基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was Published in 2007. A comparative analysis of the US, UK, Germany and Japan underpins the re-thinking of the varieties of capitalism and the comparative analysis of gender relations.
Full Description
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.
Contents
List of figures List of tables Preface Notes on Editors PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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 THREE: 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
