Gender-Typing of Low-Wage Work: A Comparative Analysis of Commercial Cleaning in Austria, Domiciliary Elderly Care in Germany and the Waste Sector in Bulgaria

Karin Sardadvar, Angelika Kümmerling and Darina Peycheva

Chapter 13 in Hard Work in New Jobs, 2015, pp 208-228 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The observation that work is segregated by gender is neither new nor revolutionary. At the same time, it has lost neither validity nor relevance. Since the 1970s in particular, feminist and gender researchers have been addressing the issue of gender at work (Wetterer, 2002, 2009), pointing out that ‘gender is fundamental to the way work is organised; and work is central in the social construction of gender’ (Game and Pringle, 1983, p. 14).

Keywords: Elderly Care; Physical Demand; Waste Collection; Collective Agreement; Gender Typing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137461087_13

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