Intersections Of Race Gender And Precarity

Author : Stephanie M. Baran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793608543

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Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity by Stephanie M. Baran Pdf

In Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity: Navigating Insecurities in an American City, Stephanie Baran argues that when it comes to assistance the United States government often creates more problems than it solves. These institutions are not in the business of creating a pathway for people to escape poverty, often compounding that poverty instead. Through a two-year ethnographic study of poverty and insecurity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the author shows how people navigate situations of poverty through interviews with recipients and organizations as well as those working at a local community pantry. Consequently, research uncovered how local food organizations with connections to the Milwaukee Chapter of the Black Panther Party hide their more radical roots to protect food donations from white donors, in essence protecting white fragility. People are far closer to experiencing poverty than they realize, as shown by the Government Shutdown of 2019 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and typically have incomplete and inaccurate ideas of poverty as well as how people can experience upward mobility. Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity reveals this gap through a focus on how all these factors show up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Author : Kalyani Chadha,Linda Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000535044

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Newswork and Precarity by Kalyani Chadha,Linda Steiner Pdf

This edited collection brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the consequences and implications of precarious labor conditions within the modern news industry. In 14 original chapters, contributors address global concerns in journalism across all platforms, based on the assumption that unstable employment conditions affect the extent to which journalists can continue to play their historically crucial role in sustaining democracies. Topics discussed include work conditions for freelancers and entrepreneurial journalists as well as the risks facing conflict reporters, precarity in media start-ups, unionization and other collective efforts, policies regulating journalistic labor around the world, and the impact of hedge fund money on newswork. Drawing on case studies and data from South America, Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, the book highlights how media outlets are forcing newsworkers to work harder for less money, and few countries are proactive in alleviating the precarity of journalists. Newswork and Precarity is a valuable addition to an important still-emerging area in journalism studies that will be of interest to both professionals and scholars of journalism, media studies, sociology, and labor history.

Author : Arne L. Kalleberg,Steven P. Vallas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787432888

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Precarious Work by Arne L. Kalleberg,Steven P. Vallas Pdf

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.

Author : Elina Meliou,Joana Vassilopoulou,Mustafa F. Ozbilgin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108934367

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Diversity and Precarious Work During Socio-Economic Upheaval by Elina Meliou,Joana Vassilopoulou,Mustafa F. Ozbilgin Pdf

Existing research on the rise of precarious forms of employment has paid little attention to gender and diversity challenges. Yet precarious work has damaging effects for vulnerable demographics, with women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities more considerably affected. This volume unpacks this research and offers insights into the role of organizations in fostering inclusive change. It draws an awareness of precarious work and diversity in organizations in three ways: 1. Uncovers and documents the variety of issues facing vulnerable demographic groups at work. 2. Promotes greater scholarship on the link between precarious work and diversity during economic and social upheaval. 3. Develops a research program and agenda that sheds light into new and important aspects of precarious work and diversity issues. A group of international scholars come together to discuss ways to address these challenges and offer a way forward for the future.

Author : Rina Agarwala,Jennifer Jihye Chun
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787693678

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Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work by Rina Agarwala,Jennifer Jihye Chun Pdf

This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective organizing efforts, why gender is addressed and to what end.

Author : Sarah Bartley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030448547

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Performing Welfare by Sarah Bartley Pdf

This book explores what happens to socially committed performance when state systems of social security are dismantled. Since 2010, a punishing programme of economic austerity and a seismic overhaul of the Welfare State in the United Kingdom has been accompanied by an ideological assault on dependency; a pervasive scapegoating of the poor, young, and disabled; and an intensification of the discursive relationship between morality and work. This book considers the artistic, material, and ideological consequences of such shifts for applied and socially engaged performance. Performing Welfare reveals how such arts practices might reconstitute notions of work and labour in socially constructive ways. It focuses on the political potential of participation during a period in which classifications of labour and productivity are intensely contested. It examines the migration of discourses from state policy to the cultural sector; narratives of community and aesthetics of dependency; the paradoxes of visibility in creative projects with stigmatised participants; the implicit relationship of participatory performance to neoliberal productivity; and, the parallels between gendered divisions of labour, social reproduction, and applied performance. It will appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in applied and socially engaged performance, participation, community, representation, the welfare state, social policy, labour, and unemployment.

Author : Karen Monkman,Ann Frkovich,Amira Proweller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000620733

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Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts by Karen Monkman,Ann Frkovich,Amira Proweller Pdf

This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces. Precarity presents as layered, unpredictable, destabilizing, and rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic dynamics, shown here in various forms, including the global pandemic, divisive populist politics, displacement of refugees and the landless, race and gender injustices, and neoliberal policies that constrain educational and social possibilities. Grouped around reflection, educational practice, and social activism, the authors show how educators engage these precarious conditions as they work toward a more interconnected, humane, and just society. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in social foundations of education, multicultural and social justice education, educational policy, and international and comparative education, sociology and anthropology of education, and cultural studies within education, among other fields.

