
Relations of Ruling
Class and Gender in Postindustrial Societies
McGill-Queen's University Press
Published on 10. March 1994
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-7735-1164-4 (ISBN)
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Description
For some, the postindustrial world promises a new kind of capitalism that will draw its vitality from an expansion of knowledge and the creative capacities of working men and women. Others have highlighted postindustrialism's darker side and concluded that it is simply the next stage in the degradation of labour. For some, the massive entry of women into paid labour that accompanies postindustrialism will finally liberate women from domestic patriarchy. For others, it is no more than an extension of private patriarchy into the public sphere. The authors show that historical residues and the contemporary impact of major economic and political factors have produced not one but several postindustrial trajectories. They reveal how postindustrialism has brought a new distribution of productive forces and of effective powers over people, and show that the shape of that distribution varies considerably in different countries and different fields as a result of both institutionalized practices (inherited from industrial capitalism) and the contemporary effects of state policies, organized labour, and the women's movement.
Addressing issues of class and gender, Relations of Ruling deals with problems involved in regulating paid labour as well as the relationship between paid and domestic labour. It will be of particular interest to specialists in gender issues and scholars in women's, family, and labour studies.
Addressing issues of class and gender, Relations of Ruling deals with problems involved in regulating paid labour as well as the relationship between paid and domestic labour. It will be of particular interest to specialists in gender issues and scholars in women's, family, and labour studies.
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"The comparative perspective ... sheds new light on a number of questions about Canada and allows for a more complex understanding of how attitudes and material conditions interrelate." Caroline Andrew, Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-1164-4 (9780773511644)
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Persons
Wallace Clement is Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University. Leah F. Vosko is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy, York University. US
Content
Part 1 Class relations in post-industrial societies: Class relations in industrial capitalism; filling the empty places - class, gender, and postindustrialism; post-industrialism, small capital, and the "old" middle class (co-authored with Grant Schellenberg); postindustrialism and the regulation of labour; the political culture of class. Part 2 Gender relations in post-industrial societies; bringing in gender - post-industrialism and patriarchy (co-authored with Clarence Lochhead); household relations - power divisions and domestic labour; linking domestic and paid labour - career disruptions and household obligations; social cleavages and the political cultures of gender; after industrialism.