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The ascendance of neoliberalism, often subsumed under the rubric of globalization, has a profound impact on the nature of work. Based on yearlong ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the rise of temporary agency work in post‐bubble Japan where an increasing number of workers are assembled and dispatched by staffing agencies to receiving firms on limited‐term contracts. Such a distinct triangular...
Abstract: This article analyses the gendered contradictions of microfinance's celebrated “double bottom line” of social and financial impact. The example of microfinance is used to illustrate the gendered and colonial constructions of “risk” and “responsibility” that underpin neoliberalism and its gendered paradoxes. After revisiting the discursive critique of these terms, I draw on how indigenous...
Reflecting on the generational changes in student movements and the echoes we find in student resistance in the UK in 2011 to the privatization of higher education, this paper argues for a wider understanding of the sources of stress, anxiety and uncertainty of young people. Engaging with the individualization of experience that is encouraged through a neoliberal culture, the effects of changes over...
Abstract: This article combines insights into the mutually constituting nature of gender, race, class and space with Marxist analyses that interrogate how social relations both produce and are constrained by institutions to explore waste management privatization in Johannesburg. It argues that the crystallization of racialized, gendered inequalities within bargaining institutions underpinned financial...
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