Sentimental Contracts

Rabinowitz, Paula

doi:10.1177/1329878x9608200109

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“…The American dream Hormel workers sought was often explicitly tied to family wage ideology, and the film demonstrated this was an attitude more than an explicit material reality. Themes concerning family wove through the film narrative in the familial ties of the small town of Austin, the invented familial atmosphere of the union hall, and the familial disownment of those who crossed the picket line (Rabinowitz, 1996). Financially supporting a family was the only reason union workers gave for considering crossing the picket line and returning to work.…”

Section: Gender In Representations Of Post-fordismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The context surrounding the film unraveled the claims to a family wage many of the striking men asserted as their province. In an era of deindustrialization, “these men [were] victims as much of a passé version of masculinity as of an outmoded form of unionism apparently ineffective against vicious corporations” (Rabinowitz, 1996, p. 58). The film and the strikers saw that these crying men and the UFCW's tactics were retrograde, but their tears did not fail to elicit emotion.…”

Section: Gender In Representations Of Post-fordismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Death of Fordism and the Family Wage in Labor Documentaries: A Feminist Analysis

Cady

2023

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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This paper analyzes three labor documentaries released from 1989 to 1991, which depict the United States’ assumed transition from a Fordist to post-Fordist economy. Feminist textual analysis focuses on the depiction of workplaces and gender roles in Roger and Me, American Dream, and Fast Food Women. The analysis demonstrated that discourses of epochal change in the context only held true if one looked at a slice of the U.S. labor market largely dominated by White men. Focusing on feminine sex-typed labor demonstrated the worst elements of industrial Fordism remained in post-Fordist workplaces. Long-standing sexual divisions of labor were unambiguously repeated in post-Fordist work and intensified in a discussion of the family wage.

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Section: Gender In Representations Of Post-fordismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender In Representations Of Post-fordismmentioning

confidence: 99%