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Gendering Israel's Outsourcing
Orly Benjamin
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Description for Gendering Israel's Outsourcing
hardcover. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 421.
This book presents an institutional ethnography of budgeting processes of commissioning contracts within welfare, education, and health ministries as case studies. With the historical surge in the power position of economic globalization organizations and their impact on public sectors’ withdrawal from the role of primary women’s employers, a gap between care worker employees and public sector administrators with respect to skill recognition has emerged in Israel. The book examines precisely how this gap is produced, enacted, and turned into a force that shapes the experiences of women in service and caring jobs. Increasingly more researchers are interested in the unexpected ... Read more
This book presents an institutional ethnography of budgeting processes of commissioning contracts within welfare, education, and health ministries as case studies. With the historical surge in the power position of economic globalization organizations and their impact on public sectors’ withdrawal from the role of primary women’s employers, a gap between care worker employees and public sector administrators with respect to skill recognition has emerged in Israel. The book examines precisely how this gap is produced, enacted, and turned into a force that shapes the experiences of women in service and caring jobs. Increasingly more researchers are interested in the unexpected ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319407265
SKU
V9783319407265
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99-15
About Orly Benjamin
Orly Benjamin is Associate Professor and Chair of the Social Sciences Faculty Poverty Research Unit at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has published extensively on job insecurity and services outsourcing in Israel and co-edited a special issue on gender and government procurement. Her book Feminism, Family and Identity in Israel was published in 2011.
Reviews for Gendering Israel's Outsourcing
“Reading Benjamin’s book reminds us of the real need for better integration between social policy scholars and public policy and administration scholars, who are often telling the same stories in different languages. Feminists in general and researchers studying the role of women in the labour market in particular would benefit from chapters … in which the author proposes a political ... Read more