Prekäre Arbeit, prekäre Anerkennung, prekäre Lebensverhältnisse – Zur erweiterten Analyse vergeschlechtlichter Ungleichheiten in pandemischen Zeiten

Wimbauer, Christine; Motakef, Mona

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“…In all the studies I have conducted on the division of labour over the last 23 years, childbearing and childrearing, housework, care work and everyday management were not considered 'real' work compared to gainful employment. Men often expressed this directly, women or FLINTAs 8 rather indirectly, which impressively shows how power and inequality are intersectionally interwoven and how highly effective the capitalist 'social matrix of gainful employment' (Wimbauer and Motakef, 2020) proves to be. What is more, gendered care work is also strongly devalued in the field of paid work.…”

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“…Yet the problem outstrips even political engagement, as people who are exhausted or ill due to poor working conditions or other illnesses are often also limited in other areas: in their ability to participate socially, to do voluntary work, to care for others and to care for themselves. Thus, absent leisure time and poor working conditions in any social work (paid work or care work) not only pose dangers for democracy, but also carries an extensive social and self-destructive potential (see Wimbauer, 2012;Wimbauer and Motakef, 2020). These far-reaching potential dangers show how urgently free time, leisure and self-care must become regarded as socially legitimate.…”

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“…Moreover, various aspects are interwoven with each other. Due to space constraints, I limit myself only to the central arguments (for more detailed expositions, see Wimbauer and Motakef, 2020).…”

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Taking Care Seriously: Gendering Honneth’s The Working Sovereign – A Normative Theory of work

Wimbauer

2023

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Axel Honneth’s latest work The Working Sovereign. A Normative Theory of Work states that the democratization of work and employees’ experience of democracy at work are important prerequisites for creating and promoting democracy as well as social and political participation. According to Honneth, various aspects of ‘good work’ are essential for such a democratization of work. Undoubtedly working conditions must be improved and it is an inestimable merit of Axel Honneth’s book to demand this so clearly. Beyond this fundamental agreement, I would, however, take a broader view of some details and draw some conclusions differently. First, it is difficult to derive the improvements needed in the world of work from a theory of democracy alone as its limited scope hides other urgent problems. Second, any approach might prove short-sighted if the democratization of work thesis only refers to wage labour or, at best, to paid care work. Rather, a comprehensive concept of care/work must be the starting point. On a surface level, Honneth’s conception of work is broad and gender-sensitive. However, Honneth does not follow this to its logical conclusion and fails to provide a systematic role to his conception of work when deriving his claims in the final chapters of his book. Rather, this broad conception of work is lost more or less inconspicuously behind a latent androcentrism. This has far-reaching consequences: from a comprehensive, gender-theoretical perspective, it would have been necessary to demand the ‘democratization of care/work’ such that gender and specifically women, who are the main care providers and perform this work largely unpaid and invisibly, finally are also included. What is more, in Honneth’s analysis the same elision applies to other intersectional categories, as race, migration, citizenship and ability are all lost from view in Honneth’s nation-state-based, homogeneous and harmonious concept of democratization. In sum, in my critical engagement with Honneth’s new text I will show that while he very clearly points out the indispensable need for better working conditions, he is blind to gender and care work.

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2023

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New measurement approaches to identifying spatial concentrations of poor and low-income households in German city regions

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Weck

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The question of whether 21st-century urbanization dynamics are leading to a suburbanization of poverty in Western city regions has been on the agenda of spatial researchers and housing policymakers for over a decade now. Persistent reurbanization trends are putting increased pressure on inner-city housing markets, resulting in affordability problems for low-income households. Evidence from the US and the UK shows that financing mechanisms in the real estate sector were severely disrupted in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2009 and subsequent years, with many households losing their homes and being forced to move. Though social security systems and social housing policies generally have a moderating effect, they vary widely across Western countries. Against this background, this paper presents three spatial observation methods tailored to the spatial analysis of poverty concentrations in Germany. The methods are based on three popular conceptualizations of poverty: material poverty, relative poverty, and the concept of neighbourhood deprivation. The main novelty presented in this paper is a cold-spot analysis of purchasing power in 33 city regions using interactive map visualizations and complemented by socioeconomic indicators. Expert feedback verifies the validity of the approach which addresses a ‘blind spot’ in assessing poverty in Germany, where many low-income households are increasingly exposed to risks of poverty despite not qualifying for social benefits.

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„Sie haben uns komplett vergessen.“ Sorglosigkeit und Füreinander-Sorge-Tragen in Flüchtlingsunterkünften während der Corona-Pandemie

Huke¹

2023

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Sammelunterkünfte für Geflüchtete sind eines der prägnantesten Beispiele sozial stratifizierter Verletzlichkeit und ungleicher Anerkennung von Leben im Kontext der Corona-Pandemie. Der Artikel zeigt, wie in Sammelunterkünften in Deutschland prekäre Sorgelagen und Sorgelücken während der Corona-Pandemie auf alltägliche Versuche eines eigensinnigen Füreinander-Sorge-Tragens treffen. Er basiert empirisch auf 16 qualitativen problemzentrierten Interviews mit Bewohner*innen über ihre Alltagserfahrungen während der ersten und zweiten Welle der Pandemie. Geflüchtete, so wird deutlich, können sich nicht oder nur begrenzt darauf verlassen, dass ihre Gesundheit in der Pandemie durch staatliche Maßnahmen geschützt wird. Versuche, die eigene Gesundheit selbstorganisiert zu schützen, ermöglichen nur sehr begrenzt Verbesserungen und brechen sich an der (staatlich aufrechterhaltenen) strukturellen Sorglosigkeit der eigenen Lebenssituation.

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Prekäre Arbeit, prekäre Anerkennung, prekäre Lebensverhältnisse – Zur erweiterten Analyse vergeschlechtlichter Ungleichheiten in pandemischen Zeiten

Cited by 4 publications

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Taking Care Seriously: Gendering Honneth’s The Working Sovereign – A Normative Theory of work

Taking Care Seriously: Gendering Honneth’s The Working Sovereign – A Normative Theory of work

New measurement approaches to identifying spatial concentrations of poor and low-income households in German city regions

„Sie haben uns komplett vergessen.“ Sorglosigkeit und Füreinander-Sorge-Tragen in Flüchtlingsunterkünften während der Corona-Pandemie

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