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Book/Printed Material Gender and welfare service work in biocapitalism : lean in action

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Title

  • Gender and welfare service work in biocapitalism : lean in action

Summary

  • "This book explores how lean operates and is adopted in real, corporeal, collective and affective environments of health and social care services. During Lean implementation processes, knowledges, affects, skills and materialities come together in manifold, complex ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and observation, and with empirical and theoretical rigour, the book provides an answer to the question of what happens to care work when processes become 'Leaned'. As in many other fields, the predominantly female health and social care sectors suffer from devaluation in terms of wages and working conditions. The book explores how Lean operates, is adopted and is ultimately lived in this gendered context of work and labour. Moreover, the book situates Lean and related management doctrines in the current mutation of capitalism - that is, biocapitalism - in which bios, life itself, becomes the core of value production. The book adds to the corpus of work, organization and management studies on Lean that have rarely focused on gender, affect or sociomateriality. It provides scholars in Social Science, Management and Gender Studies with a fresh outlook and a cross-disciplinary take on Lean management"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Jokinen, Eeva, contributor
  • Hirvonen, Helena, contributor
  • Mankki, Laura, contributor
  • Aho, Timo (Timo Atso Matias), contributor
  • Lehto, Iiris, contributor

Created / Published

  • London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
  • ©2024

Contents

  • Theoretical toolbox and methodological approaches / Laura Mankki, Timo Aho, Eeva Jokinen, Helena Hirvonen and Iiris Lehto -- Gender in biocapitalism / Eeva Jokinen, Timo Aho, Laura Mankki, Helena Hirvonen and Iiris Lehto -- Temporal architecture of leaned welfare service work / Iiris Lehto -- Lean expertise as situated knowledge in lean translations / Helena Hirvonen -- Lean-in-the-making : opening and closing black boxes in lean training / Timo Aho -- (Un)doing happy Lean : affective configurations of humour and resistance in lean training / Laura Mankki -- Affective encounters in welfare service work / Eeva Jokinen -- Lean as a radical attempt to reorganise welfare service work / Eeva Jokinen, Helena Hirvonen, Laura Mankki, Timo Aho, Iiris Lehto.

Headings

  • -  Social work administration--Finland--Case studies
  • -  Public health administration--Finland--Case studies
  • -  Women social workers--Finland--Social conditions--Case studies
  • -  Women in medicine--Finland--Case studies
  • -  Sex role in the work environment--Finland--Case studies
  • -  Lean manufacturing--Finland--Case studies
  • -  Organizational effectiveness--Finland--Case studies

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HV40.8.F5

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023022137

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  • Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

  • epub
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Jokinen, Eeva, Contributor, Helena Hirvonen, Laura Mankki, Timo Aho, and Iiris Lehto. Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism: Lean in Action. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, . ©, 2024. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023022137/.

APA citation style:

Jokinen, E., Hirvonen, H., Mankki, L., Aho, T. & Lehto, I. (2024) Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism: Lean in Action. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, . ©. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023022137/.

MLA citation style:

Jokinen, Eeva, Contributor, et al. Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism: Lean in Action. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, . ©, 2024. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023022137/>.