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| Titre : | Mechanisms of invisibility : rethinking the concept of invisible work (2017) |
| Auteurs : | Erin Hatton |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Work, employment and society (vol. 31, n° 2, April 2017) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 336–351 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ ECONOMIE SOUTERRAINE ; TRAVAIL PRECAIRE ; DIVISION SEXUELLE DU TRAVAIL ; REVUE DE LA LITTERATURE |
| Résumé : | In the mid-1980s, Daniels coined the term ‘invisible work’ to characterize those types of women’s unpaid labour – housework and volunteer work – which had been culturally and economically devalued. Scholars have since applied this term to many types of labour, yet there is little clarity or consensus as to what ‘invisibility’ means and what mechanisms produce it. Through an in-depth analysis of this far-reaching literature, the present article seeks to reconstruct ‘invisible work’ as a more robust analytical concept. It argues that work is made invisible through three intersecting sociological mechanisms – here identified as cultural, legal and spatial mechanisms of invisibility. Though they differ in function and degree, each of these mechanisms obscures the fact that work is performed and therefore contributes to its economic devaluation. Ultimately, this revised concept of invisible work offers scholars a new analytic tool to untangle the systems that produce and reproduce disadvantage for workers.(source: article) |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017016674894 |
