The reproduction of difference: gender and the global division of labour

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The reproduction of difference: gender and the global division of labour

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Author(s): Ursula Huws

Publication date (Print): Spring 2012

Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

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This article starts by outlining the complex relationship between the gender division of labour in the household and the division of labour in waged work, taking account of the social, technical and spatial dimensions of this global division of labour and showing how this contradictary inter-relationship affects both the different value of men's and women's labour and the different positions that women and men occupy in the labour market. Whilst commodification and technological change have brought about shifts between work that is unpaid and work that is paid, as well as between informal and formal employment, gendered patterns continue to reassert themselves. It then goes on to introduce the contributions to this journal issue which illustrate these changing patterns and the questions they raise for future research.

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Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 1745641X

ISSN (Electronic): 17456428

Publication date (Print): Spring 2012

Volume: 6

Issue: 1

Pages: 1-10

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Labor law,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics

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[1] Cohen, N. (2008) ‘The valorization of surveillance: towards a political economy of Facebook’, Democratic Communiqué , 22 (1):5–21.

[2] Comor, E. (2010). ‘Contextualizing and Critiquing the Fantastic Prosumer: Power, Alienation and Hegemony’, Critical Sociology , 36 (6), pp. 1–19.

[3] Drobnič, S. & A. Guillén (2011), Work-life balance in Europe: the role of job quality , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

[4] Engels, F. (1877) On Marx's Capital , Moscow: Progress Publishers (English edition, 1956):89.

[5] Froebel, F., J. Heinrichs & O. Krey (1980) The New International Division of Labour . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

[6] Fuchs, C. (2010) ‘Labor in informational capitalism and on the Internet’, The Information Society 26 (3):179–196.

[7] Hilgers, D. & C. Ihl. (2010) ‘Citizensourcing: applying the concept of open innovation to the public sector’, International Journal of Public Participation , 4 (1):67–88.

[8] Hochschild, A. R (1983) The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling , Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

[9] Howe, J. (2006) ‘The rise of crowdsourcing’, Wired , June.

[10] Huws, U. (2003) The Making of a Cybertariat: virtual work in a real world , New York: Monthly Review Press.

[11] Huws, U. (2006) ‘What will we do? The destruction of occupational identities in the Knowledge-based Economy’, Monthly Review , 57 (8), January.

[12] Huws, U. (2006b) ‘Fixed, Footloose or fractured: work, identity and the spatial division of labour’ Monthly Review , 57 (10) March.

[13] Marx, K. (1845) ‘Division of Labour and Forms of Property – Tribal, Ancient, Feudal’ in Part 1, A, German Ideology . Accessed, February 1, 2012 from: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#5a3.

[14] Oliver, D., C. Romm-Livermore & F. Sudweeks (2009) Self-Service in the Internet Age , Springer.

[15] Pfau-Effinger, B. & T, Rostgaard (2011) Care between work and welfare in European societies , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

[16] Prahalad, C.K. & V. Ramaswamy (2000) ‘Co-Opting Customer Competence’, Harvard Business Review , January/February.

[17] Scholz, T. (2011) Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory . New York: Autonomedia.

[18] Toffler, A. (1980) The Third Wave , Bantam Books.

[19] Thompson, E. P. (1963) The Making of the English Working Class , London: Victor Gollancz.

[20] Weinbaum, B. & A. Bridges (1973) ‘The Other Side of the Paycheck’ Monthly Review , 28 (3):88–103.

[21] Wilkinson, F. (1982) The Dynamics of Labour Market Segmentation , London:Academic Press.