Women's work

About: Women's work is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1625 publications have been published within this topic receiving 33754 citations. The topic is also known as: woman's work.

‘I'll never go back to women's work again!’

Abstract: This article is based upon a Norwegian research project on women who during the 1970s entered jobs traditionally reserved for men in industry. It discusses the integration of women in male-dominated environments. Further it describes the main features of the living of women and the backgrounds of the women involved: Men's jobs for women were rationed out to a chosen few after a careful selection based on specific criteria. In some firms and environments women had great difficulties in integrating, they came up against the written and unwritten rules and norms of ‘the male community’. And the men developed exclusion strategies: sulking and grumbling, isolating, not helping, to help the women too much, to make the practical daily life difficult for them, and systematic pestering and haranguing. The women had to handle the situation by themselves and they chose different survival strategies: pleasing everyone, be a good worker, the militant line, the low profile, the sexuale attraction strategy, the family ‘roles’, i.e. as sisters and mother, or to isolate themselves.

Women's work in the “public” and “private” spheres of the Japanese economy

Abstract: Although much has been written about the contribution of high-quality labour and (supposedly) harmonious labour relations during Japan's rapid industrialisation, far less is known about the very significant role of women's labour in this process. Those studies of women and industrialisation which are available have tended to focus on the changing role of women in the paid work force, and particularly on their role (common to most industrialising countries) as a source of relatively cheap labour in areas of manufacturing such as textiles, garments and (more recently) electronics. Pioneering works included Hosoi Wakizo's Joko Aishi [Sad History of Women Factory Workers], which examined the terrible working conditions experienced by women in Japan's thread and textile mills in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Hosoi 1929). In English, important contributions to this research include E. Patricia Tsurumi's excellent study Factory Girls: women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan and (on present-day women's work) Glenda Roberts' Staying on the Line: blue Collar Women in Contemporary Japan (Tsurumi 1990; Roberts 1994). More recently, though, a growing number of studies have begun to explore the notion of \"women and work\" in a wider context. Kathleen Uno's study of urban lower-class women in prewar Japan, Dorinne Kondo's exploration of the contemporary lives of working women in a downtown Tokyo district, and Millie Creighton's examination of motherhood and career management all emphasise the need to focus on the complex interface between women's involvement in the paid work force and their less visible, unpaid work in the household or community (Uno 1993; Kondo 1990; Creighton 1996). This paper also takes up this theme. Its aim is to raise some questions about the interrelationship between various facets of \"women's work\" in the Japanese industrialisation process. The first sections of the paper present an historical overview of changing patterns and

Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934

Abstract: From 1914 to 1934 the US government sent Native American girls to work as domestic servants in the homes of white families. "Matrons and Maids "tells this forgotten history through the eyes of the women who facilitated their placements. During those two decades, outing matrons oversaw and managed the employment of young Indian women. In Tucson, Arizona, the matrons acted as intermediaries between the Indian and white communities and between the local Tucson community and the national administration, the Office of Indian Affairs. Based on federal archival records, "Matrons and Maids" offers an original and detailed account of government practices and efforts to regulate American Indian women. Haskins demonstrates that the outing system was clearly about regulating cross-cultural interactions, and she highlights the roles played by white women in this history. As she compellingly argues, we cannot fully engage with cross-cultural histories without examining the complex involvement of white women as active, if ambivalent, agents of colonization. Including stories of the entwined experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women that range from the heart-warming to the heart-breaking, "Matrons and Maids "presents a unique perspective on the history of Indian policy and the significance of women s work. "

Women's Work and Agency in GPNS during Economic Crises: The Case of the Greek Table Grapes Export Sector

Abstract: The expansion of global production networks (GPNs) has shifted women’s roles in agriculture worldwide. Financial and economic crises have intensified commercial pressures, leading to precariousness...