The gendered impact of the financial crisis: Struggles over social reproduction in Greece

Maria Daskalaki, Marianna Fotaki and Maria Simosi
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Maria Daskalaki: 4920University of Roehampton, UK
Marianna Fotaki: 2707University of Warwick, UK

Environment and Planning A, 2021, vol. 53, issue 4, 741-762

Abstract: The global financial crisis has triggered a dramatic transformation of employment in the weakest Eurozone economies. This is evidenced in deteriorating work conditions, limited employee negotiating power, low pay, zero-hours contracts and, most importantly, periods of prolonged unemployment for most of the working population, especially women. We offer a critical analysis of the boundaries of formal and informal, paid and unpaid, productive and reproductive work, and explore how austerity policies implemented in Greece in the aftermath of the global financial crisis have transformed women’s everyday lives. In contributing to critical discussions of neoliberal capitalism and recent feminist geography studies, our empirical study focuses on how women’s struggles over social reproduction unfold in the public and private spheres. It proposes that women’s temporary retreat to unpaid work at home constitutes a form of resistance to intensifying precarisation, and, at times, contributes to the emergence of new collective forms of reproduction.

Keywords: Feminism; reproductive labour; unpaid work; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X20922857

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