The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract

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.

Auteur
Lisa Adkins, University of Newcastle, Australia Kori Allan, University of Newcastle, Australia Ay?e Akalin, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Orly Benjamin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Maryanne Dever, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Lydia Hayes, Cardiff University, UK Dan Irving, Carleton University, Ottawa Susan Luckman, University of South Australia, Australia Mona Mannevuo, University of Turku, Finland Jessica Taylor, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada

Contenu

1. Contingent Labour And The Rewriting Of The Sexual Contract; Lisa Adkins PART I. WORK READINESS, EMPLOYABILITY AND EXCESSIVE ATTACHMENTS 2. Future Investments: Gender Transition As A Socio-Economic Event; Dan Irving 3. Self-Appreciation And The Value Of Employability: Integrating Un(Der)Employed Immigrants In Post-Fordist Canada; Kori Allan 4. Caught In A Bad Romance? Affective Attachments In Contemporary Academia; Mona Mannevuo PART II. REWRITING THE DOMESTIC, NEW FORMS OF WORK, AND ASSET-BASED FUTURES 5. Micro-Enterprise As Work-Life 'Magical Solution'; Susan Luckman 6. Laptops And Playpens: 'Mommy Bloggers' And Visions Of Household Work; Jessica Taylor 7. The Financialisation Of Social Reproduction: Domestic Labour And Promissory Value; Lisa Adkins; Maryanne Dever PART III. DISPOSSESSION, FAMILISM, AND THE LIMITS OF REGULATION 8. Negotiating Job Quality In Contracted Out Services: An Israeli Institutional Ethnography; Orly Benjamin 9. Sex, Class and CCTV: The Covert Surveillance of Paid Homecare Workers; Lydia Hayes 10. The Lie Which Is Not One: Biopolitics In The Migrant Domestic Workers Market In Turkey; Ayse Akalin