A Woman’s Kingdom? Affect, Care and Regendering Labour

摘要: This chapter focusses on ‘women’s work’: blue collar, white literal and figurative. For blue-collar women, habitability is about maintaining a link between work care, even if there little to care in the actual production at company. Where enterprise has abandoned its role as caregiver workers town, workspaces become place of for co-workers, self-esteem, source complex affective attachment identity production. Fraught processes ‘remaking’ working-class women into white-collar selves are explored. Successful femininity these cases revolves around an impossible ultra-flexibility playing. Women occupy sharp end neoliberal production-scapes accountants HR workers, yet ‘trapped’ by strongly normative ethical obligations others.