Working with care: embodying feminist care ethics in regional coworking spaces

Crovara, Elisabetta

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103702

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“…For example, in recent years, several women-only spaces have opened and drawn an increasing academic interest in the gender implications of coworking and the notion of coworking spaces as 'gender-neutral' workplaces [2,10,25,36,40]. Also quite limited is research on the practices of coworking hosts and community managers who have a crucial role in maintaining coworking spaces and their communities [13,22,31]. Coworking hosts and community managers are often female and perform affective and emotional labor as part of their work [2,36,37].…”

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Caring Practices in and Beyond Coworking Spaces

Merkel,

Belvončíková,

Zhurbas-Litvin

2024

SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology

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Coworking and coworking spaces have proliferated over the last decade, and research has shown how these flexible, shared workspaces provide crucial resources for freelance and self-employed workers. This chapter aims to understand how care is practised in and through coworking spaces. Drawing on interviews with female hosts in different spaces across Europe, we apply Joan Tronto’s ethics of care framework (Tronto in Moral boundaries: A political argument for an ethic of care. Routledge [43]; Tronto in Caring democracy: Markets, equality, and justice. NYU Press [44]) to analyze caring practices in coworking spaces. This chapter adds to the literature on how coworking hosts and community managers provide care to “maintain, continue, and repair” (Fisher and Tronto in Work and identity in women’s lives. SUNY Press [18], p. 40) community and the hospitable atmosphere in coworking spaces across Europe.

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