Crisis at Work: Gender, Class, and the Dehumanization of Jobs

Q2 Arts and Humanities
H. Bradley
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Drawing on Huw Beynon’s paper in HSIR 40 (2019), this article surveys the position of women in the UK labour market over the last fifty years. It suggests that many of the developments Beynon describes are relevant to women’s employment, but with the added twist that women’s position in the labour market and society is structured by their responsibility within the total social organization of labour for reproductive labour. Despite increased women’s employment, gender segregation, both horizontal and vertical, is obstinately persistent, especially in working-class occupations. Two of these occupations, care work and retail, are used to illustrate how increasing precarity of jobs combined with technologies of control have brought about a dehumanization of work. It is concluded that the restructuring of global capitalism on neoliberal principles has negatively affected opportunities for women workers.
工作中的危机:性别、阶级和工作的非人性化
根据Huw Beynon在HSIR 40(2019)上的论文,本文调查了过去50年英国劳动力市场中女性的地位。这表明,贝农描述的许多发展与妇女就业有关,但另一方面,妇女在劳动力市场和社会中的地位是由她们在整个劳动力社会组织中对生殖劳动的责任构成的。尽管妇女就业人数增加,但横向和纵向的性别隔离依然顽固存在,尤其是在工人阶级职业中。其中两种职业,护理工作和零售业,被用来说明工作的不稳定性与控制技术相结合是如何导致工作的非人性化的。结论是,基于新自由主义原则的全球资本主义结构调整对女工的机会产生了负面影响。
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Historical Studies in Industrial Relations
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations Arts and Humanities-History
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