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Daskalaki, Maria, Fotaki, Marianna and Simosi, Maria (2020) The gendered impact of the financial crisis : struggles over social reproduction in Greece. Environment and Planning A : Economy and Space, 53 (4). pp. 741-762. doi:10.1177/0308518X20922857 ISSN 0308-518X .
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X20922857
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sex role -- Economic aspects, Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, Women -- Employment -- Greece, Feminist economics -- Greece, Labor economics -- Greece | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Environment and Planning A : Economy and Space | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0308-518X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 June 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 53 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 741-762 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0308518X20922857 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Daskalaki, Maria, Fotaki, Marianna and Simosi, Maria (2020) The gendered impact of the crisis : struggles over social reproduction in Greece. Environment and Planning A . (In Press) Copyright © 2020 The Author. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/epn | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 April 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 April 2020 | ||||||||
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