Gendering the Knowledge Economy Comparative Perspectives

by Walby, Sylvia; Gottfried, Heidi; Gottschall, Karin; Osawa, Mari

• ISBN13: 9780230575707
• ISBN10: 0230575706
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This edited collection, by an international network of prominent feminist scholars, combines theoretical discussions and original empirical material from the UK, US, Germany and Japan to investigate the future of work.

Author Biography

SYLVIA WALBY is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research. She has held Chairs in the Universities of Bristol and Leeds and a Readership at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Recent publications include Gender Transformation, editorship of a special issue of Social Politics on 'Gender Mainstreaming' and Globalization and Inequalities.

HEIDI GOTTFRIED is Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Industrial Relations Program at Wayne State University, USA. Her research focuses on employment regulation, and gender and work in comparative perspective. She is co-editor of Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis.

KARIN GOTTSCHALL is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Social Policy Research, Bremen University, Germany. Her research and advisory work focuses on labour and employment studies, social policy and education. Recent publications include a monograph on the Germany sociological discourse on social inequality and gender, and a co-edition of Beyond Standard Work, Special Issue of Critical Sociology.

MARI OSAWA is Professor of Social Policy at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan and member of the Science Council of Japan. She has been a Marie Jahoda Professor (International Visiting Professorship) at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany and a Visiting Professor at the Gender and Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Preface	p. x
Notes on Authors and Editors	p. xi
Re-conceptualizing the Knowledge Economy, Gender and Regulation	p. 1
Introduction: Theorizing the Gendering of the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Approaches	p. 3
Gender and the Conceptualization of the Knowledge Economy in Comparison	p. 51
Comparative Regulation	p. 79
Comparative Livelihood Security Systems from a Gender Perspective, with a Focus on Japan	p. 81
Varieties of Gender Regimes and Regulating Gender Equality at Work in the Global Context	p. 109
Similar Qutcomes, Different Paths: The Cross-national Transfer of Gendered Regulations of Employment	p. 140
Gendering New Employment Forms	p. 161
Self-Employment in Comparative Perspective: General Trends and the Case of New Media	p. 163
Living and Working Patterns in the New Knowledge Economy: New Opportunities and Old Social Divisions in the Case of New Media and Care-Work	p. 188
Are Care-Workers Knowledge Workers?	p. 207
Who Gets to be a Knowledge Worker? The Case of UK Call Centres	p. 228
Restructuring Gendered Flexibility in Organizations: a Comparative Analysis of Call Centres in Germany	p. 248
Appendix to Chapter 3	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 281
Index	p. 313
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