Women’s changing domestic responsibilities in neoliberal Africa: a relational time-space analysis of Lesotho’s garment industry

Ansell, Nicola; Tsoeu, Seroala; Hajdú, Flóra

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2013.855712

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“…Therefore, the industry is also targeting low wages to maximize profits. The mobilization of the garment industry ultimately affects labor costs by constantly imposing low fixed wages, long working hours, and fluctuating work contract regulations which ultimately do not provide long-term security guarantees for workers (Ansell, Tsoeu-Ntokoane, & Hajdu, 2015).…”

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“…There are many times when female laborers work overtime for another hour or more due to the company's constant demand and target. Thus, the spacetime of factory work negatively affects women's well-being by depriving them of sufficient energy and rest time (Ansell, Tsoeu-Ntokoane, & Hajdu, 2015). This paper presents various empirical findings of female laborers working at A garment factory in the industrial area of North Jakarta that were interviewed in person.…”

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Gender-Based Violence and Global Capitalism: Everyday experiences of female laborers in the fast fashion garment industry

Febrilly,

Siscawati

2023

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The garment industry is an industrial sector that recruits more female laborers. However, female laborers in the garment industry often experience various forms of injustice and acts of violence, such as low wages, gender discrimination or high workloads. Various forms of injustice and violence must be studied continuously, considering that this industry is still rapidly growing globally. The emergence of the fast fashion trend encourages the expansion of the garment industry, which can potentially eternalize injustice and violence against female laborers. Female garment laborers bear a substantial role in the production sector, starting from preparing materials, cutting materials, sewing, ironing, and playing various roles as helpers in various production processes. This paper examines daily experiences of injustice and violence experienced by several female garment laborers from one of the garment factories in Jakarta. Adopting the theoretical approach of feminist everyday political economy, this paper analyzes those experiences that reflect miscellaneous structural and cultural gender violence heavily influenced by global capitalism.

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Gender-Based Violence and Global Capitalism: Everyday experiences of female laborers in the fast fashion garment industry

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Siscawati

2023

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“…A fundamental question that arises from the findings discussed so far is to what degree the patriarchal gender contract is coming under attack from changing material realities? It is known from many other contexts that women's economic participation, particularly in formal paid employment that is relatively 'decent', tends to have the greatest scope for increasing their voice and agency and for ultimately, over the longer term, challenging prevailing gender norms (Seguino 2007;Khosla 2009;Ansell, Tsoeu-Ntokoane et al 2015).…”

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Re-negotiating social reproduction, work and gender roles in occupied Palestine

Bargawi

Alami

Ziada

2021

Review of International Political Economy

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This article uncovers the crisis of social reproduction in Occupied Palestine in the context of severe economic and political turmoil by specifically highlighting the ways in which impacts have been felt differently by men and women. It does so by considering the interactions of production and reproduction. The article confirms that, as a result of economic hardship, women, particularly married women, are increasingly participating in the formal and informal labour market. These women have been forced to renegotiate their domestic and caring responsibilities alongside paid work, within a context of very limited state or private sector provision of care services. While time-use survey findings suggest little change in men and women's time-use between 1999/2000 and 2012/13 in general, qualitative interviews provide a more nuanced picture. Furthermore, the narrative that responsibility for managing care of children and elderly relatives as well as domestic work lies solely with the wife/ mother is near universal. Respondents also did not voice demands for greater investment in child and elder care services by private firms or by the state, suggesting a strong individualisation of responsibility for social reproduction in Occupied Palestine today. What remains to be seen is a) how representative these findings are for other groups, particularly poorer, rural families in Palestine and b) what the longer-term consequences of these changes might bring for societal gender norms in Palestine and in other contexts.

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“…In their attempts to change their initiatives from short-lived youth programming to sustained intergenerational organizations, queer and trans of color community workers do not seek to negotiate around the limitations imposed by existing space-times (Ansell et al, 2015) but rather to transform the chronotopes themselves. In her analysis of pedagogical moments at the Russian Theatrical Academy in Moscow, Lemon's (2008) work is constructive in conceptualizing how QTPOC organizers can begin to do this.…”

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Reconfiguring time, love, and money: Adjusting chronotopic realities among queer and trans of color community organizers in Toronto, Canada

Chin

2017

Time & Society

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Based on ethnographic research in Toronto, Canada this article considers how queer and trans of color community arts initiatives come to exist as temporal phenomena. Given the association of racial, sexual, and gender nonnormativity with temporal backwardness, these organizations serve as a useful site to examine how temporal regimes are composed. Drawing on the work of grassroots queer and trans of color community arts initiatives, I show how the short-term, youth-based nature of these efforts is intimately tied to mechanisms of state funding and to the feelings-based relationships that characterize community work. I argue that in their bid to transform their initiatives into sustainable, intergenerational organizations, queer and trans of color organizers must work to change the affective and political economic contexts in which these initiatives exist. By positing the commensurability between “love” and “money” and using the framework of temporality to draw them into the same analytic space, I contribute to existing studies on emotional labor by disrupting Enlightenment logics that separate “spirit” from “matter.” Ultimately, I examine the political ramifications of enacting normative models of temporal development to explore a queer approach to change over time.

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Women’s changing domestic responsibilities in neoliberal Africa: a relational time-space analysis of Lesotho’s garment industry

Abstract: Ansell N, Tsoeu-Ntokoane S and Hajdu F (in press and online) 'Women's changing domestic responsibilities in neoliberal Africa: a relational time-space analysis of Lesotho's garment industry ' Gender, Place

Cited by 11 publications

References 54 publications

Gender-Based Violence and Global Capitalism: Everyday experiences of female laborers in the fast fashion garment industry

Gender-Based Violence and Global Capitalism: Everyday experiences of female laborers in the fast fashion garment industry

Re-negotiating social reproduction, work and gender roles in occupied Palestine

Reconfiguring time, love, and money: Adjusting chronotopic realities among queer and trans of color community organizers in Toronto, Canada

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