The View from Below: Women's Employment and Gender Equality in Working Class Families

2014 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
And Gender

Frauenerwerbstätigkeit im Spannungsfeld von „Prekarisierung“ und „guter Arbeit“ – Geschlechterpolitische Erweiterungen / Women’s employment between the opposing poles of precarious work and job quality. Revisions from a gender equality perspective

Arbeit ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Scheele
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
Precarious Work

AbstractDer Beschäftigungsanstieg in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren basiert zu einem großen Anteil auf der Basis von sog. atypischen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen, die häufig zugleich nur eine prekäre Erwerbsintegration ermöglichen. Insbesondere die Erwerbsmuster von Frauen weisen Brüche auf, die Ergebnis der geschlechtshierarchischen Arbeitsteilung sind. Ausgehend von einer knappen Skizze zurEntwicklungder Frauenerwerbstätigkeit und der geschlechtlichen Arbeitsteilung im Kontext der allgemeinen Zunahme atypischer Beschäftigung wirdargumentiert, dass der Prekarisierungsdiskurs hinsichtlich der Analyse von Arbeits- und Geschlechterverhältnissen nicht nur einige seitens der Geschlechterforschung kritisierte Leerstellen aufweist, sondern trotz seiner Erweiterung auf das „ganze Leben“ nur begrenzt Ansatzpunkte für eine geschlechterpolitisch erweiterte arbeits politische Agenda bietet. Viel versprechender - so die These - ist die Hinwendung zu einem normativen, „positiven“ Bezugspunkt für Arbeitspolitik und Arbeitsgestaltung, derausden politischen Initiativen zu „guter Arbeit“ entwickelt werden kann.

Finding Respectable Work for Women in Interwar Liverpool

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
Samantha Caslin
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Domestic Service ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
Financial Independence ◽  
Working Class Women

This chapter considers the ways social purists in interwar Liverpool sought to use traditional forms of employment to control and regulate working-class female morality. Whilst employment could offer women the sort of financial independence and geographic mobility that worried local social purists, organisations like the Liverpool Vigilance Association placed women they deemed to be vulnerable to moral corruption in domestic service, nursing and in mills. Jobs in these sectors were promoted as alternatives to prostitution and they were considered to be more realistic and respectable options for working-class women with ambitions of working in less stable industries, such as the performing arts. As such, the efforts of social purists to find work for women was much less about championing women’s employment and much more about using a limited range of employment options to contain and monitor women branded morally vulnerable.

Citizenship and Gender Equality in the Second Spanish Republic: Representations and Practices in Socialist Culture (1931–1936)

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
ANA AGUADO
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Complex Mixture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Second Spanish Republic ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis article contributes to historiographical debates on political cultures, the construction of female citizenship and democracy development through an analysis of the construction of gender identities in socialist culture and working-class culture in Spain. From 1931, in the context of the Second Spanish Republic, socialist culture experienced a complex mixture of egalitarian proposals, collective actions and strategies to achieve the political mobilisation of women. This process reformulated in female terms many of the concepts historically present in this political culture: equality, freedom, secularism and citizenship.

Crisis at Work: Gender, Class, and the Dehumanization of Jobs

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-136
Author(s):  
Harriet Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
The Uk

Drawing on Huw Beynon’s paper in HSIR 40 (2019), this article surveys the position of women in the UK labour market over the last fifty years. It suggests that many of the developments Beynon describes are relevant to women’s employment, but with the added twist that women’s position in the labour market and society is structured by their responsibility within the total social organization of labour for reproductive labour. Despite increased women’s employment, gender segregation, both horizontal and vertical, is obstinately persistent, especially in working-class occupations. Two of these occupations, care work and retail, are used to illustrate how increasing precarity of jobs combined with technologies of control have brought about a dehumanization of work. It is concluded that the restructuring of global capitalism on neoliberal principles has negatively affected opportunities for women workers.

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