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. INDICE: List of figures - List of tables - Preface - Notes on Editors - PART I: RE-CONCEPTUALIZING THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, GENDER AND REGULATION - Introduction: Theorizing the Gendering of the New Economy: Comparative Approaches; S.Walby - Gender and the Conceptualization of the Knowledge Economy in Comparison; K.Shire - PART II: COMPARATIVE REGULATION - Comparative Livelihood Security Systems from a Gender Perspective, with a Focus on Japan; M.Osawa - Varieties of Gender Regimes and Regulating Gender Equality at Work in the Global Context; I.Lenz - Similar Outcomes, Different Paths: The Cross-National Transfer of Gendered Regulations of Employment; G.S.Roberts - PART III: GENDERING NEW EMPLOYMENT FORMS - Self-Employment in Comparative Perspective: General Trends and the Case of New Media; 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 Centres; S.Durbin - Restructuring Gendered Flexibility in Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of Call Centres in Germany; U.Holtgrewe - Appendix I - Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57570-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 15/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés