Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work.

Intro -- Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work -- A Brief History of the Project -- Building a New Research Agenda -- Conceptualizing Informal and Precarious Work through a Gendered Lens -- Gender as an Organizing Principle of Collective Action -- Gender in Construction Workers' Struggles -- Beyond the Gendered Division of Labor? -- Women's Leadership and Membership -- Gender's Relationship with Other Identities -- Reforming the Terrain of Struggle? -- Effectiveness? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- From Theory to Praxis and Back to Theory: Informal Workers' Struggles against Capitalism and Patriarchy in India -- Connecting Theory to Praxis: A Dualist vs Unitary System of Patriarchy and Capitalism -- Methods -- Construction and Domestic Work: Definition, Composition, and Structure -- Domestic Work -- Construction Work -- When Labor Organizers Re-constitute Gendered Labor Subjects -- Development Scripts on Gender and Capital -- Recent Development Scripts and Feminist Opportunities -- Building Recognition and Reversing Shame: The Unitary Model of Domestic Work -- Narrowing the Gap between Men and Women: The Dualist Model of Construction -- Embodiment -- When Gendered Labor Subjects Re-shape Labor Organizing -- Gender as a Hindrance to Labor Organizing -- Gender as an Exclusionary Axis -- Gender as a Connector across Social Institutions -- Gender as Necessary but Insufficient -- Conclusion: Seeing Like an Organization -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Low-Wage Worker Organizing and Advocacy in the USA: Comparing Domestic Workers and Day Laborers -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- New Forms of Organizing -- Gender, Immigration, and Women's Leadership in the "Alt-Labor" Movement.

Gendered Patterns of Organizing among Day Laborers and Domestic Workers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Masculine Vulnerabilities: The Double Bind of Manhood in Global Migration -- Introduction -- Migration, Gender, and Masculinity Studies -- Methods: Multisite Ethnography -- Masculinities: Guest Workers Across History and Geography -- Double Bind of Manhood -- Masculine Differences -- Constructing Hegemonic Masculinity -- Masculinity in Encampment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Organizing Filipina Domestic Workers in Vancouver, Canada: Gendered Geographies and Community Mobilization -- The Regulatory Environment for Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada -- Collective Organizing Without a Collective Workplace -- Gender, Stepwise Migration, and Mobilization -- Domestic Workers and/or Domestic Work? -- And So -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Intersectional Histories, Overdetermined Fortunes: Understanding Mexican and US Domestic Worker Movements -- Introduction -- Literature -- Methodology -- Domestic Work: Profile -- Findings: Intersectional Histories -- Up to the 1970s: Elite Feminists and Unions -- 1970s Onwards: New Social Movements -- Findings: Overdetermined Fortunes -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Feminist Entanglements with the Neoliberal Welfare State: NGOS and Domestic Worker Organizing in South Korea -- Introduction -- Examining South Korean Feminist Labor NGOs "Dangerous Liaison" with Neoliberal States -- The Paid Domestic Workforce in South Korea: Informal and Feminized -- The Gendered Politics of Decommodification Struggles -- Feminist NGOs and Domestic Work as a Livelihood Strategy -- Grassroots Priorities, Harsh Realities -- The Practical Difficulties of Organizing Domestic Workers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.

This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective organizing efforts, why gender is addressed and to what end.

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