Gendering the Knowledge Economy Comparative Perspectives

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

• ISBN13: 9781403994578
• ISBN10: 1403994579
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Gendering the New Economydemonstrates the ways in which gender transforms the understanding of the knowledge-based economy, addressing the nature of knowledge and what constitutes the newness of current employment forms. It rethinks the processes of both de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both the deregulation and re-regulation of employment. A comparative analysis of the US, UK, Germany and Japan underpins the rethinking of the varieties of capitalism and the comparative analysis of gender relations.

Table of Contents

PART I: RECONCEPTUALIZING THE NEW ECONOMY, GENDER AND REGULATION * Theorizing the Gendering of the New Economy: Comparative Approaches--S.Walby * Gender and the Conceptualization of the New Economy in Comparison--K.Shire * Approaching Regulation: A Comparative Perspective on Gender, Regulations, and Non-Standard Employment--H.Gottfried * PART II: COMPARATIVE REGULATION * Comparative Development of Social Policy Systems--M.Osawa * Varieties of Gender Regimes and Globally Informed Regulation of Gender Equality; I.Lenz * Work Life Policies in Multinationals: Do Regulations Make a Difference?--G.Roberts * PART III: GENDERING NEW EMPLOYMENT FORMS * Self-Employment in Comparative Perspective: Dynamics, Profiles, and Risk-Management in a New New Media Work--K.Gottschall & D.Kroos * Living and Working in the New Economy: New Opportunities and Old Social Divisions in the Cases of the New Media and Carework; D.Perrons * Are Care Workers Knowledge Workers?--M.Nishikawa & K.Tanaka * Who Gets to be a Knowledge Worker? The Case of UK Call Centers--S.Durbin * Restructuring Gendered Flexibility in Organizations: A comparative analysis of call centres in Germany--U.Holtgrewe

PART I: RECONCEPTUALIZING THE NEW ECONOMY, GENDER AND REGULATION * Theorizing the Gendering of the New Economy: Comparative Approaches--S.Walby * Gender and the Conceptualization of the New Economy in Comparison--K.Shire * Approaching Regulation: A Comparative Perspective on Gender, Regulations, and Non-Standard Employment--H.Gottfried * PART II: COMPARATIVE REGULATION * Comparative Development of Social Policy Systems--M.Osawa * Varieties of Gender Regimes and Globally Informed Regulation of Gender Equality; I.Lenz * Work Life Policies in Multinationals: Do Regulations Make a Difference?--G.Roberts * PART III: GENDERING NEW EMPLOYMENT FORMS * Self-Employment in Comparative Perspective: Dynamics, Profiles, and Risk-Management in a New New Media Work--K.Gottschall & D.Kroos * Living and Working in the New Economy: New Opportunities and Old Social Divisions in the Cases of the New Media and Carework; D.Perrons * Are Care Workers Knowledge Workers?--M.Nishikawa & K.Tanaka * Who Gets to be a Knowledge Worker? The Case of UK Call Centers--S.Durbin * Restructuring Gendered Flexibility in Organizations: A comparative analysis of call centres in Germany--U.Holtgrewe