- Title
- Contingent labour and the rewriting of the sexual contract
- Creator
- Adkins, Lisa
- Relation
- The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency p. 1-28
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137495549
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- This book is concerned with labour in post-Fordist capitalism and especially with its reworking and restructuring. This reworking and restructuring is multi-dimensional and multi-faceted and its terms are constantly under revision. Such ceaseless and apparently limitless restructuring - including of the conditions and possibilities of labour - is taking place in a context where capital has been released from the equilibrium-seeking devices and regulatory constraints of Fordism. This is a context where capital seeks not a social contract with labour but a contingent and provisional contract, a contract where nothing is guaranteed for the worker or would-be worker other than the hope or possibility of work but not necessarily a sustaining wage or a life that can be planned into the future.
- Subject
- work environment; labour; women; employment; feminism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1332546
- Identifier
- uon:26895
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781137495532
- Language
- eng
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