Gendering the Knowledge Economy Comparative Perspectives 1st Edition by Sylvia Walby 0230624871 9780230624870

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ISBN 10: 0230624871
ISBN 13: 9780230624870
Author: S. Walby

Comparing the UK, US, Germany and Japan, this book draws on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism. The volume re-thinks the processes of de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both de-regulation and re-regulation of employment

Gendering the Knowledge Economy Comparative Perspectives 1st Table of contents:

Part I Re-conceptualizing the Knowledge Economy, Gender and Regulation

1 Introduction: Theorizing the Gendering of the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Approaches

2 Gender and the Conceptualization of the Knowledge Economy in Comparison

Part II Comparative Regulation

3 Comparative Livelihood Security Systems from a Gender Perspective, with a Focus on Japan

4 Varieties of Gender Regimes and Regulating Gender Equality at Work in the Global Context

5 Similar Qutcomes, Different Paths: The Cross-national Transfer of Gendered Regulations of Employme

Part III Gendering New Employment Forms

6 Self-Employment in Comparative Perspective: General Trends and the Case of New Media

7 Living and Working Patterns in the New Knowledge Economy: New Opportunities and Old Social Divisio

8 Are Care-Workers Knowledge Workers?

9 Who Gets to be a Knowledge Worker? The Case of UK Call Centres

10 Restructuring Gendered Flexibility in Organizations: a Comparative Analysis of Call Centres in Ge

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