Torn between the Old and New World of Work: Insights into the Modernised Semi-Profession of the Fashion IndustryDate submitted: December 31, 2019Date accepted after double-blind review: February 1, 2021

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Management Revue Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.5771/0935-9915-2021-3-244

Alexandra Manske

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This paper explores how persistent gender inequalities of the old world of work are amplified by the new world of work. Focusing on the fashion industry of Berlin, the article offers insight into a female-dominated field of labour as a particular field of labour of the cultural and creative industries (CCI). The CCI is regarded as a role model for new work. However, they entail deep gender inequalities in terms of segregation, low status and low pay. The paper addresses the question of how these gendered inequalities in the fashion industry are intertwined with its professional mechanisms and training structures. Based on a qualitative study, I argue that the fashion industry is a modernised semi-profession, which has been undergoing a market-driven professionalisation. However, this new pathway into the fashion industry fails to fully professionalise that industry. On contrary, it erects new occupational barriers into the field of labour that help establish high qualified and low qualified fashion work that also aids in polarising the still mostly female workforce in terms of status and rewards. Overall, it should become clear that the fashion industry is torn between the old and new world of work which helps to maintain or even reinforce traditional gender inequalities.

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新旧工作世界之间的撕裂:对时尚产业现代化半职业的洞察提交日期:2019年12月31日双盲审查后接受日期:2021年2月1日

本文探讨了旧的工作世界中持续存在的性别不平等是如何被新的工作世界放大的。本文以柏林的时尚产业为重点，对女性主导的劳动领域作为文化创意产业(CCI)的特殊劳动领域进行了深入研究。CCI被视为新工作的榜样。然而，它们在隔离、低地位和低工资方面造成了深刻的性别不平等。本文探讨了时尚行业的性别不平等是如何与其专业机制和培训结构交织在一起的。基于一项定性研究，我认为时尚产业是一个现代化的半职业，它正在经历市场驱动的专业化。然而，这种进入时尚行业的新途径并没有使这个行业完全专业化。相反，它在劳动领域设置了新的职业障碍，有助于建立高质量和低质量的时装工作，也有助于在地位和报酬方面使仍然以女性为主的劳动力两极分化。总的来说，应该清楚的是，时尚行业在新旧工作世界之间被撕裂，这有助于维持甚至加强传统的性别不平等。

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期刊介绍： Management Revue - Socio-Economic Studies is an interdisciplinary European journal that undergoes peer review. It publishes qualitative and quantitative work, along with purely theoretical papers, contributing to the study of management, organization, and industrial relations. The journal welcomes contributions from various disciplines, including business and public administration, organizational behavior, economics, sociology, and psychology. Regular features include reviews of books relevant to management and organization studies. Special issues provide a unique perspective on specific research fields. Organized by selected guest editors, each special issue includes at least two overview articles from leaders in the field, along with at least three new empirical papers and up to ten book reviews related to the topic. The journal aims to offer in-depth insights into selected research topics, presenting potentially controversial perspectives, new theoretical insights, valuable empirical analysis, and brief reviews of key publications. Its objective is to establish Management Revue - Socio-Economic Studies as a top-quality symposium journal for the international academic community.