Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction
Resource type
Author/contributor
- Ferguson, Susan (Author)
Title
Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction
Abstract
This edited collection introduces and explores the causes and consequences of precarious employment in Canada and across the world. After contextualizing employment precarity and its root causes, the authors illustrate how precarious employment is created amongst different populations and describe the accompanying social impacts on racialized immigrant women, those in the non-profit sector, temporary foreign workers and the children of Filipino immigrants. --Publisher's description.
Place
Toronto
Publisher
Between the Lines
Date
2020
# of Pages
ix, 175 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-7453-3871-2
Notes
Contents: The Labour Lens -- Work, Character and Independence -- Domestic Labour as Work -- Emancipation Through Women’s Waged Labour? -- A Political Economy of ’Women’s Work’: Producing Patriarchal Capitalism -- Capitalism’s Complex Social Reproductive Labour: Forces of Dehumanization and Resistance -- Productivist Feminism and Anti-Work Politics.
Citation
Ferguson, S. (2020). Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction. Between the Lines. https://btlbooks.com/book/women-and-work
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