scholarly journals HANDMADE HUSTLE: ETSY, WHITENESS, AND GENDERED PRECARITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Elizabeth Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
White Women ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Black Vernacular ◽  
Labor Dynamics ◽  
Published Research

Since the e-commerce site’s launch in 2005, Etsy has branded itself as a platform for individuals to buy and sell unique, handmade, and vintage items. This project is interested in questions about gender, race, labor, and platforms and seeks to examine how Etsy articulates new formations of raced and gendered labor directly tied to The Great Recession. While scholars have analyzed Etsy’s relationship to historic craft movements (Krugh 2014; Luckman 2013) and to fan handicrafting (Cherry 2016), there is still relatively little published research on the platform. Situating Etsy within the literature on postfeminism and media culture (Gill 2007; McRobbie 2004), gender and passionate work (Duffy 2016; Duffy 2017; McRobbie 2018), and race and digital hustle economies (McMillan Cottom 2020), I analyze products sold on Etsy that rhetorically engage gendered labor dynamics and precarity through the language of hustling or entrepreneurship in ways that center white femininities. Utilizing a cultural studies framing and critical discourse and textual analysis, I identify three main threads: 1) White women on the platform have co-opted Black vernacular to address how economic insecurity has pushed them into gig labor 2) These products romanticize precarity by positioning feminized grit and individualized solutions to macro economic hurdles as female empowerment 3) The products discursively frame entrepreneurship as aspirational, liberatory, and, most centrally, compatible with white, domestic femininities. While hustling, and its new, white appearance, is celebrated on Etsy, we must be mindful of how hustling is always raced, gendered, and precarious.

Economic Insecurity and Family Well-Being

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Berry-Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Family ◽  
American Society ◽  
Multiple Strains ◽  
The Impact

Economic insecurity and family Well-Being is a growing concern for American society. With the dramatic changes that occurred following the “great recession” of 2008, and the lingering effects since, families have experienced stressors and multiple strains in their adjustment to the impact of the changing fiscal climate and their financial demands. To understand the experience of economic insecurity, an understanding of economic security is helpful in providing a context for how these two dynamics emanate and impact families and their Well-Being. This article provides a glimpse of how the fragility of the economy and the mental tax experienced by the family are inextricably interdependent and connected.

“This Was Not Supposed to Happen!”

Populism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Giurlando
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Subjective Impression ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Political Realm ◽  
National Control

Abstract This paper argues that the “feeling of betrayal” thoroughly entangles feeling and narration into a single subjective impression. When felt by large numbers of citizens in the political realm, it motivates the desire to reassert national control over a realm where such control is perceived to have been lost. Expressions of “feeling betrayed” can be observed in the aftermath of the Great Recession and the consequent populist insurgencies impacting many Western countries, suggesting links between economic insecurity, feelings of betrayal, and the willingness to support non-mainstream political movements which demand a reassertion of national control. The paper attempts to demonstrate these links by analyzing Italy and Greece, two countries which saw a surge in support for populist groups after the Eurozone’s debt crisis.

Economic insecurity and political stability: a case for growth-targeting systemic vote

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 829-862
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Matakos ◽  
Dimitrios Xefteris
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Economic Fluctuations ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Strong Positive Relationship

Abstract In this paper, we focus on the years before the Great Recession (1960–2007) and, after addressing possible issues of endogeneity, we study the effects of economic fluctuations on political stability. We find that when the economy is not in turmoil, there is a strong positive relationship between unemployment (i.e the major macroeconomic determinant of economic insecurity) and electoral support for systemic parties (i.e. parties with a serious aspiration to governing). That is, democratic politics respond to increasing economic insecurity by enhancing the prospects of political stability and, consequently, economic prosperity and growth.

scholarly journals Economic insecurity during the Great Recession and metabolic, inflammatory and liver function biomarkers: analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (10) ◽  
pp. 1005-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire L Niedzwiedz ◽  
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi ◽  
Aaron Reeves ◽  
Martin McKee ◽  
David Stuckler
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Liver Function ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Uk
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