Gleichstellung als arbeitspolitisches Feld. Symbolische Gewalt und Leistungsregime

Maria Funder and Martina Sproll

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2015, vol. 68, issue 1, 43-50

Abstract: Gender is undeniably a key dimension of labor politics. Gender equality programs therefore have to be conceptualized strategically as an essential and relevant part of labor politics as a whole, which have to be translated into a concrete trade union agenda. According to Burawoy´s “politics of production” we understand labor politics as an interrelationship between “relations in production” (the political and social space inside the “company”) and the firm-external “relations of production”. Based on results of our empirical research in the pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries we show the gender specific effects of sectoral politics, of reconciliation programs of career and family and of an individualized (and allegedly gender-neutral) performance regime. Bourdieu’s concept of “symbolic violence” helps to understand the reproduction of gendered processes of inequality and exclusion under the guise of a destructive myth of equality.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2015-1-43

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