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oapen-20.500.12657-761672023-09-13T03:32:15Z Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism Jokinen, Eeva Hirvonen, Helena Mankki, Laura Aho, Timo Lehto, Iiris affect;biocapitalism;capitalism;gender;health and social care;labour;lean management;organization;service work;sociomateriality;translation;wages;working conditions bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments of health and social care services. During Lean implementation processes, knowledges, affects, skills, and materialities come together in manifold, complex ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and observation, and with empirical and theoretical rigour, the book provides an answer to the question of what happens to care work when processes become ‘Leaned’. As in many other fields, the predominantly female health and social care sectors suffer from devaluation in terms of wages and working conditions. The book explores how Lean management is ultimately lived in this gendered context of work and labour. Moreover, the book situates Lean and related management doctrines in the current mutation of capitalism – that is, biocapitalism – in which bios, life itself, becomes the core of value production. The book adds to the corpus of work, organisation, and management studies on Lean that have rarely focused on gender, affect, or sociomateriality. It provides scholars in Social Science, Management, and Gender Studies with a fresh outlook and a cross-disciplinary take on Lean management. 2023-09-11T09:49:11Z 2023-09-11T09:49:11Z 2024 book 9781003309789 9781032314358 9781032314471 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76167 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000983852.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003309789 10.4324/9781003309789 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781003309789 9781032314358 9781032314471 Routledge 204 open access
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This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments of health and social care services.
During Lean implementation processes, knowledges, affects, skills, and materialities come together in manifold, complex ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and observation, and with empirical and theoretical rigour, the book provides an answer to the question of what happens to care work when processes become ‘Leaned’. As in many other fields, the predominantly female health and social care sectors suffer from devaluation in terms of wages and working conditions. The book explores how Lean management is ultimately lived in this gendered context of work and labour. Moreover, the book situates Lean and related management doctrines in the current mutation of capitalism – that is, biocapitalism – in which bios, life itself, becomes the core of value production.
The book adds to the corpus of work, organisation, and management studies on Lean that have rarely focused on gender, affect, or sociomateriality. It provides scholars in Social Science, Management, and Gender Studies with a fresh outlook and a cross-disciplinary take on Lean management.
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