Myfan Jordan: Women¿s Work in the Pandemic Economy
Women¿s Work in the Pandemic Economy
Buch
- The Unbearable Hazard of Hierarchy
- Springer Nature Switzerland, 10/2023
- Einband: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783031401534
- Bestellnummer: 11619405
- Umfang: 184 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 23001
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2023
- Gewicht: 358 g
- Maße: 216 x 153 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 5.10.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
This book explores two unique studies of women s economic behaviour during Australiäs COVID-19 crisis. The first describes the care frontline in the feminised labor sectors of healthcare and education, identifying extreme workload pressures, deteriorating conditions, and a shockingly high incidence of workplace bullying: including women targeting other women workers. The author argues workplace cultures are almost inevitable in Australiäs advanced neoliberal economy, where a patri-colonial legacy continues to devalue and under-resource women s work.In contrast, a second study of voluntary care provisioning taking place in hyperlocal digital sharing networks over the same period identifies very different economic behaviours. Here, women and occasionally men instead engage in care-full labors of gifting, collective provisioning, and hive mind problem-solving, that align with the gift economy models seen in degrowth theory.
This book will interest scholars in gender studies, sociology, and economics, particularly those interested in care work, the gift economy, and women s labor.