Gendering struggles against informal and precarious work /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Agarwala, Rina, 1973- (Editor), Chun, Jennifer Jihye, 1973- (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Series:Political power and social theory ; v. 35.
Subjects:
Women > Employment.
Sex discrimination in employment.
Construction industry > Employees.
Sex role in the work environment.
Business & Economics > Labor.
Sociology: work & labour.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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