Gendering struggles against informal and precarious work /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Agarwala, Rina, 1973- (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Chun, Jennifer Jihye, 1973- (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Σειρά: Political power and social theory ; v. 35.
• Θέματα: Women > Employment.; Sex discrimination in employment.; Construction industry > Employees.; Sex role in the work environment.; Business & Economics > Labor.; Sociology: work & labour.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Prelims
• Gendering struggles against informal and precarious work
• From theory to praxis and back to theory: informal workers' struggles against capitalism and patriarchy in India
• Low-wage worker organizing and advocacy in the USA: comparing domestic workers and day laborers
• Masculine vulnerabilities: the double bind of manhood in global migration
• Organizing Filipina domestic workers in Vancouver, Canada: gendered geographies and community mobilization
• Intersectional histories, overdetermined fortunes: understanding Mexican and US domestic worker movements
• Feminist entanglements with the neoliberal welfare state: NGOS and domestic worker organizing in South Korea
• Index.