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SDG 8 : decent work and economic growth - a gendered analysis

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Rai, Shirin, Brown, Benjamin and Ruwanpura, Kanchana (2019) SDG 8 : decent work and economic growth - a gendered analysis. World Development, 113 . pp. 368-380. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.006

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Abstract

SDG 8 calls for promoting ‘sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all’. Even as it highlights the importance of labour rights for all, it also makes visible some significant tensions. We note, for example, that despite many critiques of narrow economic measures of growth, the focus here remains on GDP and per capita growth. This is problematic, we argue, because the GDP productive boundary excludes much of social reproductive work. This puts SDG8 in tension with SDG 5 which calls for the recognition of the value of unpaid care and domestic work. There has been a significant increase in the rate of working women in the formal and informal sector. However, there has not been a subsequent gender shift in the doing of social reproductive work. In this paper we argue SDG 8’s focus on decent work and economic growth is inadequate; that productive employment and decent work for all men and women by 2030 needs to take into account the value and costs of social reproduction. We trace key historical debates on work to argue that both gender and labour rights have to underpin SDG 8 if its promise of inclusive, sustainable and decent work is to be realized.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Journal or Publication Title: World Development
Publisher: Pergamon
ISSN: 0305-750X
Official Date: January 2019
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January 2019Published
28 September 2018Available
19 July 2018Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 20 August 2018
Volume: 113
Page Range: pp. 368-380
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.006
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
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