Gender(ed) Labor

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-03777-330-7
Verlag: Seismo Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Gender Issues

Gender(ed) Labor examines how gender shapes work, how work is valued, and how laboring lives are experienced across a wide range of social settings. Moving beyond the divide between paid and unpaid labor, the volume traces the ways intimate relations are entangled with institutions and capitalist dynamics. The chapters show how inequalities are produced through law and policy, as well as through workplace arrangements and everyday interactions. Drawing on case studies that range from family wealth arrangements to welfare systems, and from activist spaces to retail work, the book follows the many settings in which labor is defined and contested. It treats labor not only as a site of exploitation, but also as a site of resistance, showing how workers and activists challenge established expectations around gender and productivity. Grounded in feminist and materialist scholarship, Gender(ed) Labor rethinks what counts as work and whose labor comes to matter. It offers a critical perspective on contemporary regimes of value while pointing toward more just ways of organizing work and social life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aubry, Agnès

Chauvin, Sébastien

Friedli, Fiona

Über Autor(innen)

Friedli, Fiona
Fiona Friedli is a political scientist and an Associate Professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HETSL / HES-SO). Focusing on public institutions and courts, her research studies the transformations and implementation of child, youth and family policies.

Chauvin, Sébastien
Sébastien Chauvin is a sociologist and an Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne. His work focuses on inequality, power and difference, with a wild array of foci including international migration, labor and employment, gender and sexuality, class structure and social theory.

Aubry, Agnès
Agnès Aubry holds a PhD in political science from the University of Lausanne. Her research focuses on the neoliberalization of social et and migration policies. She is the author of De l’aide à la mise au travail gratuit des exilé·es : La fabrique néolibérale des politiques d’accueil et d’assistance.