Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism: Lean in Action

Author:   Eeva Jokinen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) ,  Helena Hirvonen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) ,  Laura Mankki (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) ,  Timo Aho (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032314358


Pages:   194
Publication Date:   27 September 2023
Format:   Hardback
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This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine – operates and is adopted in the 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 management 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, organisation, 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. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Funded by University of Eastern Finland.

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Author:   Eeva Jokinen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) ,  Helena Hirvonen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) ,  Laura Mankki (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) ,  Timo Aho (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781032314358


ISBN 10:   1032314354
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   27 September 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical toolbox and methodological approaches; 3. Gender in biocapitalism; 4. Temporal architecture of Leaned welfare service work; 5. Lean expertise as situated knowledge in Lean translations; 6. Lean-in-the-making: opening and closing black boxes in Lean training; 7. (Un)doing happy Lean: affective configurations of humour and resistance in Lean training; 8. Affective encounters in welfare service work; 9. Lean as a radical attempt to reorganise welfare service work

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Eeva Jokinen is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Eastern Finland. Helena Hirvonen, PhD, Adjunct Professor, is Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland. Laura Mankki (MSocSc) is a researcher at the University of Eastern Finland. Timo Aho is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Iiris Lehto is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.

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