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Gendering the Knowledge Economy

Comparative Perspectives

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Authors:
  1. Sylvia Walby

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK

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  2. Heidi Gottfried

    1. Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, USA

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  3. Karin Gottschall

    1. Centre for Social Policy Research and Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany

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  4. Mari Osawa

    1. Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Re-conceptualizing the Knowledge Economy, Gender and Regulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Theorizing the Gendering of the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Approaches

      • Sylvia Walby
      Pages 3-50

    3. Gender and the Conceptualization of the Knowledge Economy in Comparison

      • Karen Shire
      Pages 51-77

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 271-322
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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.

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'...the book is meticulously detailed, providing empirically grounded analysis, and will appeal to a specialist audience of researchers and policy makers with a particular interest in gender, work/employment, economics and social policy.'

- Carrie Purcell, Sociological Research Online

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK

    Sylvia Walby

  • Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, USA

    Heidi Gottfried

  • Centre for Social Policy Research and Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany

    Karin Gottschall

  • Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

    Mari Osawa

About the authors

SUSAN DURBIN Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Bristol Business School and member of the Employment Studies Research Unit (ESRU), University of the West of England, UK HEIDI GOTTFRIED Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Industrial Relations Program, Wayne State University, USA KARIN GOTTSCHALL Professor of Sociology, Head of the Gender Policy in the Welfare State Unit at the Centre for Social Policy Research and Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany URSULA HOLTGREWE Senior Researcher at The Working Life Research Centre (FORBA) and member of the co-ordinating team of the Global Call Center Industry Project, Austria DANIELE KROOS Junior Research Fellow, Graduate School of Scoial Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany ILSE LENZ Professor of Scoial Structure and Gender Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany MAKIKO NISHIKAWA Associate Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Hosei University and Hosei Management School, Japan MARI OSAWA Professor of Social Policy at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo and member of the Science Council, Japan GLENDA S. ROBERTS Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan DIANE PERRONS Director of the Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK KAREN SHIRE Professor of Comparative Sociology, Institute of Sociology and Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany KAZUKO TANAKA Professor of Sociology, International Studies Division, Director of the Center for Gender Studies and Coordinator of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, International Christian University, Japan SYLVIA WALBY Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK

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