Gendering the Knowledge Economy

SYLVIA WALBY is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. She has held Chairs in the Universities of Bristol and Leeds and a Readership at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Recent publications include Gender Transformation (1997), editorship of a special issue of Social Politics on 'Gender Mainstreaming' (2005, 12, 3), while her next book is Complex Systems in a Global Age (2007). HEIDI GOTTFRIED is Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Industrial Relations Program at Wayne State University, USA. Her resea

• List of figures List of tables Preface Notes on Editors PART ONE: RE-CONCEPTUALIZING THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, GENDER AND REGULATION Introduction: Theorizing the Gendering of the New Economy: Comparative Approaches; S.Walby Gender and the Conceptualization of the Knowledge Economy in Comparison; K.Shire PART TWO: COMPARATIVE REGULATION Comparative Livelihood Security Systems from a Gender Perspective, with a Focus on Japan; M.Osawa Varieties of Gender Regimes and Regulating Gender Equality at Work in the Global Context; I.Lenz Similar Outcomes, Different Paths: The Cross-National Transfer of Gendered Regulations of Employment; G.S.Roberts PART THREE: GENDERING NEW EMPLOYMENT FORMS Self-Employment in Comparative Perspective: General Trends and the Case of New Media; K.Gottschall & D.Kroos Living and Working in the New Economy: New Opportunities and Old Social Divisions in the Cases of the New Media and Carework; D.Perrons Are Care Workers Knowledge Workers?; M.Nishikawa & K.Tanaka Who Gets to be a Knowledge Worker? The Case of UK Call Centres; S.Durbin Restructuring Gendered Flexibility in Organizations: A Comparative Analysis of Call Centres in Germany; U.Holtgrewe Appendix I Bibliography

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