policy makers with a particular interest in gender, work/employment, economics and social policy." -- Carrie Purcell, Sociological Research Online
Synopsis
Comparing the UK, US, Germany and Japan, this book draws on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism. The volume re-thinks the processes of de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both de-regulation and re-regulation of employment.
About the Author
SYLVIA WALBY is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research. She has held Chairs in the Universities of Bristol and Leeds and a Readership at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Recent publications include
Gender Transformation, editorship of a special issue of
Social Politics on 'Gender Mainstreaming' and
Globalization and Inequalities.
HEIDI GOTTFRIED is Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Industrial Relations Program at Wayne State University, USA. Her research focuses on employment regulation, and gender and work in comparative perspective. She is co-editor of Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis.
KARIN GOTTSCHALL is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Social Policy Research, Bremen University, Germany. Her research and advisory work focuses on labour and employment studies, social policy and education. Recent publications include a monograph on the Germany sociological discourse on social inequality and gender, and a co-edition of Beyond Standard Work, Special Issue of Critical Sociology.
MARI OSAWA is Professor of Social Policy at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan and member of the Science Council of Japan. She has been a Marie Jahoda Professor (International Visiting Professorship) at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany and a Visiting Professor at the Gender and Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Notes on Editors
PART I: RE-CONCEPTUALIZING THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, GENDER AND REGULATION
Introduction: Theorizing the Gendering of the New Economy: Comparative Approaches--S.Walby
Gender and the Conceptualization of the Knowledge Economy in Comparison--K.Shire
PART II: COMPARATIVE REGULATION
Comparative Livelihood Security Systems from a Gender Perspective, with a Focus on Japan; M.Osawa
Varieties of Gender Regimes and Regulating Gender Equality at Work in the Global Context; I.Lenz
Similar Outcomes, Different Paths: The Cross-National Transfer of Gendered Regulations of Employment--G.S.Roberts
PART III: GENDERING NEW EMPLOYMENT FORMS
Self-Employment in Comparative Perspective: General Trends and the Case of New Media--K.Gottschall &--D.Kroos
Living and Working in the New Economy: New Opportunities and Old Social Divisions in the Cases of the New Media and Carework; D.Perrons
Are Care Workers Knowledge Workers?--M.Nishikawa & K.Tanaka
Who Gets to be a Knowledge Worker? The Case of UK Call Centres--S.Durbin
Restructuring Gendered Flexibility in Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of Call Centres in Germany; U.Holtgrewe
Appendix I
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