Working Life and Gender Inequality

Society's capitalist and patriarchal norms perpetuate old and create new differences based on gender, class, ethnicity, age, and other social categorizations. This book proposes a conceptual framework offering insights for thinking through the present and future inequality challenges in the globalized world of work.

Angelika Sjöstedt is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. Katarina Giritli Nygren is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Forum for Gender Studies at Mid Sweden University, Sweden. Marianna Fotaki is Professor of business ethics at the University of Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.

1. Intersectionality and peripheralization: Introduction to the edited collection Angelika Sjöstedt, Katarina Giritli-Nygren and Marianna Fotaki. 2. #WeAreNotSlaves! An intersectional analysis of class and ethnicity in the Istanbul Airport resistance Ayse Serdar. 3. From the periphery to the centre of resistance: Women and/in anti-austerity mobilizations in crisis-ridden Athens Hara Kouki. 4. Intersectional perspective on working life: Poor, black, working-class women remain on the margins - the case of paid and unpaid domestic labour Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima. 5. The Logic of Intersectional Marginalization: Palestinian and Israeli Practitioners' Observations of Inequitable Labor Practices in Grassroots Peace Organizing Ambreen Tour Ben-Shmuel and Manar Faraj. 6. From the body to the world, from the world to the body: Ethnography, migration, and care Camila Esguerra Muelle. 7. The imbrication of gender and nationality where the pay gap is concerned: the case in Malta JosAnn Cutajar. 8. Intersectional perspectives on northern Swedish rural men's working life narratives Lisa Ridzén. 9. Risky subjectivities: Peripheralization and appropriation of small-ward midwives' work practices in the closure of a rural area's maternity ward Emelie Larsson. 10. On the margins of mine work: Organizational peripheries in a globalized world of work Kristina Johansson and Lisa Ringblom. 11. Inequality regimes in equality work: New public management and peripheralization processes in Swedish schools Ulrika Schmauch, Björn Ahlström & Britt-Inger Keisu. 12. Freedom of choice and gender equality in Swedish home-based elderly care Annette Thörnquist. 13. How do people become Others to be used? Processes of peripheralization in Swedish unemployment politics Paula Mulinari. 14. Thinking through intersectionality at work: A feminist-and-labour geographer's approach Kristina Zampoukos