Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Volume 37 Issue 4
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An International JournalTable of contents - Special Issue: Care and care work - a question of economy, justice and democracy
Guest Editors: Brigitte Aulenbacher, Birgit Riegraf
An essay on life, care and death in the Brave New World after 1984
Cornelia KlingerIn order to explore the impact of the recent wave of a technological revolution on global culture and society, the purpose of this paper is to re-read the two most outstanding…
Confronting capital’s care fix: care through the lens of democracy
Emma DowlingThe purpose of this paper is to propose to expand the political economic understanding of a “fix”, that is, capital’s ability to overcome crises of profitability through a…
Capitalism goes care: Elder and child care between market, state, profession, and family and questions of justice and inequality
Brigitte Aulenbacher, Fabienne Décieux, Birgit RiegrafThe starting point of the paper is the meteoric rise of care and care work upon the societal and sociological agenda. Referring to Polanyi, the authors argue that this is the…
Counter-Landnahme? Labour disputes in the care-work field
Karina Becker, Klaus Dörre, Yalcin KutluThe thesis of our paper is that the industrial dispute articulates a counter-movement against the progressive capitalist Landnahme of care work. What is ostensibly a standard wage…
Worker cooperatives: alternative governance for caring and precarious work
Daphne Berry, Myrtle P. BellPrecarious work, characterized by low wages, unpredictable schedules and hours, physical hazards, and stressful psychosocial conditions, is a significant problem in the…
Women in rural South Africa: a post-wage existence and the role of the state
Michelle WilliamsThe purpose of this paper is to consider women in rural villages of Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. What the author discovered is that some women are…
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2040-7149Renamed from:
Equal Opportunities InternationalOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Eddy Ng