Politics, Work and Family: Gendered Forms of Mobilisation of Working-Class Women in Southern France

Oeser, Alexandra; Tourraille, Fanny

doi:10.1080/09639489.2012.665574

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“…Women have had multiple spheres for self‐realisation, including mothering, family care, housework and paid employment. Therefore, unemployment has been assumed to affect women's identity, recognition and social status to a lesser degree (Oeser & Touraille, ; see also Scott, ).…”

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Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Hansen

2017

Int J Soc Welfare

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Few studies have considered how labour activation programmes affect participants’ identity construction, particularly from a gender comparison perspective. Using qualitative data and recognition theories, this exploratory study of the Norwegian Qualification Program examined how gender may affect labour activation recipients’ identity construction and sense of social value. The findings suggest that women experience labour activation as an enabling process, facilitating an enhanced sense of social value and status. In contrast, men experience either no such change or a diminution of their sense of worth and status. The study shows how cultural values regarding gender, work and employment are embedded in social work practice and activation policy implementation. Underscoring how activation may be intertwined in such cultural values and norms, the study calls for further research to understand these processes, as they may affect outcomes in labour activation policy.

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Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Hansen

2017

Int J Soc Welfare

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Gender Inequalities in the Crisis of Capitalism: Spain and France Compared

Lux¹,

Wöhl²

2015

New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research

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In times of crisis, certain characteristics of the capitalist mode of production, social reproduction 1 and the symbolic realm of societal formation become more clearly visible than would otherwise be the case. Capitalism's inherent contradictions come to the fore and constructions of social norms that serve to reproduce the capitalist order may be rearranged or deepened. Additionally, '[o]nce a crisis strikes, inequalities are reinforced as the ability to respond to the shock differs between more powerful and weaker players' (Fukuda-Parr et al., 2013, p. 15). This includes the power asymmetries between capital and labour, as well as inequalities of gender and ethnicity. In the post-2007 world of crisis, it is therefore even more surprising that theoretical approaches in Comparative Capitalisms (CC) research continue to exclude the social construction of gender, ethnicity and gender inequality. Even though gender is sometimes part of the analysis, broader questions of social reproduction, the hegemonic gender order of states and societies and their interplay with firm-centred decisions, are not related to one another. During times of capitalist crisis, the public-private divide and accompanying unpaid labour in the social reproduction of private households is often reinforced, as one of several dimensions of inequality, in order to secure the capitalist mode of production. A range of well-known feminist economics and political economy scholars have shown this, especially regarding the Asian crisis in the late 1990s and numerous crises in

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Rouger¹,

Selponi²

2018

Quand L’industrie Proteste

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Politics, Work and Family: Gendered Forms of Mobilisation of Working-Class Women in Southern France

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Gender Inequalities in the Crisis of Capitalism: Spain and France Compared

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