3. Counting for something! Recognising women’s contribution to the global economy through alternative accounting systems

Waring, Marilyn

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“…If the economic value of reproductive labour were calculated, it would be equivalent to over 50% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (UN Women, 2019). Yet unpaid domestic work and care is not counted in GDP figures, despite arguments that such calculations should be included in satellite accounts (Waring, 2003). Rather, this labour has long been taken for granted by governments, simultaneously relied upon and discounted as if it were a costless renewable resource, like a magic pudding (Folbre, 2014).…”

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Coronavirus, domestic labour and care: Gendered roles locked down

Craig

2020

Journal of Sociology

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The Covid-19 pandemic turned daily lives upside down. Lockdowns and physical distancing meant hundreds of thousands of people switched to working from home, significantly blurring the temporal and spatial boundaries between paid work, domestic labour and caring for others. This article explores gender relations, and the division of employment, domestic labour and care, drawing on early results from an online survey, Work and Care in the Time of Covid-19, carried out between 7 May and 4 June 2020.

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Coronavirus, domestic labour and care: Gendered roles locked down

Craig

2020

Journal of Sociology

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“…The feminisation of digital work entails not only associating it with female-coded characteristics (flexibility, emotional availability, sociability) but also often substituting the promise of symbolic gains such as ‘exposure’ (Duffy and Schwartz, 2018) for material rewards. This phenomenon, which has long shaped women’s relationship to consumptive capitalism (Waring, 2003; Gibson-Graham, 2008; Cameron and Gibson-Graham, 2010), draws intentionally on cultural expectations about volunteering to help others know how and what to consume. Tiziana Terranova (2004) has theorised that this work constitutes the absolute extraction of surplus value, as people labour—in the sense of producing something of value under capitalist social relations—without any expectation of a wage in exchange for the commodity (in this case, spatial data) they create.…”

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Will Review for Points: The Unpaid Affective Labour of Placemaking for Google’s ‘Local Guides’

Tarr¹,

León²

2019

Feminist Review

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A growing number of people are relying on technologies like Google Maps not only to navigate and locate themselves in cartographic space but also to search, discover and evaluate urban places. While the spatial data that underlies such technology frequently appears as a combination of Google-created maps and locational information passively collected from mobile (GPS-enabled) devices, in this article we argue that for such systems to function as both useful tools for exploration for users and sources of revenue, users must actively produce massive quantities of granular spatial data that would otherwise be significantly more difficult and expensive to collect. The production of this qualitative information about places constitutes significant unremunerated affective labour. In this article, we build on the tradition of feminist geographies, especially feminist and critical Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to examine how the labour done by gendered, raced and often classed members of a local community is alienated by Google (i.e. Alphabet, Inc.) to produce commodified spatial data/media in the Local Guides platform. We analyse how Google’s presentation of the platform hails women as care labourers—sharing their thoughts, feelings and knowledge of place for free in the name of supporting and caring for a community, however vaguely it may be constituted. At the same time, we argue that digital labour that produces the Local Guides platform draws from and reproduces specific gendering of spaces. We draw on a case study of a commercial corridor in the US city of Worcester, Massachusetts to show how the dialectic between affective digital labour and urban space has material effects on the production of raced, classed and gendered spaces and places. The article concludes with a call to maintain critical, feminist engagements with these types of platforms in order to further develop forms of digital praxis towards more just cities.

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Segues and synergies: Feminist economist and occupational scientists meet human rights

Waring

2016

Journal of Occupational Science

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How do the international rules of 'work' and 'economic activity' treat 'occupation'? What 'work' is constantly absent from the database for determining public resource allocations and investments? What occupies those whose work is unpaid? Is this work visible in Occupational Science research? What are the implications for 'overoccupation' in a human rights context? Are there opportunities for political economists and occupational scientists to work together on these issues? KEYWORDS occupation and human rights; over-occupation; family carers Introducing political economy and occupation Thank you for the honour of the invitation to address you today. My discipline background is in political economy and public policy, my research is feminist, and for the last forty years, it has had a human rights focus. For occupational therapists, this address begins with a segue, a short introduction to a major feature of economics: its treatment of 'occupation'. I move to a discussion of synergies between my work and yours, in the environment of human rights, with a case study on the caregivers of those with HIV and AIDS using a capability framework. I describe my own experience of managing the care of a terminally ill family member, and what I learned from this. I conclude with the exploitation of women's unpaid care work. My work in economics (Waring, 1988, 1999) has focused on the United Nations System of National Accounts (UNSNA). You will be familiar with the term GDP, and these growth

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3. Counting for something! Recognising women’s contribution to the global economy through alternative accounting systems

Cited by 3 publications

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Coronavirus, domestic labour and care: Gendered roles locked down

Coronavirus, domestic labour and care: Gendered roles locked down

Will Review for Points: The Unpaid Affective Labour of Placemaking for Google’s ‘Local Guides’

Segues and synergies: Feminist economist and occupational scientists meet human rights

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