Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work

England, Kim; Lawson, Victoria

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“…Despite the fact that women increasingly migrate alone for economic reasons (Marcelli & Cornelius, 2001), the perception that men are better informed and prepared to handle a new and foreign labor market endures (Hondagneu-Sotelo, 1994a). This assumption is linked to the historical devaluation of women's work as less important and less demanding (England & Lawson, 2005;Pratt, 2004). Evidence suggests, however, that over time, these gendered assumptions within immigrant households and communities are renegotiated (Maciel, van Putten, & Knudson-Martin, 2009;Wilson, 2009;Zentgraf, 2002).…”

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Gender, social network geographies, and low-wage employment among recent Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles

Joassart‐Marcelli

2014

Urban Geography

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This article explores gender differences in the characteristics, spatiality, and capacities of local social networks and their impacts on the employment of recent Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles. After describing the institutional landscape of the regional labor market that new entrants must navigate to find work, I turn to unique and detailed data from a randomized household survey of Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles County. I analyze the role of friends, family members, and neighbors in shaping occupational segregation and hourly earnings of those who migrated to the region during the preceding 5 years. Results suggest that local social networks operate differently for men and women and tend to reinforce differences in mobility and employment. This research contributes both empirically and theoretically to literature on immigrant economic integration by showing how uneven urban labor markets are constituted spatially through gendered networks that connect workers differently to homes, communities, and work places.

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Section: Urban Geography 839mentioning

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Gender, social network geographies, and low-wage employment among recent Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles

Joassart‐Marcelli

2014

Urban Geography

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“…In the United States, HANSON and PRATT (1995) showed the ways in which gendered divisions of labour within the household, and gendered social networks, affect job search processes and labour market participation in Worcester, Massachusetts. In this way, household processes in particular places (for example, suburbs) can actually affect the types of economic activity that are attracted there (for a review, see ENGLAND and LAWSON, 2005).…”

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From Global Production Networks to Global Reproduction Networks: Households, Migration, and Regional Development in Cavite, the Philippines

Kelly

2009

Regional Studies

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Kelly P. F. From global production networks to global reproduction networks: households, migration, and regional development in Cavite, the Philippines, Regional Studies. This paper suggests an extension to global production network approaches that seek to understand the processes of regional development in Asia. In most cases, the network metaphor presents an unrealized potential to incorporate diverse actors and spaces in analysis. Using a case in the Philippines, this paper suggests that local households and communities - the spaces of reproduction - should be considered actors in regional industrial development as an essential complement to firms and governments. Furthermore, spaces of reproduction are also engaged in the formation of global networks through migration and remittances. Such migration is partly driven by the growth in industrial employment. [image omitted] Kelly P. F. Des reseaux de production mondiaux aux reseaux de reproduction mondiaux: les menages, la migration et l'amenagement du territoire a Cavite, aux Philippines, Regional Studies. Cet article laisse supposer le developpement des facons d'aborder les reseaux de production mondiaux qui cherchent a comprendre les processus d'amenagement du territoire en Asie. En regle generale, la notion de reseau constitue un potentiel non realise d'incorporer divers acteurs et espaces dans une analyse. A partir d'une etude de cas aux Philippines, cet article laisse supposer que les menages et les communautes locaux - les espaces de reproduction - devraient etre consideres comme des acteurs dans l'amenagement du territoire industriel, des partenaires essentiels des entreprises et des gouvernements. Qui plus est, les espaces de reproduction s'engagent aussi dans l'etablissement des reseaux mondiaux, par la migration et par les versements. La force motrice d'une telle migration est en partie la croissance de l'emploi industriel. Reseaux de production Reproduction Philippines Migration Menage Versements Kelly P. F. Von globalen Produktionsnetzen zu globalen Reproduktionsnetzen: Haushalte, Migration und Regionalentwicklung in Cavite (Philippinen), Regional Studies. Dieser Beitrag enthalt einen Vorschlag zur Erweiterung der Ansatze fur globale Produktionsnetze, um ein besseres Verstandnis der Prozesse der Regionalentwicklung in Asien zu ermoglichen. In den meisten Fallen bietet die Metapher des Netzes ein ungenutztes Potenzial zur Einbeziehung verschiedener Akteure und Raume in die Analyse. Anhand eines Falls in den Philippinen wird vorgeschlagen, dass lokale Haushalte und Gemeinschaften - die Raume der Reproduktion - als Akteure in der regionalen Industrieentwicklung und als wesentliche Erganzung von Firmen und Regierungen angesehen werden sollten. Daruber hinaus sind Reproduktionsraume aufgrund von Migration und Uberweisungen auch an der Bildung von globalen Netzen beteiligt. Eine solche Migration wird teilweise durch das Wachstum der industriellen Beschaftigung bedingt. Produktionsnetze Reproduktion Philippinen Migration Haushalt Uberweisungen Kelly P. F. ...

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“…Brown 2004;England 1993;England and Lawson 2005;Hanson 2003;McDowell 1997;Pratt;. A similar theme for feminist scholars in Science and Technology Studies (hereafter STS) is how technology shapes and is shaped by gender relations and gendered divisions of labor (Bray 1997;Cockburn and Ormrod 1993;Gorenstein 2000;Grint and Gill 1995;MacKenzie and Wajcman 1985, Wajcman 1991Webster 1996).…”

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Gender, work and technology in the information workplace: from typewriters to ATMs

Boyer

England

2008

Social & Cultural Geography

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We consider the relations between gender and technology in the workplace, focusing on clerical work in the information workplace, especially the finance and insurance sector. Our goal is to excavate a 'hidden history' of how clerical work and the artifacts which sustain it have been understood and deployed under different cultural and economic circumstances. We employ an analysis of technosocial relations developed in Science and Technology Studies in which meanings about 'technology' and 'society' are mutually constitutive, changeable, and in need of maintenance in order to sustain their conceptual coherence. By drawing on examples from the USA and Canada, we argue that at various points over the twentieth century particular office technologies became 'feminized', or associated with characteristics coded as feminine, as a means of shaping spatial practice and social relations in the workplace.

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Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work

Cited by 50 publications

References 83 publications

Gender, social network geographies, and low-wage employment among recent Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles

Gender, social network geographies, and low-wage employment among recent Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles

From Global Production Networks to Global Reproduction Networks: Households, Migration, and Regional Development in Cavite, the Philippines

Gender, work and technology in the information workplace: from typewriters to ATMs

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