Author : Stephen Edgell,Heidi Gottfried,Edward Granter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473943285

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The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment by Stephen Edgell,Heidi Gottfried,Edward Granter Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the world. The coverage is both comprehensive and comparative (in terms of time and space) and each ‘state of the art’ chapter provides a critical review of the literature combined with some thoughts on the direction of research. This authoritative text is structured around six core themes: Historical Context and Social Divisions The Experience of Work The Organization of Work Nonstandard Work and Employment Work and Life beyond Employment Globalization and the Future of Work. Globally, the contours of work and employment are changing dramatically. This handbook helps academics and practitioners make sense of the impact of these changes on individuals, groups, organizations and societies. Written in an accessible style with a helpful introduction, the retrospective and prospective nature of this volume will be an essential resource for students, teachers and policy-makers across a range of fields, from business and management, to sociology and organization studies.

Author : Elizabeth Mills
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529221954

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HIV, Gender and the Politics of Medicine by Elizabeth Mills Pdf

Scholars in International Development, Anthropology (Social Anthropology and Medical Anthropology), Political Science, Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Health Studies.

Author : Teresa Crew
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781837531189

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The Intersections of a Working-Class Academic Identity by Teresa Crew Pdf

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Acknowledging the institutional challenges that hinder the work and careers of working-class academics, Teresa Crew calls for a more inclusive and equitable higher education landscape.

Author : María Porras Sánchez,Gerardo Vilches
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781000653861

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Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives by María Porras Sánchez,Gerardo Vilches Pdf

This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the economic and professional precarity that characterizes comics creation and production. An international team of authors, young and senior systematically examines the representation of precarious youth in graphic fiction and autobiographic comics, superheroes and precarity, market issues and spaces of activism and vulnerability. With this structure, the book offers a global perspective and comprehensive coverage of different aspects of a complex and multifaceted field of knowledge, with a special attention to minorities and liminal subjects. The comics analyzed function as examples of "ethical solicitation" that bear witness of the precarious existence younger generations endure, while at the same time creating images that voice their outrage and might move readers to act. This timely and truly interdisciplinary volume will appeal to comics scholars and researchers in the areas of media and cultural studies, modern languages, education, art and design, communication studies, sociology, medical humanities and more.

Author : Orna Braun-Lewensohn,Claude-Hélène Mayer,Shir Daphna-Tekoah
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832510308

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Women’s coping in various spheres in society: Challenges and opportunities by Orna Braun-Lewensohn,Claude-Hélène Mayer,Shir Daphna-Tekoah Pdf

Author : Ronald Gregg,Amy Villarejo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190877996

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The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema by Ronald Gregg,Amy Villarejo Pdf

"Queer media is not one thing but an ensemble of at least four moving variables: history, gender and sexuality, geography, and medium. While many scholars would pinpoint the early 1990s as marking the emergence of a cinematic movement (dubbed by B. Ruby Rich, the "new queer cinema") in the United States, films and television programs that clearly spoke to LGBTQ themes and viewers existed at many different historical moments and in many different forms. Cross-dressing, same-sex attraction, comedic drag performance: at some points, for example in 1950s television, these were not undercurrents but very prominent aspects of mainstream cultural production. Addressing "history" not as dots on a progressive spectrum but as a uneven story of struggle, writers on queer cinema in this volume stress how that queer cinema did not appear miraculously at one moment but describes currents throughout the century-long history of the medium. Likewise, while queer is an Anglophone term that has been widely circulated, it by no means names a unified or complete spectrum of sexuality and gender identity, just as the LGBTQ+ alphabet soup struggles to contain the distinctive histories, politics, and cultural productions of trans artists and genderqueer practices. Across the globe, media makers have interrogated identity and desire through the medium of cinema through rubrics that sometimes vigorously oppose the Western embrace of the pejorative term queer, instead foregrounding indigenous genders and sexualities, or those forged in the global South, or those seeking alternative epistemologies. Finally, while "cinema" is in our title, many scholars in this collection see that term as an encompassing one, referencing cinema and media in a convergent digital environment. The lively and dynamic conversations introduced here aspire to sustain further reflection as "queer cinema" shifts into new configurations"--

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno,Sue Norton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030941666

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Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom by Laurence W. Mazzeno,Sue Norton Pdf

This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to ‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses.

Author : Barbara A. Arrighi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0742546799

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Understanding Inequality by Barbara A. Arrighi Pdf

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the basic hermeneutics for considering new thought on ethnicity, class, and gender in the 21st century.