Entanglements of Economic and Intimate Citizenship: Individualization and Gender (In)Equality in a Changing Europe

Feuvre, Nicky Le; Roseneil, Sasha

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“…Writing from a FPE frame on LTRC, Daly et al (forthcoming) argue ‘that social and political forces offer important contexts for our analysis, including the priority accorded neoliberal forces that have encouraged New Public Management‐based reforms’ (p. 2). FPE also provides a frame for analysing how economic and political institutions shape and interact with gender, work/care discourses and the everyday effects of gender in organizations (Folbre, , ; LeFeuvre & Roseneil, ; Pocock, ; Vosko, ), in this case LTRC organizations.…”

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Non‐job work/unpaid caring: Gendered industrial relations in long‐term care

Baines

Armstrong

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores the operation of gender and industrial relations in long-term care work or nursing home work, 'from within' the experience of the predominantly female workforce in seven unionized facilities in Canada. Drawing on qualitative case study data in non-profit facilities, the article argues that the main industrial relations challenges facing long-term care workers are that their workplace priorities do not fit within existing, gendered, industrial relations processes and institutions. This article starts from the experience of women and threads this experience through other layers of social organization such as: global and local policy directions including austerity, New Public Management, and social and healthcare funding; industrial relations mechanisms and policy; and workers' formal [union] and informal efforts to represent their interests in the workplace. The strongest themes in the reported experience of the women include: manufacturing conditions for unpaid work; increasing management and state dependence on unpaid care work; fostering loose boundaries; and limiting respect and autonomy as aspects of care work. The article extends the feminist political economy by analysing the links between the policies noted above and frontline care work. Building on gendered organizational theory the article also introduces the concept of non-job work and suggests a fourth industrial relations institution, namely the needs and gendered expectations of residents, families and workers themselves, operating within the liminal spaces in care work.KEYWORDS industrial relations institutions, gender, managerialism, long-term care work, unpaid work ) and in the social processes of power and injustice they reproduce and legitimize (Simms, 2007;Wajcman, 2000). To remedy this limitation, Forrest (1993, p. 417) suggests that the solution lies in understanding IR and the work women find themselves in 'from within' the experience of women.This article explores the operation of gender and IR in a highly gendered sector of work 'from within' the experience of women, namely work in long-term residential care (LTRC) or what are often called nursing homes. Like other wealthy, industrial countries, since the 1980s Canadian governments have adopted neoliberal policies that cut back entitlements, privatized services and valorized the private market as the solution to all social and individual problems (Cohen, 2013). Similar to many industrialized countries, LTRC is a mix of private, non-profit and public provision. The LTRC work explored in this article is undertaken by an overwhelmingly female labour force (over 80 per cent) where the majority of the labour force is unionized (around 65 per cent; Laxer, 2015) and operates within the increasingly constrained conditions of state-led austerity and late neoliberalism. Overall, Canadian union density hovers around 30 per cent in contrast to~18 per cent in the UK or Australia (OECD, 2017). The higher density is thought to reflect a larger and significantly female public sector...

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Section: Theoretical Framementioning

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Non‐job work/unpaid caring: Gendered industrial relations in long‐term care

Baines

Armstrong

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Some women first entered the labour market at 12 or 15 years of age and were still currently working (Le Feuvre & Roseneil, 2014). This highlights the importance of the urgent measures that have been approved to fight against the employment crisis; for example, the bonuses for parttime contracting should notbe viewed as alternatives to maintaining employment.…”

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“…capitalist industrial society generates economic, political, social and cultural systems in which work and labour relationships are characterized by features including unemployment, division of work spaces into formal and informal, labour regulations through contracts, social class differences (e.g., owners of means of production and proletariat) and a prevailing mentality characterized by individualism and production. This situation has been exacerbated since the years from [2007][2008] when Spain began an intense period of crisis that destroyed the labour rights of citizens, which particularly affected women (Le Feuvre & Roseneil, 2014).…”

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Across gender. Work situations of Rural Women in the South of Spain

Suárez-Ortega

2016

QRE

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Even though undeniable social changes such as gender discrimination have occurred, the forms of access to public education and employment, as well as the conditions under which these jobs are carried out, are often loaded with sexist biases.Using the biographical-narrative method and a combination of techniques and strategies for gathering and analysing information, the current paper presents an empirical longitudinal study examining the labour situation of rural women who participate in different employment -professional and guidance- training activities. The women´s perceptions and interpretations of their training and professional situations wereanalysed, as well as their opportunities related to finding a job when they completed their education. Additionally, this study examined the extent to which the public services for employment training were adequate andfunctionalfor women regarding whether these services achieved their anticipated aims.We concluded gender inequalities on the employment situation of women, and the importance of implementing urgent measures to fight against the employment crisis from an equality way.

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“…This reflects a fragmentation surrounding the way individuals’ lives are played out. Indeed, the literature supports this, arguing that the progressive step-by-step career trajectory is withering (see, for example, Kirton, 2006; Potter, 2015) and that non-normative coupledom has for some time been taking hold (see, for example, Le Feuvre and Roseneil, 2014; Roseneil, 2006, 2010a). In this sense – as with Samita and Peter – it is the expectation of linearity and ‘progress’ that remains entrenched.…”

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Work and Intimacy: Reassessing the Career/Couple Norm through a Narrative Case Approach

Potter

2018

Sociological Research Online

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It is argued that ‘career’, as linear progression through one industry or two, and ‘coupledom’, as hetero, cohabitive, and moving towards marriage, have both been undermined by alternate arrangements for work and intimacy. In the face of these changes, this article considers how the hallmarks of coupling and the tenets of career manifest themselves in everyday interactions within partnerships. The article uses a narrative case approach to explore these interactions in depth. It reveals not only the persistence of normative assumptions within couple relationships but also how the ‘work’ of couple relationships draw on particular expectations surrounding what it means to negotiate a successful ‘career’. The paradigm of progress transects career/couple narratives, blurring the already opaque boundaries between productive and personal realms. This entanglement presents challenges for individuals, limiting prescriptions for what are considered ‘acceptable’ narratives of work and intimacy.

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Entanglements of Economic and Intimate Citizenship: Individualization and Gender (In)Equality in a Changing Europe

Cited by 15 publications

References 51 publications

Non‐job work/unpaid caring: Gendered industrial relations in long‐term care

Non‐job work/unpaid caring: Gendered industrial relations in long‐term care

Across gender. Work situations of Rural Women in the South of Spain

Work and Intimacy: Reassessing the Career/Couple Norm through a Narrative Case Approach

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