Gendering The Knowledge Economy

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Comparisons of the UK, US, Germany and Japan reveal the ways in which gender transforms conventional understandings of the knowledge-based economy. This volume re-thinks the processes of de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both de-regulation and re-regulation of employment.

Gendering the Knowledge Economy brings together an international team of scholars engaged in research on globalization, gender, flexibility and work transformation. Comparisons of the UK, US, Germany and Japan reveal the ways in which gender transforms conventional understandings of the knowledge-based economy.

Drawing on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism, the volume re-thinks the processes of de-gendering and re-gendering of working practices in the context of both de-regulation and re-regulation of employment.